Streaming and subscription business model in the recorded music industry: cyclicality and payout decisions in major record labels before and after The -"spotify effec"t

The purpose of this directed research is to investigate the impact of streaming and the subscription business model on cyclicality and pay out decisions in the recorded music industry. The hypothesis behind this work is that streaming did not only bring the industry back to growth, but also made it more cash stable, less volatile, which in turn sets expectations for higher, more constant dividend payments being preferred to cash saving for potential crises or economy turnovers. The three major listed groups in the competitive environment of record labels will be the object of this study: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group

webBPMN: A Language to Design Web Applications Regulated by Workflows

In recent years many web applications regulated by workflows were developerd in order to permit the collaboration between many stakeholders during the execution of Business Processes. Generally, these kind of systems are implemented using web technologies in order to be easily designed, implemented and to be available in different operative systems and platform. Standard general purpose Business Process Modeling languages such as BPMN can be used to design the workflow of these systems, but they lack in the definition of which web technology has to be used to implemented each single business activity. In this paper, we propose a novel business process modeling notation named webBPMN including elements that can be used to model web applications regulated by workflows. We experimented the notation designing the Business Process of the internship web application of the University of Camerino