During the last decade, there has been wide agreement on the importance of dynamic capabilities on economic performance of firms. Simultaneously an increasing literature suggests that economic dynamics is embedded in social relations and social institutions. In this article, the determinants of...

The objective of this work is to evaluate the risk of business mortality. Considering a sample of over 11,741 firms in the textile-clothing sector, the influence that factors such as age, geographic density (district effect) and the principal productive activity (subsector effect) have on...

In this paper we propose a new small area estimation methodology aimed at the estimation of Value Added, Labor Cost and related competitiveness indicators for subsets of the population of Italian small and medium sized manufacturing firms classified according to geographical region, industrial...

Strategic networking represents firm's strategic posture to develop long-term and sustainable business relationships with the aim of focusing on core business activities and gaining additional benefits from profound coopetitional relations with various market players. The purpose of this paper...

The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the business literature. However, only few contributions have proposed a comprehensive framework able to bring together different but not mutually exclusive research approaches. This...

This paper aims to provide the empirical evidence of the interaction mechanism in the open innovation system with particular attention to aesthetic and rational innovation in an Italian creative sector. Factors including rapid technological development, the advent of innovative openness...

Internationalization, as both import and export, represents spreading of business activity beyond the local (country) market, allowing small and medium sized enterprise to compete in domestic and foreign markets by lowering costs through accessing new suppliers, and/or by increasing revenue due...