Pierangelo Rosati

University of Galway | NUI Galway · School of Business and Economics

This book highlights advances in Cyber Security, Cyber Situational Awareness (CyberSA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Media. It brings together original discussions, ideas, concepts and outcomes from research and innovation from multidisciplinary experts. It offers topical, timely and emerging original innovations and research results in...

The convergence of cloud computing, mobile technology and big data technologies are transforming information technology faster than ever before. While there is an established knowledge base of known implementation issues relating to project management, technology, user resistance, organisation/environment and outsourcing, digital technologies intro...

In recent years, the increasing adoption of digital technologies have dramatically accelerated the speed of change in the accounting information systems (AIS) domain. However, AIS go back centuries. This chapter provides a brief summary on evolution of AIS, from when the first rudimentary versions of AIS were adopted to the information age with the...

The rise of online hate speech in sports is a growing concern, with fans, players and officials subject to racist, sexist and homophobic abuse (in addition to many other prejudices) via social media platforms. While hate speech and discrimination have always been problems in sports, the growth of social media has seen them exacerbated exponentially...

This special issue of the Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy is the follow-up of the 2nd ECMCRC Summer School on Behavioral and Neuroscientific research for Economics, Finance and Accounting, hosted by Dublin City University (DCU) Business School from July 6 to July 10, 2020. It includes nine articles first elaborated and/or presented at th...

This study investigates whether and how information asymmetry in the stock market affects the quantum of audit fees paid by auditees. It is based on a sample of 218 US publicly traded companies and adopts two well‐established proxies for information asymmetry, namely bid‐ask spread (BAS) and probability of informed trading (PIN). Empirical results...

The objective of this chapter is to alleviate some of the potential and perceived uncertainty and risk associated with social media research using Big Data. We propose a definition-agnostic generalised conceptual framework to illustrate how different elements of SNS relate to each other. We then introduce an enabling workflow, a generalised big dat...

The WHO estimates that vaccine hesitancy contributes to 1.5 million deaths annually which could be avoided if global vaccinations improved. To investigate how vaccination sentiments are perceived on social media, we examine stigma amongst those active in the vaccination discourse on Twitter. Two datasets of English-language tweets published in Dece...

This paper investigates the relationship between bank debt and earnings management in private SMEs in a bank-oriented economy. In this study, we leverage a sample of 4866 Italian private SMEs from 2005 to 2012 and propose a new metric to isolate the annual increase in bank debt. The results of our OLS regression suggest that, even though bank monit...

Globalisation, technological advances, liberalisation of financial markets, and changing consumer behaviour are transforming banking profoundly. Under the EU Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2), incumbent banks must open up their data, processes, and business functionalities to customers and third parties including rivals. It is critical to underst...

Purpose The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduces significant data protection obligations on all organizations within the European Union (EU) and those transacting with EU citizens. This paper presents the GDPR privacy label and uses two empirical studies to examine the effectiveness of this approach in influencing consumers' privacy...

Brands have been conceptualized as being made up of three different components: name, logo and slogan (Keller 1993, Dass, Kumar, Kohli, & Thomas, 2014). Slogans are short, memorable phrases that are often used to sign off on advertisements. They characterize a large proportion of brand advertising and are designed to attract consumer attention, cry...

Digital public services refer to the provision of public services using digital technologies wherein the interaction with a public sector organisation is mediated by an IT system. Citizens are constantly demanding higher transparency, efficiency and responsiveness from public organisations. The increasing adoption of digital technologies constitute...

Education plays an essential role in transferring social norms and building human capital. There is widespread enthusiasm for the adoption and integration of digital technologies in education. This digitalisation of education has become a pillar of education policy worldwide, driven by growing optimism that such a policy approach can bestow a wide...

To fully function in a society permeated by digital technologies requires individuals and households to have both the access and skills to use these technologies effectively. Unfortunately, access to digital infrastructure and skills is not equal. This chapter begins with a discussion on the nature of the digital divide and digital literacy. It the...

Digital technologies are an increasingly important part of societies and economies. International benchmarks suggest that countries and cities worldwide are progressing in their digitalisation efforts. Unfortunately, some parts of society and the economy are under-represented in extant measurement frameworks and composite indices and are in danger...

Civil society refers to social institutions outside of the confines of households, the market and the state. Such institutions provide a wide range of facilities and services in communities and society, generate employment, and create significant economic value through direct, indirect and induced expenditure. Notwithstanding this, voluntary, socia...

This chapter provides an overview of the growing body of evidence that now documents the positive impact of infrastructure for digital connectivity, as policymakers seek to harness its potential to drive economic development and improve standards of living. However, significant challenges continue to impede the delivery of comprehensive digital con...

It is well-established that the use of digital technologies can generate clear advantages for enterprises including cost savings, operational efficiency, IT resilience and scalability, easier access to new markets, and market effectiveness, amongst others. However, the adoption and use of digital technologies by rural businesses typically lags urba...

Digital technologies are transforming all aspects of society. While so-called smart city technologies are widely cited as solutions for a wide range of socio-economic challenges, there is a relative paucity of research and discussion on the role and impact of ICTs in towns. The term ‘digital town’ concerns a physical place, the people who interact...

Realising the potential of digital technologies in smaller and rural towns is a significant organisational and management challenge involving a diverse range of stakeholders, who may have conflicting motivations. It requires substantial horizontal integration at a local level to leverage local contextual knowledge and relationships to increase part...

Commercial buildings are a significant consumer of energy worldwide. Logistics facilities, and specifically warehouses, are a common building type which remain under-researched in the demand-side energy forecasting literature. Warehouses have an idiosyncratic profile when compared to other commercial and industrial buildings with a significant reli...

Commercial buildings are a significant consumer of energy worldwide. Logistics facilities, and specifically warehouses, are a common building type yet under-researched in the demand-side energy forecasting literature. Warehouses have an idiosyncratic profile when compared to other commercial and industrial buildings with a significant reliance on a...

Rural small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) represent a significant proportion of SMEs, are typically micro-enterprises (MSMEs), and face different challenges to their urban peers yet are typically under-represented in research. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated enterprise internet adoption and use however extant reports primarily focus on large...

While information technology is playing a significant transformative role in virtually every industry, within the agriculture sector, family-operated farming enterprises have been slow to adopt IT solutions to manage their operations. This study adopts a sequential mixed-methods research design to examine the pre-and post-adoption phases of farmers...

The global displaced population numbers in excess of 80 million people. They often are not permitted to work or receive monetary benefits while holding refugee status or seeking asylum. Where allowed, they face discrimination and other challenges associated with their status. Despite the perception of refugees as a financial burden on a host countr...

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Mobile contact tracing applications have emerged as a potential solution to track and reduce the transmission of viruses such as Covid-19. These applications require the disclosure of potentially sensitive personal information thus generating understandable implications for personal privacy. This research aims to determine the factors driving accep...

Mobile network traffic prediction is an important input into network capacity planning and optimization. Existing approaches may lack the speed and computational complexity to account for bursting, non‐linear patterns, or other important correlations in time series mobile network data. We compare the performance of two deep learning (DL) architectu...

Digital technologies have created new alternative sources of entrepreneurial finance that create significant opportunities for start-ups and entrepreneurs. Among them, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have attracted significant attention from the start-up community and from investors. Despite all the hype around ICOs and the growing number of new toke...

Social media is a major source of health information. However, the spread of health-related mis- and dis-information within such online networks is a major concern for governments and public health agencies worldwide. We argue that the adverse impacts of false information on social media can be mitigated by better understanding the human and non-hu...

Building stock accounts for a major portion of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Integrating resources, information and automation systems in a proper manner to achieve the required outcomes and meet the relevant regulatory standards for deep renovation and emerging energy efficiency is a significant challenge. RINNO is a H...

Health information is regularly sourced from social media platforms. However, health-related mis-and dis-information, particularly regarding vaccinations, has become increasingly prevalent on social networks since the spread of COVID-19. Automated attempts to manipulate or deceive the public by spreading false information on social media have adver...

The building stock accounts for a significant portion of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. While the majority of the existing building stock has poor energy performance, deep renovation efforts are stymied by a wide range of human, technological, organisational and external environment factors across the value chain. A key...

The continued proliferation of information technology in all aspects of our lives fosters benefits but also generates risks to individuals’ privacy. In emerging contexts, such as government surveillance technologies, there is a dearth of research investigating the positive and negative drivers of citizens’ acceptance. This is an important gap given...

Blockchain can potentially disrupt business processes across many industries. Despite substantial hype, blockchain adoption still remains quite low. Research suggests that the success and adoption of a new technology depends on whether it is deemed legitimate by key stakeholders. This is extremely important in the context of blockchain given the co...

Shopping streets are an essential part of rural towns however after centuries of resistance to change, the resilience of rural shopping streets is being threatened by aging infrastructure, urbanization, online shopping, and now, COVID-19. In addition to connectivity, streets perform a number of important economic, social, and environmental function...

The promotion of healthy nutrition and diet advice is a key tenet of public health strategies to combat obesity worldwide. Increasingly, social media is a major source of health information however is not subject to the same filtering and quality control as required by public health bodies or commercial sources. Consequently, unqualified users, poo...

This data article describes a dataset of data breaches in US listed firms over a ten-year period. Data breaches represent major events that pose serious challenges to organisations. The number of incidents has been on the increase over the last decade and this has attracted the interest of the media, consumers and regulators. While there is a well-...

2021): The effect of media coverage on target firms' trading activity and liquidity around domestic acquisition announcements: evidence from UK, The European Journal of Finance To link to this article: https://doi. ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of news media coverage on trading activity in, and the liquidity of, target firms' shares a...

Digital technologies are transforming entrepreneurial finance. Near-ubiquitous access to the Internet, platformisation, and advances in cloud computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and blockchain are changing the sources, basis, and quantum of funding in ways that were unimaginable at the turn of the century. This chapter outlines...

Shopping streets are the lifeblood of rural towns performing a number of important economic, social, and environmental functions. Streets represent a public realm that is actively and passively consumed depending on how it is structured as a public space. These structures result from historic forces and planning processes that highly influence the...

Economic growth, job creation, better public services, and improved quality of life are just some of the benefits from the digital transformation of society. Policymakers worldwide are not only investing in the infrastructure to deliver this digital future but measurement and benchmarking to assess digital progress. These benchmarks are, for the mo...

Over 2.8 million people die each year from being overweight or obese, a largely preventable disease. Social media has fundamentally changed the way we communicate, collaborate, consume, and create content. The ease with which content can be shared has resulted in a rapid increase in the number of individuals or organisations that seek to influence...

Social media is widely used by accounting firms to achieve a variety of business objectives and is a key enabler of non-market strategies. Socio-political involvement (SPI) involves firms taking positions on issues that lack societal consensus, have low information rationality, evolving viewpoints and issue salience, with no clear performance outco...

As signals of internal control weaknesses, cyber security incidents can represent significant risk factors to the quality of financial reporting. We empirically assess the audit quality implications of data breaches for a large sample of US firms. Using a difference-indifference approach based on a matched sample of breached and non-breached firms,...

Mobile network traffic prediction is an important input in to network capacity planning and optimization. Existing approaches may lack the speed and computational complexity to account for bursting, non-linear patterns or other important correlations in time series mobile network data. We compare the performance of two deep learning architectures -...

Together, social media and crowdsourcing can help entrepreneurs to attract external finance and early-stage customers. This paper investigates the characteristics and discourse of an issue-centered public on Twitter organized around the hashtag #crowdfunding through the lens of social network theory. Using a dataset of 2,732,144 tweets published du...

Mobilization theory posits that social media gives a voice to non-traditional actors in socio-political discourse. This study uses network analytics to understand the underlying structure of the Brexit discourse and whether the main sub-networks identify new publics and influencers in political participation, and specifically industry stakeholders....

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) adoption typically require radical changes in an organisation’s IT operations and have widespread implications that go beyond simple cost savings. This chapter presents a practical framework for estimating the Return on Investment (ROI) for IaaS and PaaS from the customer perspecti...

Much of the research on measuring the business value of cloud computing examines cloud computing from the perspective of a centralised commodity-based aggregated conceptualisation of cloud computing, largely based on the NIST reference architecture. Advances in new processor architectures and virtualisation combined with the rise of the Internet of...

Globalisation, technology, the liberalisation of financial markets, and changing consumer behaviour are changing the banking sector irrevocably. Incumbent banks are faced with unprecedented competition from global competitors, large and small, and both from within and outside the financial services sector. Open banking is a business approach in whi...

High performance computing (HPC) is widely recognized as a key enabling technology for advancing scientific progress, industrial competitiveness, national and regional security, and the quality of human life. Notwithstanding this contribution, the large upfront investment and technical expertise required has limited the adoption of HPC to large org...

This document is a Report on the RINNO Dissemination & Communication Plan and is Deliverable D8.1 of the RINNO project. This document provides an initial dissemination plan and an outline of the activities that RINNO will undertake to raise awareness, engage stakeholders, promote the project and its results, achievements and knowledge generated, wh...

This report provides a detailed overview of the RINNO project website at https://rinnoh2020.eu/ and presents initial dissemination material that has been designed for the project at M3. The RINNO website acts as a central repository of the latest news, deliverables, presentations and other dissemination material related to the project.

The impacts of enterprise investments in technological infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT) go well beyond the technical domain and require significant changes in an enterprise’s operations, strategy and approach to market. This chapter presents a framework for mapping the business value of IoT investments which aims to support managers...

This chapter introduces the Internet of Things (IoT) and presents definitions and a general framework for conceptualising IoT. Key concepts and enabling technologies are summarised followed by a synthesis and discussion of the current state-of-the-art in IoT Reference Architectures.

We provide new insights into the business lending decisions of institutional investors in online credit markets by benchmarking their lending performance against that of retail investors. We find superior performance for loans financed by institutional investors, although large sized retail investor groups achieve equivalent performance. Lending de...

Human falls are one of the leading causes of fatal unintentional injuries worldwide. Falls result in a direct financial cost to health systems, and indirectly, to society’s productivity. Unsurprisingly, human fall detection and prevention is a major focus of health research. In this chapter, we present and evaluate several bidirectional long short-...

This chapter presents the results of an empirical investigation on stock trading activity in the context of restatement announcements. The aim is to explore whether sophisticated investors may anticipate accounting restatements, and which factors lead their trading strategies. The empirical analysis shows that sophisticated investors sell before an...

The importance of demonstrating the value achieved from IT investments is long established in the Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) literature. However, emerging technologies such as the ever-changing complex area of cloud computing present new challenges and opportunities for demonstrating how IT investments lead to business value...

To meet service level agreement (SLA) requirements, the majority of enterprise IT infrastructure is typically overpro-visioned, underutilized, non-compliant and lacking in required agility resulting in significant inefficiencies. As enterprises introduce and migrate to next-generation applications designed to be horizontally scalable, they require...

This study investigates the impact of cyber-security incidents on audit fees. Using a sample of 5,687 firms, we find that (i) breached firms are charged 12 percent higher audit fees, and (ii) firms operating in the same industry of a breached firm are charged 5 percent higher fees. Finally, using a difference-indifference regression on a propensity...

Web 2.0 has facilitated a particularly toxic brand of digital men’s rights activism, collectively known as the Manosphere. This amorphous network of online publics is noted for its virulent anti-feminism, extreme misogyny and synergies with the alt-right. Early manifestations of this phenomenon were confined largely to 4/Chan, Reddit and numerous a...

The data set is composed of 2285 definitions posted on the Urban Dictionary platform from 1999 to May 2016. The data was classified as misogynistic and non-misogynistic by three independent researchers with domain knowledge. The data set is available in public repository in a table containing two columns: the text-based definition from Urban Dictio...

Cloud computing promises traditional enterprises and independent software vendors a myriad of advantages over on-premise installations including cost, operational and organizational efficiencies. The decision to migrate software configured for on-premise delivery to the cloud requires careful technical consideration and planning. In this chapter, w...

Cloud computing promises traditional enterprises and independent software vendors a myriad of advantages over on-premise installations including cost, operational and organizational efficiencies. The decision to migrate software configured for on-premise delivery to the cloud requires careful technical consideration and planning. In this chapter, w...

The 2012 Mexican presidential election differed significantly from previous elections. As well as increased differences in regionalism, gender, and partisanship amongst voters, it was the first election where social media was used extensively for political marketing. This study investigates the antecedents of retweets and replies on Twitter during...

Recent moves to consider misogyny as a hate crime have refocused efforts for owners of web properties to detect and remove misogynistic speech. This paper considers the use of deep learning techniques for detection of misogyny in Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced online dictionary for slang words and phrases. We compare the performance of two deep l...

Urban liveability is a key concept in the New Urban Agenda (NUA) adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2016. The UN has recognized that effective benchmarks and monitoring mechanisms are essential for the successful implementation of the NUA. However, the timely and cost effective collection of objective international quality of life urban data rem...