Purpose of this paperThis paper offers quantitative evidence on how surplus food, i.e. safe food that is not sold to the intended customers, is generated and recovered within Italian manufacturing and retail firms. The ultimate aim is to enlighten the process through which the food supply chain...

The attention of scholars and policy makers is shifting from full privatization to accompanying policies and alternative measures as a means to improve the efficiency of public services. This paper focuses on three restructuring measures: partial privatization (without transfer of control...