SMEs in the Digital Era: Opportunities and Challenges of the Digital Single Market

Name: SMEs in the Digital Era: Opportunities and Challenges of the Digital Single Market
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781803921631
Price: 1261.00 HKD
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Author: Emanuela Carbonara; Maria Rita Tagliaventi
ISBN: 9781803921631

Edited by Emanuela Carbonara · Maria Rita Tagliaventi

Edward Elgar Publishing March 2023

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781803921631
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: March 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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 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 business 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, economic analysis as well as economics and business law.

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