Starting from the literature on decision processes in public choices, aim of the paper is to suggest an integrated methodology to get a choice as much as possible shared and participated joining two different approaches. On one hand there is the "classic" or top-down approach based on...

The level of interest in smart cities is growing, and the recent literature on this topic (Holland, 2008; Caragliu et al., 2009, Nijkamp et al., 2011 and Lombardi et al., 2012) identifies a number of factors that characterise a city as smart, such as economic development, environment, human capital,...

Gli sforzi compiuti in Cina in oltre trent'anni per passare da un'economia pianificata ad un'economia di mercato hanno favorito l'emersione di una molteplicità di imprese, che hanno prodotto straordinarie performance economiche. Diversi studi suggeriscono tuttavia che i relativi cambiamenti...

In Italy since 1999 disposals of public assets have been made by using securitization or closed real estate funds. Not always the results of these public asset sale operations, have resulted as efficient as those that were obtained in the private sector. This article focus on closed real estate...

This article analyzes the causes of the evolution of market forms, starting from the idea that a specific type of non public agents: the “institutional entrepreneurs" may be at the origin of social systems' “push from below” to induce institutional change. This idea is developed in a...

From being essentially a rural area, during the last decade the ASEAN has undergone an intense process of industrialization that, even if still fragmented, reshaped the region. The liberalization of trade and services, the inflows of investments and the idea of a common market and of a common...

La forte presenza del sommerso in molti paesi europei e l'evidenza dei suoi effetti negativi sul loro sviluppo rende rilevante l'analisi di quali siano gli strumenti più efficaci per scoraggiare l'espansione di questo fenomeno negativo per lo sviluppo e la crescita di un paese. In questo...