In public health care organizations, the doctor is not only important as a provider of medical services but also as the individual that determines the demand of medical services; in other words the doctor is both a participant in the definition of demand for services and, at the same time, the...

Research on the transition from school to work is increasingly focusing on the horizontal stratification of educational systems, that is on how different educational tracks have an effect on students’ occupational chances. In the case of tertiary education, this means analyzing how different...

Abstract: Knowledge and technological change or innovation are key drivers of economic growth in the knowledge-based economy (KBE). Although the US economy is traditionally cited as the model, there are other technology frontier examples, such as Canada, arising from strong linkages among firms,...

In this paper some second order necessary and sucient conditions aregiven for unconstrained and constrained optimization problems involving C1functions. A generalized derivative is obtained by approximation with smoothfunctions and it collapses to Clarke's definition when C(1,1) data are...

We investigate the evolution of unionisation, considering both economic and institutional factors.While economists typically study the effects of labour market institutions treating unionisation as given and focusing on rent-seeking motivations, in this paper we study how union membership is...

The Governor’s challenge is to lead Bank of Italy back to its institutional role to serve the country and, through this, re-estabilish its prestige, also at an international level. In order to perceive this goal, his way to act is decisive, but always focused on a consistent and dialectical...

A Bayesian Network is a probabilistic graphical model that represents a set of variables and their probabilistic dependencies. Formally, Bayesian Networks are directed acyclic graphs whose nodes represent variables, and whose arcs encode the conditional dependencies between the variables. Nodes...

This paper develops an ecological perspective on trust. Trust is a social capital. The value of this capital is continuously reproduced and renewed through the process of social inclusion and interaction, which takes place between agents belonging to knowledge creating communities and networks....

In that work we explore the ability to learning-by-learning of the SME-network as relational capital of sustainable advantage. The nature of the most of those abilities connect resources and competences useful to realize successful of the firm in the long run in the form of intangibles and...