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CVC AND INNOVATION PERFORMANCE: THE EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGICAL DISTANCE WITH STARTUPS AND COINVESTORS

2018

Firms are increasingly opening their boundaries by engaging in corporate venture capital (CVC) programs as potential gateway into knowledge and technologies of innovative startups. By investing in promising startups across diverse industries with different technological knowledge from the knowledge base of the investing corporate, CVC programs constitute a vehicle for corporates to both exploit and explore innovation opportunities. We first examine the relationship between more explorative CVC investments portfolio and the innovation performance of the corporate. Then, we argue that when syndicating the CVC investments with a co-investor, the portfolio of syndication partners may affect the…

Corporate governance and firm performance: A comparative analysis of auditing problems

2006

The recent financial crises have created a new debate about comparison and convergence of different systems of corporate governance. In particular, they have underlined poor efficiency of rule structures to achieve a good relationship between different stakeholder’s rights. In line with many studies of corporate governance that emphasize the manager-stakeholders relationship as explained by agency theory, in this paper, I analyse the role of auditing as an incentive device to reduce contractual or transaction costs related to asymmetric information.Considering as a benchmark the recent US Sarbanes Oxley Act of July 2002. I describe a set of auditing principles by comparing common and civil …

Latest evolution of academic research in corporate social responsibility: an empirical analysis

2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether management‐ and marketing‐salient literature focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and related issues has evolved from 2003 to 2006, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and to learn which of three competitive epistemological evolutional views (progressive, variegational, normativist) best fits CSR evolution in both disciplines.Design/methodology/approachFollowing an ex professo methodology developed by de Bakker, Groenewegen and Den Hond, a content analysis (CA)‐based empirical examination of 570 papers focused on CSR and corporate social performance (CSP) published in indexed management and marketing journals between 20…

RELEVANCE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INDICATORS FOR MEASURING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

2013

Clarifying the impact of corporate social responsibility on the economic and/or financial performance of the firm has been the subject of numerous studies, which focus on the nature of the interaction between the ability of companies to achieve a high level of corporate social responsibility on the one hand, and financial performance, on the other. The paper aims to contribute to the literature in this field by studying the relevance of stock exchange indexes built on the principles of corporate social responsibility as a tool to measure the financial performance of firms that adopt corporate social responsibility as manner of approach to business.

Modelling of Adequate Costs of Utilities Services

2016

The paper propose methodology for benchmark modelling of adequate costs of utilities services, which is based on the data analysis of the factual cases (key performance indicators of utilities as the predictors). The proposed methodology was tested by modelling of Latvian water utilities with three tools: (1) a classical version of the multi-layer perceptron with error back-propagation training algorithm was sharpened up with task-specific monotony tests, (2) the fitting of the generalized additive model using the programming language R ensured the opportunity to evaluate the statistical significance and confidence bands of predictors, (3) the sequential iterative nonlinear regression proce…

M. Meschiari, 2013, Uccidere spazi. Microanalisi della corrida

2014

Politica al femminile. Margherita Bontade militante democristiana nella Sicilia dei primi anni della Repubblica

2014

Margherita Bontade è una tra le più singolari figure di donne impegnate in politica nella Sicilia del Secondo Dopoguerra; tra le poche ad aver trovato spazio nella cerchia dei potenti democristiani del tempo, occupati ad opporsi all’avanzata dei partiti del Blocco del Popolo, con la benedizione delle gerarchie della Chiesa Cattolica. Le sue fortune elettorali dipendono, da un lato, al suo stretto legame con la Curia e al rapporto personale con il Cardinale di Palermo Ernesto Ruffini; d’altro lato, all’alleanza politica prima con Bernardo Mattarella e poi con Franco Restivo. La sua fulminante carriera politica che si snoda nell’arco di un ventennio – tra la fine degli anni ’40 e la fine degl…

Incentive systems for risky investment decisions under unknown preferences

2017

Abstract Our paper examines how to design incentive systems for managers making multi-period risky investment decisions. We show how compensation functions and performance measures must be designed to ensure that managers implement the expected value-maximizing set of projects. The Relative Benefit Cost Allocation (RBCA) Scheme 1 and its extensions revealed in literature on unknown time preferences generally fail to do so under unknown time and risk preferences. We illustrate that when coping with such unknown preferences in a risky setting, a specific state-dependent allocation rule is required. We introduce such an allocation scheme, which we refer to as the State-Contingent RBCA Scheme, …

Reversed Phase Liquid Chromatography

2015

A Note on Economic Impact of EFF on Sicilian Firms Performance

2018

Measure 2.3 of the European Fisheries Fund, in Sicily, claimed investments of fish firms in production capacity expansion and modernization of fish processing. Have these investments been effective in supporting the competitiveness of these firms and have they influenced the economic sustainability of the regional seafood chain? Proposed counterfactual analysis contributes to this assessment through a comparison of the business performance of funded and non-funded firms.