04 Mar 2011 SMEs' Responsiveness: A Mixed Blessing Belvedere, Grando and Papadimitriou show that SMEs are faster than large firms in delivering products, but it's not enough to guarantee their long-term survival if they don't adopt up-to-date practices and technology
01 Mar 2011 Sustainability is GOLDEN One of the most ambitious management research programmes ever, GOLDEN kicked off at Bocconi. Devised by CROMA, it will involve 25 research centres and 100 companies
25 Feb 2011 Something Skyrockets. The Markets' Reaction to War Stock markets on average react positively to the onset of a conflict according to a study by Guidolin and La Ferarra analyzing 101 conflicts in the 1971-2004 period. The evidence for other assets' markets is mixed
27 Feb 2011 Tell Me How You Dress Fashion is a magical and mystical dimension, and clothes are spaces for negotiating identity, according to a study conducted by Stefania Borghini, Deniz Atik and Søren Askegaard on women between thirty and fifty
22 Feb 2011 Bocconi to Host the Review of Accounting Studies Conference A highly competitive call for the six papers to be presented is open
18 Feb 2011 Mobbing: Sometimes the Organization Is to Blame Workplace stress: a research study by Bocconi CROMA and the Work Clinic explores the causes of bullying and excessive stress on the job. Their findings appear to indicate that hierarchical, bureaucratic organizations where authoritarian styles of leadership prevail are those most at risk