SMEs in the Digital Era

Opportunities and Challenges of the Digital Single Market

Emanuela Carbonara, Maria R. Tagliaventi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80392-163-1 (ISBN)

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With an interdisciplinary approach this book elaborates and discusses the strategic, regulatory and economic scenario that the sponsorship of a European Digital Single Market has been generating for small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs).

With an interdisciplinary approach, this book elaborates and discusses the strategic, regulatory and economic scenario that the sponsorship of a European Digital Single Market has been generating for small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs).

Encompassing expert innovative analysis of the regulatory framework, economic dynamics and organizational processes, SMEs in the Digital Era highlights the effects that these have and the complex process through which SMEs can enter and successfully compete in the digital market. With contributions from international scholars, this insightful book takes a deep dive into the current most relevant debates taking place in management, economics and law using original evidence from a variety of fields and countries. Chapters offer a fresh look at the new policies and regulatory tools required to meet the challenges of digitalization, reflecting on the effects on employment, competition and organizational processes, and how imbalances can impact the future of the technological revolution.

Providing insights into the most advanced and recent research on digital markets, this will be an excellent resource for academics, practitioners, managers and policymakers in fields ranging from organization theory and organizational behaviour to strategy and economic analysis as well as economics and business law.

Edited by Emanuela Carbonara, Professor of Economic Policy, Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy and Maria Rita Tagliaventi, Professor of Organizational Sociology, Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy

Contents:

Introduction: opportunities and challenges of the digital single market 1
Emanuela Carbonara and Maria Rita Tagliaventi

PART I THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONS IN
THE DIGITAL ERA
1 Business models and organizational choices for SMEs in
the digital single market 24
Giacomo Carli, Jeanette Hartley, and Maria Rita Tagliaventi
2 Digital technologies and female-led small and
medium-sized enterprises: a possible new growth area 45
Luisa De Vita
3 Digital transformation of SMEs in agriculture 65
Nicoleta Darra, Aikaterini Kasimati, Michael Koutsiaras,
Vasilis Psiroukis, and Spyros Fountas
4 Beyond the myths of digitalization: labor, space, and
ecology in the digital age 84
Marco Marrone, Gianmarco Peterlongo, and Giorgio Pirina

PART II AN ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT: ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE, PLATFORMS, AND
ECONOMIC POLICIES
5 Artificial Intelligence and robots: a threat or an
opportunity for SMEs and entrepreneurship? 104
Emanuela Carbonara and Enrico Santarelli
6 Small-firm acquisitions, merger control, and digital
markets: the Meta/Kustomer case 122
Giuseppina Gianfreda and Luisa Scorciarini Coppola
7 Digital platforms, multi-sided markets, and the
anticommon problem 139
Matteo Alvisi
8 Tax challenges in the digital era 157
Alice Guerra

PART III REGULATING DIGITALIZATION: THE EU
APPROACH
9 Digital innovation in the legal framework of SMEs 176
Maria Alessandra Stefanelli
10 The disintermediation of small and medium-sized
enterprises’ financing sources in the digital era 192
Beatrice Bertarini
11 The logistics industry in the digital era: problems and
opportunities for the SMEs of the transport sector 208
Stefano Zunarelli
12 Simplifying the formation of companies in light of
Digitalization Directive 2019/1151: an analysis of benefits
and risks 224
Umberto Michele Carbonara
Conclusions: digital technologies, organizational processes and
enterprises: opportunities or challenges? 243
Emanuela Carbonara and Maria Rita Tagliaventi

Index 251

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2023
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Wettbewerbsrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-80392-163-3 / 1803921633
ISBN-13	978-1-80392-163-1 / 9781803921631
Zustand	Neuware