21 research outputs found
Governance, management, sustainability, and performance in the football industry. A bibliometric analysis
No full textThis paper utilizes the bibliometrix R package for a bibliometric analysis of 572 academic documents spanning from 1992 to 2023. These documents, sourced from 213 scholarly outlets via the Web of Science Database, focus on the governance, management, sustainability, and performance of football clubs. The analysis marks significant developments in this field, examines the interplay among various research topics, and quantifies the contributions from journals, authors, and countries. Furthermore, it outlines several potential avenues for future research. The results emphasize the interconnection of governance, management, sustainability, and performance within football clubs
Humane Entrepreneurship and Startup Fundraising Strategies: Evidence from the U.S.
No full textThis chapter explores the impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), Sustainable Orientation (SO), and Human Resource Orientation (HRO) – the key dimensions of the strategic posture known as Humane Entrepreneurship – on the success of 142 equity crowdfunding campaigns hosted on the US-based platform WeFunder. Utilizing text analysis in conjunction with fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis, a configurational research method, the study identifies diverse combinations of these dimensions that lead to successful funding outcomes. The analysis, encompassing both minimum and maximum funding targets and supplemented by robustness tests, indicates that successful equity crowdfunding campaigns are characterized by pitches displaying high levels of autonomy, innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking, with a lesser focus on competitive aggressiveness. It is also observed that campaigns emphasizing HRO consistently achieve their fundraising goals, independent of the funding target set. Notably, a startup’s SO does not seem to significantly influence campaign success within the equity crowdfunding context
Development Impact Bonds to overcome investors-services providers agency problems: Insights from a case study analysis
No full textThe paper aims to enrich the academic debate on social impact investing, through a formalization of Development Impact Bonds (DIBs)’ structure. With this purpose, the research adopts an inductive approach and presents a case study analysis of the world’s first successful DIB in education, Educate Girls Development Impact Bond. The analysis fosters the role of DIBs as tools to provide funds to non-profit organizations operating in developing countries, by reducing agency problems between investors and social services providers, and by mitigating goal displacement effects
Women on bank boards and risk-taking: A cross-countries analysis on the moderating role of masculinity
No full textDevelopment Impact Bonds to overcome investors-services providers agency problems: Insights from a case study analysis
No full textEnvironment Social Governance tra passato e futuro: un’analisi bibliometrica della letteratura
No full textESG Disclosure and Access to Credit: A Configurational Analysis of European Listed Firms
No full textThis study investigates how various ESG disclosure configurations affect credit access for European firms listed on the STOXX Europe 600 Index during 2021–2022. Employing fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and ESG disclosures standardised under the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the findings demonstrate that disclosure patterns associated with enhanced credit access vary between short- and long-term financing. Notably, climate change-related disclosure consistently improves credit access across financing types. The study emphasises the significance of aligning ESG disclosure with financing objectives and provides practical insights for firms, lenders and policymakers. Firms can strategically concentrate on disclosures that best support their financing requirements, whereas lenders gain from standardised frameworks like GRI for more dependable credit evaluations. Policymakers, in turn, can leverage the role of ESG disclosure in credit markets to promote sustainability transitions
Environmental disclosure and corporate cash holdings Policies: Which macro-categories matter?
No full textESG Disclosure and access to credit: a configurational analysis of European listed firms
No full textEnvironment social governance tra passato e futuro. Un’analisi bibliometrica della letteratura
No full textObiettivo del paper: Il presente contributo propone un’analisi bibliometrica della letteratura environment social governance (ESG) al fine di chiarirne il dominio e delinearne gli sviluppi futuri.
Metodologia: La lettura quantitativa delle 565 pubblicazioni incluse nel campione avviene attraverso l’utilizzo del pacchetto R bibliometrix, si snoda attraverso l’analisi dei main data, dei source-level, authors-level, e document-level data, ed approda ad un processo di knowledge synthesis.
Risultati: L’analisi bibliometrica qui presentata restituisce tre evidenze degne di nota. Primo: si fornisce ulteriore supporto all’inclusione della letteratura ESG nel più ampio dominio della corporate social responsibility (CSR). Secondo: le risultanze suggeriscono come gli studi ESG adottino, alternativamente, una prospettiva manageriale o una prospettiva finanziaria. Terzo: temi di ricerca quali la corporate governance e l’integrated reporting hanno ricevuto, ad oggi, un’attenzione marginale.
Limiti della ricerca: L’approccio metodologico qui proposto presenta due principali limitazioni. Primo: si è esclusa la grey literature, ammettendo così la possibilità di non tenere conto di lavori di stampo non accademico potenzialmente rilevanti. Secondo: resta ferma la soggettività insita nella scelta delle keywords e nella selezione del database utilizzato per la ricerca degli articoli.
Implicazioni pratiche: L’articolo pone l’attenzione sull’importanza delle pratiche di stakeholder engagement e sulla rilevanza del contesto istituzionale di riferimento. Si rimarcano inoltre le problematiche connesse ad una inidonea concettualizzazione del costrutto ESG.
Originalità del paper: Sebbene siano state pubblicate diverse review sul tema ESG, nessuna di esse fornisce una knowledge synthesis basata sull’analisi dei main data e dei source-level, authors-level, e document-level data
