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Magazine article (E&M - 2012/02) Laureiro Daniella

The Cognitive and Neuropsychological Foundations of Strategic Decision-Making

My research seeks to uncover the cognitive and neuropsychological foundations of strategy. I take an attention modulation perspective to understand how decision making processes differ among managers and innovative entrepreneurs. Attention has been recognized as being the chief bottleneck in organizational activity (Simon 1971). I have always found puzzling how different organizational leaders ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/05) Castellaneta Francesco

The double-edged sword of experience in strategic decisions. Evidence from the private equity sector

Research objective The overarching objective of my research is to contribute to our understanding of the positive and negative experiential learning factors linked to the development of organizational capabilities in strategic tasks. Experience is both an opportunity and a restriction – a resource and an obstacle for change, a space to explore and a prison. To gain insights into the puzzling ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/03) Conti Raffaele

Chance or Necessity? Exploring the determinants of technological breakthroughs

Introduction I would like to wholeheartedly thank the members of my committee – i.e. Alfonso Gambardella, Andrew A. King, and Gianmario Verona – for their advice, guidance, and support along the PhD years and in the development of my dissertation. This work greatly benefited from insightful interactions with Wilbur Chung, Paola Cillo, Elena Dalpiaz, Emmanuelle Fauchart, Jennifer Jordan, Adam Kleinbaum, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/04) Vlasic Goran

Market driving strategies

Ever since market orientation was conceptualized and provided managers with a framework for managing sustainable competitive advantage (Kumar, Jones, Vankatesan, Leone 2011), firms have increasingly been recognizing customers as kings, focusing on satisfying their needs, and asserted customer centricity as their key value. This narrow understanding of the marketing concept led firms to struggle in ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/03) Di Stefano Giada

Knowledge, Innovation, and Social Norms in Creative Industries

Introduction I would like to wholeheartedly thank the members of my committee – i.e. Alfonso Gambardella, Andrew A. King, and Gianmario Verona – for their advice, guidance, and support along the PhD years and in the development of my dissertation. This work greatly benefited from insightful interactions with Wilbur Chung, Paola Cillo, Elena Dalpiaz, Emmanuelle Fauchart, Jennifer Jordan, Adam Kleinbaum, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/5) Basaglia Stefano, Simonella Zenia

1998-2007: Great Transformations at the Turn of the Millennium

This second article in the miniseries dedicated to the thirty years of Economia e Management concentrates on the decade from 1998 to 2007. This is the decade in which, on March 19, 2004, the founder and first editor of this magazine, Claudio Dematté, died before his time. His successor was Vincenzo Perrone (already the Deputy Editor since 1989), who would remain in his position until 2013. So in ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/2)

Poor But … Poor

The famous film by Dino Risi, Poveri ma belli, was made in 1956. Two more followed, composing a trilogy[1] in which poverty was explicitly mentioned in the titles but associated - unlike neorealist cinema - with the comedy genre. Italy in the 1950s was a poor country that had just emerged from the material devastation and destruction of World War II. The parliamentary inquiry of 1953 had indicated ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2023/3)

Ecological Transition: Measuring the Impact on Balance Sheet Metrics

The climate transition entails some potential risks, especially for certain industrial sectors. Therefore, it is ne­cessary to estimate the impact of the transition concerning the probability of finan­cial default for various companies. Some balance sheet variables, which affect liquidity and financial position, can influence the economic and financial performance of a company, and therefore must ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2025/1)

Not Just Artificial Intelligence

Some areas of innovation are rapidly gaining traction in the technology landscape and are entering a prime phase for high-impact experimentation, defined as the Experiment phase. Among these are Mixed Reality, Blockchain Layer 2, and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, all of which present companies with exciting new application opportunities. Other areas, such as quantum computing, brain-computer interfaces, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2025/2)

Female Advisors Drivers of Change

The Edufin Index is calculated as the average of two sub-indices: the Awareness Index, which assesses financial awareness and understanding, and the Behavioral Index, which evaluates behavioral confidence and decision-making in financial matters. Both indices are scored on a scale from 0 to 100, with 60 considered the minimum threshold for sufficiency. With an overall score of 56, the Edufin Index ...