November 2017

Business intelligence and change management: The case of an administrative service company operating in the context of the entrepreneurial associations

This study aims to analyse the potential organizational impacts related to introduction and implementation of new managerial concepts methods and tools in Italian entrepreneurship associations using direct observation through daily presence as methodology in the structure. The results revealed that although the context of entrepreneurial associations assumes a certain degree of proactivity and dynamism in dealing with...

Author(s): Sara Propeti and Marco Giuliani

November 2017

Ambidexterity between operation and innovation: A stochastic queuing model

The notion of productivities dilemma indicates that organizations need to balance the tension between operation and innovation to ensure both short term performances and long term adaptability. Ambidexterity as a solution to productivity dilemma has lack analysis on micro-level ambidexterity. In this paper, a group process view and a stochastic queuing model were adopted to study the optimal time arrangement between...

Author(s): Zhiyuan Shang and Gongqi Guo

November 2017

Why small and medium-sized firms tend to make recourse to external debt: An investigation into an Italian sample

The purpose of this research is to identify the determinants impacting companies’ financial structure in SMEs belonging to different economic sectors. The research is due to the current situation which characterizes the banking system and the companies’ environment. Within this context, both companies and stakeholders need to identify the determinants impacting these companies’ financial structure in...

Author(s): Alberto Mazzoleni, Elisa Giacosa and Manzi Luca Maria

November 2017

Financing the consumers and new dynamics in time of crisis: An analysis of a well-known furniture and multinational store in Bari, Italy

In 2007, an international crisis began due to the dissemination of bad debts, which spilled over to 2008. The global economy is still facing its consequences. This crisis is serious and its consequences are particularly long and painful. In a research of 2011, the economist John Taylor named “the great deviation” as “the recent period when macro-economic policies are based more on interventionist, less...

Author(s): Pierluigi Passaro, Arianna Di Vittorio and Dario Schirone