Innovative start-ups play a crucial role in fostering innovation and driving economic growth while enhancing technological competitiveness. In Italy, the emergence of these start-ups has significantly influenced the landscape of economic development and technological advancement, acting as a key engine for generating and integrating knowledge into new products and services. This introduction sets the stage […]
Today, investors are no longer solely concerned with a firm’s financial performance, they also consider its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Numerous scholars have analyzed either the drivers or the effects of ESG performance. In this study, we contribute to the first stream of literature by investigating the drivers of a firm’s eco-efficiency. Eco-efficiency […]
Knowledge of the Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors is the subject of increasing interest in national and international institutions. Within the banking sector, there is a growing awareness of the need to integrate the non-financial information arising to ESG factors knowledge, into strategies, processes, and financial instruments to generate long-term value. ESG are increasingly […]
The aim of this work is to analyze the Gender Equality issue within the context of Intellectual capital and performances with specific reference to knowledge organizations. The final purpose of the article is to investigate the relevance of gender issues in knowledge-based organizations including universities and firms and to provide a complete mapping of IC, […]
In the Industry 4.0 context, an effective knowledge management becomes fundamental for companies in order to exploit potentials of automation technologies (AI, IOT, Cloud computing, new robotics, etc.). While in the operational and management processes the role of ICTs has been long explored in literature, the specific contest of Human Resource Management has not been […]
The aim of this work is to carry out a mapping of existing literature on “Intellectual Capital (IC)” and “Performance” and relationships between them with a focus on knowledge organizations, including universities, but not limited to them. We propose an enriched systematic review approach, in order to analyze what we know about the relationships between […]
This paper deals with the main meta-choices problems that arise in the multidimensional benchmarking of knowledge-based organizations. The first is the metachoice problem related to the choice of the algorithm used to compute the ranking (Iazzolino et al., 2012; Laise et al., 2015; Daraio, 2017a). The second is the metachoice problem related to the choice […]
The paper analyzes the VAIC (Value Added Intellectual Coefficient) and the subsequent developments 20 years after the first formulation made by Ante Pulic. The paper deeply analyzes the concept and proposes future directions for research and applications of the methodology. Three main directions for research are described: (i) value creation for stakeholders and investment in […]
The debate on performance evaluation of start-ups, especially the academic-based ones, is still open. The traditional assessment methods are designed for companies that operate in a structured manner, in which analysts have developed a certain experience and benchmarking capabilities. Therefore performance measurement systems suitable for this context have to be still identified and ‘calibrated’: stakeholders […]