The paper presents a conceptual review over the main aspects concerning the role of human capital investments and training activities within production processes, followed by empirical evidence on two local economic systems in Northern Italy, based on recent survey data. Theoretical and empirical considerations are brought together in order to provide new insights on the role of training and th...

The paper studies the statistical correlation between the return on assets and some measures of financial balance. The research relies on the assumptions that the financial balance influences most of the indicators of performances of a company. Therefore, we chose the return on assets as dependent variable, as it represents the final result of the company’s business. As independent variables, m...

The integration of informatization and industrialization is the inevitable choice of the road to new industrialization with Chinese characteristics, and is the inherent requirement of the transformation of economic development mode. It constructs the regional integration efficiency evaluation index system of inputs and outputs. Then, it uses factor analysis and DEA to carry out the empirical re...

FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI’s effect on firms’ performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a...

Unprecedented economic achievement in China has occurred along with rising resource consumption and waste productions levels. The goal of sustainability requires the decoupling of economic growth from resource consumption (resource decoupling) and environmental degradation (impact decoupling). For this paper, the performances of resource decoupling (energy and water) and impact decoupling (wast...