Purpose This study aims to understand how distributed agile teams (DATs), encouraged by globalisation, and recently accelerated by the COVID-19 outbreak, adopt agile practices to achieve project goals by working virtually. Design/methodology/approach This study developed a multiple-case study...

Integrated logistics inside industrial districts, in spite of its potential, still faces infrastructural and cultural barriers. The article analyses fourteen cases of logistic innovation within industrial district firms, highlighting both the current status and intervention areas for building up...

We test a theoretical framework, based on four principles, that has been developed through a previous systematic literature review. The 'laboratories' that have been chosen in order to test the theoretical framework are the business incubators at the European Space Agency (ESA). The methodology...

Integrated logistics inside industrial districts, in spite of its potential, still faces infrastructural and cultural barriers. The article analyses fourteen cases of logistic innovation within industrial district firms, highlighting both the current status and intervention areas for building up...

This paper describes the evolution of the Italian Internet companies quoted on the Milan Stock Exchange. Despite a relevant international literature on the Internet bubble, the transition of Internet companies through different business strategies remains somewhat under explored in the Italian...

Italian Abstract: La logistica integrata all'interno di distretti industriali, a dispetto del suo potenziale, deve ancora affrontare barriere infrastrutturali e culturali. L'articolo analizza quattordici casi di innovazione logistica nelle imprese di distretti industriali, evidenziando sia la...

In 1978, Lefty Rosenthal, a former Chicago bookmaker, became Director of Entertainment at the Stardust Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Roemer (1994: 111), in his book about Vegas, says, "Lefty had traveled a road paved with controversy and dispute. I guess you could say Lefty was representative...

It is proposed to examine how these two different models of human relations - that of Winnicott and Serres - illuminate features of contemporary organizational life.With these models, one can view recent scandals in the USA, specifically the implosion of the energy firm, Enron. Previous accounts...