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Consumer empowerment in the digital economy : availing sustainable purchasing decisions

Gazzola, Patrizia ; Colombo, Gianluca ; Pezzetti, Roberta ; Nicolescu, Luminita

In: Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, no. 5, p. 693

The advent of the digital economy and, implicitly, of competition in the online marketplace has triggered new challenges in terms of consumer protection approaches. Online, consumer skills are expected to be improved and the level of consumer awareness and engagement increased. These are the baseline prerequisites of the sustainable purchasing decision and, thus, should be considered as pillars...

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Actualising Bergson's lesson: a post-post-modernist perspective

Colombo, Gianluca

In: Journal of Management & Governance, 2009, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 261-267

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Simulating dynamic capabilities and value creation in family firms : Is paternalism an ‘asset’ or ‘liability’?

Chirico, Francesco ; Nordqvist, Mattias ; Colombo, Gianluca ; Mollona, Edoardo

In: Family business review, 2012, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 318-338

The authors conduct a simulation study using system dynamics methods to interpret how and when paternalism affects dynamic capabilities (DCs) and by association value creation in family firms. Their simulation experiments suggest that the effect of paternalism on DCs and value creation varies over time. Initially, increasing levels of family social capital and low levels of paternalism are...

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From context to system and back : how systems emerge from actors cognitive and social interactions : a system dynamics perspective

Colombo, Gianluca ; Mollona, Edoardo

In this paper, the system is viewed as a construction based on the actors’ cognitive and social interactions. The system is the result of multiple – actor sense making (Weick 1995), but at the same time it orients social sense making. In this process each actor’s point of view is a representation of both the system and the context perceived as pertinent by the actor. In other words, the...

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Thinking of a sub-field of strategic thinking from a pluralistic approach to knowledge-invention

La Rocca, Santa ; Colombo, Gianluca

This article elaborates on the need for a sub-field of ‘Strategic Thinking’ as the science exploring the hidden side of strategy emergence. The site of our exploration is the discourse. We will investigate the intersystemic link between self-reflection and communication embedded in discourses among strategists for paradigm deconstruction and reconstruction. The rationale for a sub-field of...