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The role of Private Equity-firms in the formation of strategic alliances
2014
This research analyses the role of Private Equity firms in the formation of strategic alliances within the field of the French Private Equity market. We start to provide evidence of its importance from new survey information, before offering an explanation of the organizational phenomenon. The study addresses the questions of how and why Private Equity firms act as relational intermediaries to help their portfolio companies form alliances. Both questions are investigated in the light of the Private Equity firms’ contribution to the value creation process that comes with alliance formation. Answers are provided by means of three jointly used theoretical frameworks: (1) mainstream theories (t…
The role of Private Equity-firms in the formation of strategic alliances
2014
This research analyses the role of Private Equity firms in the formation of strategic alliances within the field of the French Private Equity market. We start to provide evidence of its importance from new survey information, before offering an explanation of the organizational phenomenon. The study addresses the questions of how and why Private Equity firms act as relational intermediaries to help their portfolio companies form alliances. Both questions are investigated in the light of the Private Equity firms’ contribution to the value creation process that comes with alliance formation. Answers are provided by means of three jointly used theoretical frameworks: (1) mainstream theories (t…
Evaluation of projects funded by the European Commission and of the existing information of the GDs that might be relevant in the Territorial Intelli…
2006
International audience; This communication makes a state of the activities carried out by the WP4P coordination group of the 4th work package "Fundamental methods" of the CAENTI, Coordination Action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence. The WP4P concerns a technical issue, the evaluation of projects funded by the European Commission and of the existing information of the GDs that might be relevant in the territorial intelligence field. The first six months of the CAENTI were mainly devoted to the projects selection. A first task consisted in identifying the projects which are funded by the European Union and that can be considered as belonging to the territorial intelligence …
EUROPE 2020 SI-LAB: A New Center for Economic and Social Development in Sicily
2014
The debate on the determinants of regional and local development has been stimulated recently by the European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth defined as Europe 2020. We present the objectives and structure of a new laboratory (SI-LAB) for the development of Sicilian economy promoted by the University of Palermo. In particular, we highlight the fundamental issues related to the incoming functioning of the Lab as a new oganization devoted to analyzing public policy issues, and fostering new ways of entrepreurship at the local level.
Myths in microfinance
2008
Microfinance, the provision of financial services to the poor, is high on the public agenda. We discuss and evaluate three myths regarding microfinance based on new data from rated microfinance institutions (MFIs). The first myth is that an efficient MFI needs to be shareholder owned; second that its governance should first and foremost address the potential conflict between owners and managers; and third that MFIs are drifting away from their poorer customers towards serving the wealthier. The data do not support any of these myths. We conclude that microfinance is a viable business model. Myths in microfinance
«We must go in the same direction» : Understanding the promotion of the Northern Sámi language in Gáivuotna/Kåfjord and Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino in a…
2019
Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 The general endangered status of indigenous languages worldwide is a reality that demands quick action from authorities belonging to different governmental spheres to safeguard their use, protection and further development for the next generations. In viewof the complexity of this issue, which stretches itself over public sectors such as health and education, public and private actors have sought to join forces to guarantee the promotion of indigenous languages. Hence, this thesis aims to understand how the existence of different actors within a multi-governance system can enable the promotion of th…
Territories, observation and governance. Tools, methods and realities
2011
The thesis is presented in three parts which include the three key words of the title and put intoperspective the function of territorial observation, with an approach to complexity mostly empiricaland constantly referring to systemics.The first part focuses on the polysemic notion of territory. Modeling the process of territorializationallows us to bypass the semantic difficulty that arises from multiple uses of the term in the literatureand in interviews conducted with experts. The territory is then revealed in different forms ofcombinations of tangible and intangible dimensions, and individual or collective representations.The second part is based on concrete achievements of observatorie…
The determinants of islamic banks performance : a compared and longitudinal analysis including governance mechanisms
2021
This doctoral thesis is part of a process of understanding the management of institutions practicing Islamic finance. It focuses on Islamic banks and studies their performance through some determinants offered by banking literature. The idea is to reflect on the sustainable determinants that could, on the one hand, help to better explain Islamic banking performance, and on the other hand, compare the relationships that might exist between these determinants and the different measures of banking performance (conventional and Islamic). This approach to understand Islamic banking performance includes the study of ownership structure, configuration of decision-making power, resilience to the 20…
GOVERNANCE E DEMOCRAZIA
2009
Brevi riflessioni sullo statuto pubblicistico degli amministratori nel Testo Unico
2019
In this article, by examining some regulatory profiles concerning the directors of publicly owned companies in the light of the Consolidated Law and relative jurisprudential applications, the Author picks up on a contradiction in the normative data and therefore a systematic inconsistency with respect to the possibility of configuring the by-laws applicable to them in strictly public or private terms (despite the approach in this sense, as laid out in art. 1, paragraph 3 of the TUSP, which subjects public companies to the code of law on capital companies). In this perspective, the provisions relating to the appointment and revocation of publicly appointed directors are taken into considerat…