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"Ritual-based redesign of routines: an experimental approach in the restaurant industry"

The recent publication of Claudia Cozzio (Free University of Bolzano) and Andrea Furlan (Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova) aims to investigate the impact of the innovative ritual-based redesign of a routine in the challenging context of the dining-out sector,

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"Firms’ Borrowing Costs and Neighbors’ Flood Risk"

Published in Small Business Economics Authors:Thomas Bassetti | DSEA University of PaduaLorenzo Dal Maso | University of BolognaValentina Pieroni | IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca  This study examines whether Italian firms exposed to climate risks face higher borrowing costs due to spatial

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"Does foreign investment hurt job creation at home? The geography of outward FDI and employment in the USA"

Rising political skepticism on the benefits of global economic integration has increased public scrutiny of the foreign activities of domestic firms in virtually all advanced economies. Decisions to invest in new activities abroad are seen by some commentators as potentially detrimental to domestic

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"The perils of friendly oversight"

Decision makers often rely on experts' evaluations to decide on complex proposals. Experts, however, have their own agendas: they may favor or oppose the proposals under their scrutiny.In this paper, Dino Gerardi (University of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto), Edoardo Grillo (dSEA Unipd) and Ignacio

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"The technological acquisitions paradox in the beauty industry"

In this paper, Silvia Rita Sedita, Fiorenza Belussi and Ivan De Noni from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova and Roberta Apa from the University of Milan, offer an original perspective of analysis on how technological acquisitions and knowledge recombination shape

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