A new approach in the managerial literature emphasizes the role of followers, i.e. team collaborators. Until now, scholars had largely ignored these key members of the supporting cast, looking only at the project leaders who were presumed to have chosen and organized the other resources

If Italians united as a people over a century and a half, they also owe it to pizza and fashion, in addition to media consumption. The article takes a brief look at how consumption forms a web of common language, products and imagery that help define the notion of Italian cultural nationhood

Italy's multinationals have been adversely affected by belated trade openness related to several factors, including a prepoderance of SMEs and low labor costs at home. Today's managerial family firms, both large and medium sized, seek international excellence through innovation in niche markets

On the press, news content is hierarchical, while on the Internet people deal with time and technical constraints that redefine their reading behavior. Rather than being buried on an inside page, an online article might be crowded off the screen as "newer news" is added at the top of the list

From the department stores of the Bocconi brothers to Esselunga supermarkets, what is missing is an original business model. Despite the cachet of Made in Italy, retailers have not yet succeeded in their attempts to put an exportable Italian imprint on big-time retailing

Security over liberty after 9/11: is authoritarian democracy in the making in the name of the War on Terror? Many countries appear to have elevated national security to a position of absolute priority that threatens to weaken the appropriate balance between security and individual freedom.