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The Chinese market as an opportunity to innovate distribution strategies? Evidences from Italian firms
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the distribution strategies implemented by foreign firms in emerging markets, and to investigate whether they represent an opportunity for firms to innovate their practice. China is selected as the setting of the investigation as distribution is a critical determinant of business success for international firms operating there.
A multiple-case study approach is adopted by investigating the distribution strategies of four Italian firms in China. The collected data consist of interviews with firm managers and their distributors. To ensure triangulation and cross-verify the findings from the primary data, secondary data consisting of sector reports and newspaper articles were analyzed.
Results discuss how foreign firms develop their distribution system in China and suggest that emerging markets can enable reverse innovation in their distribution strategies. Managerial implications are discussed on the extent to which the Chinese distribution system still represents a key issue for foreign firms, but it also provides with opportunity for innovation
New immigrant struggles in Italy's logistics industry
No full textThe wave of strikes in the logistics sector since 2008 is by far the most important struggle that has developed in Italy in the wake of the global economic crisis. In this article we reflect on its potential for the renewal of the labour movement. We ground our discussion in an analysis of global production transformations and migration as a factor of working class re-composition. We show that in Italy the crisis is determining an acute process of deindustrialisation, while austerity and harshening immigration restrictions are reinforcing the deregulation and racialisation of employment relation. Deindustrialisation, however, is matched by the growth of the logistics sector and its reorganisation along the lines of Just-in-Time production, which actually strengthens workers' bargaining power at the point of production. After describing working conditions in the sector, we present the main characteristics of logistics struggles. The mainly immigrant logistics workers have been able to exercise their power through blockades and strikes, obtaining improved agreements with some of the main logistics companies. In a context of increasingly generalised precarity, these struggles can inspire workers in other sectors and promote a process of international class re-composition
La “villa dei marmi” di Polesella (Ro): dal rinvenimento di superficie all’indagine preliminare
No full textContributo dedicato all'analisi del rinvenimento di una grande villa rustica con pavimentazioni musive, collocata nei pressi ed in relazione ai tracciati viari che collegavano il Polesine a Bologna dal I secolo a.C. al II d.C
A Countryside to Sip: Venice Inland and the Prosecco’s Uneasy Relationship withWine Tourism and Rural Exploitation
No full textIn 2016, Italian production of wine exceeded 51 million hectolitres and among the twenty regions, the region with the most production by volume (millions of hectolitres) was the Veneto region, north-east of Italy, with almost 11 million. In particular, the success of Prosecco at the global level is the most important driving factor at both the economic and productivity levels. The worldwide success of Prosecco wine entails a remarkable change in both the local and regional configuration of agrarian landscapes. Traditional winegrowing swiftly changed into an intensive monoculture with remarkable investments and the spread of new viticulture entrepreneurships. The discussion proposed here intends to investigate the process of heritage construction or ‘heritagisation’, UNESCO candidacy, as an important issue for rural tourism promotion in the context of a productive winescape. We concentrated our analysis on the DOCG area, a complex space where several forces need to coexist; the productive drive of growing requests (global and local) of Prosecco, as well as rural representation based on local habits and a concrete hilly landscape. Rural tourism is clearly an important sector in terms of revenue and employment, especially for local communities, and it can help to ensure economic stability; however, doing so in a way that benefits the area and the landscape is not so straightforward. There are potential problems in facilitating increased urbanization, such as the standardization of landscape and damage to the area if plans are mismanaged. In the case of best practices, a desirable model of tourism can be tapped into while helping rural regions take advantage of more sustainable tourism development and landscape management
Habitat constraints on carotenoid-based coloration in a small euryhaline teleost
No full textDisplay of bright and striking color patterns is a widespread way of communication in
many animal species. Carotenoid-based coloration accounts for most of the bright
yellow, orange, and red displays in invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds,
being widely considered a signal of individual health. This type of coloration is under
the influence of several factors, such as sexual selection, predator pressure, pigment
availability, and light transmission. Fish offer numerous examples of visual communication
by means of color patterns. We used a small cyprinodontid fish, Aphanius fasciatus
(Valenciennes, 1821), as a model species to assess habitat constraints on the
color display in male caudal fin. Populations from natural and open/closed artificial
habitats were tested for differences in the pigmentation of caudal fins. The most
important factors explaining the intensity of coloration were the habitat type and the
chlorophyll concentration in the sediment, followed by water turbidity; yellow fins
were observed in natural habitats with low chlorophyll concentration and high water
turbidity, while orange fins occurred in artificial habitats with high chlorophyll concentration
and low turbidity. Furthermore, A. fasciatus in artificial habitats showed a
higher somatic and a lower reproductive allotment with respect to natural habitats,
according to the existing literature on the species. Furthermore, in closed artificial
habitats, where the most intense reddish coloration of caudal fins was observed, a
trade-off between somatic growth and the coloration intensity of a carotenoid-based
sexual ornament has been observed; in these populations, intensity of caudal fin
coloration was negatively related to the somatic allotment. Results of this study
suggested how both the pigmentation of male’s caudal fin and the life history
strategies of the species are constrained by habitat characteristics
La gestione del rischio nella zona DOCG Conegliano-Valdobbiadene, valutazioni economiche
No full textThe risk management policy in agriculture has become particularly prominent, considering the evolution of the CAP and the dreaded climate change. The aim is the evaluation of economic convenience to join to risk management tools provided to winegrowers in the DOCG area of Conegliano-Valdobbiadene. The study makes use of specific information gathered by Condifesa and proposes an original efficiency indicator of the subsidies. The analysis shows that the subsidized insurance alone is no longer the most adequate. Only the drafting of a supplementary coverage can minimize the loss function. The prediction of more severe weather events suggests that maybe only a higher risk perception can be an enticing premise for the development of a solid insurance market
D’Amico, Silvia, and Catherine Magnien-Simonin, eds. Gabriele Simeoni (1509–1570?). Un Florentin en France entre princes et libraires. Geneva: Droz, 2016.
No full text«Marcabò»: un possibile esordio delle inedite «Escursioni dantesche» di Olindo Guerrini
No full textIl saggio prende in esame una serie di documenti inediti emersi durante lo spoglio del Fondo Guerrini, riconducibili al progetto dell'autore di comporre un Itinerario dantesco. L'unica testimonianza che finora avevamo in proposito risaliva ai Ricordi bolognesi di Corrado Ricci (1924). Le carte ritrovate non solo confermano la notizia del Ricci, ma ci aprono anche un interessantissimo squarcio sul laboratorio di Guerrini, rappresentando - con ogni probabilità - tre diverse stesure dello stesso progetto. A queste si aggiunge quello che pare essere il proemio all'opera, intitolato Marcabò, di cui si offre qui una prima edizion
Gender, migration and globalisation: an overview of the debates.
No full textWhat does it mean to talk about ‘gender’ in relation to migration? When confronted by this question, scholars and students who already know what ‘migration’ means are puzzled by how they should put this together with an equally vast realm of concepts and facts – those that consider what gender
is
. Or, to be more precise: what gender
does
. For this purpose, in this chapter I am providing an overview of what gender
does
to migration, illustrating some of the ways in which taking a gender perspective changes the way we understand the link between migration and globalisation, and how gender-based differ-ences and inequalities affect (and are affected) by global migrations.I will do this, first of all, by introducing the relevance of gender issues to migration debates, and thus speak of the ‘feminisation of migration’. This, I contend, can be seen at a quantitative and qualitative level. Therefore, the chapter delves into a specific dimen-sion of the feminisation of migration by taking the case of domestic and care workers to discuss issues such as the ‘international division of reproductive labour’ and the ‘global care chain’. In the second part of the chapter I offer an historical overview of the scholar-ship that has developed around the gender–migration–globalisation nexus in the last 40 years. At the end, I outline other possible directions for research in this fiel