Beatrice Manzoni

Bocconi University | Bocconi

In tutte le organizzazioni favorire la creatività e gestirla correttamente è essenziale per innovare, sostenere la crescita e il vantaggio competitivo. Tra le competenze chiave a qualsiasi livello organizzativo – tanto che il World Economic Forum l’ha inserita nel novero delle abilità più richieste sul mercato del lavoro – la creatività in azienda...

Today learning within organizations is the most important driver of people attraction, retention and engagement. While “why” we should learn is out of questions and “how” (in terms of options) we could do it is relatively well known, we know little about how individuals learn and especially how they would like to learn in the future. In this paper,...

A new generation, named Generation Z (born after 1996), is currently in education and it will soon approach the job market. Knowing how they engage in learning is critical to design effective learning experiences both in academia and at work. However, being the newest generation, it is also the least studied one, especially in academic research. Wi...

The adoption of web-based simulations in higher education has been evolving significantly in recent years. One of the aspects determining the success of simulations as a teaching method is students’ acceptance. For this reason, this study aims to test a model of students’ adoption of web-based simulations in a university context. We adopted a revis...

Creativity is one of the most valued employee skills, but there exists a tension in organizations, as managers want workers who are creative and, at the same time, who conform to existing norms in the organization. In the current paper we propose and study a nuanced relationship between conformity and creativity in the workplace, looking for condit...

With the current research we applied the theoretical framework of the psychological contract to the study of generational differences in the workplace with the aim of understanding how Millennials and non‐Millennials differ in their expectations at work. We collected data from more than 1,000 workers of a large Italian company, not only assessing s...

In this chapter, we discuss the most debated challenges for Business Schools and management education. If Business Schools want to develop responsible future leaders, they need to rethink their role. Through a structured content analysis of the past 3-years academic research on the role of Business Schools, we describe five major challenges and app...

Balich Worldwide Shows (BWS) is an Italy-based firm that operates globally in the entertainment production market, creating, designing and producing live events such as Olympic ceremonies, permanent and touring shows and exclusive events. Projects on this scale require complex teams that are large, diverse, highly specialized and virtual. The autho...

Employees value learning and development as key factors for attraction, retention and engagement. Yet organizations are not always doing enough in order to support and facilitate employees’ learning through the so-called organizational learning mechanisms. In this paper, we explore how employees perceive and evaluate their company’s efforts in crea...

Students from Gen Z ask for being independent as well as guided by the adults in their learning experience, especially when learning is aimed at making better future career and development choices. Self-regulated online learning can effectively answer this need. While its definition, advantages and phases have been debated in the literature, self-r...

In recent years, there has been a growing debate and rise in publications about learning in its multiple forms. This variety has contributed to the richness of existing research but it has also increased, rather than reduced, the need for more clarity to advance further. Through a content analysis performed on the last twenty years of research, we...

E-learning is pervading higher education, being a convenient training opportunity in a busy and demanding society. Despite being a popular phenomenon both in research and in practice, e-learning is however far from being successfully implemented in any context. This is a matter of both inadequate exploration of the learners’ perspective and insuffi...

In recent years, there has been a growing debate and rise in publications about learning in its multiple forms. This variety has contributed to the richness of existing research but it has also increased, rather than reduced, the need for more clarity to advance further. Through a content analysis performed on the last twenty years of research, we...

Despite their business relevance, creative professional service firms are under-researched, in particular with regard to how they compete for work. Competing for work is key to survival, but also extremely challenging due to the complexity of the services offered. In this paper we use a paradox framework to investigate the opposing demands that cre...

Studio Libeskind is one of the few internationally recognized architectural firms that have managed to be successful both artistically and economically. This article explores the managerial approach behind this success, which arises from how the Studio copes with several managerial challenges on a daily basis. First the article explores what these...

Despite being one of the most important means to obtain commissions, to explore in design terms and to develop design quality, architectural competitions are an extremely controversial procedure, in both research and in practice. Competitions present contradictory features and competing demands. Nevertheless, they are increasingly used within the E...

Architectural competitions are a fascinating, yet controversial, subject. Building from cross-disciplinary studies on competitions, creative professional service management literature and paradox theory, this research explores the paradoxes of competitions from the viewpoint of the architects’ strategizing for them. Paradox is used as a research fo...

The French-American chef Daniel Boulud is head of an international empire of restaurants as well as catering activities, online sale of private-label products and TV cooking shows. His case exemplifies the making of a successful creative individual business model in three phases: (1) French-American apprenticeship; (2) the opening of Daniel, his fi...

Despite being one of the most important means to obtain commissions, explore in design terms and develop design quality, architectural competitions are an extremely controversial practice. Nevertheless, they are increasingly adopted within the European procurement law, to the point that exploring and understanding their debated issues is essential...

Despite being one of the most important means to obtain commissions, explore in design terms and develop design quality, architectural competitions are an extremely controversial practice. Nevertheless, they are increasingly adopted within the European procurement law, to the point that exploring and understanding their debated issues is essential...

In architecture competitions are fascinating. Over the years, they have increasingly become a popular mechanism for architects in acquiring work and clients in looking for designers. Still they are a debated topic presenting several controversial issues. In fact, competitions, as architecture in general, are a fertile ground for contradictions and...

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In recent years cultural events have taken on increasing relevance as manifestations of the cultural industries. In both management studies and urban studies, several aspects of cultural manifestations have been investigated. However, the multifaceted value produced in the cultural setting has not been systematically explored. The authors analyze t...

Since project based organizations are a typical configuration in the architecture industry, two streams of research are relevant for architecture practices. (1) Team management, as architecture design and production originate from collaborative networks among multiple actors, but results from empirical studies have been inconsistent regarding which...

Project group structures are a typical configuration in the architecture industry, used as a way to cope with a dilemma typical of architectural firms, caught between artistic and efficiency drivers. Moreover teams are the mechanism these organisations often rely on to be more effective. Nonetheless, the role of team composition for project perform...