Market-Driven Management and Intangible Assets in Global Television Set Manufacturers

The television set industry is a global sector where the most competitive companies are market-driven. Their competitive advantage is based not only on their ability to innovate products but also on their capability to develop and strengthen intangible assets, such as corporate culture, brand image and relationships between organisations.Television set industry, Market Driven Management, Competitiveness, Intangible Assets DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4468/2010.2.07silvestrelli

The Cost of Managing Intangibles in Global Markets

Intangibles are often become the most critical resources for businesses in global competitive markets. Thus, intangible assets and goods must be managed adopting specific strategies that determine costs with different patterns over time: expenses (with a short term span) and investments (with a medium to long term span) and with different underling explications (discretional and causal costs).Intangible Assets, Global Competition, Brand, Brand Equity Patent, Trademark DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4468/2010.2.05corniani

Intangibles, Global Networks & Corporate Social Responsibility

Network organisations emphasise the importance of corporate and product intangible assets. In global competition, the managerial economics of intangibles imposes new network policies of corporate social responsibility, dominated by global social issues such as economic sustainability, eco-responsibility, worker protection and so on.Intangible Assets; Network; Global Competition; Corporate Social Responsibility DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4468/2010.2.02brondoni

Product Differentiation Costs and Global Competition

The growing competitive intensity on the markets determines the emergence of competition costs that are expressed at a corporate level and have implicit repercussions for the supply system. This type of costs makes it possible to identify a close link between competition costs and supply differentiation costs. Classification by competitive intensity presupposes that the analysis performed identifies the classification of company costs as the discriminating element, in terms of the competitive pressure of the context in which the firm operates. The emergence of competition costs is linked to an attempt to squeeze them as an aspect of vertical, or more specifically, horizontal cooperation strategies.Product Differentiation; Differentiation Costs; Over-Supply; Global Competition; Marketing; Market-Driven Management; Global Corporations; Global Markets DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4468/2005.1.06garbelli

Business Models in a New Digital Culture: The Open Long Tail Model

New business models are emerging in global markets. Quirky is producing new products designed and developed by the community and finally produced by the 3D printing technology. Google gives his glasses to different developers who build up their own applications. Kickstarter finds the funders by the use of the crowd, paying them back with the future products. Employees, funders, customers and partners do not play a stable role with the organization but revolve around it using different form of collaborations related to the organization’s needs. In this scenario business like Amazon find out their own achievement feeding up different customers’ needs

eTourism for socio-economic development

Tourism has often been described as an economic driving force that contributes to rural and emerging economies development. However, when it comes to the social aspect of development the nature of this contribution is still debated by academics. Information and Communication Technologies can help enhancing the socio-economic contribution of tourism by fostering community-based tourism independent marketing and sales dis-intermediation. eT4D can be defined as the independent use of technologies by micro and small community based tourism firms to market and sell their products and services thus fostering local socio-economic development

Sustainability along the value chain: collaborative approaches and their impact on firm performance

Heeding the call for a deeper understanding of the key differences in corporate approaches to sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and their impact on performance, we collect and analyse data on a sample of 91 Italian firms in the consumer product industry engaged in upstream and downstream sustainability initiatives. Results show that companies differ in the extent to which sustainability is shared along the chain. Yet, the more companies collaborate through a strong sustainability orientation, the higher the impact on supply-chain related performance, with companies adopting a proactive attitude to SSCM being able to benefit the most from it

3D INDOOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE ANCIENT WALL-SYSTEM OF THE ROMAN RUINS: VILLA OF THE QUINTILI UNDERNEATH VILLA MONDRAGONE

The first unit of Villa Mondragone was built in the last quarter of the sixteenth century and was partially founded on the ruins of an ancient Roman Villa, attributed to the consuls Quintili, dating back to the first century A.D. The wall-system of this factory didn’t coincide with the existing structures because it was preferred to rotate it, in order to define an axiality with the rests of another wide basis villae, situated downstream. Repeated archeological excavations made at Villa Mondragone during last centuries brought to light many old walls that, however, have never been completely revealed for a global analysis. The laser scanning survey recently started on indoor archeological ruins emerged in the recent past, confirm the hypothesis by Felice Grossi Gondi at the beginning of the twentieth century, related to the choices about the ancient planning; furthermore, they allow to upgrade the existing planimetries, giving more information for a clearer knowledge of the monument

Corporate Governance Communications

The recognised critical importance of corporate governance, and the attention that it is paid today, can be ascribed to several factors: sensational financial scandals (and the repercussions they have had for securities and financial markets), the exponential development of stock option policies, the information asymmetry that can be noted in practically every company, The different requests for information of the various categories of stakeholders, combine to strengthen the decision to adopt integrated corporate communication policies. The concept of integrated communication highlights a radical rethink of the function and role of the system of corporate information flows

Computer Vision algorithms performance in architectural heritage multi-image based projects. General overview and operative evaluation: the North Tower of Buñol's Castle (Spain)

[EN] Multi-image based modeling has proven to be effective providing solutions for surveying and documenting cultural heritage, and in particular architectural heritage. In addition to the issues related with instruments and captation strategy, the operativity of these projects is supported by three bases: Computer Vision (C.V.) algorithms, analytical close-range photogrammetry, and theory of errors. In this work we propose an approach that examines the importance of the first, from two points of view. On one hand, we present a brief overview of its intervention in the different processing stages, both in photomodeling as in photograms stitching projects, thus reviewing the fundaments regarding the two classic branches of architectural photogrammetry. On the other, we present a review of the operational strategy with these algorithms, through a case study that evaluates the results of two software applications, advancing some methodological improvements.Cabanes Ginés, JL.; Bonafé, C. (2021). Computer Vision algorithms performance in architectural heritage multi-image based projects. General overview and operative evaluation: the North Tower of Buñol's Castle (Spain). SCIRES-IT. 11(2):125-138. https://doi.org/10.2423/i22394303v11n2p12512513811