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Symphonya, Iss 1 (2026)
ISSN 1593-0300 · Niccolò Cusano University-Rome · 547 articles in the index
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Materiality, Non-Financial Reporting and SDGs Integration: A Critical Analysis of Corporate Practices from the PSI Index
This study analyzes how 16 companies listed on the Portuguese PSI Index integrate material sustainability issues and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into corporate strategies and non-financial reports (2021–2024). The PSI Index provides a distinctive empirical setting due to its small…
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Ouverture de “Emerging Trends in the Global Landscape”
The current global economic landscape imposes a profound recalibration of traditional managerial and policy paradigms, compelling organizations to integrate strategic resilience and sustainability at the core of their business models. Geopolitical fragmentation, supply chain disruptions, and…
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Embedded Governance, ESG Integration, and Firm Profitability in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Zambia’s Agri-Food Sector
This paper focuses on the role of embedded corporate governance in the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and firm profitability in emerging markets. The study adopts an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design comprising panel regression analysis of governance and…
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A Quadrant-Based Framework for Mapping the Interplay Between ESG Performance and ESG Controversies
This study illustrates the complex interplay between ESG performance and ESG controversies integrating both dimensions into a quadrant-based framework of corporate ESG positioning. Within this framework, we identify four distinct ESG profiles: Crystal clear (high ESG performance and few ESG…
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A Semiotic Perspective on Fashion Films and Brand Ethos: The Case of Hermès’ La Flânerie
Contemporary literature perceives fashion films as a hybrid communication genre. However, the semiotic mechanisms through which luxury brands construct and transmit their ethos via fashion films remain underexplored. This paper argues that fashion films serve more than just promotion. They are…
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Social Media Marketing and Consumer - Brand Relationship in Luxury Markets
Given the shift from traditional to new communication approaches, luxury brands are strategically focusing on social media marketing – SMM - for product and services’ endorsement through daily narratives. Nowadays, social media is an integral part of marketing and advertising. Social media…
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Ouverture de “Global Competition Heats Up Further”
From the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a new phase of globalization has begun, developed by the world's major multinationals (China, South Korea, USA, India, etc.). A new phase which can be defined of 'wild globalization', characterized by an exasperated and boundless search for profit, to satisfy…
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Competitive Experiences: Lessons from the Tourism Industry
Designing and producing a memorable experience is increasingly seen as a competitive advantage in many industries. This paper suggests some lessons that may be derived from the experiential approach realized in the tourism industry. Three aspects are discussed. Firstly, we discuss the path…
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The Collective Communications in the ‘Wild Globalization’
In this phase of ‘wild globalization’, started with Covid-19 in 2020 and then exploded in these last years with the piecemeal world war, the largest corporations have engaged in global communication plans, unprecedented in terms of the scale of their funding, focused on key words such as corporate…
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Corporate Identity: An Analysis of Evolution Over Time
The aim of the research is to explore the evolution of the Corporate Identity (CI) construct by identifying what constructs of CI are fundamental in each decade, and develop an updated Corporate Identity Taxonomy based on systematic literature review, Big-Data analysis, and exploratory primary…
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How Does Medical Consortium Affect Public Hospital Performance? Evidence from China
The medical consortium represents a potential solution to the fragmentation and hospital-centered nature of China's health system. This paper utilizes hospital-level data from Beijing, spanning 2010 to 2018, to assess the impact of medical consortia on public hospital performance at different…
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Ouverture de ‘Wine Global Competition. Emerging Issues’
The global wine market is undergoing a profound transformation, after years of stable behavior that, however, heralded the perfect storm unleashed in recent years. For a careful observer, the seeds of change have been there for many years, as the contributions collected in this volume demonstrate…
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Understanding the Current World Wine Consumption Crisis: Cyclical Analysis and Strategic Perspectives
Global wine consumption has been experiencing a significant dip since 2017, provoking marked pessimism in the sector. This article proposes a three-stage reading of this crisis: a historical perspective based on cycle theory, an econometric analysis of cyclical determinants, and a strategic…
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Dynamics and Strategies of Spanish Wine Exports in a Globalised Market
This article analyses the trajectory of Spanish wine exports, explaining, first, their historical background and then their dynamics in recent decades within a highly globalised market. Subsequently, it describes the macro factors that explain the high growth of these exports, such as the…
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An Italian Perspectives on the Wine Market Crisis
Despite the fact that global consumption today is higher than it was in the mid-1990s, it has remained stagnant since 2010, coinciding with the Great Financial Crisis, and then recently declined further. From an Italian perspective, it is critical to understand the reasons that have influenced…
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Australian Experience and Perspectives on the Wine Market Crisis
Over the past four decades, all annual indicators of the Australian wine industry’s international competitiveness have traced a steep inverted V. This paper contrasts such indicators with those of other key wine-exporting countries. A series of partial explanations for the industry’s sharp rise and…
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U.S. Experience in and Perspectives on the Worldwide Wine Market “Crisis”
of the U.S. wine industry, focusing on California. Among countries, the United States is the world’s fourth-largest producer of wine, and the largest consumer and importer. The wine industry is located primarily on the U.S. west coast, and California alone accounts for more than four-fifths of…
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Diamond Open Access: A Viable Approach to Scholarly Communication
In the last twenty years, the Open Access (OA) movement has significantly altered the landscape of academic publishing, advocating for economic models such as transformative agreements and Article Processing Charges (APCs). However, the APC model has faced criticism due to its associated…
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The Primacy of Management Schools in a New Perspective of Scientific Research
Since the 1980s, globalization has profoundly changed the social life of nations & has marked the decline of schools of management in the progress of managerial sciences. In the following decades, due to the serious European publishing crisis, major international publishers have developed M&A…
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Ouverture de “Management Science in Transition: Challenges for Global Research”
This Issue of Symphonya.Emerging Issue in Management arises from the needs and concerns expressed by a growing number of researchers, especially young people in the early stages of their academic careers, of not being able to publish their scientific works due to the high costs required by the…