All the current and recent merges among Banks determine linked effects in the specific market in terms of strategic, organizational and managing behavior of all the competitors. This leads to a change of the logics underneath the running of the business; in this scenario, the need of new skills...

In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effort-based career...

The main aim of this paper is to develop a qualitative and quantitative Benchmarking model for SMEs. The Benchmarking is a methodology base on a comparison among performances born in some international industrial groups to answer to the strong competitive dynamics on the 70s. This approach to a...

The purpose of this paper is to identify and evaluate how the embedded-ness can influence the processes of internationalization among technology-based SME in nine industrial districts in Emilia Romagna. The analysis will be conducted using a statistical sample of SME extract from each district....

This paper focuses on IP (Intellectual Property) brokers. We define IP brokers as public or private companies bridging supply and demand of intellectual capital. We will here argue that IP brokers represent a key player in the market of patents, as their role in technology transfer can be that...

In that work we explore the ability to learning-by-learning of the SME-network as relational capital of sustainable advantage. The nature of the most of those abilities connect resources and competences useful to realize successful of the firm in the long run in the form of intangibles and...

The work presented explore the impact of cultural resources on productivity of the firm, in particular a network firm. Culture resources is considered a primary attractor of competences and generator of new knowledges. Our main aim is to compare formal organization with informal one oriented to...

The main aim of that paper is to rethinking the connections between complexity and management provoking questions among managers and entrepreneurs, moreover between specialists about consolidated practices of control, governance and predictability. Which compatibility of those practices with...

The main aim of this paper is to develop a qualitative and quantitative credit risk rating model for SMEs. The scope of this model is to assign, through a discriminant function (see Altman,1969), a synthetic judgment of the firm management ( ). First of all it must characterize variables that...

Compliance is an opportunity that both Authorities and Banks must develop and exploit in order for them to respectively consolidate their own role and their position in the market. It’s the responsibility of the top management (board of directors) to structure, manage and monitorize the...