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Indagine sul comportamento di co-creazione degli studenti: il ruolo della web communication e delle tecnologie digitali come driver per l’Università 4.0. Una review sistematica della letteratura
Full text linkLe tecnologie digitali ampliano l’orizzonte dell’innovazione didattica richiedendo l’integrazione di modelli organizzativi e tecnologici. L’università 4.0 necessità di supporto e stimolo da parte del sistema istituzionale per intraprendere il processo di cambiamento sul fronte della didattica. Il nostro lavoro intende indagare, attraverso una analisi sistematica della letteratura, le azioni da proporre al sistema universitario, al fine di attivare uno sviluppo efficiente e condiviso di esperienze, infrastrutture e percorsi didattici. L’obiettivo è esaminare la relazione esistente tra le diverse variabili che attivano il processo di co-creazione e allinearle con gli istituti di istruzione universitaria. Il paper evidenzia inoltre ciò che costituisce la soddisfazione degli studenti a livello di esperienza universitaria ed esamina l’influenza della soddisfazione complessiva sul comportamento di co-creazione, al fine di migliorare la qualità dell’offerta universitaria e la reputazione dell’università stessa. I risultati ottenuti possono riassumersi in sinergie profonde tra soddisfazione dello studente, comunicazione partecipativa e comportamenti di co-creazione, spinti da fattori tecnologici e digitali avanzati
Strategic rethinking and new perspective of profit smoothing. Empirical evidences from China
Full text linkL' attuale mutazione del capitalismo è segnata da un ritorno in forza e da una moltiplicazione delle forme della rendita che va di pari passo con un più generale rovesciamento dei rapporti tra rendita, salario e profitto. Questa evoluzione ha dato luogo a delle interpretazioni molto differenti, sia dal punto di vista teorico che perciò che concerne le loro implicazioni politiche.
In particolare, secondo un approccio molto diffuso in seno alle teorie marxiste e che affonda le sue radici nel l' economia politica ricardiana, la rendita è vista come una eredità precapitalistica e un ostacolo alla dinamica progressiva dell'accumulazione del capitale. Su questa base si è considerato che il vero capitalismo, il capitalismo puro, il capitalismo efficace, sarebbe un capitalismo senza rendita.In rapporto a questa interpretazione, la tesi che si intende portare avanti in tale elaborato può essere espressa tramite due proposizioni:
1) la rendita rappresenta non solo il punto di partenza, ma anche il divenire del capitalismo. Questo concetto si sviluppa poiché in una realtà in cui la legge del valore - tempo di lavoro entra in crisi e dove la cooperazione del lavoro appare sempre di più autonoma dalle funzioni di direzione del capitale, sono le frontiere stesse tra rendita e profitto che si sgretolano.
2) dato uno shock dei ricavi aziendali, endogeno o esogeno, il risultato immeditato è che esso andrà ad intaccare il profitto annuale. Ma è sempre vero questo processo? È vero che una variazione in diminuzione dei ricavi viene assorbita, nella stessa quantità, anche dal profitto?
Prendendo questa variabile come punto di partenza, l’elaborato ha l’obiettivo di analizzare l’interrelazione sottostante le varie voci maggiormente rilevanti che insistono all’interno dell’azienda. La finalità ultima del lavoro è quella di rispondere alle sopradette domande, di analizzare in che modo le azioni manageriali possono evitare una non armonizzazione del profitto da un periodo all’altro e quindi studiare le altre variabili del conto economico tali per cui possono anch’esse essere colpite da uno shock o da una variazione in diminuzione del quantum che rappresentano, variabili che sono rappresentate in questo modo, agli occhi dei manager, come voci che hanno funzionalità di cuscinetto per l’implicazione del processo del profit smoothing.The current change in capitalism is marked by a return to strength and a multiplication of forms of the rent that goes hand in hand with a more general overturning the relationship between income, wages and profits. This evolution has given rise to very different interpretations, both theoretical political implications.
In particular, according to a widespread approach in Marxist theories, which was rooted in the Ricardian political economy, the annuity is seen as a pre-capitalistic legacy and an obstacle to the progressive dynamics of capital accumulation. On this basis it was considered that true capitalism, pure capitalism, and effective capitalism would be capitalism without annuity. In relation to this interpretation, the thesis that I intend to pursue in this work can be expressed through two research questions:
1) Is it possible to quantify the allocation of risk sharing among different firm’s constituents?
In other words, given a shock to corporate sales, endogenous or exogenous, the undisputed result is that it will affect the annual profit. But is this process always true? Is it true that a decrease in revenue is absorbed, in the same amount, by profit?
2) Supposing there are several channels through which firm risk sharing may occur, which percentage of a demand shock is smoothed by which smoothing channel? By taking this variable as a starting point, the elaborative objective is to analyze the underlying interrelationships of the most significant items that insist within the company. The ultimate aim of the work is to answer the above questions, to analyze how management actions can avoid an harmonization of profit from one period to another and then study other variables of the income statement might also be affected by a shock or a diminutive variation in the quantum that they represent, which are represented in this way, in the eyes of the managers, as voices that have bearing capabilities for implicating the profit smoothing process
Profit Smoothing. Verso un approccio strategico del ruolo del profitto. Implicazioni manageriali
No full textIl profitto è una categoria di reddito tipica di una società capitalistica. Per i classici, quando ancora la figura dell'imprenditore e quella del capitalista si sovrapponevano, il profitto era un reddito a carattere residuale, corrispondente alla differenza tra il prezzo e il costo. Verso la metà del XIX secolo, con lo sviluppo delle teorie neoclassiche, il profitto è inteso come la remunerazione del servizio produttivo congiunto alla disponibilità di capitale. Tale concezione è stata ripresa dalla teoria più recente, secondo la quale il profitto è un reddito dinamico, che trae origine da innovazioni compiute in condizioni di incertezza del futuro e remunera i rischi non assicurabili delle imprese. Il libro offre una nuova visione del ruolo del profitto, proponendo una panoramica approfondita sulle manovre strategiche aziendalistiche. L'analisi si concentra sul processo del Profit Smoothing, quale fenomeno strategico, volto a "smussare" e quindi ad allineare e a mantenere costante il profitto nel tempo. L'analisi chiarirà quali sono le motivazioni principali alla base del Profit Smoothing e reinterpreterà, in chiave moderna, un concetto evergreen nella pratica economica.Profit is a typical income category of a capitalist society. For the classics, even when the entrepreneur and the capitalist overlapped, the profit was a residual nature income, corresponding to the difference between the price and the cost. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, with the development of neoclassical theories, profit is defined as the remuneration of the combined productive service to the availability of capital. This concept was taken up by the latest theory, according to which the profit is a dynamic income, which stems from innovations made in the uncertainty of future conditions and pays the uninsurable risks of enterprises. The book offers a new vision of the role of profit, proposing a thorough overview of the best companies strategic maneuvers. The analysis focuses on the process of Profit Smoothing, as a strategic phenomenon, to "smooth out" and then to align and to maintain steady profit over time. The analysis will clarify what are the main reasons for the profit Smoothing and reinterpret in a modern way, a concept evergreen in economic practice
Digital humanism and artificial intelligence: the role of emotions beyond the human-machine interaction in Society 5.0.
No full text“Hippocrazie”, big data e stili manageriali. Verso la definizione di nuove strategie nell’era digitale.
No full textIl presente studio si propone di esplorare e approfondire il ruolo dei big data nell’ambito dei processi di decision making in un’era di cambiamenti strategici veicolati dall’impatto delle tecnologie digitali. Data la natura concettuale ed esplorativa del lavoro, abbiamo scelto di impostare l’analisi partendo da una review della letteratura circa il tema dei big data. Una volta concettualizzato e problematizzato, inoltre, il fenomeno HIPPO, un’accurata analisi incrociata dei benefici e delle limitazioni delle due tematiche ci ha consentito di esplicitare suggerimenti ed implicazioni per la gestione d’impresa. Il lavoro perviene all’esposizione di linee guida a supporto delle attività di decision making del management delle imprese. Il limite principale dello studio risiede nella mancanza di una verifica empirica circa la reale considerazione del management nei confronti dei big data e del fenomeno HIPPO. Lo studio fornisce al management una chiave di lettura delle due principali tematiche analizzate e mette in guardia lo stesso dalle possibili ricadute negative sull’organizzazione di un loro mancato bilanciamento. L’originalità del lavoro discende non tanto nella contrapposizione tra prospettiva soggettivistica e oggettivistica, ma negli “attori” scelti a rappresentare tali prospettive, ovvero il fenomeno HIPPO (di cui scarsi sono risultati essere i contributi in letteratura) e i big data (maggiormente studiati in letteratura ma ancora in fase di vivaci dibattiti circa la bontà del proprio ruolo nelle attività dei practitioner).The present study aims to explore and examine the role of big data in the decision making process in an era where strategic changes are strongly driven by digital technologies. Given the conceptual and exploratory nature of the research, we have chosen to set the analysis starting from a literature review about the issue of big data. Once conceptualized and problematized also the HIPPO phenomenon, an accurate cross-analysis of the benefits and limitations of the two issues has enabled us to explicit suggestions and implications for the business management. The work comes to expose some guidelines for the decision making activities of business management. The most important limitation of the study relies on the absence of an empirical analysis on the concrete management considerations about the issues of big data and HIPPO. The study provides to the management an interpretation of the two main issues analyzed and warns on the possible negative implications for organization in case of a lack of balance between them. The originality of the study do not relies on the typical contrast between an objectivist and subjectivist perspective, but on the “actors” chosen to represent these perspectives: HIPPO (of which contributions in literature are very limited) and big data (that is more mentioned in literature but still discussed, primarily about the usefulness on their own role in the practitioners activity)
Exploring the journey of Responsible Business Model Innovation in Asian companies: A review and future research agenda
No full textStudents' learning outcomes and satisfaction. An investigation of knowledge transfer during social distancing policies
Full text linkDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the researchers discovered that a billion students accessed digital channels, thus confirming the centrality of digital technologies in education. Considering that student satisfaction refers to a short-term attitude resulting from an evaluation of the educational experiences lived and that the perceived quality of an educational background is a consequence of student satisfaction, this paper investigates the role of e-learning practices in a knowledge transfer's environment, such as the university. Mainly, through an exploratory analysis, the paper gives some specific insights, investigating students' satisfaction in terms of interaction between students, technology, and original contents. The results show how digital technologies are transforming the education experience by shedding light on e-learning outcomes and students' satisfaction. The principal managerial implications of the paper focus on the beginning to understand the need to acquire digital infrastructures in universities, reducing the technological gaps, and considering the implementation of online learning solutions
Intellectual capital and value co-creation: an empirical analysis from a marketing perspective
Full text linkThe aim of this study is to investigate intellectual capital (IC) drivers that may influence Italian consumers’ decision to participate in value co-creation (VCC) activities with firms. Given the exploratory nature of the research, after a review of the relevant literature, we conducted a survey among Italian consumers to see if IC principal sub-dimensions (i.e. Relational Capital, Human Capital and Structural Capital) played a role in triggering VCC processes. Using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA), we analyzed 270 usable questionnaires finding that, in order to decide to co-create value with firms, IC sub-dimensions actually play a critical role. Our findings showed that the motivations (i.e., IC components) that influence Italian consumers’ decision to participate in value co-creation activities with firms are quite homogeneous and similar both for those who already participated in past in these activities as well for those who never participated. The study has several managerial implications as well as limitations. In fact, the survey has been conducted only among Italian consumers and therefore the research should be extended by a geographically standpoint. Moreover, the research analyzed only the demand-side, while it would be certainly useful to know the point of view of companies also adopting other research methods (e.g., in-depth interviews). This study provides to practitioners important suggestions and warnings about the importance of the development of IC sub-dimensions to (co-)create value with external actors and consequently suggests the importance of adopting a “open” approach towards consumers to establish an effective and interactive relationship with them. The study fills a gap in the literature, since there are not so many references in literature for a deep understanding of the concrete relationship between IC and VCC. In addition, to our best knowledge this paper is the first that explore IC-related issues from a marketing perspective
Investigating intellectual capital role in value co-creation firms' activities. An exploratory analysis
No full textThe aim of this study is to investigate the intellectual capital (IC) drivers that may influence Italian consumers’ decision to participate in value co-creation (VCC) activities with firms. Given the exploratory nature of the research, after an in-depth literature review, we conducted an online survey among Italian consumers to see if there is a significant correlation between IC principal sub-dimensions (i.e. Relational Capital, Human Capital and Structural Capital) and the VCC components founded in our analysis. Using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), we have analyzed 270 usable questionnaires finding that, in order to decide to co-create value with firms, the IC sub-dimensions play a critical role. This macro-result is coherent with literature that acknowledge to IC a crucial role in order to enhance the relationship and the closeness between firms and consumers. In addition, the findings show that the motivations (i.e., IC drivers/components) that influence Italian consumers decision to participate in value co-creation activities with firms are quite homogeneous and similar both for those who have already participated to these activities as well for those who have never participated to them. The study has several managerial implications as well as limitations. In fact, the survey has been conducted only among Italian consumers and therefore the research should be extended by a geographically standpoint. In addition, the research has analyzed only the demand-side, while it would be certainly useful to know the views of companies on these issues also with qualitative methods (e.g., with in-depth interviews to top-management). This study provides to practitioners important suggestions and warnings about the importance of the development and the enforcement of IC sub-dimensions in order to (co-)create value with external actors and consequently suggests the importance of using a “open” approach towards consumers to create an effective and interactive relationship with them and for the appropriation of the co-created value. The study fills a gap in the literature, since there are not so many references in literature for a deep understanding of the concrete relationship between IC and VCC (and no one with regard to Italian consumers). In addition, this paper offers an example of large-scale investigation that, compared to previous studies, is distinguished by the technique used to answer to our research questions
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