Advances in Gender and Cultural Research in Business and Economics: 4th IPAZIA Workshop on Gender Issues 2018, Rome, Italy

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This volume presents current research on gender and culture from business, management and accounting perspectives with a multidisciplinary approach. Featuring selected contributions presented at the 4th IPAZIA Workshop on Gender Studies held at Niccolò Cusano University in Rome, Italy, this book investigates gender strategies adopted and tested by various companies and assesses the impact of their subsequent dissemination. The contents are structured into four sections each of which addressing a specific theme on gender studies as follows: I) Women in Academia and in the University contexts: A trans-disciplinary approach; II) Gender issues, Corporate Social Responsibility and reporting; III) Woman in business and female entrepreneurship; IV) Women in Family Business. The result is a book that provides an innovative and rigorous analysis of gender issues proposing new challenges and insights in gender studies. IPAZIA Scientific Observatory for Gender Studies defines an updated framework of research, services, and projects, all initiatives related to women and gender relations at the local, national and international. In order to achieve this objective, the Observatory aims to implement the literature on gender studies, to organize and promote scientific significant initiatives (workshops, seminars, conferences, studies, scientific laboratory) on these issues at the national and international level under an interdisciplinary perspective. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Exiled Queen Maria Casimira Sobieska in Rome: Gender, Culture and Politics (Giulia Vincenti)....Pages 3-11 Emilia Morelli: A Historian in Italian Academics During the Second Post World War Period (Silvio Berardi)....Pages 13-27 Women and Editorial Leadership of Scientific and Academic Journals: An Explorative Study (Mara Del Baldo)....Pages 29-42 Women and Science: Models of Participation (Massimiliano Ruzzeddu)....Pages 43-57 Toward the Theory of Enterprise: Dialogue Between Business and Economics Women Scholars (Maria Gabriella Baldarelli, Antonietta Cosentino, Mara Del Baldo, Angela Magistro)....Pages 59-81 Gender Differences in Intellectual Capital Research: An Exploratory Study (Maria Serena Chiucchi, Marco Giuliani, Simone Poli)....Pages 83-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 A Robust Approach to Composite Indicators Exploiting Interval Data: The Interval-Valued Global Gender Gap Index (IGGGI) (Carlo Drago, Andrea Gatto)....Pages 103-114 Interlocking Directorship Networks and Gender: A Bibliometric Analysis (Carlo Drago, Livia Amidani Aliberti)....Pages 115-136 European Women on Boards and Corporate Sustainability (Francesca Gennari)....Pages 137-150 The Presence of Female Directors on Boards. An Empirical Investigation About Its Effects on CSR (Daniela Coluccia, Stefano Fontana, Silvia Solimene)....Pages 151-165 Front Matter ....Pages 167-167 The Role of Women on Board for Innovation: Lessons from the High-tech Companies (Sara Saggese, Fabrizia Sarto)....Pages 169-180 Women Entrepreneurship and Digital Technologies: Towards a Research Agenda (Paola Paoloni, Giustina Secundo, Valentina Ndou, Giuseppe Modaffari)....Pages 181-194 Analysing the Diffusion of the Ideas and Knowledge on Economic Open Problems on Female Entrepreneur in US Over Time: The Case of Wikipedia (Year 2015–2017) (Paola Paoloni, Carlo Drago)....Pages 195-203 Women Enterprises, Relational Capital and Corporate Strategy: A Multiple Case Study (Paola Paoloni, Rosa Lombardi, Paoloni Niccolò)....Pages 205-218 Born to Be Alive? Female Entrepreneurship and Innovative Start-Ups (Paola Demartini, Lucia Marchegiani)....Pages 219-235 Female Entrepreneurship and Management in the Immigrant Reception Sector in Italy (Paola Paoloni, Marco Valeri)....Pages 237-257 A Fourfold Classification of Female Entrepreneurship Concept (Paola Paoloni, Gabriele Serafini)....Pages 259-274 Gender and Work-Life Balance: A Contest Analysis on Nursey Schools in Palermo (Ignazia Bartholini)....Pages 275-285 Social Media as a New Opportunity for Female Entrepreneurs: An Analysis of the Fashion Industry (Raffaele Trequattrini, Simone Manfredi, Alessandra Lardo, Benedetta Cuozzo)....Pages 287-298 Front Matter ....Pages 299-299 Susanna Agnelli. Between Family Business and Politics (Matteo Antonio Napolitano)....Pages 301-312 Which Drivers Affect the Presence of Women Directors on Corporate Boards? Evidence from Italian Medium-Sized Family Firms (Francesca Maria Cesaroni, Annalisa Sentuti, Denisse Chamochumbi Diaz)....Pages 313-326