Daniele Grechi

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• PhD
• Assistant Professor at University of Insubria

The significant changes which have occurred in the competitive scenario in which fashion companies operate, combined with deep transformation in the lifestyles of final consumers, translate into the need to redefine the business models. Starting from a general overview of the emerging trends today affecting the fashion industry, the paper will devo...

Despite the negative environmental impact of private cars, especially when driven alone, thousands of college commuters around the World are still car dependent. In order to promote eco-friendly commuting and reduce the GHGs caused by cars, different Travel Demand Management (TDM) policies are in place at many colleges, but they do not usually cons...

Covid-19 has strongly influenced the mobility of people in several ways and the limitations of mobility in Europe and Italy have conditioned the flows of workers and travelers. Railways, which are one key transport sector, had a clear decrease in passengers all over the world. The analysis, based on six Lombard/Piedmont lines (North-West of Italy),...

The aim of this study is to describe and analyse the relationship between the phenomenon of B Corp and M&A operations carried out by these companies. Italy is the second country at the international level and the first country at the European level to have been particularly active in this direction (Law n.208/2015). Therefore, a questionnaire was d...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and fiscal responsibility have become a hot topic of debate in recent years. Many studies have investigated CSR and tax avoidance; however, such studies have overlooked countries' tax cultures and fiscal responsibility from a historical perspective and have not addressed how these elements affect current tax av...

Migration of People is one of the essential components of the modern global world and itis accompanied by both positive and negative results and consequences and comprises many interrelated factors such as political, economic, social and cultural. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development identifies a recognized connection between the contributio...

By adopting mainly the “principal-agent theory”, the study analyses how non-profit organizations (NPOs) corporate governance structure could increase the trust of the donors and therefore affect their ability to receive donations from taxpayers. Starting from a literature review we concentrated our attention on the non-profit sector where NGOs repr...

Numerous studies have been conducted to verify whether, and under what conditions, Altman's Z-Score model can also be applied to unlisted, non-US companies. The response of numerous studies confirms the substantial validity of this algorithm. However, in Italy, the legislator, in launching the new Business Crisis Code in 2019, in adherence to an im...

Purpose – This study investigates the evolution of digital transformation research trends in the context of the fashion industry. The paper analyzes and addresses the impact of digital innovations on three areas of the industry: products, processes and business models. Design/methodology/approach – The study examined 277 peer-reviewed articles usi...

Il presente lavoro propone uno strumento per la valorizzazione della cultura del territorio mediante l’utilizzo della realtà aumentata. L’identità culturale di un territorio risulta una componente essenziale del brand della destinazione che permette un maggiore potenziale di differenziazione e un vantaggio competitivo nei confronti di altre localit...

Il presente lavoro propone uno strumento per la valorizzazione della cultura del territorio mediante l'utilizzo della realtà aumentata. L'identità culturale di un territorio risulta una componente essenziale del brand della destinazione che permette un maggiore potenziale di differenziazione e un vantaggio competitivo nei confronti di altre localit...

Il ruolo delle biblioteche è estremamente diversificato e va oltre il semplice prestito di libri, abbracciando una funzione educativa e culturale fondamentale. Esse offrono una vasta gamma di risorse, sia fisiche che elettroniche, che svolgono un ruolo cruciale nella promozione dell'alfabetizzazione, nell'incoraggiare l'apprendi­mento continuo e an...

In this paper study, we delve into the intricate landscape of Italian financial reporting, focusing our lens on the inclusion of derivative financial instruments for fiscal years commencing on or after 1 January 2016. Specifically, the study aims to understand the extent to which these instruments are integrated into company financials and evaluate...

This chapter explores the role and importance of social media platforms and other digital tools for social advocacy. A digital activist leverages digital tools to advocate for social, political, economic, and environmental causes online. The goal of digital activists is to mobilize individuals through the Internet and various communication channels...

A digital activist leverages digital tools to advocate for social, political, economic, and environmental causes online. Their goal is to mobilize individuals through the Internet and various communication channels to achieve widespread impact and awareness. This study explores environmental digital activism through a survey conducted in February 2...

In recent decades, the tourism sector has played a crucial role in the economic and cultural development of numerous territories worldwide. The competitiveness of a tourist destination hinges on its ability to provide a unique and memorable experience, combining elements such as accessibility, service offerings, hospitality quality, and attraction...

Generazione Z e percezione delle sostenibilità nella scelta del servizio alberghiero

In letteratura la generazione Z, rappresentata da individui nati tra il 1996 e il 2010, è descritta come profondamente immersa nelle tecnologie digitali ed è cresciuta in un contesto dominato da globalizzazione e cause ambientali con uno spiccato senso di responsabilità nei confronti della sostenibilità ed il futuro del pianeta. Il presente studio...

Data; Overtourism; Como Lake; Public Transportation

This study aims to make a significant contribution to the development of a model for integrating research in the wine sector, innovative knowledge, and family businesses with the traditional mode of production in the context of the introduction of modern production technologies with a view to sustainability and the improvement of services in touris...

The aim of the analysis is first of all to understand the degree to which the possession of derivative financial instruments is included in the Italian financial statements. In addition, to analyse the impact of accounting on the company's financial situation.

Article in Italian. Journal: ECONOMIA AZIENDALE ONLINE Corporate museums blend history, technology, and innovation to narrate the impact of businesses and industries on society, culture, and the economy of a region. Unlike traditional museums, their value lies not only in the exhibited artifacts but in the message and experience they convey. Each...

The attention on sustainability has been increasingly influencing the development of the tourism sector and of the destination competitiveness (Bohdanowicz, 2005). Especially the hospitality industry has generally a heavy and negative economic, environmental, and socio-cultural impact on the destination (e.g. consumption of energy, water, food) (Cr...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues have become particularly relevant in the agendas of policymakers, investment decisions by companies and asset allocation process of investors. However, the transition to a greener and more sustainable economic system is not without risks. The literature has investigated the relationship between ESG...

L’attenzione verso il tema della sostenibilità sta fortemente influenzando il settore turistico e la competitività della destinazione turistica (Buhalis e Main, 1998; Kozak e Rimmington, 1998; Bohdanowicz, 2005). Il business dell’ospitalità in particolare produce forti impatti negativi a livello ambientale, economico e socio-culturale sulla destina...

Purpose – Although not yet fully defined, natural wine represents a sector that has gained the widespread attention of final consumers and, therefore, also of the restaurant world, because of its promise of sustainability. The objective of this paper is to understand Italian haute cuisine’s interest in natural wine, with the aim of analysing what q...

Resilience and the efficiency of transportation systems are crucial for the economic development of geographical areas, and network analysis applied to railways can provide insight into the importance of branch lines and their impacts on the entire system. This paper explores the behavior of the ERC measure, a local robustness measure, on the railw...

The importance of innovation, in both private and public entrepreneurial fields, is the basis of all companies’ strategic choices. This study examines entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as their dynamic interface in value creation, in the public sector. It explores entrepreneurial determinants for public-sector innovation, as collected from m...

The importance of sustainability is an overall aspect of everyday life, even at an academic level. It is no longer just a research topic, but it can be found at a practical, theoretical, social, and promotional level in our society. Knowledge of the sustainability issues should be considered by all the actors involved, especially in the younger age...

Motorcampervan tourism is a growing and promising trend. Many families chose it to contact with nature, for freedom, and for experiences. Some families look for a sense of adventure and might be interested in travelling with small vans. This choice could, however, be complicated. The aim of this paper is to explore whether going on a holiday with a...

This paper investigates whether or not Italian Certified B Corps® in the fashion industry achieved levels of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance that are comparable to listed companies in the same industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. After a review of the literature concerning B Corps, CSR and the circular economy, as...

This contribution reports on the latest developments of Age.Vol.A. (Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants. Multilingual tools for assisting the ageing), an ongoing funded research project on ageing issues in Northern Italy’s Varese province. Its main aim is to facilitate communication between the home-assisted elderly, their families, and foreign caregive...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to investigate whether the corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation activity of Certified B Corps® is comparable to listed companies in the Italian fashion industry. Design/methodology/approach The study includes a systematic literature review performed on Scopus® and combining keywords related to...

The retail sector, under the pressure of digitalization and technological innovation, has experienced profound changes in the last decade, and retailers have had to cope with these changes by implementing new business models and competitive strategies with the aim of satisfying the consumers’ needs. In the last few decades, the sector has been affe...

Purpose The role of sustainability is predominant in many aspects of consumer purchasing decisions. Millennials and young people are, in this field, potential players who buy and consume wine with ecosustainable decisions but, in the literature, these aspects are analyzed with nonuniform findings. This paper aims to investigate the wine consumption...

As sustainability has become a key and urgent challenge both in urban and suburban contexts, in the last years commuting patterns of university populations have received a growing attention from scholars and policymakers. Urgent solutions are required to improve the people quality of life, by encouraging, especially in systematic mobility, the use...

The market scenario is characterized by a profound crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic that, inevitably, changing and damaging a huge part of the world trade, affecting especially the sectors producing goods that are not considered essential, such as the fashion industry. This sector is strictly affected by the personal ideas of the individuals...

The symmetric shock of the Covid-19 pandemic has come with heterogeneous consequences across the world. Within the common institutional framework of the European Union, the outbreak has put under extreme stress governance and interplay between the national and supranational level. Under some coordination, responses have remained largely in the hand...

I musei, durante il lockdown, hanno dovuto utilizzare nuovi strumenti e tecniche per promuovere l’arte, trasformando così il digitale nel “new normal del beneficio culturale”. Il crescente utilizzo delle mostre online e l’apertura di piattaforme sui social network, già presenti nel panorama prima della pandemia ma in modo molto ridotto, ha permesso...

The Covid-19 crisis has led to unprecedented containment measures, often at the expense of allegedly less urgent priorities, such as gender parity, raising a substantial risk of reversing the recent progress even in contexts such as that of the European Union which have long made female empowerment and an equal society a mainstreamed objective in a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an innovative approach for the strategic design of public–private partnerships (PPP) and private finance initiatives (PFI) based on ontology. Design/methodology/approach: Adopting a historic approach, it introduces a posteriori knowledge, deriving from the scheme’s stakeholders at the construction a...

Religious tourism and pilgrimages increasingly contribute to developing thesocial and economic growth of local economies and communities over time.The aim of the present study is to analyse the role of religious touristic routesas sites of pilgrimages and an opportunity to drive a pathway for sustainabletourism development. The study relies on anal...

Cycle tourism is considered as a trendy opportunity of local development that should be taken into consideration by several destinations to (further) increase tourism according to the sustainable development approach. It is a broad and complex phenomenon that involves various social and economic actors. Cycle tourists are looking for new and deep e...

The Age.Vol.A. project aims to develop technological tools to help non-Italianspeaking in-home carers to communicate with the families of the assisted elderly and receive useful information to achieve their duties in the area of Varese.

L’obiettivo della ricerca è analizzare il turismo religioso ed i pellegrinaggi. Questo settore oggi è in forte espansione, in particolare, nell’articolo si pone l’attenzione sul potenziale sviluppo del mercato italiano relativo ai cammini storico-religiosi, focalizzandosi sulla Via Francigena. Come modello di sviluppo, il lavoro si basa dall’analis...

The paper aims at investigating the impact of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 on Italian "public interest entities" both in term of approaches to non-financial disclosure and on business strategies. The analysis focuses on the investigation of the relationships between the 17 SDGs and the set of non-financial information defined in bon...

The aim of thisarticle is to analyze new trends in the fashion sector, focusing on the importance of the circular economy. Sustainability is now a highly topical issue, involving all sectors. The green fashion movement arouses a growing interest aimed at promoting a production that is attentive to the protection of the environment and the consumer....

This chapter provided you with the basis on which to reflect on ways to improve an AD type of hospitality business that you have established or managing. By reading the chapter, you would have gained a deeper understanding of how important it is to rely on trust to be able to achieve collaboration and cooperation success at the level of a destinati...

By reading the chapter it is possible to understand how important the AD model is for the development of almost abandoned villages. It is also possible to understand how sustainability and tourism can work together a driver for tourism development in particular for places or locations within a destination that are yet established as attractions for...

A stressful and unbalanced lifestyle leads to a marked decrease in well-being levels from a different point of view. The generation of baby boomers and generation X have suffered more and more from this modern style. Today, generation Y (Millennials) seems to be much more interested and sensitive in this field. They also proactively seek to find an...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the sharing economy in Italy, focusing on key socioeconomic characteristics. Design/methodology/approach Adopting an exploratory approach, it analyzes the answers of a questionnaire, created using Google Forms and administered via social networks and e-mails. To analyze the answers statistical tests and descripti...

A Benefit Corporation is one possible alternative to traditional business models and a new way of managing business and sustainability. Emphasis on B‐Corporations in Italy dates back 2006, and 1 year later, B LAB certified the first Benefit Corporation Industry using the first version of the Benefit Impact Assessment process. Since then, the number...

From the early ‘90s until today, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility is acquiring more and more relevance, with consequences impacting over the whole organization of any corporation. It is clear that CSR assumes a strategic importance not just because of the reputation, also because of the pursue of a better management. It means that if...

The management of many companies is pursued in terms of governance, noting, on the one hand, the maximization of profit voluntarily sought by social actors for their own activity; on the other hand, investment as a fundamental element of the business strategy that stimulates the country’s economic growth and job creation by increasing national inco...

This paper focuses on assessing the level of satisfaction of customers that had spent some part of their holidays in an eco-way style. This is an innovative form of hospitality that is represented by the "Albergo Diffuso". The connection between this sustainable tourism model and the customers wellbeing is based on concepts which are directly conne...

The present article presents a high-level study on creativity. From a theoretical point of view, we conceptualized cognitive framework of creativity based on the notion of balance between conscious and unconscious processes. Indeed, creativity may be considered a borderline state of mind, in which the thought seems to fluctuate in a near-consciousn...

Book of Abstracts of the 6th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium “Borders without Borders”

To develop sustainable communities, car dominance in commuting habits and low propension to eco-friendly means, especially in small and medium towns, are problems that need an urgent solution. With the aim to map modal choices and evaluate the usage of public transit in central and suburban poles of attraction, data of the Mobility Survey of the Un...

The railway system is a fundamental component of the economy of most countries, since it has the capability to transport every day millions of passengers as well as millions of dollars' worth of goods from origin to destination. According to many empirical CO2 emissions, is one of the most environmentally friendly and safe transportation modes. Mor...

Pubblicato su EyesReg, (ISSN 2239-3110) http://www.eyesreg.it/2018/determinanti-della-scelta-modale-nei-percorsi-casa-universita-differenze-territoriali-ed-implicazioni-di-policy/

One form of cycle tourism can be represented features tourism that focuses on the relation between biking and the discovery of a territory. Geared toward forms of holiday that allow for the low consumption of natural resources and a connection with the landscape, cycle tourism represents a concrete expression of sustainable tourism. As an emerging...

Abstract: The paper aimed to explore the role of EWOM in consumers eating out decision-making process. The purpose is the one of showing how information shared through EWOM were much more effective than commercial information and they made consumers change their mind in their eating out decisions. To test hypothesis an experiment simulating the eat...

This article aims to evaluate the market performance of the European tourism industry from 2004 to 2014, a period that includes the financial and economic crises, to highlight which macroeconomic factors influenced the industry stock returns. The Stoxx Europe 600 Travel & Leisure price index is used to proxy the industry stock performance, and a mu...

Dementia is a disease of the central nervous system that causes cognitive impairments due to progressive deterioration of the brain tissue (Calvarese and Lovati, 2014; WHO, 2015). Usually of a chronic or progressive nature, this disease causes cognitive deterioration that goes beyond the normal ageing process. Approximately 60-70% of cases of demen...

Many destinations currently live the challenge of finding ways for rejuvenation, after having lost their popularity, and entered stagnation. This requires them look for innovative products and targets for tourism development that will allow an alternative positioning strategy (Kotler et al., 2014). In this paper rejuvenation is explored under the l...

Consumers, due to their bounded rationality, usually rely on external advice and information when they are asked to make decisions. In order to make accurate decisions they use external information to better evaluate alternatives, and this implies docility. The concept of docility, which refers to advice giving and taking in organizational studies,...

Many Italian destinations currently live the challenge of rejuvenation, after being flourishing tourism destinations for years. After having lost their popularity, these destinations enter stagnation and enjoy a revamp in tourism arrivals and receipts only in conjunction with the hosting of different events. For a tourism development based on event...

Web applications are among the most popular and relevant kinds of application. Most Web applications are developed using a content management framework (CMF). CMF helps to accelerate the publication of large amounts of information and the development of Web applications. However, developing Web applications through CMF is not exempt from cost and t...

This paper reports the results from a survey concerning the use of Agile Methodologies (AM), techniques and tools for Web Programming. The survey lasted from October to December 2013, and involved 112 Web application developers from 32 countries. Its main purpose was to assess the usage of AMs, and of specific practices and tools, in the context of...

The present article presents a high-level study on creativity. From a theoretical point of view, we conceptualized cognitive framework of creativity based on the notion of balance between conscious and unconscious processes. Indeed, creativity may be considered a borderline state of mind, in which the thought seems to fluctuate in a near-consciousn...

Several Content Management Frameworks (CMF), either open source or with a commercial license, are available to help the publication of huge amounts of information and to develop Web applications. Unfortunately, developing Web applications through a CMF is not exempt from cost and time overruns, as in traditional software projects, and currently the...

This work outlines a new methodology for estimating the size of Web applications developed with a Content Management Framework (CMF). The reason for proposing — through this work — a new methodology for size estimation is the realization of the inadequacy of the RWO method, which we had recently developed, in estimating the effort of the latest Web...