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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 ...

The pet economy as a management laboratory

When examining the business practices and managerial approaches of players in the pet economy, beyond the differences among categories, offering models, company size, and market positioning, a number of recurring regularities emerge. The responses developed by firms do not, in fact, appear random or exclusively tied to the contingencies of individual segments; rather, they tend to refer back to three ...

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 ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Cameran Mara, Ditillo Angelo, Pettinicchio Angela

How Technology Helps Auditors an Companies

Auditing activities require, and will increasingly require, the availability of knowledge and skills that allow for properly analyzing and using data and information obtained thanks to new technologies.#We can expect a significant impact due to technological transformation in terms of efficacy and efficiency of auditing services provided to clients, but that impact will not necessarily take place ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Caiozzo Paola

The Challenges and Methods of Remote Sales

A survey conducted by SDA Bocconi sheds light on the behavior of sellers during the months of the lockdown and the evolution of remote selling during the pandemic .

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/2) Vecchi Veronica, Cusumano Niccolò, Tanese Angelo

Generating value with purchases and investments

After Covid-19, and in light of the PNRR, it seems evident that the requalification and strategic governance of healthcare purchasing and investment processes are an absolute priority and decisive factor to generate change, innovation, and value in the National Health Service (NHS). This requires new skills and a new approach, in both the public and private sectors, for the development of collaborative ...