Marco Delmastro

TL;DR: In this article, a sample composed of 45 Italian NTBFs which at the beginning of 2000 were located on technology incubator within a park is compared with a control sample of off-incubator firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the determinants of the start-up size of new technology-based firms, focusing on the characteristics of founders, notably their human capital, and found that the specific component of human capital associated with industry-specific professional knowledge and managerial and entrepreneurial experiences had a greater positive impact on the initial firm size than the generic component, proxied by education and general (i.e., non-industry-specific) working experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the predictions of economic theory on the determinants of the allocation of decision-making power through the estimates of ordered probit models with random effects, and find that the complexity of plants' operations and organization, the characteristics of the communication technologies in use, the ownership status of plants and the product mix of their parent companies figure prominently in explaining whether authority is delegated to the plant manager or not.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the predictions of economic theory on the determinants of the allocation of decision-making power through the estimates of ordered probit models with random effects, and find that the complexity of plants' operations and organization, the characteristics of the communication technologies in use, the ownership status of plants and the product mix of their parent companies figure prominently in explaining whether authority is delegated to the plant manager or not.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze empirically the determinants of structural inertia and organizational change in a large-scale data set of 438 Italian manufacturing plants from 1975 to 1996 and show that the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies and new human-resources management practices favors organizational change.