Preface

The crisis that affects enterprises has two salient features, the first of which concerns the transition phase we are going through and that will result in a market system, which has no precedent and that will need to develop ways to address enterprises that were never, or partly only, previously considered. We are in the process of transition to “modern sustainable” growth where “dissipative” growth, which considers profit as the main objective of companies, requires for the various countries a series of local and international interventions that are based mostly on the defense of resources at the time referred to as “nonrenewable.” This over time has increased the focus on a particular aspect, which in the past had no relevance and that was included in the naming of nonrenewable resources. Currently, instead of the term that inspires even more concern always and above all for companies, increasing attention is given to the “common goods,” i.e., not only goods that belong to everyone and therefore potentially include nonrenewable resources but also goods that appear to be belonging to a nation or a territory, i.e,, energy sources, etc., which, paradoxically, instead involve the fate of all humanity.