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Family business: A fertile ground for research on time, teams and positive organizational study
(2014)Further reflecting on the study of organizational behaviour (OB) in family business (FB), this rejoinder piece discusses and integrates the points raised in the three thoughtful commentaries and our original article. We ... -
Health status and portfolio choice: Is their relationship economically relevant?
(2014)Recent empirical work on individual portfolio choice focuses on the role of the individual's health in making financial decisions. The key idea is that, through precautionary saving or reducing investors' time horizon, ... -
Feature selection for portfolio optimization
(Springer New York LLC, 2017)Most portfolio selection rules based on the sample mean and covariance matrix perform poorly out-of-sample. Moreover, there is a growing body of evidence that such optimization rules are not able to beat simple rules of ... -
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(2017)Le difficoltà incontrate per attuare la Brexit hanno avuto l’effetto – per molti inaspettato - di mostrare il radicamento degli ordinamenti nazionali nel sistema normativo dell’Unione europea. Soprattutto nel caso di una ... -
How family firms execute open innovation strategies: The Loccioni case
(2017)Purpose - This paper aims to shed light on how family firms execute open innovation strategies by managing internal and external knowledge flows. Design/methodology/approach - First, through a comprehensive literature ... -
Dissecting the 2007–2009 Real Estate Market Bust: Systematic Pricing Correction or Just a Housing Fad?
(2017)We use a flexible Bayesian model averaging method to estimate a factor pricing model characterized by structural uncertainty and instability in macro-financial factor loadings and idiosyncratic risks. We propose such a ... -
Tourism statistics: Correcting data inadequacy
(2017)Tourism statistics are key sources of information for economic planners, tourism researchers, and operators. Still, several cases of data inadequacy and inaccuracy are reported in literature. The aim of this article is to ... -
Eudaimonic well-being of islanders: Does tourism contribute? The case of the Aeolian Archipelago
(2016)This study investigates the contribution of tourism to the well-being of island residents. Recent literature on eudaimonic well-being informs the research. A phenomenological approach was used during the field research ... -
Innovation with Limited Resources: Management Lessons from the German Mittelstand
(2017)German Mittelstand firms are globally recognized for their innovation, especially regarding product, process, and service innovation. So what can scholars and managers across the globe learn from the success story of German ... -
The ability and willingness paradox in family firm innovation
(2015)We present a framework of how family involvement influences innovation management based on ability (discretion to act) and willingness (disposition to act), two drivers that distinguish family firms from nonfamily firms ... -
Use value of cultural events: The case of the Christmas markets
(2017)The Christmas market in Meran (Italy) is one of the top 27 European Christmas markets, attracting around 2000 visitors a day for 50 days. The Christmas market is a cultural and retail event that creates a recreational value ... -
The paradoxical and time-varying effects of family ownership on absorptive capacity
(2016)We present a theory of family ownership as a driver of the heterogeneity (between-firm differences) and variability (within-firm differences over time) of absorptive capacity (AC). Building on our analysis of the multiple ... -
La successione nelle imprese familiari
(2017)Si stima che siano circa 11mila le imprese attive nel Triveneto che nei prossimi anni saranno chiamate al ricambio dei vertici, alla luce della circostanza che il 43% delle Spa e delle Srl ha oggi un presidente del CdA di ... -
Forecaster's Dilemma: Extreme Events and Forecast Evaluation
(2017)In public discussions of the quality of forecasts, attention typically focuses on the predictive performance in cases of extreme events. However, the restriction of conventional forecast evaluation methods to subsets of ... -
Family-driven innovation: Resolving the paradox in family firms
(2015)This article presents an integrated, contingency perspective on family firm innovation called Family-Driven Innovation (FDI). The framework highlights the need for consistency between a family firm's strategic innovation ...
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