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Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Bettoni Francesco

All of the numbers of the Brebemi project

The A35 Brebemi was the first Italian highway to be built with project financing, i.e. through the exclusive use of private capital. In February 2019 an Agici study was presented on the economic, social, and environmental consequences of the new highway, which found positive repercussions for a territory encompassing 5 provinces, 114 municipalities, 640,000 inhabitants, and 250,000 workers, with a ...

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

The Ligurian Logistics Platform

Thanks to its geographic position in the heart of the Mediterranean, Italy represents a true "logistical platform" that offers multiple access points along its coast and in particular along the ports of the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas. However, it is necessary to rethink the role of ports, that must aim to acquire a different dimension that includes the entire maritime-port-logistics cluster, including ...

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 ...