The Atlas of Economic Complexity

See the path to prosperity of your country:

http://atlas.media.mit.edu

my personal webpage

You can find my research papers here: http://riccaboni.weebly.com.

SNA Softwares

1. Pajek
2. Ucinet
3. Gephi
4. Nodexl
5. Siena
6. Cytoscape

more here

Brands in urban and digital spaces

An interesting reading

Mexico, VietNam, Russia, France, Iran, Mozambique...

Star Alliances

You might want take a look to this, it is a summation and analytical assessment on the “Star Alliance (A): A Global Network” case study published in the Transnational Management by Bartlett, Ghoshal and Birkinshaw (2005).

This is what a multinational company looks like..

My friend Skye Bender the Moll has developed a software (SONIA) to dynamically visualize network movie and a database (CorpWatch) of subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings.


Click here for a movie of the changes in corporate structure at Lehman Brothers from 2003-2008. Each dot is a subsidiary corporation and each line is a declared ownership relation.

Goldman Sachs movie The “ring” of nodes around the main network are companies with names that include “Goldman Sachs” but are not reported in the main filings. Since these must be associated in some way with Goldman Sachs, but we don’t have any ties for them, it kind of gives an idea of how many relationships we are “missing”– the Exhibit 21 filings are just the tip of the glacier, lots of other little icebergs floating around out there.
Lehman movie does not have 2009 data (will they ever? ;-). When the 2009 data is complete, I wonder if we will be able to locate their sold-off divisions now belonging to other companies?
Coca Cola movie. Started from a query looking for names like “Coca Cola”, so it includes the “Coca Cola Bottling” and “Coca cola Enterprises” divisions that are legally separate corporations even though they are controlled by the parent.

Fiat's CEO Sergio Marchionne Says Fiat Could Do Better Without Italy

Thanks god, you are definitely right: Marchionne is not a true Italian

http://www.corriere.it/International/english/articoli/2010/10/25/marchionne-fiat.shtml">http://www.corriere.it/International/english/articoli/2010/10/25/marchionne-fiat.shtml

Where do things come from?

To map global supply chains try sourcemap





To know where the idea of new things come from read

Molotch H. (2003) Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come To Be As They Are, Routledge, London

Wine Advice, Oenological Consultancy

Enofly is an Italian company of wine consultancy built by two Italian oenologists providing services to wine companies.

http://www.enofly.it/index.html

In the 'news' of the website, Indian friends can also find an article about Yatin Patin, who is a vintage wine producer...

http://www.enofly.it/pdf_news/yatin_patin_16.pdf

Future platforms: back to the US

General Motors' Voltec Platform for electrically driven vehicles.

The Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant starts up.

More here: gm-volt.com and here http://www.economist.com/node/17202405

Oenologists

A list of wine personalities

such as Alberto Antonini:
an Italian winemaker who makes outstanding wines from Tuscany to Argentina

The Wine Economist

More interesting readings on the international wine industry can be found here:

http://wineeconomist.com/

The Catena story, in particular, sounds inspiring: immigrants from Italy, they have now distributors all around the world (except than in Italy):

http://www.catenawines.com

FDI in Transition Economies

Stark D., Vedres B. (2006), "Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary", AJS
http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/pdf-files/newstark.pdf

OECD Model Tax Treaty

Here you can find the OECD Model for tax treaties including the definition
of permanent establishment:

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/49/35363840.pdf

more here: www.oecd.org/tax

Case Studies

A couple of useful readings to prepare a case study in international business:

Heisenhardt K.L., (1989). "Building Theories from Case Study Research", Academy of Management Review, 14(4), pp. 532-550

Piekkari et al. (2009). "The Case Study as Disciplinary Convention: Evidence from International Business Journals", Organization Research Methods, 12(3), 567-589.

Diaspora Networks

I know I'm late but if you have time please
read these papers by tomorrow:

Rauch J.E. (2001) "Business and Social Networks in International Trade", Journal of Economic Literature.

Greif A. (1994) "Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualistic Societies", Journal of Political Economy, 102(5).

FDI, Platforms and Real Options

Tomorrow we'll discuss the GE Energy Management Initiative and similar platform investment decisions from the perspective of real option theory.

I hope you'll find the time to read this:

Kogut B., Kulatilaka N. (1994) "Options Thinking and Platform Investments: Investing in Opportunity", California Management Review, 36(2), 52-71.

Opportunities in Building More Sustainable Supply Chains

Richard Locke, Fei Qin, and Alberto Brause, 2006, Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards?: Lessons from Nike, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management

Video of The MITSloan Lecture

Gergana Assenova Bounova

The PhD Thesis of Georgana Assenova Bounova (MIT) is the best in-depth network analysis of airline networks I have ever read. On her website you can find data on the Chinese network too.

As for the importance of centrality in trade networks, here you can read the Pitt's view on the reason behind the growth of Moscow in the Middle Age.

Airline Business Models and Networks

This paper examines the evolution of airline business models and network structure decisions in the passenger aviation industry. The paper reviews the growth of hub-and-spoke networks as the dominant business model following deregulation in the latter part of the 20th century, followed by the emergence of low cost carriers as a global phenomenon at the end of the century. The paper highlights the link between airline business strategies and network structures, and examines the resulting competition between divergent network structure business models. In this context, we discuss issues of market structure stability and the role played by competition policy.