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"The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading: Lessons from the Prosecco and Valpolicella wine value chains in Italy"

Literature on environmental sustainability in global value chains (GVCs) focuses on how ‘lead firms’ can improve the environmental conditions of production among their various layers of suppliers. In this paper, Stefano Ponte (Copenaghen Business School) and our Valentina De Marchi, Marco Bettiol

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"Configurations of business model themes and strategies in small firms: a qualitative comparative analysis"

Authors:Diego Campagnolo, Department of Economics and Management, University of PaduaMartina Gianecchini, Department of Economics and Management, University of PaduaLuigi Mosca, Imperial College Business School Strategy and business model are distinct though interrelated concepts. Choices associated

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"Photovoltaic Smart Grids in the prosumers investment decisions: a real option model"

The digitization of power system represents one of the main instruments to achieve affordable energy transition. During the last years, such innovation process has been associated with the Smart Grid (SG). Marta Castellini (Università degli Studi di Brescia), Francesco Menoncin (Università degli

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"Pricing reliability options under different electricity price regimes".
Published on Energy Economics

Reliability Options are capacity remuneration mechanisms aimed at enhancing security of supply in electricity systems. They can be framed as call options on electricity sold by power producers to System Operators. This paper, written by prof. Fulvio Fontini and his co-authors, provides a comprehensive mathematical treatment of Reliability Options.

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'Too Unsafe to Monitor? How Board–CEO Cognitive Conflict and Chair Leadership Shape Outside Director Monitoring'.
Published on the Academy of Management Journal

Corporate Governance regulation and practice highlight the role played by outside directors and independent Chairs in monitoring the CEO and the Top Management Team in listed corporations. In a recent study 'Too Unsafe to Monitor? How Board–CEO Cognitive Conflict and Chair Leadership Shape Outside

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