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An Empirical Analysis of Product Quality and Organizational Form
(Springer International, 2014)We study how cooperatives are able compete with private wineries regarding product quality and reputation. We analyze a data set with retail prices and relevant evaluations of wine quality and producer reputation for wines ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility in Family versus non-Family Enterprises: An exploratory study
(Springer International Publishing, 2014)This chapter studies the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) motivations and CSR actions in 25 selected teaching cases, especially in the light of the distinction between family and non-family ... -
Timely Indices for Residential Construction Sector
(Springer, 2014)We propose search engine query data-based indices for the Italian residential construction production. On-line data management tools and filters are described and a cointegrated vector autoregressive model is estimated in ... -
Social and environmental accounting
(Wiley Blackwell, 2014)The article provides an historical overview of the accounting practices related to the social and environmental aspects of business. Recent trajectories of corporate reporting in multinationals are highlighted, with an ... -
Beales Hotels: Embracing change while minding their own business for over 200 years
(Babson College Centre for Entrepreneurship, 2014)When a family business survives eight generations, they’re doing something right. The Beales family bakery in the 1790s evolved into what is now a luxury hotel company with a continually refined recipe for success. Part ...