I libri di Ca’ Foscari

Le nuove tendenze dell’Economia Aziendale

Fondamenti, metodo e traiettorie del management contemporaneo

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Abstract

A century after Gino Zappa’s 1926 inaugural lecture in Venice, this volume’s ambition is to carry his intellectual legacy into the future, revisiting his vision of Economia Aziendale as a lens through which to interpret contemporary transformations in management. Scholars from different disciplines explore the firm as a unitary, dynamic and relational system through four perspectives: economic coordination, methods of knowledge, organizational change, and governance. From sustainability and risk to AI, accounting, finance, marketing and audit, the contributions show the generative power of Zappa’s thought: changing tools and contexts reinforce the need for integrated knowledge to govern complex organizations.

Keywords Sustainability-oriented innovation • Integration • Accounting Artificial Intelligence • Business continuity • Data-driven decision-making • Economia Aziendale • Financial reporting • Sustainable firm • Accounting regulation • Performance measurement • Internal control • Legitimacy • Public Sector Organizations • Risk management • Competencies • De Finetti • Dynamic equilibrium • Unitarity • Microhistory • Long-term orientation • Auditing • Audit Quality • Algorithmic accountability • Bayesian analysis • Automation-augmentation • Consumer behavior • Methods of business knowledge • Network contracts • IASB • Socioemotional wealth • Normal exception • Shared value • Economic coordination • Algorithms • Board of Directors • Family business • Sustainability • Governance • Accounting • Transversal skills • Statistical culture • Artificial Intelligence • Gino Zappa • Data-driven audit • Systems Thinking • Future direction • Zappa • Italian productive system • Uncertainty • Academic research • Measurement • Organizational innovation • Systemic risk • Managerialization • Brand heritage • Business economics • Time • Financial flexibility • Risks • Corporatization • Opportunities • Innovation • Professional Judgment • Economic and political performativity • Performativity • International standard setting • Marketing • Professionals • Business history • Corporate governance • Inter-organizational networks • Assembly theory • Public Management • Risk • Stakeholder engagement • Ulrich Beck • Clues • Intergenerational succession • AI governance • Risk society • AI-driven enterprise • Silence of the archives • Organization design • Pricing

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-081-9 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-081-9 | ISBN (PRINT) 979-12-5742-087-1 | Published Sept. 21, 2026 | Submitted July 15, 2026 | Language it

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