Due to the rising relevance of the economy and economic questions in the 20th century, Business Administration has become an important subject in higher education. Its fast growing student numbers during the last decades show its weight within the higher education institutions, even though it is...

The central theme of the paper is the question of whether graduates of business administration (BA) are better prepared for supervisory positions than non-BA economics graduates and consequently have a greater chance of acquiring supervisory positions and, when they have such positions, earn...

The issue of standard costs is at the centre of Calderoli Bill (A.C. n. 2105), which shall implement the article 119 of the Italian Constitution. In this respect, it should be noted that in economics several formulations of the abovementioned concept of standard cost have been proposed, all of...

With regard to Region finance - particularly, as to the determination of «essential expenses» referable to the obligation specified in the letter m), 2nd paragraph, of the article 117 of the Italian Constitution - in the «Enabling Law on Fiscal Federalism » (Law n. 42 of 5 May 2009), the...

The document is structured in a way that 3 Sections discuss on a rather general level the interplay of IT with people, change, and the state. After an interlude about IT as a global commodity a more specified Section addresses the interaction of IT with business (the engine powering human...

This paper is meant to provide the necessary information for a proper alimentation of daydreaming for the ones that had an alternative aspiration and failed to reach it. I dared to present the most fortunate cases of becoming a doctor, a lawyer, a fashion designer or choosing an acting or...

La educación superior se puede considerar el punto de inflexión que garantice un mejor escenario en los mercados más dinámicos y, por tanto, el mas importante motor del desarrollo. Uno de sus aspectos cruciales corresponde a la forma como se interprete como y cual es la calidad necesaria y...

This note contains an empirical analysis of the decision of German-speaking business scholars to boycott and opt out of the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany’s largest business daily, Handelsblatt. Our analysis indicates that scientists who...

Micro-sized Enterprise is the most common path for undertaking a business in Mexico and a fundamental part of the economic structure of the country. Previous studies reported high mortality rates in this kind of business. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the survival behavior of...

The School of Business and the Institute for Research on Economic Sciences of the University of Costa Rica, hereby present the most important results of the first phase of an exploratory work about the conditions affecting the dynamics of the selling of local capital companies to foreign...