The internal communication represents a final aim of the organizations in order to be productive in the long run, and a means for the spreading of the organizational culture. The present work, deepening the thought of Nonaka, Argyris and Schön, has the purpose of analysing the ways of...

Aim of this paper is to analyse the spatial aspects of technology transfer (t.t.) in Cnr Institutes of Piemonte, a highly industrialised region in North Western Italy. The specific purpose is to verify two hypotheses 1) If the spatial propagation of t.t. follows the Hägerstrand...

We study the effects of deposit insurance and observability of previous actions on the emergence of bank runs by means of a controlled laboratory experiment. We consider three depositors in the line of a common bank. Depositors decide in sequence between withdrawing or keeping their money...

The essay analyzes the decision process in economics and its relationship with the concept of rationality starting from the theory of rational choice, that is, a systemic approach based on the formal axiomatic method applied mainly in the microeconomic field, which has become the heart of...

This paper argues critically the issue of choices and rationality in economic models through a multidisciplinary analysis. First, the analysis aims at highlight the scientific contributions of psychology in economics, since psychology and the related approach of cognitive economics has made more...

This paper concerns a non-rigorous introduction to the theory of the "conditioning cognitive-behavioural" (or C-C-C). Rather it will be introduced a consumer approach which well explains the non-rational buy-actions with respect to several goods. In few words it will be considered a new...

Questo lavoro si propone di distinguere le differenti motivazioni che si trovano alla base delle scelte effettuate in un gioco dell’investimento. In particolare attraverso metodi diretti, basati sull’osservazione dei playoff e delle scelte, e indiretti, basati su questionari, si vogliono...

Questo paper illustra dal punto di vista sperimentale come la letteratura ha affrontato il problema della misurazione della fiducia, reciprocità e altruismo (conditional and unconditional other-regarding preferences) nel gioco dell’investimento.

Questo lavoro illustra come la letteratura economica secondo l’approccio comportamentale ha affrontato il problema delle preferenze che riguardano gli altri. Si propone di elaborare una rassegna su come le preferenze non egoistiche si inseriscono nella funzione di utilità.

In recent years an increasing amount of efforts has been devoted, both in the U.S. and within the E.U., to perform impact evaluation of geographically-targeted economic development (GTED) programs. The surging interest for the evaluation of GTED programs is challenged by the difficulty to assess...