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[ARTICOLO] Dagnino, G. B., Picone, P. M., & Ferrigno, G. (2021). Temporary Competitive Advantage: A State‐of‐the‐Art Literature Review and Research Directions. International Journal of Management Reviews, 23(1),pp. 85-115.

In many industries, the traditional sources of competitive advantage tend to evaporate fairly rapidly. Therefore, managers need to continually rethink and reformulate their firm strategies. Likewise, scholars have felt compelled to shift the traditional centre of attention from competitive advantage that is sustainable over time to a focus on how firms compete by achieving a series of temporary advantages. However, the proliferation of research on temporary competitive advantage, far from building a solid body of literature, has produced a series of fragmented studies.

[ARTICOLO] Conz, E., & Magnani, G. (2020). A dynamic perspective on the resilience of firms: A systematic literature review and a framework for future research. European Management Journal, 38(3), pp. 400-412.

This study aims to answer the following research question: How is the resilience of firms defined in the business and management field? In doing so, the authors answer recent calls for research about a more thorough conceptualisation of the resilience of firms and its definition. They conducted a systematic literature review of 66 selected papers published between 2000 and 2017. By means of inductive content analysis, the authors analyse the definitions of ‘resilience’ and elaborate a novel conceptual framework that introduces a dynamic perspective on the resilience of firms.

[LIBRO] N.M.Gusmerotti, M.Frey, F.Iraldo, Management dell’economia circolare, Franco Angeli, 2020

L’Economia Circolare rappresenta una sfida fondamentale per lo sviluppo sostenibile così come un nuovo paradigma per le imprese. Arricchito da esempi e casi tratti da progetti operativi, questo volume offre una ampia panoramica sui principi e criteri per la transizione alla circolarità, sui drivers interni ed esterni che possono spingere le imprese al cambiamento, sui nuovi business models per la circolarità, sulla misurazione dei livelli di circolarità di processi e prodotti come supporto al decision making.

[LIBRO] Franco Debenedetti, Fare Profitti. Etica dell’impresa, Marsilio,2021

Franco Debenedetti affronta i temi del dibattito sul ruolo dell’impresa nella società (etica e profitto, stato e mercato, come ridurre le disuguaglianze, lo strapotere delle Big Tech, Big Pharma e la pandemia) alla luce di un approccio rigorosamente neo-liberista: tutto quanto altera il ruolo del mercato nella allocazione delle risorse produce danni sociali.

[RICERCA] Future of the Corporation by British Academy

Future of the Corporation è un programma di ricerca della British Academy guidato da Colin Mayer e finalizzato alla definizione, col coinvolgimento di una ampia comunità di business leaders, uomini politici ed accademici, di un paradigma per l’impresa del XXI secolo su cui basare un nuovo rapporto di fiducia tra business e società.

[LIBRO] Colin Mayer, Prosperity. Better Business Makes the Greater Good, Oxford University Press, 2018

L‘idea della massimizzazione del profitto come finalità dell’impresa è stata dominante e pervasiva, ma è fondamentalmente sbagliata ed ha prodotto conseguenze dannose sul piano economico, ambientale, politico e sociale. Mayer delinea una nuova agenda per un’impresa orientata al bene comune: quale scopo, quali valori e quale governance per l’impresa, quale ruolo per regolatori e legislatori, quale compito per i governi, per rendere l’impresa strumento del benessere economico e sociale?

[LIBRO] Paul Collier, The Future of Capitalism. Facing the New Anxieties, Random House UK, 2918.(trad. italiana: Il futuro del capitalismo, Editori Laterza, 2020)

Inedite contrapposizioni lacerano le società del mondo occidentale: grandi città contro provincie marginalizzate, élites specializzate contro lavoratori precari, paesi ricchi contro paesi poveri. Secondo Collier solo un capitalismo economicamente efficiente ma anche equo, compassionevole ed eticamente fondato potrà permettere di superare le nuove fratture economiche, sociale e culturali.

[ARTICOLO] Shmueli, G., Ray, S., Estrada, J. M. V., & Chatla, S. B. (2016). The elephant in the room: Predictive performance of PLS models. Journal of Business Research, 69(10), pp. 4552-4564.

Attempts to introduce predictive performance metrics into partial least squares (PLS) path modelling have been slow and fall short of demonstrating impact on either practice or scientific development in PLS. This study contributes to PLS development by offering a comprehensive framework that identifies different dimensions of prediction and their effect on predictive performance evaluation with PLS. This framework contextualizes prior efforts in PLS and prediction and highlights potential opportunities and challenges.

[ARTICOLO] Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1973). Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability. Cognitive psychology, 5(2),pp. 207-232.

This paper explores a judgmental heuristic in which a person evaluates the frequency of classes or the probability of events by availability, i.e., by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind. In general, availability is correlated with ecological frequency, but it is also affected by other factors. Consequently, the reliance on the availability heuristic leads to systematic biases. Such biases are demonstrated in the judged frequency of classes of words, of combinatorial outcomes, and of repeated events.

[ARTICOLO] Foss, N. J., Klein, P. G., & Bjørnskov, C. (2018). The context of entrepreneurial judgment: organizations, markets, and institutions. Journal of Management Studies. 56(6), pp. 1197-1213.

The economics and management literatures pay increasing attention to the technological, competitive, and institutional environment for entrepreneurship. However, less is known about how context influences the judgment of entrepreneurs. Focusing on the emerging judgment‐based approach to entrepreneurship, the Authors argue that economics can say much about how the organizational, market, and institutional context shapes entrepreneurial judgment. They describe entrepreneurs as individuals who deploy scarce, heterogeneous resources to service customer preferences at a profit.

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