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Americanism and Managerial Models
From the postwar period to today, Europe has always looked with admiration and envy to the greatness of America, thinking that the gap with the United States could be closed by creating an economic union or importing managerial models that are often containers of ideology more than organizational techniques. However, it is not sufficient to increase the size of markets or uncritically import some ...
Pressures and Tensions in Transatlantic Relations
Between 2004 and 2012, the United States and the European Union were each other's most important trading and investment partners; with annual trade of over 4 billion dollars, they generated 50% of the world's GDP and a third of global trade flows. Moreover, with the return to the White House of an Atlanticist president like Joe Biden, Washington has come back to the center of the climate agenda, re-entering ...
The Birth and Evolution of the Chinese Question
China is the player that has undermined US world hegemony the most, challenging not only the international system that came into being after 1945, but also its founding values and their universal character.#In recent years, technology supply chains, and primarily semiconductors, have been at the center of competition between the United States and China. The geopolitical nature of the technological ...
Public Administration and Meritocracy between Myth and Reality
For years the public administration has evoked the mantra of meritocracy, with great difficulty in concretely introducing it. This makes the public sector less attractive for more qualified people on the labor market, and produces a gradual demotivation of public employees. The attempt to introduce more meritocracy in the public administration has been reduced to the often distorted use of monetary ...
The Renewer’s Dilemma in the Management of Collective Turnover
The renewal of human capital in businesses represents a need that it both strategic and operational at the same time. There is no avoiding this issue, and the timeframe in which it takes place can have a significant impact not only on a company’s results, but at times even on its very survival. Putting off such an operation can in fact mean the loss of a significant component of shared experience. ...
Negotiation: How Important is Cultural Background?
An activity present in every human community and society, but carried out following norms, methods, and behavior that can be very different depending on different cultural backgrounds: this is how we could describe negotiation in an intercultural perspective. In a world of globalized business, in which organizations and professionals increasingly find themselves interacting with colleagues and ...
The Hidden Challenge of Digital Transformation
Digital transformation has brought many challenges to enterprises in the last ten years. The consumerization of information technology has produced a shift from traditional legacy user interfaces and software to the need for consumer-grade, user-friendly interfaces and experiences at work. The proliferation of mobile technologies and the internet of things has expanded boundaries far beyond the physical ...
How to Draw Value from Data in the Post-Digital Era
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently estimated that by the end of 2020, the total of data stored globally should reach the volume of 44 Zettabytes, which means having a quantity of bytes forty times greater than the number of stars in the universe. In the world of big data and digitalization, imaginative references such as those of the WEF on the growth of data volume have by now become ...
The Issue of Corporate Governance in Public Utilities
Public utilities, companies operating in the sectors of water, the environment, energy, and transport, have a profound impact on quality of life, being responsible for basic infrastructure and the provision of the main services in the collective interest of the population. In the history of our country, these companies grew in monopoly conditions, as a direct representation of the public entities ...
Big Tech Finance between Efficiency and Market Choices
The banking industry is undergoing a process of deep transformation driven principally by technological innovations that at the same time have impacted not only the efficiency of the sector, but above all the competition involving various categories of new actors. In addition to challenger banks and fintech startups, the international market has seen the growth of big tech finance. Unlike the ...