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"Disability insurance and the effects of return-to-work policies"

The rules governing disability insurance programs have changed considerably in the recent decades in most OECD countries with a remarkable shift towards policies aimed at re-integrating people experiencing a disability insurance episode into the labor market.In her recent publication in the Review

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Inter-organizational routine replication: Evidence from major football championships

In their recent publication in the Scandinavian Journal of Management, Andrea Furlan and Roberto Grandinetti from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova, and Francesco Rentocchini from the University of Milan, study routines mobility in major football championships.

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Platform competition in the tablet PC market: The effect of application quality

In this paper, Thanh Doan (Office of Communications, UK), Fabio M. Manenti (Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova) and Franco Mariuzzo (University of East Anglia), study the impact of mobile application quality in the tablet PC market. The market is characterized by the

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"The role of managerial perceptions and behaviors across hierarchical levels during lean implementation"

Authors:Sven Januszek, ETH ZürichTorbjørn H. Netland, ETH ZürichAndrea Furlan, Department of Economics and Management - University of Padova Do managers at different hierarchical levels in a firm perceive the effectiveness of a lean program differently, and does it matter for their commitment to it

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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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