Andrea Caccialanza

University of Bologna | UNIBO · Department of Management DiSA

This study explores the mechanisms involved in integrating and balancing individual and organizational interests, focusing on how to manage diversity, particularly the ‘diverse'. This chapter traces the elements that define and characterize the “diverse” and the organizational diversity. In particular, this chapter aims to analyze the potential of...

Purpose Megaprojects stimulate and challenge public opinion across countries, generating extensive reactions from citizens. Given their ability to attract public attention, they may also influence public participation in collective choices and political decision-making. These issues are relevant for evaluating projects, but are unfortunately rarely...

This study seeks to examine the interconnections and potential influencing factors between firms' sustainability initiatives and the pressures exerted by industry associations for sustainability reporting. Given the reluctance of many firms to disclose their sustainability efforts, particular attention is directed toward the Italian meat and cured...

Purpose The deeper understanding of the disclosure of external and internal dynamics of family firms necessarily places the issue of sustainability as one of the most pressing needs from both a research and managerial perspective. Therefore, this perspective article contributes to the debate of sustainability performance disclosure in family firms,...

Food systems are playing a key role in the transition toward a more social, environmental and economical sustainable way of production and consumption. Within the food industry, meat-based products are responsible of an important part of the food supply chain global impact. Sustainable practices and production systems affect the efficiency and miti...

This chapter proposes a discussion on the opportunities of performing a detailed analysis of the sustainability dimensions involved in companies’ managerial practices and reporting propensity. Taking the FAO’ SAFA framework as a reference, an analysis was performed on the specific context of the Italian agri-food chain of cured meat products. The s...

The current evolution of EU regulation in terms of sustainability of practices and reporting are now imposing to a greater number of operators reports on their sustainability performance. The recently approved of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, based on the 2021 EU Commission proposal, implement prior regulation, both at European...

This edited volume provides an innovative perspective on the future of food systems. The contributors analyse relevant issues for a sustainable and responsible food consumption and cover fundamental steps for a broader approach to the sustainability of meat-based products. The book presents several issues and solutions to engage food firms in a mea...

The issue of diversity within the boards of directors (BoD) of companies is a key topic; however, it is still highly focused on gender diversity. In this study, several elements of BoD diversity are related to economic variables other than profitability, namely corporate growth, by analysing the fifth annual Financial Times (FT) 1000 ranking based...

This research aims to analyse the links and potential limiting and supporting factors between sustainability actions and sustainability reporting. Comparing companies involved in sustainability actions and those whose reporting practices lack a formal reporting system, this analysis focuses on Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in th...

Purpose This study comprehensively depicts the state of the art on sustainability research in the meat supply chain to advance the debate on challenges and issues associated with developing sustainable supply chain management practices. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a systematic literature review of 333 articles published in pe...

The understanding of the interactions between megaproject and social impact assessment disciplines is crucial and an effective implementation of a multi-dimensional perspective has been positively correlated with project success and failures avoidance. Current literature aims to encompass this role, extending the analysis of the impacts to the broa...