Family and Family Business Influence on Daughters’ Decision to Start a New Venture

Objectives: Drawing on the family entrepreneurship perspective, non-successor daughters who decided to leave their family business and create their own venture are analysed in this paper. The paper aims to answer this research question: How can family and family business influence a daughter’s decision to pursue an independent entrepreneurial career? Prior work: Many scholars have shown that many daughters leave the family business because of barriers that may prevent them from power roles a...

Do sustainability and food safety stimulate innovation among agri-food entrepreneurs? The experience of Italian innovative startups during the Covid-19 pandemic

The agri-food industry has traditionally been considered as conservative, mature and with low level of innovation (Costa and Jongen, 2006; Sarkar and Costa, 2008; Klimczuk-Kochańska, 2018; Triguero et al., 2018). Especially micro and small enterprises, which represent the majority of agrifood companies worldwide, Italy included, are not innovation-oriented, mainly because of the lack of internal and external resources, i.e. qualified staff, R&D activities, collaboration, information sou...

VIRTUALITER: COSTRUZIONE DI UN AMBIENTE DI APPRENDIMENTO VIRTUALE PER LO SVILUPPO DI ABILITA’ UTILI ALLA GESTIONE DEL COLLOQUO DI LAVORO

Nei corso del 2022 è stata realizzata la prima fase del progetto Virtualiter finanziato dalla Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia nell’ambito del bando DIVA afferente al programma europeo INTERREG Italia-Slovenia e finalizzato a supportare l’innovazione transfrontaliera attraverso il contributo di industrie culturali e creative. Virtualiter interviene nell’area strategica dei programmi di riabilitazione, formazione e integrazione sociale introducendo modalità e strategie abilitative innovative per ...

Attenuation of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in a simulated landfill cover soil system