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The resurgence of M&A. Interview with Mr. Gregg Lemkau, Global Head M&A Goldman Sachs
Dear Mr. Lemkau, 2014 seems a very good year for M&A. Recent announced mega deals (see, for example, in the Cable TV, social media and pharmaceutical business) have opened the year in a risk on mood for corporations and investors. Can you please give us your point of view about the driving forces behind this renewed upward trend? We are certainly seeing a resurgence of M&A activity in ...
A Glance at the Future. The Effects of Anticipated Disclosure of Concept Products on Consumer Evaluation of Marketed Products
In 2010 Canon introduced to the public its Wonder Camera concept, a futuristic reflex camera that is currently under development at Canon’s lab, and that is forecasted to be launched on the market in 2030. The concept camera has been presented as implementing many breakthrough innovations. For instance, it features a single integrated lens with unprecedented focal length whereas current reflex cameras ...
Pension Funds’ Long Term Investment: A Huge Potential Demand. Interview with Mr. Raffaele Della Croce, Lead Manager, Long-term Investment Project, OECD
Looking back at the past few years, the spectrum of possible interested investors in infrastructure is now much broader. Can you please provide an overview of the different channels to infrastructure investments available to the private sector? Infrastructure can be financed using different capital channels. The evolution of the capital markets shows that financial innovation develops new financial ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Non-Financial Reporting; Much More than an Obligation
More than two years have passed since the entry into force of Legislative Decree 254/2016, which made it mandatory for “public interest entities” with over 500 employees and a balance sheet exceeding 20 million euros – or total net revenues from sales or other services exceeding 40 million euros – to present an individual non-financial declaration for each accounting period. From the first ...