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Using social network analysis and network “numbers” to disentangle complexity
In questo numero Giuseppe Soda e Manuel David Gomez Solòrzano, dopo averci introdotto alla social network analysis, così da capire come si interpretano i numeri di questa metodologia, ci sorprendono con alcuni risultati relativi alle motivazioni degli employees e al knowledge sharing. Per esempio, si è più propensi a ricevere conoscenza da quanti hanno un ruolo inspirational, anche se in assenza ...
Business and Human Rights: Due Diligence Comes of Age
I Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights sono stati sanciti dal Consiglio del l’ONU per i diritti umani solo di recente: la loro approvazione unanime risale al 2011. Secondo le indicazioni del prof. Ruggie, incaricato da Kofi Annan, essi individuano nella corresponsabilità dei governi, delle aziende e delle stesse popolazioni, tenutarie dei diritti, i tre pilastri fondamentali sui quali ...
The Changing Face of India
La rubrica “La finestra sul mondo” approda come prima tappa in area BRIC (Brasile, Russia, India, Cina), volgendo lo sguardo verso i paesi emergenti, unanimemente riconosciuti strategici per lo scenario dell’economia globale del Terzo Millennio. Avendo ripreso il percorso della rubrica “Doing business in China”, dalla Cina muove prima di tutto all’interno dell’area asiatica, per guardare ...
Doing Business and Working in Sub-Saharan Africa
L’Africa, al di là degli stereotipi, non è un’entità culturale omogenea. L’articolo evidenzia le differenze tra paesi africani, le influenze delle culture ex coloniali e la loro inedita fusione con le culture africane, nonché la presenza di imprenditori, trader e dirigenti di azienda africani di origine straniera, dalla Cina all’Olanda, in un mix composito di ibridazione culturale. Secondo ...
Value-Focused Management: Achieving More with Existing Resources
In these turbulent days where businesses are struggling for their survival they must do the paradigm shift and deliver more using existing resources.
Celebrating Heroes: On Rewards in Corporations
A fundamental part of our social life is based on the universal need to have the respect, esteem and approval of the people around us. Public prizes and awards are some of the instruments that carry out this important social function. Initially limited to situations outside of employment fields not driven by commercial logic (sports, culture, civil and military valor), prizes and public awards of ...
The Meeting/Clash Between Material and Imaginary
Our readers may wonder why, on our 50th anniversary, our magazine has decided to dedicate so much attention to the year 1969. The answer, as we will attempt to illustrate in this dossier, is because some of the events from that year were very important for the issues we still deal with today; more so than the events of 1968, another symbolic year whose importance and legacy have recently been the ...
Where the Rail System Begins
From the Kingdom of Italy to the new 2016 procurement code, the history of the Italian railway system shows how the succession of different political objectives and legislative changes has made the role of evaluation techniques very difficult, too often leaving to political decisions, with can change rapidly, the task of planning and financing the works. In our country, this has generated numerous ...
The Boom of Sex Toys (Thanks to E-commerce)
1969. The year the first sex shop opened in Italy. Since then the number of such stores has grown, especially in the 1980s and ’90s. Today the approximately 500 “physical” stores present in Italy[1] must deal with the opening of an increasing number of stores present exclusively online. This is a trend taking place throughout Europe: for example, the Beate Uhse company, that had a chain of franchises ...
The Open Fiber Project: how and why
Founded in 2017 to pursue the goals of the "Gigabit society" indicated by the European Union, the Open Fiber project set an investment plan of 6.5 billion euros to cable 19 million residential units with an entirely fiber optic network, equal to two-thirds of the country by 2023. The company is working in 271 large cities and 8,000 small towns spread out around all 20 Italian regions.