Niccolò Paoloni

Università Degli Studi Roma Tre | UNIROMA3 · Faculty of Economics ''Federico Caffè''

Over the last decade, women and social media have changed their role from the past. In fact, compared to the past, there are many more women who hold entrepreneurial roles. Likewise, the way of communicating, receiving feedback, selling and promoting has changed thanks to the widespread use of social media. For this reason, the purpose of this pape...

Although according to previous studies, female enterprises are smaller, younger, and fewer than male-led ones, gender studies represent a significant part of the economic literature, which is increasing and expanding its boundaries in the most varied fields of study. This paper aims to analyse how economic literature is facing women-led start-ups (...

Purpose This work aims to investigate the current financial structure of Italian agri-food micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to understand how MSMEs face innovation challenges, which are also required to support sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach To reach the goal, an empirical longitudinal analysis is performed on a sa...

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the roles of relational capital (RC) and knowledge management (KM) during the COVID-19 in Italian public and private hospitals, considering that intangible elements are essential during periods of uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach Authors used a qualitative design in a case study on two Italian hospitals t...

Gender equality policies are closely linked to the identity of the European Union and the United Nations (UN). The importance of this issue has led to its inclusion in both the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the 2030 Agenda. Among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the founding elements of the 2030 Agenda, SDG5 is dedicated to th...

The 7th Ipazia Workshop aims to investigate how the crisis may turn into opportunities for those organizations that will interpret the change, adapt their strategies, and increase their probabilities of success in a post-pandemic scenario. A company's success is based on the ability to distinguish from competitors and create value in a long time fo...

Purpose Recent socioeconomic events, not least the Covid-19 pandemic, have led farms to rethink their traditional production methods. Innovation, new technologies and the establishment of relationships could be crucial for farms to remain competitive and sustainable over time. These factors can be assumed as structural and relational capital, two o...

The topic of sustainable development has become increasingly central to the international community. In 2015, the UN approved the 2030 Agenda, an action plan aimed at pursuing sustainable development. The founding elements of the 2030 Agenda are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that refer to different areas of development. The objective o...

The Scientific Observatory on Gender Research “Ipazia” is pleased to announce the workshop on “Female entrepreneurship in the crisis context.” The financial crisis has characterized the economic and social scenario of the last decades. It has challenged people, organizations, and territories find themselves to operate, aiming not just to survive,...

The Italian banking system has changed profoundly and nowadays banks have to adapt their strategies to attain an adequate level of profitability (Mattei, 2019). Digitalization and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are useful to obtain this result. However, at the same time, they can have a negative impact on the relationship between the bank and the t...

Purpose This study aims to validate a direct method to measure relational capital through the estimation of corporate brands. Considering the influence of relational capital management in leading performance and brand development, we consider brand value as a proxy for relational capital. The main research goal is to extend the previous literature...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enrich the scientific and managerial debate on intangibles by placing the concept of key money within the broader concept of Intellectual Capital, and by proposing an evaluation approach for a portion of the latter, focusing the analysis on fashion retailers. Design/methodology/approach This research focuses...

By analyzing the literature regarding the peculiarities of the Corporate Governance (CG) structure and their impact on the companies’ performance, it is possible to understand that the characteristics of the CG, especially of the Board of Directors (BoDs), strongly affect companies. Particularly, it is renowned that the diversity of members, as wel...

This study aimed to analyse whether relational capital (RC) could help a woman start-up (WSU) fundraise during the early stages. Following previous studies about start-ups as means of development for economic context (Paoloni and Modaffari 2018) and about the role of innovative financial tools (e.g. crowdfunding) in their financial structure, the s...

Purpose With the increasing pressures towards global sustainability and the transition to Industry 4.0 (I4.0), the collaboration between firms and other key stakeholders is essential. Value is no longer created by firms acting autonomously, but rather by firms acting together with external parties. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore the...

ABSTRACT: With the increasing pressures towards global sustainability and the transition to Industry 4.0 (I4.0), the collaboration between firms and other key stakeholders is essential. Value is no longer created by firms acting autonomously, but rather by firms acting together with external parties. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore t...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze how “mini-bonds,” an innovative financial tool for Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), can contribute to the development and sustainability of the agri-food sector and its local products, such as Pecorino Cheese. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted as a qualitative case stu...

Knowledge hiding is widely considered a counter-productive workplace behavior that can hinder the employees' creativity and have a negative impact on performance. Although companies are prone to encourage knowledge sharing practices, employees are inclined to hide their knowledge – tacit and explicit. Often this happens in research and development...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between gender and profitability in the Italian hospitality industry during the period 2008–2017. The study examines whether female executive managers have any significant effect on the performance of hotel firms. Gender differences result in female underperformance when performance is measur...

Purpose The transition from industrial to social economy and from knowledge produces a paradigm shift, which is the space in which new professions, new values and even new forms of financing are shaped. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon of crowdfunding, and the specific focus is the small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs’)...

The purpose of the present work was to gauge the extent of the impact on earnings management derived from the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 15 as well as detecting whether the impact will be similar in different industries. To provide empirical evidence that earnings management is more frequent in some industries an...

This paper aims at analysing how relational capital (RC) contributes to the born of women enterprises in Italian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In this way, this research is supported by a qualitative research methodology using a multiple case study (Yin 2009) comparing a small female enterprise and a small man enterprise to point out their c...

Starting from the assumption that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performances and financial performances are the results of the plan of actions of companies and depend on the financial and sustainability policies, the aim of this paper is to understand, thanks to a traditional literature review, what kind of relationship exists between the c...

IFRS 15 “revenues from contracts with clients”, became mandatory for the IFRS compliance companies as from the 1st January 2018. From different studies, appear that the telecommunications companies represent the major industry impacted from the adoption of the new standard. In the present study were selected the Telecommunications companies listed...