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Diversity and Pluralism: An Economist's View

Genovese, Nicola; Spada, Maria Grazia La - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The problems about diversity concern various themes. We will show that the economic theory can contribute by itself to the debate in progress. It could seem paradoxical, but what is called the “dismal science” can serve to attenuate some pessimistic attitudes, putting in prominence a...

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Strategic Action in the Liberalised German Electricity Market

Lise, Wietze; Kemfert, Claudia; Tol, Richard S.J. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Nowadays, a process can be observed in Germany where electricity producing and trading firms react to the electricity market liberalisation by merging market shares, since the year 2000, which reduces the number of suppliers and influences production and consumer prices. This paper discusses...

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What Distinguishes EMAS Participants? An Exploration of Company Characteristics

Bracke, Roeland; Verbeke, Tom - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

Empirical research on the characteristics of environmentally responsive companies has focussed almost exclusively on US and Japanese firms. For Europe, which is commonly considered as the greenest of the three major developed economic markets, similar research is lacking. This paper seeks to...

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Brown Sunsets and Green Dawns in the Industrial Sector: Environmental Innovations, Firm Behavior and the European Emission Trading

Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

using a very large sample of italian manufcturing firms. Estimates show that external forces and complementarity with other …

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Does Network Matter in International Expansion? Evidence from Italian SMEs

Gurrieri, Antonia Rosa; Petruzzellis, Luca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

In order to face the new competitive scenario, Apulian textile firms are involved in a process of change and are trying to adopt a networking approach in analysing the international propensity of SMEs. The case of the textile network in Apulia has been analysed using a semi-structured...

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From the Theory of the Firm to FDI and Internalisation: A Survey

Gattai, Valeria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper surveys recent contributions on the Internalisation issue, based on different theories of the firm, to show how the make-or-buy decision, at an international level, has been assessed through the opening up of the “black box” - traditionally explored by the theorists of the firm...

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The Emergence of Large Shareholders in Mass Privatized Firms: Evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic

Grosfeld, Irena; Hashi, Iraj - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that...

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Cross-Country Ethical Dilemmas in Business: A Descriptive Framework

Ferro, Nicoletta - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

As businesses span the globe, multinational and translational companies conduct their business operations in foreign settings, especially in developing countries and in countries in transition from Communist regimes. This poses new challenges to expatriate managers and to home-based staff in...

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Innovation Complementarity and Environmental Productivity Effects: Reality or Delusion? Evidence from the EU

Gilli, Marianna; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological and … productivity, neither for the entire economy nor for manufacturing or narrower ETS sectors. The only case where a complementarity …

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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

are exploited. The aim is to provide new evidence on the complementarity relationships concerning different networking … test complementarity among R&D and networking, in a discrete setting. Secondly, we consequently present empirical evidence … on productivity drivers and on complementarity between R&D and networking strategies, with respect to firm productivity …

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