The Energy Service Company (ESCO also called) are companies which carry out actions to improve energy efficiency, taking upon himself the risk of the initiative and freeing the end user from any organizational effort and investment. The economic savings obtained are shared between the ESCO and...

In more than 130 years, the cooperative banks and rural banks, have become a best practice, widespread in all the Italian regions so as to become, through Federcasse, a federal system included among the 130 European banks, referents ECB. A model that today has about 400 local banks and that,...

This paper uses a new set of country data for 14 countries, members of the OECD, and a non-parametric approach to provide new evidence on the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on labour productivity growth between 1995 and 2005. For the first time, in the present paper a...

In this paper we illustrate how the real options technique can be a useful method for creating value in an uncertain economic world by providing management with a cognitive model that makes it possible to shape and manage uncertain competitive environments and corporate risks.