The aim of this work is to focus on the financial problems affecting a technology based company in its settlement and early development. The study is based on both literature review and field work. Referring to the field work, independent technology based companies which developed new...

By decoupling economic growth from the exploitation of virgin raw materials and environmental degradation, as well as by developing practices more resilient to the economic cycle, Circular Economy (CE) offers effective hedging of climate and environmental risks, shields financial actors from the...

In private equity industry ESG (Entrepreneurial, Social and Governance) metrics are gaining room, passing from the risk management process to influence the orientation of investment strategies. Motivations refer both to a firmer performance of the invested portfolios during the overall...

On the issue of bank's diversification literature usually refers to revenue mix, geographical markets and M&A deals. This paper aims to fill a gap by investigating diversification in terms of different business combinations (carrying out activities in different client front-end businesses). More...

Differences in financial behaviour are explained in the literature by reference to the theory of asymmetrical information, and in particular to the concept of information opacity. The same literature indicates that because SMEs are an opaque type of company, they tend to have relational...

The aim of this work is the analysis of the problems affecting financial institutions in technology based companies financing. First, the question whether a specific type of financial system is more suitable than others in allocating financial resources to independent technology based companies...