Search results for " Capital"

Social mechanisms and strategic action fields: The example of the emergence of the European Research Area

2017

The point of departure of this article is Fligstein and McAdam’s A Theory of Fields. It is argued that their theoretical framework would be strengthened by a more systematic focus in social mechanism-based explanations since this would increase understanding of how new strategic action fields (SAFs) emerge. This argument is illustrated by exploring the emergence of the European Research Area (ERA) as a SAF. In identifying social mechanisms the article draws both on Fligstein and McAdam’s studies and on academic capitalism literature. The main conclusion is that the emergence of the ERA was brought about by multiple social mechanisms such as collective attribution of threat/opportunity, soc…

Corporate Venture Capital follow-on investments: the role of co-investors

2018

CVC investments allow corporates the option to internalize startups’ knowledge and technologies through follow-on investments. Since acquiring a backed startup is not always a guarantee of success, corporates should consider which are the most appropriate conditions under which it is beneficial to acquire the startup. Under the theoretical lens of Real Option theory, we examine the conditions under which a CVC investment may evolve into different kind of CVC follow-on investments. We suggest that the CVC characteristics that mitigate both endogenous and exogenous uncertainties positively affect the corporate’s decision to acquire a backed startup. In addition, we argue that the presence of …

La veleta no cambia, es el viento

2006

El socialismo liberal / 2

2008

La ruptura americana de Sarkozy

2007

De Cajas de Ahorro a sociedades capitalistas y Fundaciones un nuevo enfoque en la gestión y aplicación de la Obra Social

2017

El presente trabajo se ha desarrollado con la finalidad de analizar las estrategias emprendidas por las nuevas Fundaciones surgidas tras el proceso de reestructuración del sector de las Cajas de Ahorro para garantizar la sostenibilidad de la Obra Social que anteriormente venían realizando estas entidades. Para ello se realiza un estudio de carácter descriptivo y explorativo que comprende un horizonte temporal de diez años y en el que se contrastan planteamientos anteriores y posteriores a los procesos de integración, centrando el interés en la evolución del modelo de gestión y en las fuentes de financiación utilizadas para dotar de fondos a la partida presupuestaria dedicada a fines sociale…

El capitalismo, contra el planeta / 4

2007

Holes in the Dike: the global savings glut, U.S. house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation

2015

We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2010. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior to the large net capital inflows into the US from China and other emerging economies. Our results suggest a long shadow of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more sensitive to capital inflows. We provide evidence that global imbalances were a major positive funding sh…

MULTICULTURAL CITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN TERRITORIES: GREEN CITY PALERMO 2019

2014

This contribution aims to examine the territory of Mediterranean cities set against the general topic of the GREEN CITY. Our main research hypothesis will show how multiculturalism, the enhancement cultural heritage and a conscious use of natural resources, are essential factors for a positive change in the development of Mediterranean cities, involving actors, key figures, inhabitants and users. The preservation of multiculturalism comes under the enhancement of intangible cultural heritage of urban community. The enhancement of multiculturalism and of intangible heritage is, in fact, oriented to the preservation of the cultural and linguistic diversities of each ethnic group that takes pa…

Reversal of Gender Disparity in Journalism Education- Study of Ghana Institute of Journalism

2017

Journalism has practically become a feminine profession across the world. To understand the root of the flow of women into the Journalism profession it is pertinent to begin at the university education level. Gallagher’s 1992 worldwide survey of female students in 83 journalism institutions reveals a significant increase in number of female students. Djerf-Pierre (2007) and others argue along Bourdieu’s conception of education as a form of social capital which empowers, enables and enhances women’s competitiveness in a pre-dominantly androgynous social arena. The study analyses 16 years of enrolment data of the Academic Affairs Unit of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), a leading Jour…