The flexibility concept within the company may be better understand if we will analyse the connection with other concepts. In this paper we will try to present the influence of the flexibility over the diversity and change.

Industrial enterprises have to face to more and greater national and international competition and this generates a continuous pressure over them. This desideratum has to be approached with some sufficient distinct means from which the automation is only one moreover possibility. So in this...

Traditional project management practices have evolved over time as the requirements for managing and controlling construction projects unfolded. However, with the advances of management techniques and ICT, traditional practices have proven to be insufficient in meeting the new project...

For many specialists and researches the method of value analysis may seem pointless. But the elements which are manifesting in turbulent economics denounce that it is necessary to “revaluate” the method of value analysis. The principal objectives which are at the base of the...

The methodology of redesign management system using value analysis was born from the necessity to respond at shifts that appears in the management of the organizations. One of this shifts reefers “proliferation of the systematic approach of the management of organizations” which involves...

Irrespective of their size, companies seem to be more efficient when they compete with one another, and more creative when they co-operate. 

Questo lavoro intende verificare se la presenza di fattori socio-istituzionali (capitale sociale, l’attivismo istituzionale e l’accumulazione di esperienze di azione collettiva fra imprese) in un territorio, valorizzando il ruolo delle esternalità “da conoscenza”, possa favorire la...

The concept of life cycle stages has a significant impact upon business strategy and performance. 

Following the growing interest towards the role of the knowledge in the modern economies the economic literature has focused a lot of studies into the role of the producers of new knowledge, e.g. universities and public research institutions. The relations between these bodies and the firms, the...

The Italian and European regulatory framework for patents would benefit from further improvements in order to foster dynamic competition between Italian firms. At the national level the exclusive allocation of the right to patent inventions to universities, rather than to researchers, would...