Management

Recognizing Inventors with a Little Help from CRIOS

Since 2001 a team of the research center have been cleaning and standardizing raw data provided by the European Patent Office on 120 mln patents. Thanks to their work we can understand who patents what in Italian universities

Family Businesses Are Pulling Out of the Crisis, but Need to Rejuvenate

According to the seventh AUB Observatory (which this year looks at all 15,722 companies with revenues in excess of EUR 20 million), growth and profits are better in the 10,231 Italian family businesses than those of other companies, but the increase in the age of their leaders is accompanied by a deterioration in performance

Technologies Are to Be Explored in Team

The best way to trigger individual exploration of newly implemented collaboration technologies is to empower the teams that use them, according to a new study by Massimo Magni and Likoebe Maruping

Allow Your Employees to Save the World and They Won't Leave Your Company

After having the opportunity to work for NGOs or development organizations at half their normal salary as part of their commercial careers, employees are less likely to leave their jobs, research by Christiane Bode and coauthors on a sample of nearly 10,000 workers finds.

Fashion and Luxury: Listed Companies Slowly Forward in 2014

SDA Bocconi and Altagamma's Fashion and Luxury Insight highlights a halt in new shops, a decrease in sales growth and the good health of medium sized companies

Room for User Innovation Before It's Too Late

Alfonso Gambardella and two coauthors say that firms, in order to maximize social welfare, should switch to open innovation earlier than they actually do