Marcella De Martino- PhD Applied Economics
- Research Director at Italian National Research Council
Marcella De Martino
- PhD Applied Economics
- Research Director at Italian National Research Council
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Introduction
I'm Research Director at Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA)-CNR. My main research interests deal with open innovation; collaboration; sustainability; circular economy models; business models and value co-creation processes.
I focused mainly on SMEs and supply chains in strategic sectors for the Italian economy, such as agrifood, textile-clothing, tourism and cultural heritage, and their connections with regional port and logistics systems.
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Despite the increasing interest in CE models, it is still debated how the hospitality and tourism industry can continue to thrive while avoiding harmful impacts on the environment and local communities. The paper critically analyses the circular economy (CE) models adopted in hospitality and tourism to tackle societal challenges in the current Anth...
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This study investigates to what extent the values perceived by tourists throughout cultural tours impact their overall satisfaction levels and behavioral intentions related to the destination. This study further examines the moderating role of tour guide competency in the relationship patterns concerned.
Design/methodology/approach
Empiric...
I'm thrilled to announce that the Special Issue on "Social network analysis in hospitality and tourism" has been published on the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 36 (2).
The special issue aims to provide theoretical, methodological and empirically relevant contributions to the study of hospitality and tourism through...
Based on a total number of 1.266 papers published from 1967 to 2018, the paper investigates authorship patterns and author productivity. Findings show the existence of different typologies of author-led research network, characterised by a hierarchy of relationships centred on team leaders. Conclusions and future research directions are provided in...
The research applies the notion of Ego-Network to the study of decision-making and control processes of container terminal operators and offers a new tool for interpreting competitive dynamics at domestic level. The scope of study is the Italian port system in which 27 container terminal operators compete in providing container transport and logist...
The paper offers a theoretical advancement on sustainable port development strategies adopting a relational perspective, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and stakeholder interaction in achieving sustainable value creation. It provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of value creation, highlighting its evolution and the different...
Purpose: This study critically reviews competitive intelligence (CI) research and offers suggestions for future research in the hospitality and tourism (HT) field.
Methodology: The study reviews and synthetizes current CI research in the HT field.
Findings: The study findings suggest that CI research in HT is at an embryonic level since researcher...
Limited empirical research has been carried out on port value creation in supply chains especially when the analysis includes different actors, or is extended to land side decision makers. This lack originates from the difficulty in addressing the multifirms dimension of port, namely the wide range of actors involved in and across port supply chain...
This study examines the effect of social media sharing on tourism destination brand awareness and destination natural and service quality and also examines the moderating roles of country of origin (COI; macro and micro) image on destination natural and service quality. Data were collected from 568 domestic and international tourists who have visit...
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The purpose of this study is to provide a synthesis of the state of research on collaborative innovation in tourism and hospitality. It presents a systematic review of the academic literature, and provides insights into the specific issues addressed by studies in this area.
Design/methodology/approach
A search of major research databases...
Obiettivo del paper: Il lavoro ha l’obiettivo di analizzare i principali fattori - sia interni all’azienda (n° addetti, fatturato, competenze, investimenti in R&S) che esterni (collaborazione, fonti informative, finanziamenti pubblici) - che favoriscono lo sviluppo di attività innovative nelle PMI del settore agroalimentare.
Metodologia: Sulla bas...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the innovation capacity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and micro enterprises through a theoretical framework that addresses the influence of some internal and external resources – derived from the literature review – on the development of innovation activities and on innovative firm’s results....
Il presente lavoro si focalizza sul ruolo delle relazioni inter-organizzative per l’innovazione nei porti, quale contributo all’avanzamento delle conoscenze sul tema più generale della generazione e gestione dell’innovazione all’interno di reti complesse. A questo fine il lavoro propone un framework teorico, in grado di definire gli elementi che co...
In the era of fierce competition among ports as elements of value chain systems, the opening of the boundaries to the market represents a crucial challenge that port authority has to cope with, in order to guarantee a lasting economic and social development of the port and its hinterland. We propose a theoretical framework to analyse value creation...
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The purpose of the study is to examine knowledge transfer and innovation in two tourism destinations, Naples and Orlando. It will focus on the mechanism, sources and outcomes of knowledge transfer and innovation and also look at the spatial proximity of the partners to their network.
Background
In the global tourism market, tourism destin...
![Figure 1: A simplified view of port network [12]](publication/269379457/figure/fig1/AS:294958310412295@1447334949223/A-simplified-view-of-port-network-12_Q320.jpg)
![Fig. 2: Port service supply chain α : the core service of the port [13]](publication/269379457/figure/fig2/AS:294958310412297@1447334949433/Port-service-supply-chain-a-the-core-service-of-the-port-13_Q320.jpg)
![Fig. 3: Port service supply chain β: intermodality [13]](publication/269379457/figure/fig3/AS:294958310412298@1447334949457/Port-service-supply-chain-b-intermodality-13_Q320.jpg)
![Fig. 4. Port service supply chain γ : value added logistics [13]](publication/269379457/figure/fig4/AS:294958310412299@1447334949483/Port-service-supply-chain-g-value-added-logistics-13_Q320.jpg)
Recent years have witnessed a profound evolution of ports, induced by a wide range of factors, such as: (a) technological developments in shipping, cargo-handling and storage equipment, and information and communication systems; (b) changing patterns of international trade; (c) a broadening complexity of global supply chains; and (d) a changing gov...
In the context of ports, organizing for networked logistics innovation is a strategic response of port managers’ to effectively tackle the increasing complexity of economic, social and environmental challenges. The paper proposes a conceptual framework to analyze the contribution of different public and private resources to a networked process of i...
Southern Italy is an area with a rich and wide variety of Agri-food products, with high potentiality for growth and internationalisation for those products which are of high quality, have supply chain certification and are a well-known brand abroad. Nevertheless, with reference to logistics, there are several problematic issues that policy makers a...
Southern Italy is an area with a rich and wide variety of Agri-food products, with high potentiality for growth and internationalisation for those products which are of high quality, have supply chain certification and are a well-known brand abroad. Nevertheless, with reference to logistics, there are several problematic issues that policy makers a...
The chapter addresses the issue of port value creation from a supply chain integration (SCI) perspective. Based on the concept of supply chain management (SCM), a theoretical model is proposed aimed at identifying the sources of value creation in port environment. The model views the port as a network of actors, resources and activities that co-pro...
The paper proposes a theoretical model based on the concept of Supply Chain Management in port environment, aimed at identifying the sources of value creation in an innovative way. The model views the port as a network of actors, resources and activities-the Port Supply Network (PSN)-which co-produce value by promoting a number of interdependencies...
Increasingly considered as crucial for the development of tourism areas, Destination Management provides an approach for the strategic management of the resources and actors constituting the tourism economy of a given territory. The adoption of the Destination Management approach can significantly contribute to the development of tourism in regions...
In the last decade, the port economics literature has given great emphasis to the Supply Chain Management approach as the new paradigm for the definition of port competitiveness. SCM supports the development of partnerships between the actors of the supply chain and considers the integration of activities and resources along business processes as s...
Given its potential to reduce lead times and total costs of operations, increase delivery speed, responsiveness and flexibility, and ultimately customer satisfaction, supply chain logistics integration can help to improve the competitiveness of the Italian textile and clothing (T/C) firms. However, little research works on supply chain management i...
Supply Chain Management e competitività portuale: nuove prospettive di analisi (di Marcella De Martino, Alfonso Morvillo) - ABSTRACT: Nel dibattito recente sulla competitività portuale, grande rilevanza è stata data in letteratura all’approccio del Supply Chain Management quale nuovo paradigma per inquadrare strategie e posizionamento strategico de...
Il lavoro approfondisce gli approcci adottati dalle imprese del settore tessile-abbigliamento per la gestione integrata della logistica nella supply chain. A tal fine, il contributo coniuga gli aspetti teorici del fenomeno, approfonditi attraverso un’ampia rassegna degli studi dedicati all’analisi dell’integrazione logistica nella catena di fornitu...
The objective of this paper is the analysis of the multimodal transport chains between Maghreb and Western European Countries. The paper describes the main results of the Work Package 4 within the DESTIN (Defining and Evaluating a Strategic Transport Infrastructure Network in the Western Mediterranean), a research project under the INCO-MED of the...
As integrated supply-chain management (SCM) is now at the epicentre of business transformation, firms are breaking down boundaries between internal functions, as well as between the enterprise itself and key partners in the value chain (e.g. customers, distributors, suppliers and carriers). One of the main goals of such new management approach is t...
The aim of this work is to analyse how and if port operators can face the challenge of higher integration, on the assumption that the higher the integration between the actors the higher the competitiveness of the whole supply chain.
Accordingly, we adopted an SCM approach in the analysis of the port of Le Havre in Renault’s supply chain. More spec...
This paper has been aimed at analysing competitiveness of the port of Naples within the development of containerised liner services in the Mediterranean, also taking into consideration the recent extensive investments in the infrastructure jointly made by the Port Authority and some private owners. The first part, dealing with methodology, has defi...
The paper proposes a theoretical model based on the concept of Supply Chain Management in port environment, aimed at identifying the sources of value creation in an innovative way. The model views the port as a network of actors, resources and activities -the Port Supply Network (PSN) -which co-produce value by promoting a number of interdependenci...
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As Editorial member of peer reviewed journals, I have been alerted to a new malpractice in the area of scientific publications. Currently, an increasing number of journals have been targeted by some organisations that aim to manipulate the peer review process, known as paper mills.
What’s a paper mill?
A paper mill is an organisation that offers services to individuals that include:
- Writing a manuscript on their behalf and submitting to a journal of their choice;
- Writing a manuscript which the paper mill submits to a journal, which when accepted, they sell the authorship of (with varying fees depending on the order of the author);
- Writing an article which an individual will pay to add superfluous references to, in order to boost their citation score;
- Installing reviewers into a journal site, who commit reviewer fraud.
Paper mills operate globally, and there are academics from across the world involved. Papers can be perfectly acceptable research papers, or they may be research papers where the research was never conducted, or they do not make sense to the reader.
There are procedures to prevent paper mill activities; however, it is our responsibility, as member of the research community, to engage in ethical behavior, and to promote fairness and rigor in research and dissemination activities.
We believe that cross-fertilizing the tourism and seaport literatures on the specific topic of relationship networks for competitiveness can favour the spreading of practices and can create a collaborative environment to solve problems that cannot be solved by one sector alone. The final aim is to identify and promote common tools for the sustainable development of both tourism destinations and seaports in the city.
