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Work from Home Arrangements and Organizational Performance in Italian SMEs: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

We use survey data on Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) collected during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore the relationship between the adoption of work from home (WFH) practices and organizational performance. In so doing, we investigate the possible underlying mechanisms, including measures of labor productivity and workers’ concentration and motivation, the level of absenteeism, the organization of work through management by objectives (MBO), and the presence of coordinatio...

Early railways and industrial development: local evidence from Sardinia in 1871-1911

Similarly to other countries, the development of an early national railway network took place in Italy during the second half of the 19th century. Railroads were then regarded as carriers of modernity that could reach isolated areas, expand market potential, and favor the structural transition from an agricultural economy toward an industrial one. Did the newly constructed railways actually have medium-run effects on the development and structure of industrial sectors at the local level? We b...

Pricing effects of code sharing in Africa

We investigate whether cooperation in the form of code-sharing agreements results in lower fares in the African context. While there is extensive research on cooperative agreement in the airline industry, little is known on the effect of airline cooperation in developing contexts. We analyze the direct effect of code-sharing agreements on the fares of connecting flights that were previously offered as interline flights and switch to code-share as well as the indirect effect of having airline...

Unpacking Brand Communication on Social Media Through Top-Down and Bottom-Up Text-Mining

This research method case retraces the stages and discusses the practical challenges encountered while conducting a large-scale, text-mining analysis of brand communication on social media during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since research on the topic is scant and theory provides insufficient normative guidance, both top-down, dictionary and rule-based techniques and bottom-up, hashtag network analysis, were employed for serving, respectively, theory testing and theory building purposes. A text-mi...

Choosing institutional over economic integration: Are there growth effects?

This paper studies the effects on productivity of integration deepening. Our identification strategy uses the 1995 European Union (EU) enlargement when all four candidate countries joined the European Economic Area (economic integration) but only one (Norway) chose not to join the EU (institutional integration). Using synthetic control methods on sectoral and regional data, we find that had Norway chosen institutional instead of only economic integration in 1995, the average Norwegian region ...

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