It is one of the well-known cornerstones of corporate governance that (minority) share-holders are subject to a risk of being expropriated by the controller of the firm, i.e. either entrenched management under a dispersed ownership structure or a controlling share-holder under concentrated...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the role played by international institutions in achieving effective International Environmental Agreements. We emphasise the strategic nature of environmental negotiations and use a game theoretic model of coalitional bargaining to illustrate the main issues....

Firms are increasingly pursuing employees’ participation programmes, yet field evidence on their impact on performance is scant. To study their effect on quality provision, we conduct a field experiment that exogenously determines whether workers participate or not in the design of a...

In questo saggio si espongono alcune ragioni giustificative dell'adozione, da parte di organizzazioni non profit (d'ora in poi, ONP), di uno strumento di rendicontazione sociale come il bilancio di missione. La tesi di fondo che intendiamo sviluppare e' sintetizzabile nei termini seguenti: e'...

L'approvazione in Italia della nuova legge sull'impresa sociale rinnova alcuni importanti interrogativi sugli obiettivi economici e sul sistema di incentivi che determinano l'esistenza e la diffusione di una forma di impresa che si caratterizza come soggetto privato, imprenditoriale, a finalita'...

Purpose The third sector is a producer of trust and positive social interactions, while the mafias destroy trust and social norms. Confiscation of assets and reusing confiscated assets are important tools from an economic and symbolic point of view for contrasting the mafias and promoting a...