Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2005 ; 2005COM002.
The principal aim of the present study is the analysis of the changes in the television scheduling strategy with the migration from the analogic phase to the digital one. The digitalisation of the television signal (terrestrial, by satellite or cable) deeply changes the sector of audio-visual media taking new actors on stage and imposing the definition of new rules. Obviously, every context has...
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Questo lavoro di ricerca documenta i risultati empirici qualitativi e quantitativi di un caso di studio sul cambiamento identitario de facto di un’organizzazione. In base ad un approccio che integra la prospettiva cognitiva a quella cognitiva psicologica, viene definito un modello teorico che discute perché in situazione di cambiamento i membri dell’organizzazione percepiscono una minaccia...
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This paper examines costs in the nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers because of the explosion of elderly care costs and the aging of the population. Moreover, the fact that Swiss nursing homes are managed by different forms of institutional organizations (private for-profit nursing homes, government nursing homes and nonprofit nursing homes) raises the issue of their...
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Switzerland (7.2 million inhabitants) is a federal State composed of 26 Cantons. Article 3 of the Federal Constitution grants large autonomy to the single cantons in the sectors which are not regulated directly by the constitution itself, among others the health and social care sector. The decision-making autonomy of the cantons in the field of health and social care for the elderly creates a...
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The purpose of this study is to estimate a multivariate variable cost function in order to analyze the cost structure of a sample of Italian water distribution companies. The empirical results of this study could be used by the Italian Regulation Authority of this sector for two purposes: first, to improve the actual tariff regulation process, based on a benchmarking of variable costs, and...
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This article argues for the central role of conversations in knowledge-transformation processes in organizations. Given the importance attributed to conversations in the literature, but also the many conversational routines that often prevent knowledge creation and sharing, an integrative approach for managing knowledge-intensive conversations is needed. The article reviews the academic...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004.
This thesis aims at studying the local robustness properties of Bayesian posterior summaries and deriving a robust procedure to estimate Bayesian Mean-Variance weights in a portfolio selection problem. In the first part, we study the local robustness of Bayesian estimators. In particular, we build a framework wherein any Bayesian quantity can be seen as a posterior functional. In this way it...
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