The paper investigates to what extent the convergence of banks over risk-adjusted capital standards set by the new Basel Capital Accord may affect the way in which they screen innovative firms. It also gives an overview of the existing forms of credit support to R&D activities. The study is built upon a survey conducted in January and February 2006 on 12 main Italian banking groups. The survey ...

REQUIRED) This paper examines the application of risk management strategies to the protection of customer information privacy at the corporate level of analysis. The emerging discipline of privacy risk management is virtually non-existent in academic discourse despite an expressed and growing interest by regulators and practitioners. We show how the concept and practices of operational risk man...

This paper embeds legal considerations in mainstream management theory and frameworks. It proposes a systems approach to law and management that explains how law affects the competitive environment, the firm’s resources, and the activities in the value chain. This is a dynamic model that recognizes that firms and markets are part of a broader system of society and that managerial actions will a...