Articles - Economics and Management

A novel perception-based DEA method to evaluate alternatives in uncertain online environments

Di Caprio D; Santos-Arteaga FJ (2019)

Consider a decision maker (DM) who must rank a set of alternatives and select one of them when searching online using a recommender engine such as Amazon or TripAdvisor. These websites provide numerical and linguistic ...

Innovation in family firms: A systematic literature review and guidance for future research

Calabrò A; Vecchiarini M; Gast J; Campopiano G; De Massis A; Kraus S (2019)

Through a systematic review of 118 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 1961 and 2017, this article provides an integrative picture of the state of the art of the family firm innovation literature. Our aim is ...

Realizzare l’innovazione aperta nelle imprese familiari: La formula Zambon

De Massis A; Di Minin A; Grasso C (2019)

Alcuni luoghi comuni caratterizzano i family business. Non di rado, tra le altre cose, la diffusa presenza di imprese familiari è indicata come una delle cause del difficile sviluppo del sistema industriale del nostro ...

The role of anticipated emotions and the value of information in determining sequential search incentives

Di Caprio D; Santos-Arteaga FJ; Tavana M (2019)

We define a novel information acquisition model that accounts explicitly for the influence of positive and negative anticipated emotions in the evaluation and selection incentives of decision makers (DMs). The model focuses ...

Family-Centered goals, family board representation, and debt financing

Molly V; Uhlaner L; De Massis A; Laveren E (2019)

This study investigates the effect of both family-centered goals and family board representation (family member representation on the board of directors) on family firm capital structure. Based on a sample of 327 Belgian ...

New blockchain intermediaries: do ICO rating websites do their job well?

Boreiko D; Vidusso G (2019)

The Fintech revolution, crowdfunding and blockchain-based funding have dramatically reduced borrowing and lending transaction costs. Many have argued that ultimately this should lead to the complete disintermediation of ...

Hierarchical dyadic congruence in family firms: The interplay of supervisor and supervisee socioemotional wealth importance and familial status

Campopiano G; Rondi E (2019)

We extend McLarty, Vardaman, and Barnett’s analysis of how family firm supervisor attributes, in terms of familial status and socioemotional wealth importance, affect supervisee performance by considering the supervisee ...

Incentivizing organ donation through a nonmonetary posthumous award

Bedendo M; Siming L (WILEY, 2019)

Since 2013, The Order of St John Award for Organ Donation has been offered to the families of deceased solid organ donors in the United Kingdom to honor the donors and inspire others to donate. We evaluate the effects of ...

Polen als erster Anwendungsfall des neuen "EU Rahmens zur Stärkung des Rechtsstaatsprinzips"

Hofmeister H (2016)

Seitdem die neue polnische Regierung die Amtsgeschäfte übernommen hat, wird der Staat konsequent "umstrukturiert". Im Zentrum stehen dabei die Reform des Verfassungsgerichts sowie der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten. ...

Exploring the dynamics of business survey data using Markov models

Hoelzl W; Kaniovski S; Kaniovski Y (2019)

Business tendency surveys are widely used for monitoring economic activity. They provide timely feedback on the current business conditions and outlook. We identify the unobserved macroeconomic factors behind the distribution ...

Political institutions and central bank independence revisited

Pistoresi B; Salsano F; Ferrari D (Taylor & Francis, 2011)

We build on earlier studies regarding Central Bank Independence (CBI) by relating it to political, institutional and economic variables. The data suggest that CBI is positively related to the presence of federalism, the ...

How accountability type influences information search processes and decision quality

Dalla Via N; Perego P; van Rinsum M (2019)

This study investigates how accountability type (process or outcome) and causal chain framing influence information search processes and decision-making quality. Drawing on the accountability literature and causal reasoning ...

Determinants of conflict minerals disclosure under the Dodd-Frank Act

Dalla Via N; Perego P (2018)

This paper examines conflict minerals disclosure (CMD) as mandated by the Dodd–Frank Act. We rely on a thorough content analysis conducted by the Responsible Sourcing Network on a sample of 122 firms that filed CMDs with ...

Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as well as the Native-born?

Islam A; Stillman S; Worswick C (2018)

We examine the impact of job displacement and serious health problems on multiple measures of individual and household well-being using longitudinal data. We extend the previous literature by examining whether these shocks ...

Inflation forecasts extracted from nominal and real yield curves

Geyer A; Hanke M; Weissensteiner A (2016)

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of inflation forecasts backed out from the nominal and real yield curves in the United Kingdom. We use the Nelson–Siegel (NS) framework to model the break-even inflation ...

The Effect of Preference Similarity on the Formation of Clusters and the Connectivity of Social Networks

Tavana M; Santos-Arteaga FJ; Di Caprio D (2017)

The current paper analyzes the formation of social networks determined by the preferences of their users, who are endowed with incomplete information regarding the characteristics of other users from who they receive ...

Percutaneous real-time sonoelastography as a non-invasive tool for the characterization of solid focal liver lesions: A prospective study

Cesario V; Accogli E; Domanico A; Di Lascio FML; Napoleone L; Gasbarrini A; Arienti V (2016)

Background: Real-time sonoelastography is currently used for the characterization of superficial solid lesions such as thyroid and breast masses. This study evaluates the usefulness of percutaneous sonoelastography for the ...