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Stefano Basaglia

The First Time Was a Revolt; What Now?

On June 28, 2019 we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the so-called Stonewall revolt that marked the beginning of the “modern” homosexual liberation movement[1]. This, despite the fact that the first public Italian homosexual demonstration was the one against the psychiatric congress on sexual deviations of April 5, 1972. The demonstration was organized by the Fuori! group of Turin, led by ...

Marco Mancuso

New Media Art between Technology, Science, and Industry

In a historical period of growing economic recession and widespread cuts to cultural initiatives, there is an increasing number of artists, designers, creatives, and enterprises – in the areas of ICT and scientific research – who use production processes functional to the creation of “cultural objects” as standardized as possible. The new creative classes, with various types of training and ...

Paola Dubini, Elena Raviola

A Clash between Fields

Göteborg, Autumn 2016. The main book fair in Northern Europe, that celebrates 250 years of Swedish constitutional law on freedom of the press – the first in the world – was the subject of incredible media attention. The reason was that the fair admitted among the exhibitors a publishing company that publishes an extreme right-wing organ. The debate in traditional media and social media continued ...

Samanta Isaia

Cultural Institutions as Enterprises

“What can the world of industry do for culture?”. This was the question posed in a round table discussion organized by the Turin Industrial Association, an occasion for interaction between local enterprises and the world of culture, in which I recently took part. A first answer seems to be the following: culture is important, it should be protected and supported; business is enlightened and dedicates ...

E&M Plus

More trust, more future

The word chosen by Treccani[1] as the “Word of the Year 2025” is “trust”: one of the most searched terms on the platform and the one showing the highest percentage increase compared to the previous year. Given that trust is a fundamental concept in both social and personal life, it is hardly surprising that it has moved to the centre of attention in a period of extreme uncertainty, and that ...

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Digital trade: who sets the rules in the absence of a global agreement?

The Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization is the summit that periodically brings together the trade ministers of member countries and represents the institution’s highest decision-making body. The latest took place at the end of March in Yaoundé, in Cameroon, and marked something more than a negotiating impasse. Among the central dossiers was the so-called moratorium on customs ...

Alessandro Antonini, Ilaria Buonomo

Job crafting: redesigning work to unlock individual potential

In the context of modern organizations, the concept of job crafting represents one of the most advanced and promising developments in the field of role redesign. It is an approach that places the individual at the center as an active agent in shaping their own role, moving beyond both the rigidity of traditional job descriptions and the top-down logic of organizational change. Job crafting is not ...

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Is AI sovereignty really an illusion?

Caught between the United States and China, many countries are now pursuing “AI sovereignty”: the ability not to depend on foreign powers for a technology destined to permeate the entire economy. But building domestically everything AI requires – from semiconductors to data centers, from cloud infrastructure to the most advanced models – is prohibitively expensive and probably impossible. ...

Federico Ciuccarelli

Trust and prosperity in agentic commerce: the tour operator as a digital guarantor

n the early 1990s, entering your credit card details on a website seemed like a gamble. Yet in less than a decade, e-commerce became one of the pillars of global trade. What changed? Not the technology, which had already been available for some time, but the trust infrastructure built around it: secure payments, verified reviews, buyer protection, shared rules. It was an institutional innovation before ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Simonella Zenia, Basaglia Stefano

2008-2018: How to Interpret the Post-crisis Period

This third article in the mini-series dedicated to Economia & Management ’s thirty years, concentrates on the third decade of the magazine’s history, from 2008 to 2018, with the addition of a few digressions relating to 2019.