Libri di Economia e gestione aziendale

Il volume, attraverso una concezione sistemica dell’impresa come progetto complesso e un orientamento allo sviluppo di competenze e capacità dinamiche, si pone come efficace strumento di supporto all’apprendimento in curricula universitari focalizzati sul business management, ma anche come manuale di potenziale interesse per manager, professionisti e lettori interessati ad acquisire una prospettiva di frontiera dell’impresa moderna.

This book is an attempt to settle different perspectives to look at a fundamental theme of management theory, since it was born: the survival of firms. The volume makes an excursus of the scientific literature on the issue of the firms’ crisis and compares different analytical, econometric methodologies applied to an existing case history - that of Italian companies -, over a very long period of time. Furthermore, the authors propose a combined methodology of productivity analysis and limited dependent variables model.

This book provides an overview of main and updated academic and institutional definitions about crime organisations (macro-level) and mafia-type firms (micro-level), and the different theoretical perspectives through which these organisations and firms can be investigated. It combines studies focused on the economic, legal and social implications, with those based on a managerial perspective. Therefore, it offers insights about organisational characteristics, measurement methods, practices to fight the phenomenon, investigating the role of states and public-sector entities.