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Magazine article (E&M - 2012/03) Conti Raffaele

Chance or Necessity? Exploring the determinants of technological breakthroughs

Introduction I would like to wholeheartedly thank the members of my committee – i.e. Alfonso Gambardella, Andrew A. King, and Gianmario Verona – for their advice, guidance, and support along the PhD years and in the development of my dissertation. This work greatly benefited from insightful interactions with Wilbur Chung, Paola Cillo, Elena Dalpiaz, Emmanuelle Fauchart, Jennifer Jordan, Adam Kleinbaum, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/04) Vlasic Goran

Market driving strategies

Ever since market orientation was conceptualized and provided managers with a framework for managing sustainable competitive advantage (Kumar, Jones, Vankatesan, Leone 2011), firms have increasingly been recognizing customers as kings, focusing on satisfying their needs, and asserted customer centricity as their key value. This narrow understanding of the marketing concept led firms to struggle in ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/03) Di Stefano Giada

Knowledge, Innovation, and Social Norms in Creative Industries

Introduction I would like to wholeheartedly thank the members of my committee – i.e. Alfonso Gambardella, Andrew A. King, and Gianmario Verona – for their advice, guidance, and support along the PhD years and in the development of my dissertation. This work greatly benefited from insightful interactions with Wilbur Chung, Paola Cillo, Elena Dalpiaz, Emmanuelle Fauchart, Jennifer Jordan, Adam Kleinbaum, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3)

Non-Financial Reporting; Much More than an Obligation

More than two years have passed since the entry into force of Legislative Decree 254/2016, which made it mandatory for “public interest entities” with over 500 employees and a balance sheet exceeding 20 million euros – or total net revenues from sales or other services exceeding 40 million euros – to present an individual non-financial declaration for each accounting period. From the first ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2)

How a Family Business Grows

A rather deep-rooted prejudice is that a family business goes hand-in-hand with a small-sized business. In actual fact, in the last ten years in Italy, the incidence of family businesses out of total companies exceeding 50 million euros of turnover has increased, in terms of both turnover and employees. Obviously, not all family businesses are the same. According to the tenth edition of the AUB report ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1)

Selling More and Better with Digital Resources

The digital revolution has affected all aspects of business life in recent years. Sales functions are among those affected by these deep changes, and companies have found themselves facing new challenges linked to different phases of their activities. Given the scope of the changes underway, the Commercial Excellence Lab of SDA Bocconi School of Management decided to conduct a study to understand ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2)

Changing Jobs, between Expectations and Reality

What are the principal motivations that lead people to change jobs? How long does it take them to do so? What is the level of satisfaction once a new job is found? These are some of the questions addressed by a survey organized by the “Decision Sciences and Business Analytics” Knowledge Group of the SDA Bocconi School of Management in collaboration with the Observatory on Managerial Careers. The ...