What are the main differences between Chinese and Italian Business Culture?
In my case the business culture is nearly opposite, at least on two core issues: business size and organization. First of all, size: Italy, and especially Northern Italy, is the land of small-sized, family-managed firms; there are very few big enterprises, whereas here the standard is normally several dozens of employees. My business model for Eggsist was certainly affected by my original background, as our goal is to establish a selected team of excellent professionals, and during our job interviews we often got a surprised feedback from candidates, who had some troubles in understanding the reason of such choice! Here everything works on big numbers, both on the production and on the market side. And that’s radically different from the concept of an agile team of smart minds, where each member plays a crucial role. The second big difference, still related to the first one, is business organization: Chinese companies’ business model is normally based on hierarchy, partially due to the
