RISULTATI RICERCA

Il volume indaga il caso dell’area milanese, dove il processo di trasformazione del commercio è particolarmente avanzato. Al centro dell’attenzione le divergenti traiettorie evolutive di Milano e di tredici città medie circostanti, nell’arco del ventennio 1998-2018. Anche nel commercio, come nell’economia nel suo complesso, è in atto una ripolarizzazione su Milano che, forte del suo ruolo di global city e di una maggior resilienza alla grande recessione, si è rafforzata a scapito delle città medie.

This study examines how inclusion is discursively constructed in sustainability-oriented educational policies through a linguistic analysis of six Executive Orders issued by former President Biden during his 2021-2025 administration, and by Donald Trump during the first month of his current presidency, January 2025. Drawing upon a critical discourse perspective and employing the tools provided by Systemic Functional Linguistics, we explore representations of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in order to assess how vulnerability, participation, and exclusion are linguistically framed in the field of education. The findings will contribute to understanding how institutional discourse shapes inclusive education and sustainability, informing strategies for future equitable learning environments.

In recent years, it has become necessary for retailers to manage and integrate a variety of channels in order to reach more customers and provide them with a seamless shopping experiences adding new opportunities and challenges to this evolving scenario. This study investigates how and why e-tailers adopt an omnichannel strategy, which roles and functions they assign to different channels and which effects derive from the adoption of an omnichannel strategy. This work seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge on omnichannel businesses thanks to an exploratory analysis based on 29 in-depth interviews with CEOs and managers of e-tailers firms. Results show that all interviewees adopt an omnichannel strategy, integrating and coordinating channels and customers’ touchpoints. It has emerged that financial and customer relationship performances are the main drivers that guide the adoption of an omnichannel strategy. Findings also reveal that e-commerce, social networks and mobile are strategic channels to engage with customers. In addition, firms synergistically integrate online and offline channels in order to achieve complementary effects and thus create additional value for customers. Two are the main challenges that arise from this scenario: marketing and organizational ones. The former involves the reconfiguration of firms marketing strategies, by harmonizing their marketing and communication mix, and their brands. The latter refers to the overcoming of the traditional silos organizational structure in favor of the omnichannel one.

A new controversy has been polarising German history and public memory since 2020. Dubbed Historikerstreit 2.0 in reference to the 1986 debate on the uniqueness of the Holocaust, the dispute revolves around the memory politics of the Holocaust and of German colonial-era atrocities, but it is also very much about how Germany deals with its xenophobic present and its attitude to Israel’s current settlement poli¬cies. This discussion forum takes a broader view in order to contextualise the debate within the wider scope of contemporary German historiography and memory culture and introduce a nuanced assessment of the issues at stake to the Italian public, in a country which still struggles to own up to its antisemitic past, let alone its skewed post-colonial memory and racist present.

This article revisits the reasons why Leon Walras did not give enough consideration to the economic and social analysis of Adolphe Landry. Both were fervent defenders of socialism and their recommendations for social economics are based on thorough economic analysis. We show that Walras did not evaluate Landry’s work fairly because of various methodological inconsistencies and different assessments of the forms of competition and resulting rules related to distributive justice.

The worldwide wave of reforms investing power industry has created new challenges to both supply demand side management. After deregulation, electric utilities restructured their opera-tions from vertically integrated mechanisms to open market systems in order to establish a new competitive sector. Reform has involved also the Italian power sector, but competition, as lar-gely shown by the empirical literature particularly in the first years of reform, has been far to be reached, and the electricity markets has been characterized by conditions of oligopoly and exercise of market power. This paper aims to analyze welfare loss and deviation from the competitive equilibrium recorded in the day ahead Italian electricity market after the first wave of reforms was almost implemented. The study presents a theoretical and empirical model to construct a competitive equilibrium, estimating market power, both, on the supply and demand sides of the day ahead electricity market. Results show the effect of non-competitive equilibriums for the hourly markets in the period 2013-2014. In an ideal competitive market, prices would be lower than historical prices by about 2-5% and quantities would be higher by about 0.5-1%.

The success of a search provider in a competitive environment is closely linked to its popularity with the users. This paper studies the effects of user perception and behaviour on the dynamics of the web search market and presents a model based on factors traditionally left out of economic models, such as the user’s habitual attraction to a particular provider and brand loyalty. It estimates the prevalence of biased switching behaviour in the desktop internet search market and outlines the expected future dynamics of the market, should current trends continue. It further discusses the interpretation of the empirical data concerning the market share, which may be relevant in the context of litigation against Google.

Cooperative credit banks were established in the mid-19th century to overcome problems of opportunistic behaviour by borrowers. In Italy, they are currently playing a major role for the financial system and for the economy. They provide credit to individuals and households, as well as capital to small firms from sectors such as agriculture. These banks relate to a cooperative credit network that grants them an adequate level of competitiveness in the market. By effectively implementing democratic principles of governance and by focusing on relationship banking, they foster responsible behaviour, a crucial concept in times of crisis. This paper accounts for both the competitive advantages and the challenges faced by Italian cooperative credit banks. It suggests that a better understanding of their specifics would help to highlight the contribution of a sound cooperation to economics. Finally, it provides policy recommendations for a qualitative supervision of cooperative banks in order to increase the stability of the financial system.

This study examines the today conditions of the Sicilian citrus crop sector and investigates the consumer preference structure. The citrus farming system is affected by a long-lasting disadvantage due to structure restrictions in addition to management limits. Some studies case have confirmed that farms are frequently based on a too small crop growing area and this is one of the stronger problems in order to achieve better efficiency. The analysis of consumers’ preferences has been carried out with a two step approach based on direct telephone interviews and on a subsequent postal opinion poll. A good deal of information has been collected on style and motivation of fruit consumption pattern and on the characteristics that the citrus consumers regard as of highest significance. Consumers have clearly expressed the call for a superior information and certification service in order to protect the agreeable and healthy features of citrus fruits.