Qui il link all’intervista realizzata da Salto.bz a Alessandro Narduzzo relativamente alla tavola rotonda dello scorso 23 Marzo su: “Sicurezza e rischio nella società moderna”. L’intervento si concentra sulle modalità con cui, per effetto della maggiore interconnessione fra gli individui, portata dalle nuove tecnologie digitali, sta evolvendo la percezione dei rischi e della sicurezza.

by Dmitri Boreiko Every business venture, be it a single entrepreneur or a large corporation, needs financial resources in order to make investments, support the current operations and ultimately to create value to the owners, thus generating domestic output and benefiting all the society. Every standard undergraduate-level corporate finance book teaches that the financing comes from three sources – internally generated funds, external borrowings from financial markets, and equity issues. Focusing on the start-ups, entrepreneurial ventures (EVs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), rarely is the internal funds are sufficient to finance their investment projects. Since the business profits are […]

Here you can find a nice video on an article co-authored by our colleague Alfredo De Massis on innovation in family firms. The paper upon which the video is based is: “Innovation with limited resources: Management lessons from the German Mittelstand”, published on the Journal of Product Innovation Management. A copy of the article is available here

by Steve Stillman October, 9th, 2017   It is well established that women earn less than men with similar qualifications in most countries. This is true in New Zealand and other OECD countries, but exactly why it is the case is less clear.   In our research, we used wage data and productivity data from the whole of New Zealand to look at the reasons for the gender wage gap. We found that sexism is likely to be the most important driver of the gender wage gap, rather than women working in low-paying industries or firms, being less productive, or […]

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