This contribution attempts to systematize some first evidence on the sustainability and resilience of local production systems in the economic recession and first hypothetical phases of recovery, 2007 to 2013, focusing on the role played by diversified economy, related and unrelated variety and...

Immigrant entrepreneurship is increasingly regarded as a potential source of sustainable development. But even while this potential is gaining popularity, the available data are still not sufficient to establishing ad-hoc policies that would support the development of this form of...

This contribution attempts to systematize some first evidence on the sustainability and resilience of local production systems in the economic recession and first hypothetical phases of recovery, 2007 to 2011, focusing on the role played by diversified economy, related and unrelated variety and...

This paper develops an ecological perspective on trust. Trust is a social capital. The value of this capital is continuously reproduced and renewed through the process of social inclusion and interaction, which takes place between agents belonging to knowledge creating communities and networks....

In that work we explore the ability to learning-by-learning of the SME-network as relational capital of sustainable advantage. The nature of the most of those abilities connect resources and competences useful to realize successful of the firm in the long run in the form of intangibles and...

Obiettivo di questo lavoro introduttivo è quello di esplorare le valenze trasformative delle organizzazioni derivanti dallo sviluppo di una tecnologia eclettica - tra organizzazione, decisione e azione - rappresentata dagli Agenti Intelligenti. Particolare riferimento è dedicato ai processi...

From the beginning of the 1990s, the business world has been talking about Knowledge Management (KM). Information Technologies (network technologies and local databases) have provided new tools to better perform the activity of using (codify and store) and sharing knowledge (modern Knowledge...