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Torino. La città delle opportunità. L'ascolto della città - Task Force. Luglio-dicembre 2012
No full textQuesto documento è il risultato del lavoro della Task Force di giovani esperti formata durante le attività di ascolto dell'Associazione Torino Strategica. Racconta il percorso svolto in molte ore di incontro, sintesi e post-produzione condivisa tra tutti e riporta quanto emerso a proposito della visione e delle condizioni necessarie per il futuro della nostra città
Federalismo fiscale e redistribuzione: l'effetto distributivo dei benefici in-kind a livello regionale. Un'applicazione a due regioni italiane
No full textManagerial capacity in the innovation process and firm profitability
No full textWP 01/13; This paper studies at firm level the relation between managerial capacity in doing innovation and profitability. Moving along the intersection between the evolutionary/neo-Schumpeterian theory and the Resource-Based-View of the firm, we prove econometrically that managerial efficiency in mastering the production of innovation is an important determinant of firm innovative performance and market success, and that it complements traditional Schumpeterian drivers. By using a Stochastic Frontier Analysis, we provide a “direct” measure of innovation managerial capacity, then plugged into a profit margin equation augmented by the traditional Schumpeterian drivers of profitability (size, demand, market size and concentration, technological opportunities, etc.) and other control-variables. We run both a OLS and a series of Quantile Regressions to better stress the role played by companies' heterogeneous response of profitability to innovative managerial capacity at different points of the distribution of the operating profit margin. Results find evidence of an average positive effect of the innovation managerial capacity on firm profitability, although quantile regressions show that this “mean effect” is mainly driven by a stronger magnitude of the effect for lower quantiles (i.e., for firms having negative or low positive profitability). It means that lower profitable firms might gain more from an increase of managerial efficiency in doing innovation than more profitable businesse
Etica ed economia, famiglia & impresa. L'approccio innovativo della Corporate Family Responsibility
No full textWP 08/13; The starting point of this paper is a comparison between science and economy, considering how ethical approach could be a same key to understand some reasons of their recent crisis. We propose a theoretical framework based on the idea that families and firms are not only “private goods”, but also “common goods”. Our interest is concentrated upon an innovative approach of business ethics, the “Corporate Family Responsibility
Technology and demand mechanism in firm diversification strategies. An experimental method to discriminate the fundamental drivers
No full textWP 17/13; An essential part of any firm's corporate strategy is the choice of the business portfolio through which to compete. When the portfolio's decision involves more than one business, firms are said to implement a diversification strategy, which is put into action through the firms concomitant entry in different market segments. It implies that the nature of the market segmentation affects the firms' differentiation degree. The aim of this paper consists in exploring a method for determining the market segmentation that is most informative to understand firms' diversification strategies, or in other words the market segmentation that most clearly reveals about firms' main diversification drivers. Given that each business can be described according to a set of business characteristics and by using different levels of detail, in the perspective of understanding firm diversification strategies, it is fundamental to determine the directions in the space of business characteristics along which it is “mostly convenient” to claim the business diversity and which is the “best” level of aggregation at which assess the businesses boundaries. This paper proposes an experimental method to do it. In particular, it empirically discerns which of two particular criteria – functional versus technological – mostly enrich our understanding of the diversification strategies adopted by Italian plastic processing machinery suppliers, finding out the most instructive level of aggregation of the market segmentation – namely the best segment dimension – to investigate the firms diversification strategie
Informaires. La green economy in Piemonte. N.43, marzo 2013
No full textSemestrale dell'Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemont
Attack scenarios. Threats, vulnerabilities, and attack scenarios along with their selection criteria
No full textRT 48; Attack Scenario is a comprehensive report in which are listed current and future threats to the control systems of a power network, such as malicious cyber-attacks, human failure or simultaneous hardware breakdown, in order to establish a rank of them regarding the likelihood of their occurrence and the preparedness of the most frequent used control systems in Europe to handle them
L'occupazione dei diplomati in Piemonte negli anni della crisi. Una ricognizione delle informazioni disponibili
No full textOsservatorio sul Sistema Formativo Piemontese. Netpaper 2/201
Nati-mortalità delle imprese torinesi, 2013. Natimortalità delle imprese torinesi nel 2013
No full textStudi, statistica e documentazione. Nati-mortalità delle imprese torinesi.Torino. STE