E&M
2020/4
Contents
Dossier. Rethinking Globalization
State Intervention in the Economy? What Counts is Quality
A New Management of Global Markets
Why We Should Go Back to Reading Marx
Dossier. Who Represents What
All of the Doubts and Challenges within Confindustria
Business-Labor: Equal Status and Common Planning
Four Possible Destinies for Labor Unions
Visual Reaadings
Focus. The Fashion Industry and New Consumption
The World of Luxury is No Longer the Same (Which is Good)
Innovation & Operations Management
Sharing Economy
Digital Procurement
Insittutions and Society
Joys and Sorrows of Smart Working
During the months of the lockdown, the absence of electronic devices, the existence of cultural constraints (the culture of presence), and the absence of economic incentives to develop smart working projects, together with a difficult remote management of the relationship between bosses and employees and the complexity of redesigning business processes calibrating them on remote work, were the principal factors that prevented or made difficult the adoption of smart working. However, in 70 percent of cases, the companies that have adopted smart working policies have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles.