Crowdfunding is emerging as a promising new option to facilitate access to financial resources for social initiatives. This chapter studies crowdfunding practice focusing on the role played by an Italian platform owned by a banking foundation. By examining 140 projects hosted between 2016 and...

The purpose of this contribution is to highlight the approaches and managerial techniques that enable destination management based on relational and networking culture. The first part of the paper presents a theoretical analysis, examining possible models and cultural approaches for the...

Modern society, recent trends and contemporary lifestyles show a general increase in tourist flows and the growing importance of the tourism industry in many countries throughout the world. Despite this phenomenon, tourism has still proven to be a difficult issue for tourism enterprises to deal...

Scholars have made valuable contributions to the body of knowledge in the field of tourism; thus tourist satisfaction continues to be a topic of great interest. This paper investigates strategically the determinants of tourist satisfaction in three emerging tourism destinations of South Central...

Recent theoretical debates on internationalization and its general application to large firms are considered, and a case study of Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as participants in the internationalization process is offered. Among small firms in Southern Italy, export is...

The cultural evolution processes of small firms arestrongly influenced by the type of relationship they establish with theeconomic environment. A distinction between objective factors external to thefirm (economic environment and network relationships between the firm and themarket) and...