Chapter 1. Italian women of the past: their economic culture and actions (Manuela Mosca) -- Part I. Women in business -- Chapter 2. Isabella De Mari Doria, a female investor and gambler in the Genoese aristocracy (Antonio Iodice) -- Chapter 3. Women and business: fresh evidence from the probate...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Albergo Diffuso as an original model for hotelier hospitality -- 3. Rural hamlets: Basic requirements for setting up the hospitality model -- 4. Analyzing resources for sustained competitive advantage: A resource-based...

New technologies can shape the production process by affecting the way in which inputs are embedded in the organization, their quality, and their use. Using an original employer-employee dataset that merges firm-level data on digital technology adoption and other characteristics of production...