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Magazine article (E&M - 2015/05) Soda Giuseppe, Gomez Solòrzano Manuel David

Using social network analysis and network “numbers” to disentangle complexity

In questo numero Giuseppe Soda e Manuel David Gomez Solòrzano, dopo averci introdotto alla social network analysis, così da capire come si interpretano i numeri di questa metodologia, ci sorprendono con alcuni risultati relativi alle motivazioni degli employees e al knowledge sharing. Per esempio, si è più propensi a ricevere conoscenza da quanti hanno un ruolo inspirational, anche se in assenza ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2013/6) Wielga Mark, Salcito Kendyl, Wise Elizabeth

Business and Human Rights: Due Diligence Comes of Age

I Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights sono stati sanciti dal Consiglio del l’ONU per i diritti umani solo di recente: la loro approvazione unanime risale al 2011. Secondo le indicazioni del prof. Ruggie, incaricato da Kofi Annan, essi individuano nella corresponsabilità dei governi, delle aziende e delle stesse popolazioni, tenutarie dei diritti, i tre pilastri fondamentali sui quali ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2010/1) Ronen Boaz, Coman Alex

Value-Focused Management: Achieving More with Existing Resources

In these turbulent days where businesses are struggling for their survival they must do the paradigm shift and deliver more using existing resources.

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Perretti Fabrizio

Goodbye Workers?

This dossier is dedicated to work, and more specifically to workers in businesses and organizations in a broad sense. “Workers” is an almost outdated term that, similar to what happened with “laborers,” is now disappearing from the managerial vocabulary. In its place people speak of “human resources” and “human capital,” and no longer of “employees” but “associates.” Yet we ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Perretti Fabrizio

Celebrating Heroes: On Rewards in Corporations

A fundamental part of our social life is based on the universal need to have the respect, esteem and approval of the people around us. Public prizes and awards are some of the instruments that carry out this important social function. Initially limited to situations outside of employment fields not driven by commercial logic (sports, culture, civil and military valor), prizes and public awards of ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Simonella Zenia

The Boom of Sex Toys (Thanks to E-commerce)

1969. The year the first sex shop opened in Italy. Since then the number of such stores has grown, especially in the 1980s and ’90s. Today the approximately 500 “physical” stores present in Italy[1] must deal with the opening of an increasing number of stores present exclusively online. This is a trend taking place throughout Europe: for example, the Beate Uhse company, that had a chain of franchises ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Fosti Giovanni, Perobelli Eleonora, Saporito Raffaella

The Irresistible Appeal of Hybrid Organizations in the Public Context

The growing requests for integration of social impact and financial returns of businesses,[1] the attention to issues of environmental and social sustainability in the private sector, and the Millennium Development Goals introduced by the United Nations are only some of the reasons for the popularity of the debate linked to hybrid organizations. But what is meant by hybrid organizations? These ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/1)

Operations and Supply Chains Tested by the Pandemic

In this difficult moment in history, the operations and supply chains of Italian companies have been sorely tried by the effects of the pandemic as never before. A survey conducted on almost 300 Italian companies belonging to various production sectors, photographed the situation of operations and supply chains during the first lockdown, and attempted to offer some predictions for the future.

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4)

The New Direction of Accounting

The two articles presented in this focus open up two perspectives in which accounting is returning to a central position in the management of businesses. The first is on the alignment between control models and strategy, a critical element for the efficacy of those systems, that are so crucial for the managerialization of businesses and so often designed on organizational-accounting models rather ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/1) Paolino Chiara

Corporate Collections and Business Performance

When adequately governed from an organizational standpoint, the presence of art in businesses, in the form of traditional collections or a relationship with the artists, can generate value for business performance and become one of the ways for a business to exercise its social role in the reference community. It also becomes an opportunity to rethink the philosophy and processes of human resources ...