Books and Book Chapters - Economics and Management
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The Economics of Gossip and Collective Reputation
(Oxford University Press, 2019)This chapter deals with reputation with a strong focus on the reputation of firms—groups or coalitions. To that end, the chapter heavily draws on the economic literature. The first section illustrates the three main sources ... -
Zambon: tradizione e innovazione
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Mimetic politics: Dyadic patterns in global politics
(Michigan State University Press, 2015)War, violence, and the disruption of social orders are critical areas of focus in mimetic theory, and a mimetic perspective applied to the study of politics illuminates social processes and phenomena over and beyond typical ... -
Cultural and environmental assets in rural destination competitiveness
(Springer Gabler, 2019)In the present postmodern era, where tourists are looking for multiple experiences that embrace different and sometimes conflicting values, rural tourism is becoming increasingly heterogeneous, offering, in addition to ... -
Foreword
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Bank CEOs: Characteristics, Compensation Policies, and Impacts on Bank Performance
(Springer, 2018)This book thoroughly explores the characteristics and importance of bank CEOs against the backdrop of growing awareness of the social implications of CEO behavior for the performance and stability of the financial and ... -
XV. ITALY
(Beck Nomos Hart, 2019) -
A test for truncation invariant dependence
(Springer, 2017)A test is proposed to check whether a random sample comes from a truncation invariant copula C, that is, if C is the copula of a pair (U, V) of random variables uniformly distributed on [0, 1], then C is also the copula ... -
Prefazione
(Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2017) -
Tourism Data Sources: From Official Statistics to Big Data
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The Dark Places of Business Enterprise: Reinstating Social Costs in Institutional Economics
(Routledge, 2019)This book considers Thorstein Veblen’s central preoccupation with the dark places of business enterprise, an integral part of the old institutional economics. Combining the contributions made by Karl William Kapp and Philip ... -
How colonial railroads defined Africa’s economic geography
(CEPR Press, 2017)At the turn of the 19th century, sub-Saharan Africa was the least urbanised region in the world, with only about 50 cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants. By 2010, the number of cities had increased to almost 3,000. This ... -
Den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht sehen: Controller auf der Suche nach Nachhaltigkeit
(Springer Gabler, 2017)Im Laufe der letzten Jahre hat das Thema Nachhaltigkeit unter Finanzfachleuten an Bedeutung gewonnen. Traditionell legen Finanzfachleute eher Wert auf das Thema Nachhaltigkeit, da aus reputativer oder operativer Sicht ... -
Barrier-Free Events: Requirements and Practices
(Books on Demand GmbH, 2016) -
Sub-Saharan Africa
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)In 2000, sub-Saharan Africa was the poorest region in the world in terms of GDP per capita—and the home of the majority of the world’s poor. Issues discussed in this chapter include the roles of geography, institutions and ... -
Privacy e contratti di cloud computing
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The end of the ever closer union
(Hart Publishing (Oxford) / Nomos (Baden-Baden), 2018)The European integration project has been one of the success stories of the last century. The predominant Zeitgeist during this period was to advance this project by deepening mutual cooperation, encapsulated in the famous ... -
Social family entrepreneurship: Social issues and stakeholder salience in small- and medium-sized family firms
(Routledge, 2015)Family businesses play a pivotal role in all European countries. This is particularly true in Italy, where a study conducted by Aidaf (Italian Association of Family Enterprises) and the Bank of Italy (2004) shows that ...