This book surveys existing literature from both waste management and behavioural sciences to offer a complete overview of how economic agents relate to a central matter in the policy making agenda: that of waste prevention and recycling. Environmental behavioural economics is a growing field of...

This book explores how the global financial and European sovereign debt crises have forced small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMEs) to reassess and adapt their funding strategies. At the heart of the matter is the worsening access to bank credit for such enterprises. Through this discussion we...

This book explores the role of national fiscal policies in a selected group of Euro-area countries under the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, the authors characterize the response of output to fiscal consolidations and expansions in the small Euro-area open economies...

The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related...

Introduction -- Background of Financial Instruments -- Guidelines for Corporate Income Taxation of Hybrid Financial Instruments -- Tax Classifications and Treatments of Hybrid Financial Instruments and the Remuneration Derived Therefrom -- Classification Conflicts and Options for Reform --...

1 Introduction -- 2 Enterprise Resource Planning systems -- 3 Business Intelligence systems -- 4 ERP and BI as tools to improve information quality in the Italian setting: the research design -- 5 ERP and BI as tools to improve information quality in the Italian setting: empirical analysis -- 6...

This book explores the key issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and reporting as applied to sports organizations, with particular attention to the Italian environment. It is divided into two parts, the first of which examines the general principles and reporting tools of CSR; these...