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Magazine article (E&M - 2022/2) Iacomino Clelia, Pianorsi Mattia, Saputo Aristea

The importance of the public-private relationship

The concept of space economy indicates all of the activities that imply the commercial use of space technologies, whether they are inside or outside of Earth’s orbit. The space sector, which has long been dominated by the presence of public institutions, is now increasingly affected by private initiatives and has seen a doubling of turnover in the last fifteen years. The prospects for additional ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/3) Perretti Fabrizio

The Second Life of the Metaverse

The metaverse represents the most advanced and sophisticated of current social media, a space of interaction and transaction populated by individuals and businesses/organizations. The fact that in the metaverse there are ample opportunities for business exploitation demonstrates that its realization could truly be “just around the corner.” Turning this corner, though, means facing scenarios that ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/1) Perretti Fabrizio

Listening to the Silence: Reflections on the Great Resignation

What are the almost 4 million workers who have decided to leave their jobs in the United States since July 2021 fleeing from? From situations of unease, toxic work environments, absurd working hours, and conditions of burnout, i.e. emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion. It is as if the pandemic has shown that the jobs considered to be desirable were actually not as gratifying as they seemed or ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/1) Grando Alberto, Belvedere Valeria, Chiarini Andrea

The Strength of the Example of the Italian Manufacturing System

During the course of 2020-2021, the Italian production system, thanks to the dynamism of single businesses or through the creation of networks, proved to be resilient and able to rapidly recover from the drops in production suffered in the initial period of the pandemic. In the months of the lockdown, various businesses launched new product lines (personal protective equipment, medical devices, air ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/1) Faramondi Alessandro, De Francesco Daniela

The Reaction to the Shock, Defined by Change

During the first phase of the health emergency (March 9-May 4, 2000), the shutdown of economic activities caused a blockage of operations especially for smaller Italian businesses, that in our country represent a high percentage of employment and economic output of the Italian production system. Over 70 percent of businesses (73.7 percent in terms of employment) reported a reduction of turnover compared ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/2) Perretti Fabrizio

Compare to Whom? A Reflection on Benchmarking

Benchmarking represents one of the most common management tools used by businesses. It is an extremely complex and detailed process that involves some important elements of decision-making: identifying the outside group for comparison; gathering information on that group’s practices; and choosing which among these practices are advisable/feasible to adopt internally, and how. A benchmarking analysis ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Ruozi Roberto, Ferrari Pierpaolo

Banks and Human Resources: Rethinking the Relationship

Technological progress, cultural growth, and the diversification of customer needs are modifying the business models of banks, their organizational structures, and the modes of production and distribution of products and services, imposing changes in the quality of the human resources employed.#The dilemma that the banking sector must face today in the process of digitalization is how to maintain ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Santilli Gianluca, Soldavini Pierangelo

All the Social and Environmental Value of the Bikeconomy

The value of bike tourism in the European Union now reaches 50 billion euros; and the figure is destined to grow even further thanks to the advent of the e-bike and the effects of the pandemic on people's lifestyles. Thanks to its wealth of natural and cultural beauty, the variety of its territory, and a food and wine culture without equal in the world, through targeted investments in infrastructure ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/04) Perretti Fabrizio

Is Working Less and Earning More a Utopia?

The world of work, not only in Italy, is going through evident transformations and changes – the development of remote work, the wave of layoffs that has affected different professions, the lack of labor in some sectors – and some pressing demands, such as the introduction of a guaranteed minimum wage and a reduction of work hours with the same salary. Based on some experiments, that reduction ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/2) Altomonte Carlo, Biasioni Francesco, Gottardo Giulio

The Territorial Allocation of Resources, between Good and Bad

The evidence presented suggests that PNRR allocations generally favor the most problematic areas of the country. However, depending on the specific area of intervention, this result is not always robust. For example, while funds for the environment appear to go to areas facing greater difficulties, those for education are not allocated according to the same logic. Next Generation EU and the ...