The global competition sees for effective internal control systems ability to face risks and to pursue business performances with a correct balance between economic and financial conditions in the long term. Management of the complexity following globalization increases the need of adequate...

In global markets, corporations compete according to the new rules of market-space competition, that is within competition boundaries in which space is not a known, stable element in the decision-making process. It is, instead, a competitive factor, shaped and modified by the actions and the...

The first policy implication of the diffusion of a Market-Driven Management approach is the same as the spreading of globalization, i.e. the obsolescence of industrial policies as traditionally designed and managed by Nation-States with the established toolbox of protectionism and subsidies,...

Global entrepreneurship defines the orientation of the firms in the direction of growing interdependence and integration. On the contrary international entrepreneurship is just a combination of innovative, proactive, and risk seeking behaviour that crosses national borders and is intended to...

The economic and financial crisis has generated numerous articles announcing the end of the capitalistic system. As a matter of fact, such considerations regarding the capitalistic system abandonment are highly nebulous and surely leave us very perplexed. Nowadays, almost all the markets are...

The Market-Driven Management requires that the continuous attention to customers is combined to constant and direct competition in all reference markets. The Market-Driven Management, in the specific context of companies competing in the fashion and luxury industries can be traced back to three...

The potential of tourism-based activities to help achieve environmental preservation and conservation has been recognised. Events are frequently identified in plans for destination development and promoted as an attractor for leisure activity visitors. Festivals and events might be considered a...

Firms compete today in a situation of intense rivalry, in global markets that are subject to political, social and technological instability. As a result, no company can rely only on its own resources, knowledge and skills as it did in the past. Global managerial economics demands ramified,...

Globalization and over-supply have pushed companies to face new competitive challenges. In such a competitive space, a new approach in managing the supply chains and the consequent optimization of material flows and intangible assets plays a crucial role for improving long-term performances of...