Organizational Resilience and Female Entrepreneurship During Crises: Emerging Evidence and Future Agenda

284 Pages·2022·5.229 MB·English

by  Paola Paoloni, Rosa Lombardi

SIDREA Series in Accounting and Business Administration
Paola Paoloni
Rosa Lombardi Editors
Organizational
Resilience
and Female
Entrepreneurship
During Crises
Emerging Evidence and Future Agenda
SIDREA Series in Accounting and Business
Administration
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StefanoMarasca,UniversitàPolitecnicadelleMarche,Ancona,Italy
AnnaMariaFellegara,UniversitàCattolicadelSacroCuore,Piacenza,Italy
RiccardoMussari,UniversitàdiSiena,Siena,Italy
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Emerging Evidence and Future Agenda
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Preface
The recent years have been characterised by several events having positive and
negativeimpactsontheenvironmentinwhichorganisationsareoperating.Themost
relevant events seem connected to the digital revolution through the adoption of
smarttechnologies,economiccrisis,SARS-COV-2pandemic,turbulence,andcom-
plexity.Inthisscenario,people,organisations,andterritoriesarechangingtheway
to approach the environment in which they survive, introducing innovations and
sustainableactionsforgrowthanddevelopment.
Particularly, organisations (i.e. private and public entities) are developing more
and more resilient behaviours as well as the ability to adopt flexible behaviours
especially to face new challenges, innovating business models and creating value.
Theadventofthedigitalrevolutionposesnewchallengesfororganisations,pointing
out the role of financial strategies as well as the connection with traditional bank-
oriented channels and innovative fundraising. Small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs)andstart-upcompaniesareparticularlyinvestedbysuchevents.
Interestingly, they are interested in collecting financial resources for their
progressandgrowth.Theyareinvestingtimeinsearchingfundsalsothroughdigital
platforms and social media. Thus, digital tools are increasingly reshaping the
financialservicessectorandtheentrepreneurialfinanceecosystem.
Additionally,theinvestigationofeffectsproducedbySARS-COV-2emergency
onorganisationsiswidelyconnectedtoseveralissuesamongwhicharethefollow-
ing: (1) the investigation of the productive world and the measures adopted by
institutions and governments especially at the time of SARS-COV-2; (2) the prop-
ositionofsolutionshelpingbothbusinessestorecovermorequicklyfromthecrisis
and the government to evaluate the effectiveness of measures for the economic
recovery(e.g.NextGeneration EUFunds; Recovery Plan),(3) theinvestigationof
organisations (e.g. start-up companies) and their lifecycle management; (4) the
femalebusinessesfocusedonmakingactivities andrelationalcapitalasadriverof
strategic value or on entities that carry out business activities of general interest,
non-profit,andforpurposes.
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vi Preface
Thiseditedbookismotivatedbytheneedtosharethegenderstudies(Paoloni&
Lombardi, 2018; 2019; 2020) in times of crisis as a renewed path of studies,
advancingliteratureandproposingsolutionstoacademicandpracticalcommunities.
This edited book aims to collect theoretical and practical contributions as well as
qualitative,quantitative,andmixedstudiesabouthowfemale-ownedandfemale-run
companies and organisations can take advantage of such events, in terms of chal-
lenges,issues,tools,facilitators,andmechanismssupportingnewopportunityinthe
nearfuture.Thus,maininvestigatedtopicsarelistedbelow:
(cid:129) Theroleoffemaleentrepreneurshipinthecrisiscontext
(cid:129) Theroleofwomeninthenewfinancialsector
(cid:129) Thedifferencesbetweenman-andfemale-runorganisationsinthenewfinancial
system
(cid:129) Theroleofdigitaltechnologiesinenhancingtheacquisitionoffundsbyfemale-
ownedorfemale-runorganisations
(cid:129) Theleadershipissuesinenhancingtheacquisitionoffundsbyfemale-ownedor
female-runorganisations
(cid:129) The new business models that can facilitate the acquisition of funds by female-
ownedorfemale-runorganisations
(cid:129) Diversity and equality issues in the acquisition of funds by female-owned or
female-runorganisations
(cid:129) Theroleofincubators,accelerators,venturecapitalists,andbusinessangelsinthe
acquisitionoffundsbyfemale-ownedorfemale-runorganisations
(cid:129) The relational capital issues in the acquisition of funds by female-owned or
female-runorganisations
(cid:129) Theconnectionbetweenthefemalestart-upbusinessandrelationalcapitaltoface
epidemicdisasters
(cid:129) Genderdiversity,pandemicdisasters,performancefemaleventuresandcorporate
socialresponsibilityinthepandemicera
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Contents
FiveYearsofGenderResearchinthePublicSectorbytheIPAZIA
Observatory:AReviewoftheStudiesandaResearchAgenda. . . . . . . . 1
SimonaCatuogno,MariaAngelaManzi,andPaolaPaoloni
GenderDifferencesinthePersonalValuesofFor-Benefit
Entrepreneurs.AnInvestigationofItalianBenefitCorporations. . . . . . 31
FedericaPalazzi,AnnalisaSentuti,andFrancescaSgrò
WomenonBoardandDisclosureQuality:AnEmpiricalResearch. . . . 47
SaraSaggeseandFabriziaSarto
GenderDiversityandGenderInequality.TwoDifferentModels. . . . . . 57
GabrieleSerafini
AShortReflectiononCOVID-19andGenderEquality
inHealthcare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
EsterOrlandi,FrancescaDalMas,PaolaPaoloni,HollyBand,
MariaRosariaFiore,BarbaraVischioni,VivianaVitolo,ChiaraCampo,
AngelicaFacoetti,MonicaNecchi,AmeliaBarcellini,SaraTampellini,
SandroRossi,LisaLicitra,andGianlucaVago
AGenderPerspectiveonTelemedicine.EarlyResultsfromthe
NationalCancerInstituteofAvianoExperience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
FrancescaDalMas,HelenaBiancuzzi,RymBednarova,andLucaMiceli
COVID-19OutbreakandCreditConstraintsforWomen-LedFirms. . . 85
GiulianaBirindelli,ClaudiaCapozza,andAntoniaPatriziaIannuzzi
RecognizingProgressonSDG5ofthe2030AgendainEurope:
GuidelinesforDevelopmentinSupportofGenderEquality. . . . . . . . . . 95
AlbertoDelloStrologo,NiccolòPaoloni,andEdoardoD’Andrassi
Covid-19PandemicandWomen-LedCompanies:AnExploratory
StudyoftheItalianContext. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
CristinaDiStefanoandLucianoFratocchi
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x Contents
CorporateGovernanceandGenderIssues:TheCaseofProfessional
FootballCompaniesinItaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
RaffaeleTrequattrini,BenedettaCuozzo,FlorindaPetrecca,
andAlbertoManzari
GenderDiversityandResilienceinFirmsDuringCOVID-19
Pandemic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
I.Cavallini,G.Iacoviello,andF.Ricci
NewWaysofWorkingDuring(andAfter)theCOVID-19Pandemic:
TrulySmartforWomen?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
MaraDelBaldo
FemaleAgri-FoodStart-Ups:MappingtheItalianContext
DuringtheCoronavirusEra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
GiuseppeModaffariandGaetanodellaCorte
TheLeadIndependentDirector:ARoleSuitedtoWomen’s
Behavior?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
SimonaArduini
InSearchofMaterialityforNonfinancialInformationUnderthe
FemaleLens,AftertheDirective2014/95/EUTransposed.
AMultipleItalianCaseStudy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
AntoniettaCosentinoandMarcoVenuti
GenderBudgetinginItalianUniversities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
FedericaRicci,GaetanodellaCorte,andMartinaManzo
RelationalCapital’sSupportinInnovatingaFemale-RunBusiness:
TheCaseofanItalianOrganicFarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
MauroPaoloni,MassimilianoCelli,MartinaManzo,
andValentinaSantolamazza