Throughout history, women have played an active role in entrepreneurship, although their participation has often been invisibilized or restricted by social and legal norms. Today, digitalization and new technologies present significant opportunities to expand women’s participation in entrepreneurial activities. However, they can also intensify existing challenges or generate new ones. In this context, it becomes […]
Knowledge transfer involves the incorporation of knowledge into the practices of social and collective learning processes. This transfer occurs through social practices (Von Krogh, 2012) and both tacit and explicit means (Nonaka and Takenchi, 1995), involving both individual and organizational actors. Universities contribute to this process through the “Third Mission” (Centobelli et al., 2019; Paoloni […]
This work aims to critically analyse the role of technologies to reduce inequality in public administration, exploring their contribution to the translation of knowledge into innovative dynamics. In the context of the growing recognition of innovation as central factor in organizational development (Paoloni and Modaffari, 2021; Provasi and Harasheh, 2021; Smith et al., 2020), this […]
The paper aims to investigate the evolution of women’s participation in financial research over the last decade. To this end, the research moves on threefold streams: (1) female authorship of scientific articles on finance, (2) the gender gap in authorship and (3) female participation in articles in more impactful articles. The research is supported by […]
Defining the pillars of sustainable development, the 2030 Agenda recalls inequality and valuing diversity as an asset. Diversity management can be defined as a managerial approach pursuing an active and conscious development of a forward-looking, value-oriented strategic and communicative managerial process of accepting differences and using some differences and similarities as a potential of the […]
This paper aims to analyse how an innovative financial tool for female-led Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) can contribute to the development and sustainability of these businesses. Women’s enterprises can only reach high levels of indebtedness if there are equally high personal guarantees. Women’s enterprises have always been distinguished from men’s enterprises by simpler financial […]
The adoption of blockchain-based technologies for a sustainable agri-food sector is a recently developing area of inquiry. Blockchain technology promises to be a significant enabler of sustainability in the agri-food sector. However, there is still limited understanding on how the blockchain technology can promote agri-food sustainability, because its adoption is still in an early stage […]
This paper aims to identify and analyze the main areas on which scholars have focused in relation to crowdfunding (CF) and their contribution to the uncertain period. In particular, this review analyzes the role of this financial instrument during the Covid-19 emergency. The analysis was conducted through a systematic literature review (SLR) of 235 research […]
The current research is a part of ongoing work aimed to shed light on relationship’ value for woman startup in the crowdfunding context. This paper analyses how intangible resources, as relational capital, can contribute to fundraising during the early stage and, especially, which types of these relations female entrepreneurs must or must not growing to […]
The aim of the paper is to analyse how innovative financial tools can contribute to the development and sustainability of the territory and his local products. This research is supported by a qualitative research of case study (Yin, 2014). Thus, the paper applies the CAOS model of micro-entrepreneurship by Paoloni (2011) with a few changes […]