This paper aims to analyse the characteristics of the bank-industry relationship in Germany, showing the ties among financial and industrial companies both in terms of cross-equity-shareholdings and interlocking directorates for the years 2001-2002. Specifically the main purpose of the research...

This paper aims at analysing the main features of R&D activities carried out by the Italian biotech companies. The proposed contribution can be ascribed to the massive stream of research related to the reconfiguration of the value chain activities at the international level. Such a topic has...

<em>Le relazioni tra banca e impresa in Germania: specificità ed evoluzione nel tempo</em> (di A. Onetti e A. Pisoni) - ABSTRACT: Il presente articolo si propone di fornire un contributo interpretativo circa la natura delle relazioni tra sistema finanziario e sistema industriale in Germania, anche alla...

From a commercial open source company's point of view, open source is ideally the ultimate in “grass roots" marketing where people learn by word-of-mouth about the project and where they volunteer their time and effort, resulting in a vibrant community that benefits the company in many ways....

This paper aims at shedding new light on the variables that indicate the level of autonomy of subsidiaries of internationalizing companies. Specifically, we examine subsidiaries located in the transition economies of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). We identified a sample of 72...

The present paper investigated the implementation of environmentally responsible IT measures in ten American and nine European organizations. The environmentally responsible IT measures include the implementation of existing hardware and software technologies as well as organizational and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that influence the fund raising ability of innovative new ventures/startups. Design/methodology/approach – The authors investigate a data set composed of 108 Italian innovative new ventures. Specifically, the authors run a Tobit...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize strategic agility in entrepreneurial internationalization and highlight the role of marketing “under particular conditions” – those of early and fast internationalizers. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on in-depth case...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore uncertainty-coping strategic actions in the internationalisation strategy of entrepreneurial ventures, encompassing born globals/international new ventures, enduring established internationalisers, old born globals, born-again globals and...