Research

The Weird Effects of Knightood: More Employment, Less Profits

A new research paper by Linus Siming, joint with Konrad Raff, shows that nonmonetary rewards such as knighthoods and damehoods can actually affect the behaviour of CEOs, reducing jobs cuts, at the expenses of shareholder returns

When the recipe is more important than the ingredients

Ordanini and Rubera, in a paper written with Parasuraman, highlight the features that lead to the adoption of new services

The Role of Trade Unions in Europe

A conference on the impact of trade unions at the local and European level organised by Maurizio del Conte

From the Outside for the Better

A new article by Minichilli, Corbetta and three other scholars shows when a nonfamily CEO should be chosen to lead a family business

Alberto Dondena Lecture: Japan As Seen By Ronald Rindfuss

Ronald Rindfuss, professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, invited as special guest to the Lecture in honour of Alberto Dondena

When Advertising Is Infinite Dimensional

Elisa Tacconi and a colleague, in an article published in SIAM, Journal on Control and Optimization, analyse optimal control problems with delays in the state or control variable