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Smart Work, the South, and Internal Areas for Local Development
Prior to the pandemic, “smart work” involved only a limited part of the working population. Following the cultural, economic, and social upheaval caused by Covid-19, this mode of work suddenly took on great interest for the media, institutions, workers, businesses, and civil society. At the start of the pandemic, a group of young Southern Italians created the phenomenon of “South Working,” ...
Diversity Management: An Extensive Terrain Still to Be Explored
The world of diversity management in SMEs is a terrain that has been little explored. In the databases of academic studies there are few contributions dedicated specifically to this theme, and precise data is lacking on the spread and adoption in SMEs of policies and practices of diversity management. Focusing attention on Italy, the survey on the spread and adoption of these practices conducted in ...
High Uncontrollability: Goals, Performance, and Incentives
The Covid-19 pandemic represented an important turning point for companies, offering managers a new opportunity to experiment with management solutions aimed at facing situations of high uncertainty and unpredictability. Among the practices adopted, a particularly important role is occupied by those relating to the design and use of systems for defining goals and evaluating performance, that directly ...
Management Faces the Untranslatable
Adjacent to the forbidden city in Beijing is Zhongnanhai (中南海), the inviolable and inaccessible center of Chinese political and economic power. It is the place where plans and courses of economic, social, and political development are conceived and approved. If the source of economic policies is unquestioned, there is less certainty regarding the interpretation of their economic effects; an ...
Facing the New Normal: Skills, Resources, and Leadership
While the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Italian industrial system is well-documented by statistical data that easily generates agreement between scholars and practitioners, a broad and unresolved debate regards the elements of excellence, factors of vulnerability, and conditions of development of that type of economic actor. The ability to adapt, proactiveness, flexibility, ...
Doing Business in China: The Case of Brembo
My travels to China date back to 1994. I began to go there for Brembo at the end of 2000 in order to establish the first minority equity joint venture, in Nanjing. This was NYABS (Nanjing Yuejin Automotive Braking System), a company for the production of braking systems for commercial vehicles. Brembo’s strategy was already oriented towards expanding its production in the main global automotive ...
SMEs and Continuity of Success in the New Scenarios of Competition
Businesses have always been involved in the fascinating process of seeking success, challenging themselves with the goal of understanding what to do to improve their results, in the difficult search for a response on how to act in tough situations. In all historical periods, those emerge who are better able to interpret the competitive context to be faced and to construct an effective synthesis that ...
Multicultural Leadership as a Lever for Success
The Chinese companies that invest in Italy are increasingly numerous and diversified by sector. In the last decade of pre-Covid globalization they have more than doubled, reaching 722 companies with 42,600 employees and 24.5 billion euros in overall turnover. The greatest boom was recorded from 2012 to 2018 and is explained in part by “China’s Go Global Policy,” with which China intends to push ...
Internet Meets the Great Wall
One of the most illuminating studies in regard to the ideology and narrative of internet is the book by Evgenij Morozov entitled The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, published in 2011. Among the central themes of the study is the recognition of the argument claiming that internet has facilitated processes of democratization in authoritarian contexts.[1] One of the most emblematic ...
A Complex Three Years that Bring Problems and Opportunities
From 2020 to today, Italian small enterprises have been living through “interesting times,” as the Slovenian sociologist Slavoj Žižek would say, to use a euphemism. In these three years, our enterprises have been affected by various types of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events: the health emergency, the war crisis, growing inflation, and most recently the energy crisis. As in the past, this ...