Most of the literature on immigration sees it as a permanent phenomenon, which can best be contained by adopting strict policies of border closure. On the other hand, there is considerable historical documentation to show how often immigration is temporary. That is to say, immigrants stay for a...

Today complex service systems represent an emerging model for business experiences and competition, strengthening inter-firms relationships for competitive advantage and long run survival. Studying several foundations of new dominant logics in international literature, it will be interesting to...

Throughout last years, Enterprises have felt deep transformation about the competitive context wherein they operate. They have been pushed to redefine their competitive strategies, management approaches and organizational orders by several economic events: the diffusion of technological...

Apart from family, the integration of second-generation immigrant children begins at school, where age is known to affect the performance through different channels. We study whether the immigrant background interacts with absolute and relative age effects, generating additional barriers (...