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Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Albertini Marco

Gay-friendly Cities? Much More Can Be Done

Thanks to the conquest of civil rights based on the construction and recognition of a specific cultural, social and political identity, LGBT+ people have also become a segment of the tourism market that produces considerable sales at the global level.#LGBT+ tourism regards not only the many thematic events organized around the world, but boasts the presence of ad hoc organizations such as the International ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Antonioli Magda, di Salle Marianna

Tourism Becomes Ever More Rainbow

Today, the LGBTQ segment embraces 3 percent of more than a billion international travelers, and travel spending generated by LGBTQ travelers coming from the main markets is around 219 billion dollars per year.#Travelers in this segment are traditionally oriented towards LGBTQ friendly destinations, such as large American and European cities. However, in mature outbound markets, we are seeing an increase ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Pulignano Valeria

The Ambivalence of Industrial Relations

Trade unions in Italy are currently facing certain critical problems that derive from the exhaustion of the previous phase of industrial relations, based on policies of consultation with employers’ associations and public representatives, and the difficulty of sharing a “synthesis” of the transformations underway with the other actors in industrial relations.#In the new scenario of the gig economy, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Fortin Davide

Cannabis: An Evergreen Business

Cannabis is a plant which must be distinguished into two chemotypes: one that is non-psychotropic, the characteristic of the hemp originally used for industry and food purposes; and another that is a narcotic, cannabis with high tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) used for the production of psychoactive inflorescences.#Although Italian law allows for consuming cannabis with high THC for therapeutic purposes ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Baccelli Oliviero

The Airport System More Can Be Done

The air transport market in Italy is increasingly dependent on trends at a global level, as regards both the demand for mobility and the services offered by the carriers. Airport operators find themselves working in a more and more competitive context, and thus are called on to experiment with new organizational models, to meet an increasingly differentiated and cost-sensitive demand by carriers and ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Bellingardi Emilio

An Intermodal Future for Milan-Bergamo Airport

In 2018 alone, the Italian airport system saw an increase of passenger traffic of more than 5.9 percent compared to the previous year, with over 185 million people carried and 1.6 million airplane movements. In this context of growth, the Milan-Bergamo airport is in third place in Italy, with a forecast of 13.5 million passengers in 2019, representing one of the main gateways of access for eastern ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/1) Daveri Francesco, Soda Giuseppe

The Present and Future of MBA Programs

The crisis that appears to have hit the MBA model in the English-speaking world can be explained by the concomitance of various factors: the increase of personal risk in investing time and resources, the strong competition from Masters of Science in International Management, online MBA programs, specialist masters, and the growing difficulties in finding success on the other side of the Atlantic.However, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Bellofiore Riccardo, Vertova Giovanna

Why We Should Go Back to Reading Marx

One of the new elements of neoliberalism is the possibility of capitalist accumulation that segments and divides the world of labor, rather than making it homogenous. Yet reunification of labor, that leads to collective awareness by workers to produce common struggles for the defense of their rights, is extremely complicated. To overcome the current crisis a new model of development is needed, that ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Calabrò Antonio

A New Management of Global Markets

The fragmentation of global value chains in many economic sectors and the emergence of a "regional globalization" require a rethinking of internal demand limited to some large areas, such as Europe. Temptations for protectionist policies, whether in Europe or in single member states, must be offset with balanced economic development policies in the long-term, based on the advantages of maintaining ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Zamagni Vera

State Intervention in the Economy? What Counts is Quality

Today's advanced countries, including Italy, were able to produce a revolution in industry, and then in services, thanks to entrepreneurship favored by the active role of the state and public institutions. In the first two decades after the Second World War, there was maximum exploitation of the impetus generated previously by public institutions. The active role of IRI, the special interventions ...