The main purpose of this article is to examine some consequences of using cultural resources (in its context specific appearances) to describe the knowledge dynamics of economic systems and its impact on places as a territory of complex agents and institutions. The focus is on the ability of...

The thinking style profile is the basis of two important organizational processes (problem-solving and decision-making) and as such impacts significantly on company performance. The paper explores the thinking styles of Chinese and Australian managers and their reported preferences. Quantitative...

This paper offers an alternative way, based on the logistic population growth hypothesis, to yield transitional dynamics in the standard AK model with exogenous savings rate. Within this framework, we show that the dynamics of the capital stock per person and its growth rate can be non-monotonic...

LOW FERTILITY AND EDUCATION IN ITALY AT THE END OF XX CENTURY.Several studies suggest that in Italy in the last decades the negative effect of education on fertility has disappeared or has changed sign. However, recent analyses developed in other countries highlight that the relation between...

European leaders aim to turn the enlarged Union into "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world". But without major increases in infrastructure investments, dynamic growth - the missing ingredient of the European model - will not materialize. Given extraordinarily...

Knowledge is the main competitive assets in today economy. This resource, differently from the others firms have traditionally managed, increases its value through sharing and diffusing. Adoption, in fact, does not only contribute to increase its trustworthiness, but also to broadening its scope...

Le autorità di vigilanza e i pubblici poteri gestiscono le criticità che interessano il sistema economico e finanziario nazionale e mondiale nella convinzione che le regole non agiscono contro il mercato, ma a vantaggio del mercato. Ciò ha lasciato spazio a forme di autoregolamentazione e gli...

The aim of the paper is to find a framework for understanding dynamics of the learning process at different levels, occurring through different forms of education. The purpose is to consider the impact of formal, informal, non-formal learning on firms' performance. For sure R&D expenses and...