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Family business, allenare la forza imprenditoriale dei Millennial
(2018)La formazione delle nuove generazioni ricopre un ruolo fondamentale all’interno delle aziende familiari. La tecnologia e l’attenzione per il processo educativo sin dalla giovane età facilitano la costruzione di un’identità ... -
A Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System for Solving Emergency Service Station Location Problems
(2015)Earthquakes occurring in urban areas constitute an important concern for emergency management and rescue services. Emergency service location problems may be formulated in discrete space or by restricting the potential ... -
Referral and Job Performance: Evidence from the Ghana Colonial Army
(2015)One key characteristic for army work is physical strength, a trait that is correlated with height. Other relevant characteristics include loyalty and discipline. Height is observable at recruitment; loyalty and discipline ... -
Modeling Signal-Based Decisions in Online Search Environments: A Non-Recursive Forward-Looking Approach
(2016)Consider a rational decision maker (DM) who must acquire a finite amount of information sequentially online from a set of products. The DM receives signals on the distribution of the product characteristics. Each time an ... -
L’informazione privilegiata
(2016)Il contributo analizza la riforma della disciplina dell’informazione privilegiata prevista con il Reg. 596/2014 e la Dir. 2014/57. Le nuove norme si inseriscono nell’ambito di una disciplina europea ormai consolidata, ... -
A Multi-criteria Perception-Based Strict-Ordering Algorithm for Identifying the Most-Preferred Choice among Equally-Evaluated Alternatives
(2017)Indecision constitutes a frequent and significant problem among decision makers (DMs). The substantial amount of potential choices available, the subjectivity and imprecision inherent in the information received, and the ... -
Entrepreneurial orientation and innovation in family SMEs: Unveiling the (actual) impact of the Board of Directors
(2018)Drawing on stewardship and resource dependence theories, we examine how the board of directors (BoD) influences the link between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and ambidextrous innovation in small and medium sized family ... -
“It Ain’t Over till It’s Over…”: Legal Aspects of the Brexit Vote
(2017)As the United Kingdom begins to reckon with the June 23, 2016, vote to leave the European Union, Hofmeister examines the legal implications of Brexit, both for the European Union and the UK. Given the procedures and ... -
A Trading-Based Evaluation of Density Forecasts in a Real-Time Electricity Market
(MDPI, 2018)This paper applies a multi-factor, stochastic latent moment model to predicting the imbalance volumes in the Austrian zone of the German/Austrian electricity market. This provides a density forecast whose shape is determined ... -
Optimal Annuity Portfolio Under Inflation Risk
(2015)The paper investigates the importance of inflation-linked annuities in retirement planning. Given nominal, inflation-linked, and variable annuities, as well as bonds and stocks, we search for optimal consumption and ... -
How motivations and satisfaction influence wine tourists’ loyalty? An analysis of the Italian case
(2019)The purpose of this paper is to assess the “motivation-satisfaction-loyalty” framework. Through a structural equation model (SEM), it is possible to disentangle attitudinal and behavioral loyalty as a multifaceted latent ... -
Estimation procedures for exchangeable Marshall copulas with hydrological application
(2015)Complex phenomena in environmental sciences can be conveniently represented by several inter-dependent random variables. In order to describe such situations, copula-based models have been studied during the last year. In ... -
Film Tourism and Post-Release Marketing Initiatives: A Longitudinal Case Study
(2016)The purpose of this paper is to provide a long-term perspective on destinations’ ability to enhance movie productions. A longitudinal approach is used: a destination film production history is analyzed through a holistic ... -
Managing Team Coordination Incentives: The Effect of Payoff Differentials
(2016)Purpose The current paper aims to present a formal model illustrating how payoff imbalances among the members of a team of decision makers (DMs) who must undertake a project condition the final outcome obtained. This ... -
A Comprehensive Fuzzy DEA Model for Emerging Market Assessment and Selection Decisions
(2016)The changing economic conditions have challenged many financial institutions to search for more efficient and effective ways to assess emerging markets. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a widely used mathematical programming ... -
A Customized Genetic Algorithm for Solving Multi-Period Cross-Dock Truck Scheduling Problems
(2017)Cross-docking is a logistics strategy for direct distribution of products from a supplier or manufacturing plant to a customer or retail outlet with little or no handling and storage time. The classical cross-docking models ... -
Disaster, Aid, and Preferences: The Long-run Impact of the Tsunami on Giving in Sri Lanka
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)Do natural disasters produce effects on preferences of victims in the long run? We test the impact of the tsunami shock on generosity of a sample of Sri Lankan affected/unaffected microfinance borrowers seven years after ... -
Solving Multi-Mode Time-Cost-Quality Trade-Off Problems under Generalized Precedence Relations
(2015)In this paper, we model a multi-mode time-cost-quality trade-off project scheduling problem under generalized precedence relations using mixed-integer mathematical programming. Several solution procedures, including the ...
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