Economia - Ricerche - Open Access

Today’s world faces grand challenges, such as climate change, social inequality, and environmental degradation. Addressing these complex issues calls for collaborative approaches among diverse stakeholders. Traditional, incremental company-level changes are inadequate. This book explores how companies adapt their organizational architectures to embark on sustainable transitions, analyzing three longitudinal case studies to identify best practices for achieving sustainable future scenarios.

Creativity is neither a magical phenomenon nor is it merely generated by individuals endowed with flair and vision. This book aims to offer a new perspective, particularly addressing the issue from an organizational standpoint. How is innovation generated in a workplace during a creative process in the cultural industries? After analysing theories on creativity and reviewing the relevant literature, the book evaluates a specific case from an organizational perspective: the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, which serves as an emblem for all cultural and creative industries.

Per le aziende sanitarie è oggi sempre più strategico riuscire a integrare nella governance ospedaliera un sistema di controllo interno finalizzato a mitigare i rischi (risk management) e migliorare le performance (internal control). Questo volume intende evidenziare l’importanza di un efficace sistema di controllo interno per rispondere adeguatamente ai rischi delle aziende sanitarie, nonché per garantire la qualità del reporting e la compliance alle leggi, ai regolamenti di settore e alle politiche interne di gestione dell’organizzazione.

Financial distress forecasting models allow to assess the future ability of companies to meet their obligations and to assess the credit risk of companies. Given the limitations of the information used so far to forecast financial distress, this study attempts to investigate whether and how different financial and non-financial variables influence the forecasting of corporate financial distress. A book that can have relevant practical implications for banks, investors, analysts, chief financial officers (CFOs) and managers in general interested in bankruptcy forecasting.

Con questa pubblicazione l’IPE giunge al traguardo del decimo volume nella collana dedicata ai Project Work dei Master della Business School su temi di ambito economico, finanziario e manageriale. I Project Work consistono nella stesura di lavori applicativi e di ricerca elaborati in gruppo dagli allievi al termine del percorso formativo di ciascun master su argomenti proposti dalle aziende partner e con la supervisione di un tutor aziendale assegnato a ciascun team di progetto.

This work explores the process through which manufacturing firms pursue a transition from product-oriented to product- and service-oriented business models. The object of analysis is the so-called Digital Servitization, i.e. the effort of manufacturers to exploit digital technologies to integrate a product offering with a series of digital-based services. The book aims to contribute to the literature on Digital Servitization by providing an integrated interpretative model to investigate the phenomenon. Taking a zoom-in approach to a case study analysis, the book provides insights into digital servitization with implications for academics and practitioners.