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A technology acceptance model of common bean growers’ intention to adopt integrated production in the Brazilian Central Region = Ein Technologie-Akzeptanzmodell zur Absicht von Bohnenproduzenten, Integrierte Produktion im brasilianischen Zentralgebiet einzuführen
(De Gruyter Open Ltd, 2017)The Brazilian government encouraged the Integrated Production (IP) farming system adoption to mitigate the negative environmental impacts of intensive bean production in irrigated areas of the Brazilian savanna. By ensuring ... -
Sbiancare il cigno nero? Strategie e competenze manageriali per riconoscere il nuovo
(2016)Obiettivo del paper: La letteratura che analizza come le organizzazioni affrontano i black swan tende a enfatizzare l’importanza di apprendere dall’esperienza, estendendo nel tempo il numero di casi che l’organizzazione è ... -
Identification of financial factors in economic fluctuations
(2017)We estimate demand, supply, monetary, investment and financial shocks in a VAR identified with a minimum set of sign restrictions on US data. We find that financial shocks are major drivers of fluctuations in output, stock ... -
Do rivals enhance your credit conditions?
(2017)In a model where firms rely on bank financing to build capacity, put up specialized productive assets as collateral, and then compete à la Cournot, we introduce a probability of default. We investigate how the number of ... -
Model Selection Confidence Sets by Likelihood Ratio Testing
(2017)The traditional activity of model selection aims at discovering a single model superior to other candidate models. In the presence of pronounced noise, however, multiple models are often found to explain the same data ... -
La perfezione tra passato e futuro. Per una diagnosi etica della responsabilità sociale
(2017)Nel loro saggio sull’etica della responsabilità, Ivo De Gennaro e Ralf Lüfter esaminano un concetto chiave della riflessione etica contemporanea: la cosiddetta “responsabilità sociale”. Quest’ultima sembra rispondere a ... -
Food tourism in indigenous settings as a strategy of sustainable development: The case of Ilex guayusa Loes. In the Ecuadorian amazon
(MDPI AG, 2016)This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion on how to enhance food tourism in emerging, tropical countries characterized by a large number of indigenous groups and a high biodiversity. A sacred plant for the Kichwa ... -
Audit firms with Public Clients in Voluntary Audit-Market
(2017)The aim of this study is to analyze benefits, in term of lower cost of debt, that non-Big4 audit firm with public clients help to obtain to their private clients in a voluntary audit market segment. Survey to partners of ... -
Parsimonious and powerful composite likelihood testing for group difference and genotype--phenotype association
(Elsevier, 2017)Studying the association between a phenotype and a number of genetic variants from case control data is an important goal in many genetic studies. Association analysis is often carried out by testing the null hypothesis ... -
Women’s involvement in family firms: Progress and challenges for future research
(2017)This article reviews research on women's involvement in family firms according to a drivers-behaviors-outcomes framework. Through a systematic review, we analyze and organize the content of 87 academic articles according ... -
The Association between Big4 and Cost of Debt in Private Firms
(2017)This study investigates the association between choice of a Big4 audit firm and Cost of Debt compared with non-Big4 in Italian firms. Based on a sample of Italian companies audited by an audit firm in the period 2007-2012, ... -
An examination of internal auditor turnover intentions
(2017)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that are associated with internal auditors’ professional turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach: The study analyzes data from responses to the Institute ... -
Divestitures and the financial conglomerate excess value
(2018)We study a sample of the world’s largest financial conglomerates from 15 countries and we track their largest divestitures over the period 2005–2016. We develop a novel market-based metric to analyse the impact of divestitures ... -
Family firms in the global economy: Toward a deeper understanding of internationalization determinants, processes and outcomes
(2018)Research Summary: Research on the internationalization of family firms has flourished in recent years, yet the mechanisms through which family involvement shapes the determinants, processes, and outcomes of internationalization ... -
Food tourism, niche markets and products in rural tourism: combining the intimacy model and the experience economy as a rural development strategy
(Routledge, 2015)The countryside hosts an increasing number of alternative food networks: rural tourists can play an important role in acting as both consumer and “cultural broker” between these networks. This paper provides a theoretical ... -
Product market competition and access to credit
(2017)In this paper, we unveil a disregarded benefit of product market competition for firms. We introduce the probability of bankruptcy in a simple model where firms compete à la Cournot and apply for collateralized bank loans ... -
Microcredito Rurale e Microcredito Urbano
(2016)The first part of this article describes joint liability lending in rural microcredit markets, where borrowers know each other and there is social pressure to repay debts. This mode of lending consists of granting individual ...
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