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Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Perrini Francesco, Pogutz Stefano, De Silvio Manlio

The Four Strategies to Promote Sustainable Practices

Without the full involvement of SMEs, the sustainable transition cannot take place. Starting from this fact, the second edition of the White paper “Fostering Sustainability in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” produced by the SDA Bocconi Sustainability Lab and sponsored by Assicurazioni Generali, placed European SMEs even more at the center of the analysis, further investigating the evolution ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Opper Sonja

The Myth of Guanxi: What We Really Know

Doing business in China is difficult, but there seems to be an essential element: guanxi. Guanxi means particularly precious relationships with the principal decision-makers and gatekeepers. A guanxi offers preferential treatment in bureaucratic decisions and gives access to greater business opportunities. It allows for accessing resources on little liberalized markets, such as capital and land in ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Zadro Alessandro

Risks and Opportunities for Italian Businesses

In 2022, the global economy had to face considerable uncertainties, principally linked to the increase of inflation, the lack of energy, and the interruption of supply chains. Despite the difficult historical and global situation, economic and trade cooperation between the European Union and China and between Italy and China seems to maintain prospects for long-term growth. The actors involved are ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Pugliese Giulio

The US Strategy to Contain Beijing

The ambitions of the new Quad largely reflect the vision of Kurt Campbell – Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific on the US National Security Council – and his team of Asia experts. Chinese assertiveness, the pandemic, and the technological revolution have accentuated the problem of numerous countries’ dependence on China for the supply of medical products, especially active principles and personal ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Franceschini Ivan

The New Silk Road. One, None and a Hundred Thousand

Some time ago, a friend who works for a non-governmental organization was interviewed by a journalist regarding the risks linked to some Chinese projects to construct coal-fired power plants in a certain country of Southeast Asia. Although the local authorities had promised to work towards a carbon-free future, some of these projects had not been abandoned, and the journalist wanted to know if the ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Amighini Alessia

The Internationalization of the Chinese Currency

The net outflow of capital from China is continuing and getting worse. In recent months, according to data from the International Institute of Finance (IIF), foreign investors have sold their Chinese shares and bonds for a value equivalent to 17 billion dollars, a historic high. This sell-off, driven principally by high outgoing Chinese investments, also during the years of the pandemic, follows almost ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/1) Attanasio Ghezzi Cecilia

The Magic Circle of Xi Jinping

The Chinese Communist Party has turned 101, and has been in power without interruption since 1949, when Mao Zedong founded the People’s Republic. Today the Party counts almost 97 million members, and its Congress, that is held in the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square every five years, is the most important event in Chinese political life. It lasts about a week and takes place behind closed ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2024/3) Guido Gianluigi

Godfather Marketing: A New Approach with Risks and Rewards

According to the prevailing academic definition, the strategic goal of marketing is to "create value" for both the firm and consumers (cf. Gundlach and Wilkie, 2009), where "value" is understood as something that is objectively beneficial to both parties. However, it could be argued that the ultimate purpose of firms is to sell products, while for consumers it is to fulfill their needs – needs that ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2024/3) Ciacci Andrea, Penco Lara

Unveiling the Nature of Big Data Analytics Capabilities. Trust and the Moderating Role of Environmental Hostility

Introduction Big data represents a disruptive paradigm shift for businesses (Chauhan et al., 2022; George et al., 2014; Ekbia et al., 2015). According to McAfee and Brynjolfsson (2012), firms that anchor their activities on data show productivity rates and profitability that are 5% or 6% higher than their counterparts. Data-driven firms are business organizations that build tools, abilities, and culture ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2024/3) Mengoli Stefano

Insights for the Italian Market. Valuing Companies with Equity Beta

Introduction Valuing a company requires a thorough understanding of the underlying theories of corporate finance. Such expertise is necessary not only to apply the approaches established in the literature with rigor, but also to guide decisions, particularly when information is insufficient. In the latter respect, in an underdeveloped financial market such as Italy’s, one of the most challenging ...