Italy in a European Context ― Research in Business, Economics, and the Environment

Strangio and Sancetta bring contributors together in this edited collection to investigate the role of Italy in pursuing the EU five targets by 2020: R&D/innovation expenditures; the energetic measures for climate change; migration; the counter actions against poverty and social exclusion. This ambitious book uses a multidisciplinary approach and original field studies to tackle this important topic. This work supports diffusion of a European culture and attempts to overcome the skepticism toward political institutions following the economic crisis. It analyzes the impact of EU actions to exit from the negative cycle and proposes how a sense of citizenship can be created.

Donatella Strangio is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Faculty of Economics and affiliated with the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Land and Finance, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of numerous books and articles on national and international journals. Her more quoted works are on the famine in pre-industrial age, international migration, public finance, long run economic growth, and the history of tourism. She has a PhD in economic history and was a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, UK and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France.

Giuseppe Sancetta is Associate Professor of Business Management at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he teaches corporate restructuring and management. He is also qualified as Full Professor of Business Management. He is author of books and articles published in international and Italian reviews and has presented several papers at international and Italian conferences. His main research interests are: operating risk; analysts forecasts; corporate restructuring under bankruptcy Italian code; business planning in turnaround management; safeguard of minority shareholders.