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Making Virtue out of a Necessity: Women’s Entrepreneurial Motivation in Disadvantaged Areas. An Investigation Based on Generations
No full textThe study of entrepreneurial motivation has undergone a remarkable development in recent decades. Entrepreneurship scholars have shown a particular interest in understanding of the reasons that lead to entrepreneurial action in contexts characterised by considerable resource constraints. In relation to these contexts, many studies have drawn on push-pull theory to argue that necessity (push) or opportunity (pull) related motivations explain how entrepreneurial intention is formed. As part of the debate on entrepreneurial motivations in disadvantaged contexts and adopting a gender perspective, this paper aims to explore the motivations of women entrepreneurs leading young ventures. Their entrepreneurial action is not only subject to the vulnerabilities generally ascribed to young ventures and to the resource constraints of the territory in which they operate, but is also hampered by an additional obstacle in the form of gender roles, which involve behaviours not typically attributable to entrepreneurship. In particular, on the basis of a sample of 74 women entrepreneurs, we investigate the varying intensity of entrepreneurial motivations with reference to different groups definedon the basis of generations. For this purpose, a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was carried out. The results showed that younger women entrepreneurs generally had higher values for the entrepreneurial motivations considered. Looking at individual items, significant differences were found in several cases, which can be traced to both necessity and opportunity motivations. Thus, we cannot claim that generational diversity alone implies a different intensity of necessity or opportunity motivations. Rather, we believe that younger women are generally more entrepreneurially motivated, and if well educated, they are able to proactively seek out opportunities, even if they decide to start a business out of necessity, as a way of escaping precarious work or the risk of having to emigrate from their home country
Young consumers’ purchase behaviour of sustainably-labelled food products. What is the role of scepticism?
No full textThis paper aimed to investigate consumer scepticism towards third-party sustainability labels in the context of food products, evaluating its role in the formation of the customer’s buying behaviour. A covariance-based structural equation model (CB-SEM) was developed, and it included the customer’s socio-environmental concern, scepticism toward sustainability labels, reported use of the socio-environmental commitment declared by the producer, and purchase behaviour of sustainably-labelled food products. The model was tested on a sample of 311 Italian high-educated young consumers, a group of sustainability-conscious individuals. The findings highlight that purchase behaviour is positively influenced by two reciprocally-related variables: socio-environmental concern and the reported use of the socio-environmental commitment declared by the producer. While other studies have ascertained that scepticism is an antecedent of purchase behaviour, this study findings highlight it can also be considered a mediator of the relationships between purchase behaviour and other antecedents considered in this model. In addition to advancing the study on the role of scepticism in the formation of purchasing decisions for food products, drawing on signalling theory, this study provides insights for practitioners and policymakers, highlighting the absolute necessity to reassure consumers about the credibility of third-party sustainability labels and providing them with the instruments needed to distinguish the truth from the fluff in sustainability communication
Visualizing Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions on a Large Scale with the Scanning Force Microscope
No full textPolymer Chain Statistics and Conformational Analysis of DNA Molecules with Bends or Sections of Different Flexibility
No full textScanning Force Microscopy of DNA Deposited Onto Mica: Equilibration Versus Kinetic Trapping Studied by Statistical Polymer Chain Analysis
No full textPOSITIVE RADIAL SOLUTIONS OF THE DIRICHLET PROBLEM FOR THE MINKOWSKI-CURVATURE EQUATION IN A BALL
No full textWe study the existence and multiplicity of positive radial solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the Minkowski-curvature equation
where is a ball in (). According to the behaviour of near , we prove the existence of either one, two or three positive solutions. All results are obtained by reduction to an equivalent non-singular one-dimensional problem, to which variational methods can be applied in a standard way
Assessing the role of knowledge and authenticity in the formation of attendee loyalty at cultural festivals
No full textThe study of knowledge in the formation of loyalty at cultural festivals has only recently attracted the attention of scholars. Much remains to be understood. This study develops a knowledge-based model of attendee loyalty in which the role of authenticity is assessed. It considers knowledge acquired during the festival and its role in loyalty formation, also in relation to authenticity. A Structural Equation Model is applied to a sample of visitors to a festival annually held in southern Italy. The results show that acquired knowledge has a positive impact on loyalty and that this relationship is mediated by authenticity
Enti ecclesiastici: ammissibilità e limiti dell'esenzione in materia di ICI, in Riv. Il Tributario, Milano, Giuffrè (ISSN 2465-2512)
No full textL'esenzione prevista, per gli enti non commerciali, dall’art. 7, comma 1, lett. i), del D. Lgs. 30 dicembre 1992, n. 504, è subordinata alla compresenza di un requisito oggettivo, rappresentato dallo svolgimento esclusivo nell’immobile di attività di assistenza o di altre attività equiparate, e di un requisito soggettivo costituito dal diretto svolgimento di tali attività da parte di un ente pubblico o privato che non abbia come oggetto esclusivo o principale l’esercizio di attività commerciali - art. 87, comma 1, lett. c), del D.P.R. 22 dicembre 1986, n. 917, cui il citato art. 7 rinvia. La sussistenza del requisito oggettivo deve essere accertata in concreto, verificando che l’attività cui l’immobile è destinato, pur rientrando tra quelle esenti, non sia svolta con le modalità di un’attività commerciale.
Sul piano probatorio, è onere del soggetto che richiede l’applicazione dell’esenzione, dimostrare la sussistenza del requisito oggettivo
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