The paper aims at identifying the profile of the outsourcing firm as a four-fold unit of analysis: i.e. as an organizational, production, industrial and innovation unit. Theoretical correlations between outsourcing decisions and outsourcing variables are formulated and then tested with respect...

L’accordo sulla produttività del 21 novembre 2012, induce preoccupazione e sconforto per quello che dice e per quello che non dice. Il testo non costituisce un passo avanti nelle relazioni industriali in tema di modello di regolazione del legame tra retribuzione del lavoratore e risultati...

Productivity and wages are stagnant, effective demand is in contraction, growth appears now as an illusion and we have also decline in bargaining. How to restore a "virtuos" path also re-thinking objectives and methods of collective bargaining. Can the proposal of a planned and bargained...