The aim of this article is to test the effects on firm profitability of the adoption of both “high performance” work practices (HPWPs) and changes in organizational design relating to the depth of the corporate hierarchy and the allocation of decision authority. For this purpose, we resort...

This paper aims to disentangle the mechanisms through which technological similarity between acquiring and acquired firms influences innovation in horizontal acquisitions. We develop a theoretical model that links technological similarity to: (i) two key aspects of post-acquisition...

There are a growing body of theoretical work, wide anecdotal evidence, and a few large-scale empirical studies supporting the view that business firms quite rarely change their organizational structure, a phenomenon usually referred to in the literature as structural inertia. The present paper...

<i> Le determinanti dell'inerzia strutturale della gerarchia manageriale: fattori tecnologici ed organizzativi </i> (di Massimo G. Colombo, Marco Delmastro) - ABSTRACT: The present paper aims at studying the determinants of organizational change by looking at the evolution of the organizational...

<i> La dimensione iniziale delle nuove imprese ad alta tecnologia: il ruolo del capitale umano e delle fonti di finanziamento </i> (di Massimo G. Colombo, Marco Delmastro, Luca Grilli) - ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the determinants of the start-up size of new technology-based firms. While...