The relevant role of agricultural enterprises in sustainable development processes has been broadly studied; in developed countries these firms are subject to several forces driving them towards an intense, less sustainable, way of growing crops. One answer by small farmers, the most common...

Recent economic crises show that enterprises cannot be managed focusing only on economic values instead managers should acknowledge their own enterprises' responsibilities toward the society as a whole. Stakeholder Management Theory can help managers accomplishing this very same daunting task....

Contributions on competitive strategy and advantage have been long concentrated on the single firm. In Europe small and medium enterprises still prevail, business districts are widespread and rivals are called to cooperate, in order to face the global context. Inter-firm collaboration seems to...

The paper is a theoretical paper, focused on the analysis of the intangible and cognitive content of inter-firm relationships, according to knowledge-based view (Kought and Zander, 1992; Foss, 1993, 1996; Nonaka, 1994; Grant, 1996; Teece, 1998). In particular, the issue is examined taking into account two main...