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Trani, Vittorio <1989>. "Alternative financing instruments for Italian SMEs." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14587.
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Erissini, Elisa <1992>. "Network Contract: internationalisation of Italian Agri-food SMEs." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14733.
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l'obbiettivo della mia tesi è quello di analizzare come il contratto di rete possa contribuire all'internazionalizzazione delle PMI nel settore agroalimentare. Capire se questo strumento innovativo può aiutare a portare i prodotti agricoli nei mercati esteri, promuovendo il Made in Italy anche per le imprese che da sole non sarebbero in grado di farlo.
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Simeoni, Carlo <1997>. "Digital Servitization: how Italian SMEs innovate their business model." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20945.
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In the recent years Digital Servitization is gaining managers’ and researchers’ attention. 4.0 digital technologies such as Internet of Things and Big Data intersect Servitization in multiple point; digital technologies help designing innovative product-service offerings smoothing and tackling challenges related to Servitization strategy implementation. The present work aims at analyzing the effects that Digital Servitization has on firms’ business models and the innovation that derives from it. To do so, after a literature review, the research focuses on analyzing the case studies of three Italian SMEs (Galdi, Sariv, Technowrapp) that in the recent years have distinguished themselves for their approach on Digital Servitization. The first chapter deals with a literature review on Servitization; the phenomena is defined also encompassing the product-service-system approach. Features and drivers of servitization are described underlining differentiation benefits gained by manufacturers. Business model innovation for Servitization is also described, the effects on value architecture (value creation, value delivery, and value capture) are assessed. In value creation the change in perspective required is described, offerings must be developed considering both product and service design, customer-oriented activities such as needs identification and external coordination are crucial. The effects on customer relationship management are one of the most important aspects in value delivery, here it is underlined the shift from transaction-based to relational relationships with co-creation logics and long-term commitment. Regarding value capture, attention has been given to revenue model design and value retention principles. Lastly, challenges of Servitization are described, cultural hurdles are pervasive among almost all the challenges described, the danger of the service paradox is also analyzed. In the second chapter the roles of digital technologies in Servitization are defined both at the operational and strategic level. In the first section, digital technologies’ features are described as well as the product and service solutions that they enable. Strategic roles and the effects on business model are dealt with in the second section of the chapter, here the concepts of product-service continuum and how firms can position themselves along it are identified. Finally, business model architectures in a Digital Servitization perspective identified by the literature are listed. In the third and last chapter, the case studies of three SMEs located in the north-east of Italy are analyzed: Galdi, Sariv, Technowrapp. For Galdi it was possible to conduct an interview, while, for Sariv and Technowrapp preexisting interviews with firms' management have been used for information gathering. In the research the business model innovation for Digital Servitization underwent by firms are described; the value creation mindset is underlined. It was possible to understand the major challenges faced and measures developed to tackle them, moreover it is analyzed how customer relationships management changed.
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Casagranda, Francesca <1996>. "The Chinese online market: opportunities and challenges for Italian SMEs." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16580.
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The Chinese online market represents a great opportunity and a great challenge for Italian SMEs. Because of the economic and financial crisis that hit the "western world", seeking international opportunities has become a necessity for those companies that until now have looked at China with suspicion. The Chinese online market is, as a matter of fact, one of the largest digital markets in the world. This dissertation aims to build upon existing literature, analyzing the opportunities and threats for Italian SMEs on the Chinese digital market, with a main focus on the B2C market. The study will first analyse the Chinese internet infrastructure development and legislation formulation, focusing on the strong support the Chinese government has had in such matter. The following chapters will analyse the Chinese digital market and the changing patterns of it, the SMEs characteristics in the global economy, the benefits of exploiting digitalized international markets and the inhibitors of e-commerce at international level. The following chapter will concern a case study based on a summer 2019 internship I participated in between Shanghai and Hong Kong, concerning the manufacturing and selling of Italian-style bags and accessories exclusively for the Chinese online market. Lastly, the final chapter will reprocess the research data focusing on the following questions: should Italian SMEs enter and focus on the Chinese digital market? What are the best practices to adopt in such a market? The chapter will use Porter’s Five Forces model, SWOT analysis and proceed with the formulation of the best practices for Italian SMEs operating in the Chinese digital market.
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Parolin, Anna <1996>. "Enhancement Of Agile Innovation In The Context Of Italian SMEs." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17507.
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Italian SMEs are currently not truly experiencing agile innovation benefits, due to the traditional business approach of the system in which they operate. At a general level, research has shown that companies adopting agile strategies in their innovation processes are observing positive impactful returns, especially when particular pre-conditions for a correct implementation are present. Starting from the existing work on agile innovation, this thesis tries to extend the scope to a peculiar geographic business perspective by asking: in the Italian SMEs context, what should a company change to enhance agility in its innovation process?
Based on the pillar ideas that literature offers in terms of concepts definition - exemplifying the notions of Italian SMEs, agility and innovation - two interviews were designed to explore new meaningful insights coming from a single-case study. The selected company is Elite s.r.l., an Italian SME representing an unusual encouraging example with respect to the respective population when exploring agile innovation. The consequent analysis of Elite’s information – mainly qualitative, along with some quantitative references – argued in favour of the positive influence which three factors have on agile innovation enhancement: the passion of the HR dedicated to the innovation process, the organization of the innovation process around the figure of a business-oriented project manager, and the complete customer-focus of the innovation process value creation. Although the case study investigation helped both to enrich the framing of the three research hypotheses and to provide a first partial endorsement, further studies are suggested to provide stronger understanding of this organizational subject.
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Fabrici, Alberto <1994>. "Industry 4.0 in Italian SMEs: the Pezzutti Group Spa Case." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18546.
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Lo scopo dell'elaborato è comparare i dati sulle implementazioni di Industria 4.0 nelle PMI italiane raccolte da diverse fonti con il caso studio riguardante Pezzutti Group Spa, una PMI italiana operante nel settore della gomma/plastica (stampaggio di articoli in materiale plastico) che ha recentemente implementato tecnologie che si rifanno al paradigma della quarta rivoluzione industriale.
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FANTINI, Giulia. "Financial Derivatives usage by UK & Italian SMEs. Empirical evidence from UK & Italian non-financial firms." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Ferrara, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2389056.
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A number of studies have examined the risk management practices within non-financial companies. This research is a comparative study of derivative usage among UK and Italian non-financial listed SMEs over the time period 2005-2012. The aspects it refers concern the management of financial risks which to date (in Italy) has been little studied from the point of view of literature because of the paucity of data. The aim of this research is to provide evidence for UK and Italian non-financial listed SMEs on the determinants of hedging and on the types of financial derivatives used as hedging instruments.
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Roriz, Anna Lysie, and Nicola Feletto. "Behind the Internationalization Process of Northeast Italian SMEs : An Abductive Approach." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-176697.
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This study strives to investigate why some small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from Northeast Italy internationalize at inception and some internationalize gradually. The main literature regarding both, Born Globals and Stage-Models, were reviewed. In face of a high degree of fragmentation in the Born Global literature the study was developed through an abductive logic of reasoning. This basically means that we started by clustering already accepted internal and external factors, working then, towards a unified explanation. A qualitative study was developed with four SMEs. The main results show that no factor can singularly drive a company to internationalize at inception. Instead, the interaction of internal and external factors determines how SMEs internationalize. The findings provide empirical insights on the internationalization behavior of SMEs and redress the apparent theoretical gap in this field.
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Chiaro, Nicolo' <1990>. "Internationalization of Italian SMEs of the furniture industry: the Canova project." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6672.
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The internationalization of Italian SMEs of the furniture industry and the entrance in the Brazilian market as a chance to survive to the crisis. The core of the project is the creation of a permanent showroom in São Paulo, Brazil. It will provide a common place for the enterprises to expose their own products and to organize promotional events. Furthermore, Broadway Consulting, the company that designed the whole plan, will be concerned with promotion and communication activities and will be taking care of the relations between Brazilian clients and Italian firms. Thus, SMEs will obtain results in terms of promotion, distribution and visibility that they could not achieve individually. As regards the financial side, the gathering of the companies into a consortium held by Banco Popolare di Vicenza gives access to EU funds that significantly contribute to finance the project.
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GABBERI, PIERO. "THE WAY TOWARD DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN ITALIAN SMEs. PROCESS DIGITALISATION AND PRODUCT DIGITALISATION: AN ITALIAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY CASE STUDY." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Ferrara, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2490997.
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According to European Investment Bank, 2021, as in other EU countries, Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a pivotal role in the economy. There are about 4.3 million SMEs in Italy, 95% of which are micro-enterprises. They account for 80% of employment and 70% of value added. Their contribution to exports is larger than in other EU countries: 53% of exports in Italy vs. an EU average of 40%, and 25% in both France and Germany.
The productivity of Italian SMEs appears to be lower than the EU average and its closest peers (France and Germany). While part of that gap might be linked to different sectoral mixes, most of the difference in productivity remains unexplained. While there is also a regional divide, even Italy’s best performing regions have a significant productivity gap compared to the rest of Europe.
According to several European metrics, the level of digitalisation of Italian SMEs is lower than in other countries. The lower level of digitalisation of Italian SMEs may play a crucial role. Given its relevance, the digitalisation of Italian SMEs is high on the Italian government’s agenda.
The aim of this research work is to contribute in closing the knowledge gap that limits the ability of Italian SMEs to adopt digital solutions to improve their performances.
The research activity has been focused on developing a simple guideline for practitioners with real examples through the case study of an Italian manufacturing small-medium enterprise and the related relevant results.
The present research work is structured starting from a question became recurring to the author: how to create value?
It is author’s belief that in modern companies, value is created by means of the thoughtful integration between two important philosophies, Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0, respectively focusing on waste reduction, process-stability and digitalisation to further empower businesses.
The research starts with a literature review concerning the tools to understand business processes, diving deep in a recently studied tool called Makigami, that seems to be incredibly useful for transactional processes in particular, due to its flexibility and adaptability to particular cases as practitioners need.
Then, a complete overview of all the business processes is made in order to deeply understand their strengths and weaknesses and to have a clear vision about wastes and key-performance indicators to improve business.
After a careful analysis, criticalities are shown and discussed, and processes are re-engineered, using the same tool to continue having a clear vision on developments and improvements.
During the re-engineering of business processes, the author has interpreted and adapted digitalisation to the specific case study: both processes and business products have been digitalised, showing tools and the ancillary Lean-Six-Sigma activities needed in order to guarantee top performances and strong basis to evolve into a 4.0 company.
Finally, the outstanding results on business are shown and discussed and author proposes a generalisation of the procedure used, in order to provide with a simple guideline for practitioners and suggestions for further research.Secondo quanto riportato dalla Banca Europea per gli Investimenti, 2021, così come in altri paesi dell'UE, le piccole e medie imprese (PMI) italiane hanno un ruolo fondamentale nell'economia. Le PMI in Italia sono circa 4,3 milioni, il 95% delle quali sono microimprese. Rappresentano l'80% dell'occupazione e il 70% del valore aggiunto. Il loro contributo alle esportazioni è maggiore che in altri paesi dell'UE: 53% delle esportazioni in Italia contro una media UE del 40% e il 25% sia in Francia che in Germania. La produttività delle PMI italiane, tuttavia, sembra essere inferiore alla media dell'UE e dei suoi omologhi più vicini (Francia e Germania). Sebbene parte di tale divario possa essere collegato a diversi mix settoriali, la maggior parte della differenza di produttività rimane inspiegabile. Sebbene vi sia anche un divario regionale, anche le regioni italiane con le migliori performance presentano un divario di produttività significativo rispetto al resto d'Europa. Secondo diverse metriche europee, il livello di digitalizzazione delle PMI italiane è inferiore a quello di altri paesi. Il minor livello di digitalizzazione delle PMI italiane può giocare un ruolo cruciale. Data la sua rilevanza, la digitalizzazione delle PMI italiane è in cima all'agenda del governo italiano. L'obiettivo di questo lavoro di ricerca è contribuire a colmare il gap di conoscenza che limita la capacità delle PMI italiane di adottare soluzioni digitali per migliorare le proprie performance. L'attività di ricerca è stata focalizzata sullo sviluppo di una linea guida semplice per i professionisti, con esempi reali attraverso il caso di studio di una piccola-media impresa manifatturiera italiana e i relativi risultati rilevanti. Il presente lavoro di ricerca è strutturato a partire da una domanda divenuta ricorrente per l'autore: come creare valore? È convinzione dell'autore che nelle aziende moderne il valore si crei attraverso l'integrazione ponderata tra due importanti filosofie, Lean Six Sigma e Industry 4.0, incentrate rispettivamente sulla riduzione degli sprechi, sulla stabilità dei processi e sulla digitalizzazione per potenziare ulteriormente le organizzazioni. La ricerca inizia con una revisione della letteratura riguardante gli strumenti per comprendere i processi aziendali, immergendosi in uno strumento recentemente studiato chiamato Makigami, che sembra essere incredibilmente utile per i processi transazionali in particolare, per la sua flessibilità e adattabilità a casi particolari di cui i professionisti hanno bisogno. Quindi, viene effettuata una panoramica completa di tutti i processi aziendali al fine di comprenderne a fondo i punti di forza e di debolezza e avere una visione chiara degli sprechi e degli indicatori chiave di prestazione per migliorare il business. Dopo un'attenta analisi, le criticità vengono mostrate e discusse, e i processi vengono reingegnerizzati, utilizzando lo stesso strumento per continuare ad avere una visione chiara su sviluppi e miglioramenti. Durante la reingegnerizzazione dei processi aziendali, l'autore ha interpretato e adattato la digitalizzazione al caso di studio specifico: sia i processi che i prodotti aziendali sono stati digitalizzati, mostrando gli strumenti e le attività accessorie Lean-Six-Sigma necessarie per garantire prestazioni al top e solide basi per evolvere in un'azienda 4.0. Infine, vengono mostrati e discussi gli eccezionali risultati sul business e l'autore propone una generalizzazione della procedura utilizzata, al fine di fornire una semplice linea guida per i professionisti e suggerimenti per ulteriori ricerche.
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Morini, Francesca <1993>. "The development of omnichannel strategy in Italian SMEs. The case of fashion industry." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13927.
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The digital transformation has empowered today increasingly informed consumers to decide how, where and when having their shopping experience. As a consequence, organizations aim at adapting to these changes by developing the omnichannel strategy, which depicts the integrated management of multiple interaction channels. Therefore, this strategy provides customers with the opportunity to freely shift between online and offline channels without interrupting their transactions. Focusing on Italian fashion industry, the aim is understanding both whether and how SMEs are approaching this strategy. The thesis is divided in four different chapters. The first part deals with digital transformation, in which the stages for achieving the development of omnichannel strategy are described. After the definition of business model concept, the second chapter depicts the implications of omnichannel strategy on firms’ business model, implying the organizational integration of both retailers’ primary and secondary activities. Then, the third section analyzes the fashion industry and the evolution of the retailing formats. Lastly, the empiric chapter investigates and compares the approach of two different SMEs of Nord East of Italy operating in the fashion industry, Siloe Srl and Xacus Srl, to omnichannel strategy.
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Angriman, Daniele <1996>. "THE RATIONALE OF BASKET-BONDS AS AN ALTERNATIVE FINANCING OPTION FOR ITALIAN SMEs." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18052.
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Throughout Europe, and Italy in particular, following the crises of 2008 and 2011, the banking system came under a shock.
This exogenous factor paired with more stringent and pro-cyclical regulations by European banking authorities had the inevitable consequence of causing a sudden credit crunch, particularly felt in non-financial companies. The negative impacts were more evident in EU’s peripheral countries, whose firms had to come to terms with their once trusted banks closing the taps and asking for progressively more stringent conditionalities. Since for most companies external financing is a vital tool, adaptation led them to seek for alternative forms of capital raising present in the market, rather than from banks themselves.
In this dissertation, the instrument of Market-Based financing of “Mini-Bonds” will be analyzed, with its effects on the issuing companies. Specifically, it will be deepened the new evolution of Mini-Bonds, namely Basket-Bonds (securitized Mini-Bond issuances), with their advantages and disadvantages, presenting a case study.
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Paladin, Martina <1992>. "The digitalization of the wine sector in the Italian SMEs: strengths and international opportunities." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12490.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the level of the digitalization of the Italian wine sector. The paper starts with an historical overview, indicating how the industrial and technological revolutions led to the digital era and to the Industry 4.0. The introduction of the new technologies have changed our habits, needs and even how companies do business. In Italy, the wine competitive landscape is characterized by SMEs. The latter have a strong interest in new digital technologies, despite the scarce resources and knowledge to gain substantial benefits from them. The main topic of this dissertation is the digital marketing in the wine industry, an affordable tool to enhance customer engagement and brand awareness. The digital marketing tools and channels are accessible by almost everyone, are less expensive than the traditional ones, and allow a closer relationship with the customers. Companies’ vision has changed: the customer and his needs are placed at the centre of the company's activities; there are new trends which are moving the wine sector forward. In order to understand the current digitalization level of Italian wine companies, an online survey is conducted. The results show strengths, weakness and opportunities of the companies in the wine industry and how the digital strategy may help the Italian SMEs to go global.
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Simoni, Alberto <1993>. "Italian manufacturing SMEs growing through services and international markets: the case of Technowrapp srl." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16624.
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Il presente elaborato di tesi analizza il tema della servitizzazione per comprendere se può essere considerata una buona strategia per le Piccole e Medie Imprese (PMI) italiane in espansione sui mercati internazionali. La tesi inizia con un'analisi della letteratura riguardante le origini e i primi sviluppi della servitizzazione e procede concentrando l'attenzione su due aspetti molto attuali in questo scenario, ovvero tecnologie 4.0 e gestione delle risorse umane. l'obiettivo è fornire un quadro di riferimento aggiornato da utilizzare per l'analisi del caso Technowrapp, una media impresa italiana operante nel settore dell'intralogistica presso la quale ho svolto un'esperienza di tirocinio durante il secondo anno del mio percorso di studio. Dati di settore ed interviste qualitative a tre persone di riferimento in azienda sono utilizzati per concludere che, nonostante le sfide rilevanti, la servitizzazione è un potenziale fattore di crescita per una PMI volta all'internazionalizzazione.
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Tognazzo, Alessandra. "Entrepreneurship and perfomance in Italian family SMES: from theoretical models to a competency approach." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425456.
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Much work has been done in trying to understand whether a competent leader can also do a great job. This research aims to assess whether this relationship between compe-tencies and task performance can be extended also to firm performance, when analyzing entrepreneurs.
In particular, in the first two chapters we investigate the ways in which entrepreneurial competencies become firm performance. The focus will be on family business, a very peculiar social context where relationships are major determinants of decisions and re-sults.
The first chapter presents a quantitative approach, while the second one introduces a qu-alitative one. The last chapter is a peculiar literature review which presents an original analysis of the full body of work done in the field of family business study. I felt that such a work was needed, on one side to justify the approach used in the first two chap-ters which emphasizes not only the theoretical implications but also practical implica-tions of this work, on the other side to lay the foundation for my future research.
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In this chapter, we analyze the role of emotional intelligence competencies and their impact on business outcomes in a sample of entrepreneurs of small and medium sized Italian firms. We focus on the measurement of competencies by using a variety of tools and identify those ones that distinguish superior performers (i.e. distinctive competen-cies). Using factor and regression analysis we identify three factors of distinctive com-petencies and show that the relational dimension primarily affects organizational results. In particular, we have some initial evidence that competencies such as Efficiency orien-tation, Organizational awareness and Teamwork could be related to a higher firm fi-nancial performance.
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This second chapter aims to answer the question: why and how do entrepreneurial com-petencies influence performance in family business? By means of a qualitative multiple case study analysis (2 cases among the 96 analyzed in the first chapter) we aim to find which individual, familiar or organizational variables influence this process. Evidence shows that entrepreneurs need to find their decisional autonomy and legitimacy to be able to enact their competencies in favor of the whole organization.
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The last chapter study analyzes all published articles of the last 13 volumes (from 1998 to 2010) of Family Business Review by classifying them along two dimensions: relev-ance for practice (i.e. practical implications) and contribution to theory (i.e. theory building and theory testing). We also try to understand whether the levels of theoretical contributions and practical implications within articles are significant predictors of cita-tion rates. Both scales used and results can give useful contributions to future research.Capitolo 1 In questo capitolo, viene analizzato il ruolo delle emotional intelligence competencies e il loro impatto sui risultati aziendali in un campione di piccolo e medie imprese italiane. Viene presentata un’analisi sulla misurazione delle competenze attraverso diverse me-todologie e vengono individuate alcune competenze distinctive, ossia quelle che caratte-rizzano le aziende con le performance migliori. Utilizzando l’analisi fattoriale e la re-gressione si sono definiti tre fattori di competenze distintive e si è mostrato che la di-mensione relazionale è quella che maggiormente impatta sui risultati delle imprese. In particolare, si è ottenuta un’evidenza iniziale che alcune competenze come l’Orientamento all’efficienza, la Consapevolezza organizzativa e il Lavoro di gruppo potrebbero essere legate a una performance d’impresa superiore. Capitolo 2 Questo secondo capitolo mira a rispondere alla domanda: perché e come le competenze imprenditoriali influenzano la performance nelle aziende famigliari? Utilizzando un’analisi di casi multipli (2 casi tra i 96 analizzati nel primo capitolo) si ha l’obbiettivo di individuare quali variabili individuali, familiari e organizzative influenzano questo processo. L’analisi evidenzia che gli imprenditori hanno la necessità di avere autonomia decisionale e legittimazione per essere in grado di attivare le loro competenze a favore dell’organizzazione. Capitolo 3 L’ultimo capitolo analizza tutti gli articoli pubblicati negli ultimi 13 volumi (dal 1998 al 2010) su Family Business Review classificandoli secondo due dimensioni: rilevanza pratica, ossia implicazioni pratiche, e contributi alla teoria, cioè theory building e theory testing. Si cerca inoltre di capire se il livello di contributi teorici e implicazioni pratiche contenute negli articoli possano predire il numero di citazioni. Sia le scale di classifica-zione utilizzate che i risultati forniscono degli importanti contributi alla letteratura.
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Belvedere, Eleonora <1992>. "The Network as digital instrument and organizational structure to support the internationalization of Italian SMEs." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/8642.
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Italian medium and small enterprises are facing a new competitive scenario, characterized by the adoption of Internet Technologies as necessary tools to be visible on international markets.
My document aims to analyze which are the instruments Italian firms could adopt to increase their exposure in international markets and to affirm the quality of Italian manufacturing all over the world. An additional objective is to understand how network contracts and other forms of collaboration could represent structural solutions to overtake SMEs dimensional and financial problems
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Losurdo, Francesco. "A comparative study of internationalization potential for Italian SMEs in the fashion industry in Brazil and Russia." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11201.
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This study aims to develop a comparative analysis of the internationalization potential in Russia and Brazil for Italian SMEs operating in the fashion industry. After introducing the reader to the main areas covered, such as the context, methodology and literature review, a macroeconomic overview of the geographical areas comprised is provided, thus encompassing a specific study on the current status of Italian economy and demand for Italian goods. The study introduces the reader to the Italian fashion industry, its main features and current performance, already evidencing the quest for internationalization. The conclusions arising from the macroeconomic analyses are used as introduction to the overview of the Italian fashion industry, an industry that strongly represents the “Made in Italy” abroad. The analysis of the industry encompassing history, main features and current status will then suggest that internationalization is the most viable way for SMEs to recover from the turbulent years of the crisis. Among the vast set of geographical options that the SMEs may embrace internationalization, this study aims to provide two tangible market analyses: the Russian and the Brazilian fashion industry. The analysis, based on the framework of international responsiveness by Bartlet and Ghoshal (1989), presents the results of a set of researches and interviews conducted in Russia and Brazil, in the form of a comparative analysis of the two target markets. The analysis will evidence market-, cost-, competitive- and legislation drivers that justify the internationalization process in both markets. The results will lead to conclusion and recommendations that the two markets represent two very different opportunities for SMEs of Italian fashion industry.
Este estudo tem como objetivo desenvolver uma análise comparativa do potencial de internacionalização na Rússia e no Brasil para as PME italianas que operam na indústria da moda. Depois de apresentar ao leitor as principais áreas cobertas, tais como, o contexto, a metodologia e revisão da literatura, é fornecido um panorama macroeconômico das áreas geográficas composto, englobando um estudo específico sobre o estado atual da economia e da demanda para os bens italianos. O estudo, introduzindo o leitor na indústria de moda italiana, suas principais características e o desempenho atual, já evidencia a busca pela internacionalização. As conclusões decorrentes das análises macroeconômicas funcionam como introdução à visão geral da indústria de moda italiana, uma indústria que representa, fortemente, o 'Made in Italy' no exterior. A breve análise da história desta indústria, principais características e situação atual irão, então, sugerir que a internacionalização é o caminho mais viável às PME, para se recuperarem dos anos turbulentos da crise. Entre o vasto conjunto de opções geográficas que as PME têm para abraçar internacionalização, este estudo tem como objetivo fornecer duas análises sobre a indústria da moda: o mercado russo e o brasileiro. A análise, com base no quadro de capacidade de ‘resposta internacional’ proposto por Bartlet e Ghoshal (1989), apresenta os resultados de um conjunto de pesquisas e entrevistas realizadas no Brasil, na Itália e na Rússia, sob a forma de uma análise comparativa dos dois mercados-alvo. A análise evidenciará os drivers de mercado, custo, competitividade e legislação que justificam o processo de internacionalização em ambos os mercados. Os resultados levam à conclusão e às recomendações que os dois mercados representam duas oportunidades muito diferentes para as PME da indústria da moda italiana.
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Korobtcova, Iuliia <1990>. "Applying marketing activities to strengthen brand equity within SMEs: Case studies on Italian and Spanish Language Schools." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16669.
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The reason for this research is to present marketing activities within Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the area of branding. There are two types of problems which are supposed to be analysed in this thesis: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical problem addressed in this study is the little literature on marketing in SMEs particularly concerning brand equity. This focus of the research is important because nowadays SMEs more and more recognize the brand value and initiate to use it as a source of competitive advantage. Brands are among the most valuable assets owned by an organisation. This research and the theoretical framework rely on previous literature regarding product and service branding, branding in SMEs and corporate branding as well as brand equity, marketing, marketing activities and more general literature about SMEs.
The empirical problem is the grasped challenge of strengthening brand equity by marketing activities in small and medium Italian and Spanish language schools. “High brand equity results in stronger and more favourable consumer response to the brand and may generate brand sales” (Keller, Kevin L. (1993). Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Managing Customer-Based Brand Equity. Journal of Marketing. 57(1), 1-22.). Thus, this thesis includes the analysis of customers perception of brand awareness, brand loyalty, brand image and brand identity, brand quality of Italian and Spanish language schools. This research makes a contribution by revealing approaches, presented in the cases of language schools’ marketing activities in order to enlarge consumers’ recognition of the brands.
The applied method in this thesis is a qualitative approach compound with a case study design. The study comprises an inductive argumentation derived from the generated knowledge from the data accumulated through interviews. It will help to evaluate the data which are rich in complex evaluations of the brand. As a result of the findings, it will be demonstrated how brand equity within SMEs can be strengthened by the usage of marketing activities in the most effective ways.
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Tam, Lorenzo <1993>. "Change management as thriving force in the creation of Sustainable Value in the Italian SMEs: the case of MEP S.p.a." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16420.
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Organizations today face high levels of uncertainty and complexity within the environment they operate in. Not only have the old ways of doing business become obsolete, shaped by the increasing competition, but the deep transformations the world is undergoing dictate the urgency for organizations to respond to new needs. Companies therefore have to bear the weight of two primary challenges: adapting to the new market requirements by reinventing, transforming and changing their old ways, and becoming active players with regards to the issues of scarcity of resources, waste disposal, polluting emissions as well as social inequality, well-being and safety. Darwin’s “Survival of the fittest” theory fully applies to today’s industrial scene, as well. Firm’s inertia and failure to anticipate or respond to change have become errors very difficult to recover from.
The thesis intents to portray an accurate picture of the new challenges the Italian international SMEs face, and describe the successful reaction of such key actors through a deeper understanding of the new managerial requirements and available change management instruments. To do so, the case of M.E.P. S.p.A. is taken into consideration and analyzed.
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Volk, Alexander Gerhard <1988>. "How can SMEs integrate themselves in Global Value Chains of Global Players in the automotive industry? An Italian – German comparative analysis." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7384.
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The study investigates how small and medium sized companies can integrate themselves in the manufacturing chain of Global Players in the automotive industry using a qualitative approach (interviews) and a value chain perspective
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Abate, Marco, and Massimo Biei. "Role of adopting response strategies to manage the Front-End phase of a project. : An exploratory study of the Italian Innovative SMEs." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-118300.
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The present study investigates the role of the Front-End phase within the context of Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises through the project management lens, focusing on what practitioners can do to manage this phase. Taking a cue from the assumption that the Front-End phase of a project is a very critical and important stage, this study begins with a literature review on innovation and on its role among the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and moves to the identification of the main challengesthat an Innovative Italian Small and Medium Enterprise has to face in the Front-End phase. Particularly, the research focuses on the strategies that a project manager can implement to deal with the fuzzy nature of the Front-End phase, originated by uncertainty, equivocality and complexity. The study has an inductive approach and a cross-sectional time-horizon. A case study strategy has been employed, together with semi-structured interviews as data collection technique, involving six Italian Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises identified through the framework of legal requirements provided by the European Union. Although literature poses on the same level all three elements, results show that there is a general consensus about the main role played by uncertainty. Practitioners identify several strategies to employ in order to deal with uncertainty, while the number of strategies identified to reduce equivocality and complexity is limited. Furthermore, this study identifies a correlation between the size of a company and the type of strategies employed to deal with the fuzziness. The more resource a company allocates on a project, the wider is the range of possible strategies project managers can adapt.
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Serraglia, Nicolo' <1994>. "Analysis of the financial instrument of the minibond adopted by SMEs to face the banks bankruptcy in the Italian region of Veneto." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/15894.
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The bankruptcy of two banks in the Veneto region has had serious consequences for the population, in terms of loss of wealth and slowing down of the regional economy also concerning productive activities and bank-business relations of small and medium enterprises in the region. The already known dependence on bank credit has led companies throughout Italy to move towards a new instrument for the collection of financing complementary to the traditional bank. This study seeks to highlight whether there is a relationship between the increase in the number of companies located in Veneto that issue this new instrument and the failure of the two historical credit institutions in the region.
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Abetini, Matteo <1996>. "The Crowdfunding as a solution to credit crunch on Italian SMEs and to the lack of funds for public projects: a case study." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17569.
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In the present work it is presented at first the difficult economic situation for Italian SMEs, that have been credit rationed after the Financial and Sovereign Debt crises. In this context, different alternative financing solutions are presented. Among them, crowdfunding emerges as the most innovative and suitable one. Lastly, a case study that involves a crowdfunding project - in which participates both the public and the private sector - shows the potential of crowdfunding.
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MASCHERPA, SERENA. "Born global companies as Market- Driven organisations: an empirical analysis." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/27829.
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In today’s highly competitive global markets, companies compete in conditions of extreme economic, technological and socio-political instability. In many countries, because of the globalisation of markets, advances in transportation and communications technologies and the convergence of technologies of digital communication, more and more small and medium sized companies are pursuing opportunities in global markets. Globalisation has increased the level of competition, weakening barriers to entry in several markets; technology has accelerated the speed of structural changes in demand, reducing product and sector life cycles. These radical changes can neither be ignored nor avoided. In addition, they confirm that nowadays a global growth is necessary for every company. Especially in rapid changing and unpredictable global environments, where small and medium companies often operate, organisational capabilities contribute most to the expansion and performance in markets.
Drawing on the Resource Based View and dynamic capability view, this PhD thesis explores the expansion into global markets of a sample of Italian manufacturing small and medium sized companies. In particular, given the growing importance of intangible assets as sources of competitive advantage, this work examines how some organisational capabilities affect the probability of a company being classified as a born global (that is, a company that has experienced early and rapid expansion into global markets) or as a traditional exporter (that is, a company that has experienced a more slow and gradual expansion into global markets). The logistic regression analysis confirms that entrepreneurial orientation and networking capability are significant determinants of born global. Furthermore, linear regressions analyses confirm firstly that born globals perform much better than their counterparts do and secondly that entrepreneurial orientation affects their performance on global markets.
Finally, as an “emerging issue”, based on Market Driven Management Theory, this PhD thesis suggests that born global companies are similar to Market Driven Organisations because of their outside-in perspective, outward orientation towards opportunities, global proactive attitude and networking capability, which permit them to expand and outperform in global markets faster and better than competitors.
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Gasparini, Giulia <1990>. "Internationalization process of Italian SME in Brazil." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4997.
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Nowadays internationalization is a strategy adopted by many firms in different sectors.
Nevertheless it is a delicate process that needs attentive analysis and a particular focus on the target country.
The purpose of this research is to define the international strategy of Italian small-and-medium enterprises addressing the Brazilian market.
Starting from the choice of the final market, and going back to the obstacles encountered and goals reached.
In conducting interviews in the field, addressing a questionnaire directly to the firms, it is possible to collect the data related to the strategy followed to enter the Brazilian market.
This qualitative information, including success factors, difficulties, perceptions and initiatives undertaken, gives a representation of the process, underlying common features and sector-specific ones.
An important aspect that seems to be fundamental for all the enterprises contacted so far, is the recognition of the quality related to “Made in Italy” products perceived by Brazilian clients, that together with an ad hoc entry strategy and some support resulted to be a successful choice.
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Fumagalli, Chiara. "Bringing italians SME’s to Brazil: the case of GM Venture." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17579.
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The Italian business presence in Brazil has been characterizing, since years, the economic landscape of Brazil. More than 1300 Italian companies, from the biggest to the smallest one, are acting in Brazil, exploiting the overall potential of this country and contributing with the excellence they can bring. Noting the consistency of the Italian presence and wondering how those companies have entered such a complex country and, a recurring name has been GM Venture, which became the protagonist of this dissertation. The thesis in fact aims at studying how GM Venture Company has been able to create value for Italian SMEs, contributing to their success in Brazil during the last ten years. Therefore this analysis focuses firstly on the literature dealing with the key success factors for the internationalization of small-medium enterprises. The second part of the literature goes deep in the specific case of the Brazilian context, trying to understand the major problems that this particular environment poses to small-medium companies internationalizing here and some specific factors Italian companies should pay attention to. Given this introduction, the analysis centers on the core topic of this dissertation. In fact the investigation regarding the GM Venture case looks specifically at how this company has been able create value despite those problems and create a business model able to successfully support SMEs entering Brazil. The inquiry on the case and the conclusion reports how GM Venture, through its operations, has been able to respond to the Brazilian rtise, and positively contribute to the growth and value of the Italian economic reality in this country. Moreover looking at the literature findings, this specific case introduces some novelty in the emerged factors, such as a new way of conceiving the Network, as well as new factors or undervalued ones for success such as promptness in the response and trustworthiness, which are essential in the Brazilian economic environment.
Desde muitos anos a presença Italiana no Brasil foi caracterizante do panorama econômico brasileiro. Mais de mil trezentos empresas italianas, das maiores ate as menores, são presente hoje no Brasil, aproveitando inteiramente do potencial Brasileiro e levando no Brasil uma contribuição relevante no sistema econômico, por meio da excelência que caracteriza estas empresas Italianas. Olhando ao tamanhão da realidade das empresas italiana no Brasil, e como todas essas corporações podia ter entrado em um pais muito complexo, ponto central foi a GM Venture, que se tornou o protagonista da minha dissertação. Esso TCC tem o escopo de entender melhor como esses deis anos GM Venture conseguiu em criar valor econômico por muitas media e pequena empresas Italianas, levando eles ao sucesso no novo país. Por isso a dissertação se focaliza inicialmente sobre a literatura da internacionalização e dos fatores essenciais de sucesso por uma pequena e media empresa em general. O secundo fator de analise nela literatura para o caso especifico do contexto Brasileiro, foi a compreensão dos problemas principais que o Brasil põe para pequenas-medias empresas estrangeiras, e algumas atenções que são necessárias em particular para empresários italianos. Para evoluir no tema, depois de essa introdução ao tema e ao contexto, o tópico mais importante é discutido. Então a investigação de esse trabalho se focaliza sobre o tema de como a GM Venture tem capacidade de responder com uma solução para os problemas presentados criando valor, e como ela criou um modelo de business que seja capaz de levar ao sucesso as empresas clientes no Brasil. A analise e conclusão do caso vão elaborar como a GM Venturo contribuiu ao resolver e evitar a complexidade Brasileira com meios legais e experiência, cooperando em positivo no crescimento da realidade econômica italiana em Brasil. Olhando ainda mais na analise da literatura e comparando o caso, parece evidente como o caso da GM Venture introduziu algumas novidades nos fatores já individuados, como uma ideais nova de network, e no mesmo tempo foi capaz de presentar fatores novos o subestimado, como a pronta velocidade e a confiança nos relacionamento de business que são muito importantes especialmente no Brasil.
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Ruzza, Benedetta <1997>. "An Italian SME entering China auto spare parts market: the Bimecc case." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/19882.
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My final dissertation is aimed at analyzing the economic-legal scenario existing between China and Europe concerning the automotive industry and in particular the dynamics in the auto supply chain, highlighting the differences and similarities and the opportunities to increase trade and market share between these two powerful areas.
In the first chapter I will briefly outline the scenario before the 2020 reform of Foreign Investment Law, then analyzing the background which brought to this important change and what this reform brings as opportunity for foreign investors. Moreover, I will focus on the impact of the reform on the OEMs suppliers and on the aftermarket competitors.
In the second chapter I will distinguish the two main segments of market characterizing the auto supply chain as in China as worldwide, which are: the suppliers of the automakers, so suppliers of original equipment and the supplier of spare parts, so suppliers of auto parts which most of the times are identical to the original equipment but are sold in the aftermarket as they have not brand identity. I will focus on the structure and dynamics of these two different markets in China, trying to understand which of them is more successful and profitable in the Chinese automotive market.
In the last chapter I will present a case study, the Bimecc case, which is a presentation of the company for which I have been working as trainee during my last academic year. In my period of training, I have tried to first understand deeply what the company core business and customers are, and on this basis, I have been searching the better strategy for the company to enter the Chinese market, as it has always been one of the main goals that the company has decided to reach in the next few years.
All the information reported in the thesis are updated on all the latest news of 2021 and sometimes based on personal consideration for the future perspective of automotive supply market, as this sector is facing a transitional period.
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Ciampoli, Lorenzo. "La gestione della crisi pandemica da parte delle PMI: analisi su casi italiani." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24643/.
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La pandemia da covid-19 rappresenta una dei momenti più critici del ventunesimo secolo. Oltre a mietere moltissime vittime in tutto il mondo, ha paralizzato e continua a rallentare le principali economie del pianeta, con impatti importanti sulle relative catene di fornitura. Nel tempo queste ultime hanno infatti raggiunto un grado di complessità e di interconnessione molto elevato e questo non ha fatto che amplificare il problema rendendo le filiere ancora più fragili. La seguente tesi ha pertanto l’obiettivo di indagare l’ambito supply chain management nel contesto della crisi pandemica. A questo scopo la tesi presenta tre sezioni. La prima parte fornisce una panoramica di alcuni settori rappresentativi. Si prosegue nella seconda con una trattazione del risk management, disciplina centrale in questa dimensione di elevata incertezza. A questa sezione teorica segue infine l’analisi di tre casi studio scelti fra le PMI italiane che rappresenta il fulcro dell’elaborato.
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OLIVIERI, ELISA. "La qualità del rapporto banca-impresa. Un’analisi empirica sulle aziende metalmeccaniche italiane." Doctoral thesis, Urbino, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11576/2664013.
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Maso, Daria. "Networks and PES schemes as income-generation tools for the development of the Italian forest sector." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425644.
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Around one third of Italian territorial extension is covered by forest (INFC 2005, Pettenella 2008). The 40 % is privately owned (ISTAT 2008) with a very limited mean extension, around 7.5 ha (Firusbakht 2008, Pettenella 2008). The income from timber sales is on the whole decreasing thus reducing profitability of such a traditional forest production (Ciotti and Pettenella 2005, ISTAT 2008). Other forest products (such as fuel wood and non-wood forest products ) contribute in a highly variable measure to forest owners revenues. Recently, due to the need of increasing the revenues from forests, the commercialization of new forest-based goods is being explored. Among these there are tourist and recreational services (that start to be successfully commercialized and are demonstrating to be good income sources) and environmental services (that look very promising but whose commercialization is still at a very theoretical level).
A suitable tool for the commercialization of environmental services (ES) is proposed and discussed through the analysis of two case studies based on network structures: the “Agility Forest adventure park”, i.e. a SME network based on a NFWS (the adventure park); and the “Road of Borgotaro mushroom”, i.e. a network based on a NWFP and a NWFS (the Borgotaro Boletus and the mushroom picking activity). The purpose is to verify if the difficulties that usually arise while implementing payments for environmental services (PES) schemes can be overcome through the insertion in consolidated network structures. SWOT (Analoui and Karami 2003, Stapleton and Thomas 1998) and A’WOT (Weiss et al. 2007) analysis have been applied after assuming the insertion of some ES among the forest-based goods commercialized by the two network cases. The results of the application of such a SME network-based PES scheme indicate that the level of Opportunities would increase while those of Threats and Weaknesses would variably decrease. Furthermore, partially different reactions emerge between the two case studies due to differences in network evolutionary level characterizing them. In more complex network structures (i.e. the Road of Borgotaro mushroom) Opportunities increase is higher than in less evolved networks (i.e. the Agility Forest adventure park) while Strengths decrease. For what concerns Weaknesses, the level decreases more in the less evolved case. Finally, Threats increase more in the case of the more evolved network.
It can be concluded that, at least on a theoretical level, the development of SME network- based PES scheme seems to have positive results for what concerns the final main purpose of improve forest-based economy through ES commercialization.Circa un terzo del territorio italiano è coperto da boschi (INFC 2005, Pettenella 2008). Il 40% di tale superficie è di proprietà privata (ISTAT 2008) caratterizzata da un’assai ridotta estensione media per singolo proprietario: circa 7,5 ha (Firusbakht 2008, Pettenella 2008). Anche in conseguenza della struttura della proprietà fondiaria, il ricavo ottenibile dalla vendita del legname ad uso industriale è nel complesso decrescente e ciò riduce la convenienza di una così tradizionale produzione forestale (Ciotti e Pettenella 2005, ISTAT 2008). Gli altri prodotti forestali (quali legna da ardere e prodotti forestali non legnosi ) contribuiscono in modo estremamente variabile alla formazione del reddito dei proprietari forestali. Recentemente, proprio a causa della necessità di incrementare tali redditi, si è cominciata ad esplorare la commercializzazione di nuovi beni derivanti dalle foreste. Tra questi beni vi sono i servizi turistico-ricreativi (che già stanno cominciando a essere commercializzati con successo dimostrandosi delle buone fonti di reddito) e i servizi ambientali (che sembrano molto promettenti ma la cui commercializzazione è ancora a un livello quasi esclusivamente teorico). La commercializzazione di molti di questi servizi è condizionata dalla presenza di forme di integrazione (orizzontale e verticale) tra diversi soggetti economici, ovvero dalla presenza di network. In questo lavoro di ricerca un potenziale strumento per la commercializzazione dei servizi ambientali viene proposto e indagato tramite l’analisi di due casi di studio riguardanti due network di piccole e medie imprese. Un caso riguarda il “Parco Avventura Agility Forest”, ossia un network incentrato su una piccola impresa che offre un servizio turistico-ricreativo in bosco (il parco avventura appunto); il secondo caso riguarda la “Strada del Fungo di Borgotaro”, ossia un network basato su imprese che offrono un prodotto forestale non legnoso e un servizio turistico-ricreativo in bosco (rispettivamente il fungo porcino di Borgotaro e l’attività di raccolta dei funghi). L’obiettivo è quello di verificare se le difficoltà che normalmente sorgono quando si cerca di mettere in atto uno schema di pagamento per servizi ambientali siano superabili tramite l’inserimento in opportune organizzazioni a network. Le due tecniche di analisi SWOT (Analoui e Karami 2003, Stapleton e Thomas 1998) e A’WOT (Weiss et al. 2007) sono state quindi applicate ai due casi di studio dopo aver ipotizzato l’inserimento di alcuni servizi ambientali tra i beni già commercializzati da questi due tipi di network. In sostanza si è messo in pratica uno schema di pagamento per servizi ambientali basato su strutture a network. I risultati ottenuti indicano fondamentalmente che il livello delle Opportunità aumenterebbe, mentre quello delle Minacce e Debolezze cambierebbe in modo variabile. Inoltre, si registrano delle reazioni in parte diverse nei due casi di studio. Tali differenze sono dovute ai diversi stadi di evoluzione che caratterizzano i due network considerati. In particolare, in strutture a network più complesse (quale quella della “Strada del Fungo di Borgotaro”), l’incremento del livello delle Opportunità è superiore a quello registrato in network meno evoluti (come quello del “Parco Avventura Agility Forest”) mentre il livello dei punti di Forza diminuisce. Per quanto riguarda le Debolezze, diminuiscono in modo più consistente nel caso meno evoluto. Le Minacce, infine, aumentano maggiormente nel caso del network più evoluto. Si può alla fine concludere che, almeno a livello teorico, lo sviluppo di schemi di pagamento per servizi ambientali basati su network di piccole o medie imprese operanti con beni di origine forestale in senso lato sembra dare risultati positivi. Dovrebbe così essere possibile il miglioramento dei risultati dell’economia forestale tramite la commercializzazione dei servizi ambientali.
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Shiroku, Amada. "Analisi ed ottimizzazione del processo di setup nella produzione di circuiti elettronici: il caso Schneider Electric Industrie Italia S.p.A." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021.
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Le attività presentate in questa tesi si sono svolte presso uno degli stabilimenti produttivi della multinazionale Schneider Electric, situato a Pieve di Cento (Bo) e specializzato nella produzione di lampade d’emergenza. L’azienda richiede di analizzare ed ottimizzare il processo di setup sulle macchine Pick&Place adibite all’assemblaggio di circuiti elettronici per poter sfruttare l’elevata capacità produttiva della nuova macchina acquistata e ridurre gli sprechi. Al fine di risolvere il problema manifestato ci si è basati sui principi della metodologia SMED, importante strumento della Lean Manufacturing che fornisce precise linee guida per la riduzione dei tempi di attrezzaggio nei diversi contesti produttivi. In particolare, dopo una prima analisi qualitativa del processo di setup, sono stati misurati i tempi richiesti dalle diverse fasi e, partendo dai punti critici individuati, sono state proposte alcune soluzioni migliorative. Tra queste vi è la realizzazione di un’interfaccia potenzialmente integrabile nel database aziendale, pensata per supportare l’operatore nella preparazione dell’attrezzatura necessaria, consentendo di svolgere in tempo mascherato una delle fasi che, nello stato AS-IS, risultava essere tra le più impattanti sulle attività interne. Questa soluzione ha consentito di ridurre i tempi di fermo macchina del 50% circa per la maggior parte dei cambi serie. Inoltre, visti i lunghi tempi impiegati dall’operatore per la ricerca dei componenti elettronici, è stata proposta una riorganizzazione dell’area in cui essi sono stoccati integrando tecniche di Clustering con analisi sulle frequenze di prelievo delle parti. Sulla base delle stime effettuate, tale soluzione comporta una riduzione dei tempi necessari allo svolgimento dell’attività di ricerca maggiore del 70%. Infine, è stata fornita una procedura per consentire il mantenimento del nuovo processo di setup proposto.
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Bedin, Andrea <1992>. "Il mercato della cartolarizzazione bancaria in Italia: analisi del rischio di credito nelle emissioni di SME ABS." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13079.
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La cartolarizzazione bancaria in Italia sta assumendo sempre maggiore rilevanza in termini di volumi emessi, anche grazie alle manovre volute dal presidente della BCE Mario Draghi volte a ridare liquidità al mercato accettando come collaterale alle operazioni di rifinanziamento presso la BCE anche prodotti derivanti da operazioni di cartolarizzazione di elevata qualità. Le banche europee e quelle italiane in particolare si trovano di fronte alla necessità di smobilizzare grandi portafogli di crediti non performing, e la cartolarizzazione può risultare un utile strumento per trasformare prodotti illiquidi in prodotti appetibili per il mercato. La tesi analizza il fenomeno della securitization concentrandosi in particolare sulle piccole medie imprese, che più di tutti potrebbero sfruttare questo fenomeno per ottenere indirettamente finanziamenti dal mercato.
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ORTECA, MARIA KATIA. "Capitale sociale e innovazione nelle imprese: analisi empirica con un confronto tra Italia e UK." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1081.
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Questo lavoro intende analizzare la correlazione tra innovazione delle imprese e capital sociale, misurato da indicatori classici (come la partecipazione politica e le attività nel tempo libero) e da indicatori maggiormente legati alla dimensione aziendale (come accordi e cooperazioni). L’analisi viene fatta sia per l’Italia che per il Regno Unito attraverso l’uso della Community Innovation Survey 4, la survey europea sull’innovazione e la R&S nelle imprese per i dati su innovazione e capital sociale aziendale. Inoltre vengono utilizzate l’Indagine Multiscopo 2000 per l’Italia e l’Indice di Deprivazione per l’Inghilterra come misure di capitale sociale classico. Infine viene proposta una comparazione dei risultati per i due paesi per l’analisi sul capitale sociale aziendale. Questa comparazione è riletta alla luce di più generali considerazioni sui due differenti sistemi produttivi ed economici.This work would try to test the correlation between innovation in firms and social capital, measured by classic indicators (like political participation, leisure and activities) and more corporate indicators (like agreements and collaborations). The analysis is carried out for Italy and UK and we use the Community Innovation Survey 4, the European survey on innovation and R&D in the firms, for the data on innovation and corporate social capital. We use the Multipurpose Survey 2000 for Italy and the Index of Deprivation for England like measures of classic social capital. We further try a comparison of the results between the two countries for the analysis on corporate social capital. This comparison is finally referred to more general issues like the two different productive and economic systems.
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Compagnone, Maria Rosaria. "Verba volant, scripta etiam (Le parole volano, e anche le cose scritte) : Comunicazione « schermo a schermo » : uno scritto che cerca di avvicinarsi all’orale." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100119.
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Au XXe siècle, aux moyens traditionnels de transmission du langage verbal que constituent le parlé et l’écrit, s’est ajouté un troisième moyen, le transmis. Si, dans un premier temps, il s’est surtout agi d’un « parlé à distance » (téléphone, radio, cinéma, télévision), on est ensuite passé à « l’écrit à distance » (sites Internet, courrier électronique, chats, SMS). Les progrès technologiques ont été suivis d’une transformation linguistique : le code s’est adapté aux différents supports qui l’ont véhiculé. Les technologies électroniques de la parole, comme le note Spina (2001 : 31), ont donné une nouvelle impulsion au mode de communication orale. À la fin du XIXe siècle, en effet, l’invention du téléphone a représenté une véritable révolution. Aujourd’hui, après plus d’un siècle, le téléphone a dépassé ses limitations traditionnelles, il s’est fait petit et discret et, à la transmission du son, il a ajouté la possibilité de faire circuler de brefs messages de texte et même des e-mails.La diffusion de la communication SMS a transformé un instrument dévolu à l’échange oral en technologie d’écriture, mais l’originalité du support permet à l’écriture SMS de reproduire les structures morphologiques de l’interaction orale, malgré sa nature d’écrit. Ainsi, la vitesse de composition du message n’est pas la seule propriété qui permette à l’écriture SMS de s’approcher de l’oralité : la syntaxe y apparaît souvent comme plutôt élémentaire, avec une prédominance de parataxes et de constructions elliptiques de la phrase plutôt que d’hypotaxes, traits typiques du discours oral. Mais le SMS joue aussi sur les finalités communicatives en abaissant le registre formel de la langue et en favorisant ainsi un nouveau langage. Notre thèse, si elle n’est pas la première à analyser un corpus de SMS, est sûrement en revanche l’une des premières à comparer la typologie des processus observés dans deux langues, l’italien et le français, pour en définir mécanismes parallèles et diversitésVerbal language has traditionally been communicated by two means: speech and writing. In the twentieth century, however, a third means came into existence: transmitted language. Initially this consisted mostly of language “spoken at a distance” (telephone, radio, cinema, television), but it then extended to include language “written at a distance” (Internet sites, electronic mail, online chat, SMS). Technological progress was followed by a transformation of the language, and the code has been adapted to the different media used to convey it. Electronic technologies of the word, as Spina notes (2001: 31), have given a new impetus to the oral mode of communication, based on the spoken word.At the end of the 19th century, the invention of the telephone was a real breakthrough, allowing the creation of new, and previously unavailable, forms of communication. Today, little more than a century later, the phone has exceeded even its traditional limitations and to the transmission of sound has been added the ability to write short text messages, and even to send e-mail. The spread of SMS communication has transformed an instrument devoted to oral exchange into a technology of writing: in fact, the originality of the support allows text messaging, despite its written nature, to reproduce the morphological structures of oral interaction. Thus, the speed of composing the message is not the only property that allows texting to approach orality: the syntax is often seen as rather basic, with a predominance of parataxis and elliptical constructions rather than hypotaxis, features that are typical of spoken discourse. But texting also plays on communicative purpose by adopting a more informal register and thus fostering a new language. The present thesis, while not the first study to analyze a corpus of SMS, is surely one of the first to compare the types of processes found in both languages, French and Italian, in order to define parallel mechanisms and differences
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Howorth, Carole, and A. Moro. "Trustworthiness and interest rates: an empirical study of Italian SMEs." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6023.
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NoTrust is expected to reduce transaction costs and agency costs and thus influence the cost of credit for small businesses. Assessments of trustworthiness are based on the ability, benevolence and integrity of the owner manager. The study examines whether lending managers’ assessments of the trustworthiness of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owner managers are associated with the interest rate charged. Data were obtained from a survey of lending managers from small banks in North East Italy. Control variables and a vector of trustworthiness factors were collected on a random sample of customers, resulting in data for 365 small firms (74% response rate). Multivariate regression analyses provided evidence of a negative association between trustworthiness and interest rates. Banks, owner managers, policy makers and researchers should recognise the potential of trust to influence lending decisions and behaviour.
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CUTUGNO, Mariapia. "Collaborations for Service Innovation in low-tech sectors: Evidence from SMEs Italian wineries." Doctoral thesis, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11570/3222415.
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Paper 1 (Chapter 2): This article aims to map the development of studies related to servitization and Product-Service Systems (PSS) to examine and discuss the main findings of the scientific literature. The study is based on co-occurrence analysis, co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling of 421 articles selected using Vosviewer software. By identifying thematic clusters, the study underlines the growing interest in the field of servitization and the development of a product-service system. In recent times, in addition to the development of the architecture of services, solutions, and Product-Service System, the development of strategic methods of servitization and PSS, the authors are opening a new field of research by combining digitization with these new business practices, demonstrating the characteristics of servitization research. Several research gaps emerged from this literature review. This bibliometric analysis is based solely on the Web of Science databases. The future use of other databases such as Inspec, EI Compendex and Scopus is not excluded. In addition, the work provides an overview of the servitization literature using a bibliometric analysis to identify key research topics. Next, the study examines the concept of PSS to detect the evolution of the literature and its definition and implementation.Paper 2 (Chapter 3): This article intends to investigate whether and how Sicilian wine SMEs use the Product-Service System (PSS), in a logic of Servitization, with the contribution of external agents, the Universities, to enrich their knowledge and competencies. This work conducted 8 semi-structured interviews with Sicilian wineries. A qualitative analysis of the case studies was developed. The research data were analyzed with the help of the Nvivo software. The results highlighted, on the one hand, the importance that collaborations with universities could have, on the other hand, the difficulty of the wineries and the approach to these organizations. Despite this, important collaborations with other external agents emerged. The study has limitations common to any qualitative analysis of companies in a single region, the results cannot be generalized. Additionally, the study provides input on how companies operating in low-tech industries can implement servitization (PSS) through in- depth collaborations with external providers of complementary knowledge and competencies.
Paper 3 (Chapter 4): In relatively stable industries, a company generally has the resources to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. However, in highly turbulent markets, these resources are unlikely to remain valuable and may fail to improve the firm's competitiveness. As SMEs do not possess internally all the resources necessary for the development of new innovative practices, which may involve product, process and service innovations, they must develop external links to access knowledge located outside the borders or to find sources of knowledge that facilitate the creation and combination of new technologies. To acquire new knowledge, companies need to know where and how to find it, and how to assimilate and disseminate it through their corporate structure. For this reason, the collaboration of companies with various external partners broadens their range of knowledge and can support the development of new innovative practices. This work, using the SmartPLS software, intends to investigate the mediation role assumed by the external collaboration that the wine manufacturing SMEs can establish with various partners, becoming a driving force through which, the Absorptive Capacity (AC) allows companies to generate various types of innovation. The main results show that Collaboration (even if little studied in this sense) has a very important role in the context of SMEs, as the acquisition and enhancement of external knowledge is very significant for these realities to maintain their competitive advantage. This work brings with it some limitations typical of the empirical analyzes of a specific sector.
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PASSARINI, PAOLO. "CONSUMER PROTECTION AND EU FOOD QUALITY LABELS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ITALIAN SMEs." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11393/238949.
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Questa tesi mira a rispondere molteplici domande di ricerca.
Stabilire qual è il valore attribuito dai consumatori a una specifica certificazione IGP , ovvero i Maccheroncini di Campofilone IGP. Ricercare inoltre quali sono gli attributi che i consumatori considerano più importanti nell’acquisto di cibi. Infine quali sono gli elementi che influenzano l'efficienza delle sanzioni emanate dall’Antitrust e dall’Istituto dell’Autodisciplina Pubblicitaria al fine di tutelare il consumatore e ridurre i casi di pubblicità ingannevoli e le pratiche commerciali scorrette.
Per rispondere alla domanda di ricerca relativa al valore associato a una certificazione di qualità e alle scelte dei consumatori in riferimento ai prodotti agroalimentari, è stata condotta una ricerca esplorativa. L'etnocentrismo dei consumatori, l’effetto Country of Origin, il Food Choice Questionnaire e la disponibilità dei consumatori a pagare per prodotti certificati, sono le dimensioni che sono state indagate attraverso un questionario.
Al fine di rispondere alla domanda di ricerca relativa alla efficacia delle sanzioni emanate dall’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) e dall’Istituto dell’Autodisciplina Pubblicitaria (IAP), è stata utilizzata la Grounded Theory. I dati pertanto sono stati raccolti attraverso molteplici fonti. Interviste con informatori chiave dell’AGCM, una survey eseguita tra le aziende italiane del settore agroalimentare che hanno ricevuto una sanzione dall’AGCM o dallo IAP, informazioni raccolte dai siti web delle associazione dei consumatori e delle aziende sanzionate, notizie della stampa nazionale, dati secondari provenienti dai casi analizzati nel database dell’AGCM e dello IAP.
I risultati suggeriscono che se i consumatori sono consapevoli del significato delle DOP e delle IGP sono disposti a pagare un prezzo premium per il loro acquisto, da questo si evince che la tutela dei consumatori è fondamentale non solo per i consumatori ma anche per le imprese. Infatti, attraverso la tutela dei consumatori, l’AGCM difende anche il sistema competitivo delle imprese che producono alimenti di alta qualità.
L’analisi dei dati evidenzia che l’Etnocentrismo, l’effetto COO ed i fattori che influenzano le scelte d’acquisto di cibo dei consumatori, sono variabili cruciali che influenzano la loro percezione e la disponibilità a pagare per prodotti alimentari certificati di alta qualità. La ricerca esplorativa della pasta all’uovo italiana certificata IGP svolta in Svezia e in Italia suggerisce che i consumatori attribuiscono valore alla pasta IGP di Campofilone. Inoltre, il fattore più importante nell’acquisto di prodotti alimentari, sia per i consumatori svedesi che per gli italiani è il sensory appeal.
Dall’analisi dei dati riguardante la tutela del consumatore, emerge un chiaro e accurato sistema di pratiche commerciali scorrette adottato dalle imprese, queste ultime in grado di adattare le loro comunicazioni in modo da ridurre l'efficacia del sistema dissuasivo in vigore. L’autore infine propone delle misure di intervento necessarie al fine di migliorare l'efficacia del sistema a tutela del consumatore.
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CELI, GIUSEPPE. "Cambio reale, competitività e specializzazione delle esportazioni italiane negli anni dello SME: un'analisi statistica per settori ed aree di sbocco." Doctoral thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1234/35914.
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In questo lavoro vengono analizzati i nessi tra politica del tasso di cambio e integrazione commerciale in relazione al caso italiano. In particolare, l'attenzione è rivolta allo studio dell'evoluzione della specializzazione delle esportazioni italiane negli anni dello SME. L'approccio metodologico seguito mira ad integrare analisi della specializzazione settoriale e analisi della specializzazione geografica delle esportazioni italiane. I risultati derivati dall'analisi di correlazione degli indicatori segnalano che l'Italia tende a commerciare i suoi "settori deboli" - settori di despecializzazione, di svantaggio comparato - soprattutto nelle sue “aree forti", aree verso le quali il nostro paese detiene un certo potere di mercato esprimibile in prima approssimazione come elevata quota sull'import complessivo dell'area di sbocco. Ciò rivela in modo significativo come la struttura del commercio estero italiano sia condizionata dall'operare di quei fattori, non concorrenziali in senso stretto, ma geo-politici e istituzionali che
l' economista americano J.E.Roemer ha chiamato "sphere of influence factors". Questo risultato offre una interpretazione diversa da quelle consuete circa i motivi che sarebbero alla base della mancata evoluzione del modello di specializzazione italiano verso i settori avanzati negli anni di politiche valutarie virtuose.