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Magazine article (E&M - 2012/05) Bodnar Gordon M., Consolandi Costanza, Gabbi Giampaolo, Jaiswal-Dale Ameeta

The derivative usage by listed and non-listed Italian Firms for corporate risk management

La scarsa trasparenza sull’uso dei derivati nei bilanci delle imprese è all’origine della scarsa conoscenza degli schemi di comportamento delle imprese per quanto riguarda l’impiego di tali strumenti. Questo articolo esamina le pratiche di gestione del rischio delle imprese italiane, sia quotate sia non quotate, per un’ampia varietà di rischi d’impresa: rischi di cambio, di tasso di interesse, ...

HIT Radar: Application Focus – Information Technology

Le principali applicazioni emergenti abilitate dalle tecnologie mappate nell’HIT Radar per quanto riguarda l’area dell’Information Technology sono Blockchain-based Smart Contract, Intelligent Cloud Orchestrator e API (Application Programming Interface) Management Platform. Blockchain-based Smart Contract Un Blockchain-based Smart Contract è un codice che permette di facilitare, eseguire e attuare ...

HIT Radar: Application Focus - Finance

Cryptocurrency A cryptocurrency is a digital token whose creation is regulated by the blockchain technology, which also ensures the legitimacy of transactions conducted using that digital asset. Despite the humongous hype around cryptocurrencies, the real value of this technology is still unclear – due to the lack of mainstream services and real business cases. Cryptocurrencies are the first technology ...

Innovation & Growth

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From the platform economy to the ecosystem economy: how AI is rewriting global competition

Amazon, Alibaba, Apple and Google are the champions of the platform economy. But a new frontier is emerging: the ecosystem economy. Unlike a platform, which has a clearly defined center and a dominant player that controls the rules of the game, an ecosystem is a networked set of relationships in which multiple companies, organizations and communities collaborate. There is no longer a single infrastructure ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Lorenzetti Anna

The Body of Law Against Discrimination

One of the characteristics of anti-discrimination law lies in having introduced peculiar notions, rules, and institutions such as direct and indirect discrimination. Anti-discrimination law is also characterized by the presence of sanctions (that must be "actual, proportionate, and dissuasive"). This strengthens the position of those who – merely because they are victims of discrimination and part ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Lo Zoppo Marianna, Saputo Aristea

The Entire Supply Chain Faces the test of Innovation

Innovation in agribusiness represents an indispensible step for the construction of a sustainable future, and is more or less explicitly linked to achieving most of the SDG identified by the UN in 2015.#Forces of change such as technological advancement, the climate crisis, the scarcity of resources, and the growth of global population will influence the trajectories of development in coming years, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Dossi Andrea, Meloni Gianluca

In Management Control the Goal Is to Align Measures and Strategies

Relevance, systemic approach, ability to influence, and ability to generate trust are the four key principles in order to inspire the mission, logics, models, activities, and skills of the Management Planning and Control System (MPCS). Referring to those principles, it is possible to give substance to the concept of "partnership with business," understood as the ability to effectively interface with ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Lo Zoppo Marianna, Fiorillo Vitaliano

The Growth of Vertical Farming Between Reality and Promises

Vertical farming is an innovative solution to grow plants, stacked in multiple layers, in closed environments in which light, nutrients, and temperature are constantly controlled.#The main advantages of vertical farming are linked to the efficient use of nutrients, the possibility to produce all year round even in hostile environments, as well as water savings, the possibility to eliminate herbicides ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Mastrandrea Francesco

The New Rules on European and Italian Agricultural Policy

Born in the 1950s with the idea of increasing agricultural productivity and protecting producers and consumers, the structure of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was recently rethought from the perspective of social, environmental, and economic sustainability, with the intent of modifying the entire European and extra-European food system from a green standpoint.#Among the most ambitious points ...