Three Essays on Entrepreneurship in China

This thesis delves into the realm of entrepreneurship, especially entrepreneurial decision-making, entrepreneurial performance, and innovation in China, a country that is experiencing vibrant entrepreneurial growth. Since the advent of its market transition in the late 1980s, China has witnessed a surge in vigorous private enterprise development. Recent years have seen a dedicated commitment from the Chinese government to nurture entrepreneurship and drive innovation. Notably, China embarked ...

Industry dinamics and labour mobility

Essays on Entrepreneurial Financing

Venture capital has emerged as an integral component within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This dissertation seeks to understand how venture capital has influenced entrepreneurial activities in three different contexts concerning various sources of risk capital. The first study investigates how startups adjust their technological positioning after securing corporate venture capital, delineating a nuanced framework based on an interplay of learning synergies and competitive threats. The theory...

Integrating supervised and unsupervised learning in genomics applications

Industrial Property Rights in Circular Economy: Challenges and Opportunities

Starting from the latest steps of the European legislator on the circular economy, this work moves in two directions. The first is to examine the challenges presented by intellectual property rights in the spare parts sector, specifically addressing issues related to trademarks and patents. The study then turns to the repair sector, assessing the constraints faced by the exhaustion doctrine when applied to IP-protected products undergoing repair. The analysis aims to propose solutions by reev...

Intentional and unintentional marketing in high-technology contexts: a multiple case study in the province of Pisa

Essays in Workforce Satisfaction and Labor Contracting

In the first chapter, I examine whether disclosures of rival collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) affect workforce treatment. I exploit U.S. CBAs, which specify terms and conditions resulting from labor renegotiations. Using an effectively staggered difference-in-differences design, I find that around the time of rival CBA disclosures, non-unionized firms operating in unionized industries improve their workforce treatment. Their behavior is transitory. My cross-sectional analyses show that...

Models of individual and strategic behaviour: theory and experiments

L’intelligenza artificiale nei sistemi di controllo interno delle società per azioni

L’opera è dedicata al ruolo dell’intelligenza artificiale all’interno del sistema dei controlli interni delle società per azioni italiane. Il testo intende analizzare le applicazioni attuali, i problemi intrepretativi e gli sviluppi potenziali che sorgono dall’introduzione, nelle realtà societarie, dei nuovi strumenti tecnologici nel sistema del controllo interno nel modello tradizionale di amministrazione e controllo, individuando i principali nodi derivanti dall’utilizzo dell’intelligenza ...