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The Determinants of Suppliers’ Performance in E-Procurement: Evidence from the Italian Government’s E-Procurement Platform

Albano, Gian Luigi; Dini, Federico; Zampino, Roberto; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Participation of small businesses in the market for public contracts is widely recognized as a key policy issue. It is also commonly held that the adoption of e-procurement solutions can be effective in pursuing such an objective. To this end, we analyze the transactions completed in the period...

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From Outsourcing to Productivity, Passing Through Training: Microeconometric Evidence from Italy

Antonietti, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

The aim of this paper is to provide firm-level evidence on the short-run link between outsourcing and labor productivity using an original dataset of Italian manufacturing firms, and applying a two-stage probit least squares estimator. We find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing...

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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms: Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance

Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

country institutional characteristics, as well as to the performance of affiliates across business groups. Conditional on …

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Do Competition and Ownership Matter? Evidence from Local Public Transport in Europe

Nicolini, Marcella; Boitani, Andrea; Scarpa, Carlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper investigates how the ownership and the procedure for the selection of firms operating in the local public transport sector affect their productivity. In order to compare different institutional regimes, we carry out a comparative analysis of 72 companies operating in large European...

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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …

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Production Outsourcing, Organizational Governance and Firm’s Technological Performance: Evidence from Italy

Antonietti, Roberto; Cainelli, Giulio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

technological performance. In particular, we look at how the alignment between the firm’s governance strategy and the underlying … a measure of governance misalignment into a technological performance relation. We find (i) that firms not aligned with …

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Trade Complexity and Productivity

Békés, Gabor; Altomonte, Carlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We exploit a panel dataset of Hungarian firms merged with product-level trade data for the period 1992-2003 to investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self-selection effects of the most productive firms induced...

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Measuring Gender Differences in Information Sharing Using Network Analysis: the Case of the Austrian Interlocking Directorship Network in 2009

Drago, Carlo; Aliberti, Livia Amidani; Carbonai, Davide - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

In recent literature a relevant problem has been the relationship between career/personal contactnetworks and different career paths. In addition the recent advances in social capital theory have shown the way in which networks impact on personal careers. In particular women’s careers appear...

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The Push Factors for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Probit Analysis

Cominetti, Paolo; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

In the last two decades in OECD countries there has been increased development of Social Responsible (CSR is the acronym of Corporate Social Responsibility) certified firms. This certification is assigned by public and private companies which guarantee that the behaviour of a certain firm is...

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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?

Comincioli, Nicola; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Social Responsibility certification and firm performance. Our work builds a CSR index that intersects two of the three main … work shows that some performance indicators are affected by a firm’s social responsible behaviour and certifications. The … main results seem to support the idea that CSR firms, which are more virtuous, have better long-run performance: even if …

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