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 […]