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"Configurations of business model themes and strategies in small firms: a qualitative comparative analysis"
Authors:Diego Campagnolo, Department of Economics and Management, University of PaduaMartina Gianecchini, Department of Economics and Management, University of PaduaLuigi Mosca, Imperial College Business School Strategy and business model are distinct though interrelated concepts. Choices associated
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"Measuring Switching Costs in the Italian Residential Electricity Market"
This paper, published in 'The Energy Journal', investigates the existence and magnitude of consumers switching costs – namely, time-based and cognitive-based costs on consumers changing providers – in the Italian residential electricity market. Such costs may lead to consumer inertia in making
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"The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy"
Literature on environmental sustainability in global value chains (GVCs) focuses on how ‘lead firms’ can improve the environmental conditions of production among their various layers of suppliers. In this paper, Stefano Ponte (Copenaghen Business School) and our Valentina De Marchi, Marco Bettiol
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"The optimality of public–private partnerships under financial and fiscal constraints"
Authors:Marco Buso - Department of Economics and Management, University of PaduaLuciano Greco - Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua Government tasks can be delegated to the same or different agents. Agents have financial constraints, and the government's contractual capacity
