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Between solidarism and business management: assessing management factors for social enterprise: a survey in Italy

Linzalone, Roberto; Lerro, Antonio - In: Measuring Business Excellence 18 (2014) 1, pp. 66-77

in five regions of south Italy, with a response of 67 social enterprises. After a first round of six open interviews …

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Corporate and product brands: do they improve SMEs' performance?

Agostini, Lara; Filippini, Roberto; Nosella, Anna - In: Measuring Business Excellence 18 (2014) 1, pp. 78-91

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of brands on small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance in the fashion industry, trying also to shed light on the different effect that corporate and product brands may produce. Design/methodology/approach – The approach...

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Challenges in Italian wine routes: managing stakeholder networks

Bregoli, Ilenia; Hingley, Martin; Del Chiappa, Giacomo; … - In: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 19 (2016) 2, pp. 204-224

-structured interviews of 20 informants working in three different wine routes in Italy. Analysis of data is carried out to highlight the …

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Coping with control? Retail employee responses to flexibilisation

Carls, Kristin - In: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 6 (2009) 1/2, pp. 83-101

Purpose – This paper deals with flexibilisation of work and employment in large‐scale retailing. Its aim is two‐fold: first, to highlight how an authoritarian workplace regime and normative forms of control interact, in the attempt to achieve workforce alignment to flexibility. Second, to...

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Exploring public sector managers' preferences for attracting consultants or academics as external experts

van Helden, Jan; Grönlund, Anders; Mussari, Riccardo; … - In: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 9 (2012) 3, pp. 205-227

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons why public sector managers approach either consultants or academics for their help in solving problems related to public sector accounting and management reforms. Design/methodology/approach – A field study based on reactions to...

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Italian banks' equity-based incentive plans: what does the future hold?

Dell'Atti, Stefano; Sylos Labini, Stefania; Morella, Saverio - In: Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 5 (2013) 3, pp. 270-292

banking groups. Design/methodology/approach – Out of the 77 banking groups operating in Italy on 30 June 2011, The paper …

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Customer satisfaction management in Italian banks

Munari, Luciano; Ielasi, Federica; Bajetta, Luisa - In: Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 5 (2013) 2, pp. 139-160

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a survey that aimed to analyse the state of organisational and operative evolution of the functions and activities overseeing customer satisfaction in Italian banks. Design/methodology/approach – The research was conducted by...

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Discovering complex interdependencies in organizational settings

Bertolotti, Fabiola; Tagliaventi, Maria Rita - In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: … 2 (2007) 1, pp. 43-61

Purpose – The paper's aim is twofold: to display how the application of social network analysis techniques to observational data provides researchers with a unique set of data to make sense of the dynamics of organizational settings; to contribute to knowledge on group design, self‐managing...

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Accounting research in Italy: second half of the 20th century

Viganò, Enrico; Mattessich, Richard - In: Review of Accounting and Finance 6 (2007) 1, pp. 24-41

relation between economia aziendale (business and public economics) and ragioneria (accounting) in Italy. The subsequent … in Italy during this period, and the present crisis of economia aziendale as affecting ragioneria , contributions by … managerial accounting” (of less significance in Italy than financial accounting), and a look at “novel accounting trends”, the …

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Asymmetric long memory volatility in the PIIGS economies

Kumar, Dilip; Maheswaran, S. - In: Review of Accounting and Finance 12 (2013) 1, pp. 23-43

the stock indices of the PIIGS economies (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). Design/methodology/approach – The …

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