Publication Authors: Giovanna Ferraro

Giovanna Ferraro, Ivana Quinto, Giuseppe Scandurra, Antonio Thomas

In recent years, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices have progressively become a central component of corporate strategies and investment decisions. Although ESG is often associated with corporate social responsibility (CSR), the two concepts differ in important ways. CSR typically refers to voluntary initiatives oriented toward responsible business conduct, whereas ESG is based on standardized […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2026: Intelligent Knowledge for Sustainable Organizations
306-313
Giovanna Ferraro, Antonio Iovanella, Alessandro Ramponi

This article analyses the green aspects of technologies embedded within the Fintech sector, providing insights into the intersection of financial innovation and environmental sustainability. The technological advancements introduced in the financial sector over the past decades hold considerable potential to facilitate the ecological transition and promote environmental sustainability – a potential that has been widely […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
488-497
Giovanna Ferraro, Antonio Iovanella, Alessandro Ramponi, Giulia Rotundo

The term “Fintech” refers to the use of technology to automate various financial services, products, and operations. The aim of this paper is to examine the patents certificates to analyze technology trends and to forecast future developments related to the various aspects of Fintech. Through the network analysis of the patent dataset, we identified five […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
253-272
Jacopo Arpetti, Matteo Cinelli, Giovanna Ferraro, Antonio Iovanella

Collaborative innovation networks represent adequate structures within which to foster members’ abilities to interact and cooperate in order to increase the level of knowledge and facilitate access to innovation. In this paper we consider two collaborative innovation network models, called orchestration and choreography and we compare them in terms of knowledge flow by means of […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2020 – Knowledge in Digital Age
1569-1582