Maria Rosaria Sessa

• PhD in Management & Information Technology at University of Salerno

This paper explores the extent to which Italian Benefit Corporations which have achieved B‐Corp Certification disclose Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices through their corporate websites, thus developing a disclosure index. The research also aims to analyse the correlation between the size of companies, non‐financial performance, finan...

The capacity of the infrastructure sector to generate value for the territory in terms of social inclusion, economic growth, and employment may be determined as of today (2023) on the basis of empirical evidence. With the technological advancements and the development of other modes of transportation over time, the system of roads and highways in p...

Economic, social, and environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly important in territorial development policies in Europe and internationally. Among the sustainable development goals, the theme of the energy transition is particularly important, which translates not only into a move away from energy from fossil fuels in favor of renewable...

The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the environmental crisis in which our ecosystem is posed. In this context, the call to reorganize the production and consumption models to implement sustainable economic models is emerging. Accordingly, the Circular Economy paradigm, based on the reduction, reuse and recycling practices, has spurred as one of t...

This Special Issue will focus on innovative frameworks for financing and maintaining forests in cities, industrial areas, the urban–rural interface, commercial sites, degraded lands, and brownfields. Particularly, this Special Issue seeks to integrate research, techniques, and tools to investigate the impact of investments on ecosystems and the rel...

Purpose This paper investigates the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated service innovation in the restaurant sector. It explores the use of digital technologies (DT) as a safety-empowerment and resilient strategy in the food-service industry during the pandemic. It also investigates the impact of DT on customers' risk perception (...

Economic, social and environmental sustainability are becoming more important in urban and territorial development policies in Europe and internationally. Recently, the United States and Europe have put forth the green deals proposing programmatic provisions for achieving territorial sustainability through the redevelopment of brownfield land into...

Il Life Cycle Assessment rappresenta uno degli strumenti più idonei per la valutazione degli impatti ambientali derivanti dai sistemi di produzione agroalimentare. Tuttavia, la validità delle informazioni ottenute dalle analisi di LCA è strettamente interrelata alla qualità dei dati forniti in input ai software all'uopo preposti. La difficoltà ad a...

Over the last few decades, stakeholders’ growing attention towards social and environmental issues has challenged universities’ traditional accountability boundaries, imposing the adoption of innovative reporting tools that facilitate stakeholders’ engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices and performances. Against this backdrop...

The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly compromised the global economy. In this context, the restaurant sector has been particularly affected by the outbreak because restaurants operators and customers are particularly exposed to the risk of contracting the virus. Accordingly, authorities have imposed many restrictive measures on restaurants, which...

As a safety-empowerment strategy, technology innovation is likely to play a pivotal role in the restaurant sector’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. However, its impact on customers’ perceptions is still unexplored in the literature. To fill this gap, this research attempts to provide an innovative contribution to the existing literature by inv...

Purpose This paper aims to explore how the Italian wine industry discloses corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and quality certifications and the corresponding determinants via websites. The study also aims to investigate the relationship between CSR practices and financial performance. The information consistency between the quality ce...

Sustainability is a complex phenomenon that refers to economic, environmental, and social aspects. Any concept of sustainable urban development must incorporate sectoral concepts; these must be well integrated into the overarching urban, regional, and governance policies. One sectoral policy of great importance is the redevelopment processes of dis...

Over the last decade, the unsustainability of the current economic model, based on the so-called take-make-dispose paradigm, has emerged. In particular, the agro-food sector (AFS) has been severely affected by such problems as resource scarcity and food loss and waste generation along the supply chain. In addition, climate change and biodiversity l...

Nell’attuale scenario economico e sociale si è affermata l’esigenza di orientare i sistemi di produzione e gli stili di consumo verso nuovi modelli virtuosi di gestione in cui l’innovazione, la qualità e la sostenibilità rappresentano elementi fondanti per la creazione di strategie sapienti e lungimiranti capaci di creare un valore “sostenibile” pe...

A continuous growth characterizes the restaurant sector in Italy. Indeed Federazione Italiana Pubblici Esercizi (FIPE) reports have shown, from 2010 to 2017, a dimensional growth of about 11, 56% corresponding to 36.048 companies. However, this growth is accompanied by a global impact on economic, social and environmental fields: waste production i...

Glass manufacturing is a high-volume process, during which large substance quantities are transformed into commercial products, and significant amounts of non-renewable resources and energy (i.e., thermal fuels and electrical power) are consumed. The main purpose of this study is to give a critical explanation of the performance of the Italian cont...