infonet-economy

Le trattative fanno parte della quotidianità di ogni piccolo imprenditore o piccola imprenditrice.
L’articolo illustra le diverse fasi di una trattativa e fornisce consigli per una gestione efficace dei negoziati.

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... in this chapter I ask how individuals targeted by the discourse of entrepreneurship either identify with or resist it. This question is investigated in the realm of development aid, a context in which discussions of entrepreneurship and business savvy have acquired increasing prominence over the last...

The Health On the Net’s Foundation (HON) Code of Conduct, HONcode, is the oldest and the most used ethical and trustworthy code for medical and health related information available on the Internet. Until recently, websites voluntarily applying for the HONcode seal were evaluated manually by an expert medical team according to 8 principles, referred to as criteria, and associated...

Le capital humain et les politiques visant à sa création et à sa préservation prennent de plus en plus d’importance dans les sociétés industrialisées. Cet article propose un survol de la littérature économique récente dans ce domaine. Le défi majeur qui occupe aujourd’hui le marché du travail est l’accélération du progrès technique, qui s’accompagne d’effets différenciés suivant le...

Extensive research has been conducted on the motivations of volunteer tourists; however , the scope has not included how motivation is expressed through posting of images on social media . This study examine s the relationship between volunteer tourist s’ motivations and social media use through the identification of picture publishing behaviour based on motivations. An online...

This study examines the potential for rainwater harvesting in an existing 3 - star hotel in Switzerland with the purpose of illustrating, to what extent the usage of a rainwater harvesting system could reduce cost and potable water consumption in a hotel. The paper comprises methods used by previous research in rai nwater harvesting and applies them to the hotel industry with a...

This article studies the effect of dividend taxation on corporate behaviour, more specifically how firms respond to a dividend tax cut. A change in the Swiss corporate law in 2011 has introduced the possibility for some firms to pay tax-exempted dividends to their shareholders We find that all the firms that fulfilled the conditions required by the new law started paying tax-exempted...

Credit Commons is an infrastructure, aiming to link existing and new communities in an open, grassroots, intercommunity value exchange environment. This paper aims to demonstrate that an infrastructure for intra and inter community exchange cannot be considered, merely as a technological project. It needs to be founded on a sociotechnical approach and deployed within an inclusive...