Focusing on the urban context of Verona (a major city in the Venice Republic) during the XVIII century, the paper aim to clarify if, and in which measure, the cost of living of the employed population changed along the century. Instead of simply analyzing salaries and prices, the Author built a...

The conventional wisdom used to consider agricultural backwardness as one of the main causes of the North-South gap. In recent years, historians have contested this view. This paper supplies the first estimates of Total Factor Productivity in 1911, with an extrapolation to the whole period...

Italian Abstract:Il capitolo descrive il processo di internazionalizzazione delle imprese con riferimento a tutti i possibili fronti: non solo l’internazionalizzazione commerciale ma anche quella produttiva, degli acquisti, della ricerca e sviluppo e delle altre attività che l'impresa può...

The paper provides an analysis of the internationalization of medium-size Italian industrial enterprises that aims to become multinational companies. This work takes inspiration from the essay by Mariotti and Mutinelli (2009) on the evolution of Italian multinational enterprises and the role of...

This work compares cooperatives with other firms along two lines: (1) a description of structural development; and (2) a comparison of the strategies in response to the changes in the competitive environment in the last decade. Between 2001 and 2009, compared with other types of firms, Italian...

The rule of New Technology Based Firms (NTBFs) is increasing proportionally to the globalisation of the market. The industrialized countries consider more and more this kind of firms a tool of competitiveness. The Science Park of Sophia Antipolis is an excellent example to identify the policy to...

One of the objectives of the reforms and liberalization of the last 15 years in local public services was to reduce the traditional fragmentation of production. This was to be achieved through restructuring that reduced inefficiencies and made it more possible to exploit economies of scale,...

Italian Abstract: Questo capitolo esamina l'ampia letteratura esistente sul tema dell'imprenditoria familiare, attingendo a contributi di economia, finanza e management. Lo scopo è quello di evidenziare e discutere criticamente punti di forza e di debolezza di questa forma di governance...

Italian Abstract: L'obiettivo di creare valore può sembrare uno slogan tramite cui giustificare le decisioni aziendali, anche quelle non razionali. In realtà, la questione non è così semplice e a tale concetto spesso vengono attribuiti differenti significati. Nodo centrale dei molteplici...