The digital and green transitions increasingly depend on critical raw materials (CRMs) like cobalt, lithium and rare earths, vital for energy storage, renewables...

Today, innovation strategies must go beyond the search for competitive advantage and embed sustainability into the firm’s strategic processes. A key challenge for manufacturing...

This paper revisits debates on France’s industrialisation, challenging the view of it as unusually slow. Focusing on the spread of steam power across departments from 1840 to 1911, it explores...

This research investigates the gender-specific effects of Italy’s 2011–2012 Fornero Pension Reform. While prior studies focused on overall economic impacts, little is known about how...