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Prof. Corrado Lo Storto
Department of Industrial Engineering, Federico II, Naples, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 21 July 2020 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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In 1994 the Galli Law started an in-depth transformation of the Italian urban water industry in search for a better performance. However, after more than two decades, there is still much debate about the appropriateness of the regulatory framework. This paper contributes to this debate carrying out an efficiency analysis of the Italian urban water industry, employing data for fiscal years 2011 and 2017 and an extended parallel network DEA model that allows have a more comprehensive overview of the industry performance. The proposed DEA model addresses the inadequacies in the conventional DEA models because it takes into account the different nature of the three basic services provided by the urban water service utility (drinking water, sewerage, and wastewater treatment), and computes both the efficiencies of such individual basic services, and the global efficiency of the utility. Thus, it provides a more detailed picture and shed new light on the real performance of the Italian water industry. The efficiency analysis indicates that the average global efficiency of the water utilities is still low, although it slightly increased from 2011 to 2017. Efficiency scores calculated using the proposed DEA model result reduced by about 32.6% in 2011 and 15.9% in 2017 in comparison to conventional DEA models. Additionally, the study shows that the efficiency measurements relative to the three basic water services differ largely for several utilities. Findings also suggest that size may support efficiency improvement.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Measuring the efficiency of the urban integrated water service by parallel network DEA: The case of Italy. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 276, 123170 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. Measuring the efficiency of the urban integrated water service by parallel network DEA: The case of Italy. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 276 ():123170.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2020. "Measuring the efficiency of the urban integrated water service by parallel network DEA: The case of Italy." Journal of Cleaner Production 276, no. : 123170.

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Published: 05 March 2020 in Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
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This paper employs Network Data Envelopment Analysis (NDEA) to measure the municipality performance. The NDEA approach allows to have a more comprehensive evaluation of the municipality performance if compared to traditional DEA. The proposed NDEA model aims at shedding new light on the efficiency-effectiveness relationship in the provision of social services by municipalities. Municipal efficiency and effectiveness are combined to generate a single performance measure which can be considered as a proxy measure of the value for money of municipality services. A sample including 103 major Italian municipalities is used as a case to implement the proposed model. Findings indicate that there is no trade-off between the efficiency and effectiveness components of the overall municipal performance score, but rather they appear to be preconditions of each other. Therefore, higher level of performance can be achieved without conflicting one against the other. Furthermore, only 6 municipalities achieve the highest performance level, suggesting that there is still room for improving the performance of a great number of municipalities.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Performance evaluation of social service provision in Italian major municipalities using Network Data Envelopment Analysis. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 2020, 71, 100821 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. Performance evaluation of social service provision in Italian major municipalities using Network Data Envelopment Analysis. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 2020; 71 ():100821.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2020. "Performance evaluation of social service provision in Italian major municipalities using Network Data Envelopment Analysis." Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 71, no. : 100821.

Editorial
Published: 25 February 2020 in Sustainability
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In consideration of the three pillars of sustainability, alongside the environment, social and economic dimensions interplay valuable insight into how society is molded and what key components should be considered. In terms of social sustainability, there are processes and framework objectives that promote wellbeing integral to the balance of people, planet, and profit. Economic practices consider the system of production, resource allocation, and distribution of goods and services with respect to demand and supply between economic agents. As a result, an economic system is a variant of the social system in which it exists. At present, the forefront of social sustainability research partially encompasses the impact economic practices have on people and society—with notable emphasis centered on the urban environment. Specific interdisciplinary analyses within the scope of sustainability, social development, competitiveness, and motivational management as well as decision making within the urban landscape are considered. This book contains nine thoroughly refereed contributions that interconnect detailed research into the two pillars reviewed.

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Giuseppe T. Cirella; Anatoliy G. Goncharuk; Corrado Lo Storto; Alessio Russo. Exploring Social Sustainability and Economic Practices: Multi-Journal Compendium. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1718 .

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Giuseppe T. Cirella, Anatoliy G. Goncharuk, Corrado Lo Storto, Alessio Russo. Exploring Social Sustainability and Economic Practices: Multi-Journal Compendium. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (5):1718.

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Giuseppe T. Cirella; Anatoliy G. Goncharuk; Corrado Lo Storto; Alessio Russo. 2020. "Exploring Social Sustainability and Economic Practices: Multi-Journal Compendium." Sustainability 12, no. 5: 1718.

Technical note
Published: 03 December 2019 in Energies
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This paper presents a framework to identify critical nodes of a gas pipeline network. This framework calculates a set of metrics typical of the social network analysis considering the topological characteristics of the network. Such metrics are utilized as inputs and outputs of a (Data Envelopment Analysis) DEA model to generate a cross-efficiency index that identifies the most important nodes in the network. The framework was implemented to assess the US interstate gas network between 2013 and 2017 from both the demand and supply-side perspectives. Results emerging from the US gas network case suggest that different analysis perspectives should necessarily be considered to have a more in-depth and comprehensive view of the network capacity and performance.

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Corrado Lo Storto. An SNA-DEA Prioritization Framework to Identify Critical Nodes of Gas Networks: The Case of the US Interstate Gas Infrastructure. Energies 2019, 12, 4597 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. An SNA-DEA Prioritization Framework to Identify Critical Nodes of Gas Networks: The Case of the US Interstate Gas Infrastructure. Energies. 2019; 12 (23):4597.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2019. "An SNA-DEA Prioritization Framework to Identify Critical Nodes of Gas Networks: The Case of the US Interstate Gas Infrastructure." Energies 12, no. 23: 4597.

Data article
Published: 12 August 2019 in Data in Brief
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The collection of urban waste is an important step of the waste management cycle, because the collection of sorted waste that soon separates different kind of materials makes their reusing, recovering, and recycling easier and more efficient, reducing the amount of landfilled waste. In Italy, municipalities have to meet specific targets relative to the yearly percentage of sorted waste collection. Collecting and analyzing data about waste collection and the proportion of sorted waste and the specific type of waste materials is a critical activity to measure the performance and monitor the effort of the municipalities to meet targets. Raw data relative to the yearly amounts of total and sorted waste collected from 2007 to 2017, and data relative to socio-economics in 258 municipalities of the Apulia region were retrieved from public databases and were used to calculate waste statistical indicators. Data about total and sorted waste collection in Italy at the regional and country level were retrieved and analysed to compare the Apulia region and specific groups of regions. The evolution of the per capita total and sorted waste amounts was also analysed over time for Apulia and the rest of Italy. The effects of the municipality surface area, the number of inhabitants and population density on the sorted waste collection rate were investigated by performing regression analysis. These data may help policy makers and stakeholders to evaluate total and sorted waste production over time, set and assess targets, and identify best policy practices.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Data on urban waste collection: The case of the Apulia region in Italy. Data in Brief 2019, 25, 104380 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. Data on urban waste collection: The case of the Apulia region in Italy. Data in Brief. 2019; 25 ():104380.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2019. "Data on urban waste collection: The case of the Apulia region in Italy." Data in Brief 25, no. : 104380.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2018 in Journal of Air Transport Management
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This paper measures the efficiency of Italian airports using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Particularly, the efficiency of an airport is evaluated at three different stages of its cost-revenue production cycle, i.e. cost-operations-revenue stages, while network-slack based measure DEA (NSBM-DEA) is adopted to generate efficiency measurements for the airports at each stage. Results show that the suggested modeling approach has a better discrimination capability than the traditional black-box DEA model and provides important insights for policy makers and airport concessionaires useful for improving industry performance and airport management.

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Corrado Lo Storto. The analysis of the cost-revenue production cycle efficiency of the Italian airports: A NSBM DEA approach. Journal of Air Transport Management 2018, 72, 77 -85.

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Corrado Lo Storto. The analysis of the cost-revenue production cycle efficiency of the Italian airports: A NSBM DEA approach. Journal of Air Transport Management. 2018; 72 ():77-85.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2018. "The analysis of the cost-revenue production cycle efficiency of the Italian airports: A NSBM DEA approach." Journal of Air Transport Management 72, no. : 77-85.

Journal article
Published: 22 March 2018 in Sustainability
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This paper presents a benchmarking study of the water and wastewater industry in Italy. A three-stage modeling approach was implemented to measure the efficiency of 53 utility operators. This approach is based on the implementation of network and conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) to model the production process of the water service utility operators. In comparison to the conventional black-box or one-stage production model generally adopted in previous studies, the proposed approach provides information relative to the different efficiency components of the stages and blocks of the water service production process and its overall efficiency. Further, by shifting the efficiency analysis to a two-dimensional performance space, i.e., resource and market-efficiency, it offers a more comprehensive view of the water service industry and allows accounting for different business goals at the same time and for an investigation of industry trade-offs. Results show that the operators’ efficiencies in the Italian water service industry are generally variable and low. There are no water service utilities which are 100% efficient from the resource-efficiency perspective, and the maximum efficiency score is 0.545. Efficiency measurements suggest that there is a general orientation of the Italian water industry to not invest in upgrading and improving the infrastructure assets, and achieving an acceptable efficiency in the operations is critical to delivering water services to market in an efficient way. Only one utility operator is 100% efficient from the market-efficiency perspective. The low tariffs adopted by the water service operators do not allow the gaining of satisfactory service remuneration and the achievement of long-term business sustainability. The joint analysis of the resource and market efficiency scores indicates that there is a trade-off between the corresponding business goals.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy. Sustainability 2018, 10, 919 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (4):919.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2018. "Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy." Sustainability 10, no. 4: 919.

Journal article
Published: 28 February 2018 in Energies
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This paper presents a study aimed at measuring the efficiency of the transmission segment of the US natural gas industry from an economic perspective. The gas transmission infrastructure is modeled as an economic production function and a multi-stage modeling approach based on the implementation of Data Envelopment Analysis is employed to obtain an efficiency measure in a two-dimension performance space, i.e., cost and revenue-efficiency. This approach allows taking into account conflicting business goals. The study also performs cluster analysis to uncover homogeneous efficiency profiles relative to the gas transmission systems to explore determinants of efficiency rates, and trade-off situations. A sample containing 80 US gas transmission systems is used in the analysis. Results indicate that the transmission segment of the US gas industry has considerable inefficiencies, while average cost and revenue-efficiency scores are 0.324 and 0.301, and only three transmission systems achieve high scores on both efficiency dimensions. Cluster analysis identified seven configurations. In three of them there are no trade-off situations between cost and revenue efficiencies. However, only in one of them gas transmission systems have high efficiencies. The remaining four configurations exhibit trade-off situations having different intensity. Such trade-offs can be determined by the gas transmission infrastructure size.

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Corrado Lo Storto. A Nonparametric Economic Analysis of the US Natural Gas Transmission Infrastructure: Efficiency, Trade-Offs and Emerging Industry Configurations. Energies 2018, 11, 519 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. A Nonparametric Economic Analysis of the US Natural Gas Transmission Infrastructure: Efficiency, Trade-Offs and Emerging Industry Configurations. Energies. 2018; 11 (3):519.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2018. "A Nonparametric Economic Analysis of the US Natural Gas Transmission Infrastructure: Efficiency, Trade-Offs and Emerging Industry Configurations." Energies 11, no. 3: 519.

Journal article
Published: 02 February 2018 in Management Decision
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodological framework that combines several data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to deal with the problem of evaluating and ranking advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) without introducing any subjectivity in the analysis. Design/methodology/approach The methodology follows a two-phase procedure. First, the relative efficiency of every technology is calculated by implementing different DEA cross-efficiency models generating the same number of high-order indicators as efficiency vectors. Second, high-order indicators are used as outputs in a SBM-DEA super-efficiency model to obtain a comprehensive DEA-like composite indicator. Findings The framework is implemented to evaluate a sample of flexible manufacturing systems. Comparing it to other methods, results show that the methodology provides reliable information for AMTs selection and effective support to management decision-making. Originality/value This paper contributes to the body of knowledge about the utilization of DEA to select AMTs. The framework has several advantages: a discriminating power higher than the basic DEA models; no subjective judgment relative to weights necessary to aggregate single indicators and choice of aggregation function; no need to perform any transformation normalizing original data; independence from the unit of measurement of the DEA-like composite indicator; and great flexibility and adaptability allowing the introduction of further variables in the analysis.

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Corrado Lo Storto. A double-DEA framework to support decision-making in the choice of advanced manufacturing technologies. Management Decision 2018, 56, 488 -507.

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Corrado Lo Storto. A double-DEA framework to support decision-making in the choice of advanced manufacturing technologies. Management Decision. 2018; 56 (2):488-507.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2018. "A double-DEA framework to support decision-making in the choice of advanced manufacturing technologies." Management Decision 56, no. 2: 488-507.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2018 in Utilities Policy
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Corrado Lo Storto. Ownership structure and the technical, cost, and revenue efficiency of Italian airports. Utilities Policy 2018, 50, 175 -193.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Ownership structure and the technical, cost, and revenue efficiency of Italian airports. Utilities Policy. 2018; 50 ():175-193.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2018. "Ownership structure and the technical, cost, and revenue efficiency of Italian airports." Utilities Policy 50, no. : 175-193.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2017 in Economics & Sociology
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Corrado Lo Storto; Anatoliy G. Goncharuk. Efficiency vs Effectiveness: a Benchmarking Study on European Healthcare Systems. Economics & Sociology 2017, 10, 102 -115.

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Corrado Lo Storto, Anatoliy G. Goncharuk. Efficiency vs Effectiveness: a Benchmarking Study on European Healthcare Systems. Economics & Sociology. 2017; 10 (3):102-115.

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Corrado Lo Storto; Anatoliy G. Goncharuk. 2017. "Efficiency vs Effectiveness: a Benchmarking Study on European Healthcare Systems." Economics & Sociology 10, no. 3: 102-115.

Conference paper
Published: 03 July 2017 in MATEC Web of Conferences
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MATEC Web of Conferences, open access proceedings in Materials science, Engineering and Chemistry

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Corrado Lo Storto. A peeling DEA-game cross efficiency procedure to classify suppliers. MATEC Web of Conferences 2017, 112, 09004 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. A peeling DEA-game cross efficiency procedure to classify suppliers. MATEC Web of Conferences. 2017; 112 ():09004.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2017. "A peeling DEA-game cross efficiency procedure to classify suppliers." MATEC Web of Conferences 112, no. : 09004.

Conference paper
Published: 03 July 2017 in MATEC Web of Conferences
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MATEC Web of Conferences, open access proceedings in Materials science, Engineering and Chemistry

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Corrado Lo Storto. Congestion effect on renewable energy production efficiency in Europe. MATEC Web of Conferences 2017, 112, 10016 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. Congestion effect on renewable energy production efficiency in Europe. MATEC Web of Conferences. 2017; 112 ():10016.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2017. "Congestion effect on renewable energy production efficiency in Europe." MATEC Web of Conferences 112, no. : 10016.

Journal article
Published: 02 May 2017 in Benchmarking: An International Journal
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present an objective decision-making framework and conduct a benchmarking study in the air cargo industry.Design/methodology/approachThe decision-making framework and benchmarking methodology evaluates the aircraft value for money (VfM) as a benefit-to-cost ratio calculated adopting a measure of relative efficiency. This efficiency score is measured as a comprehensive efficiency index obtained by combining several efficiency scores calculated by implementing four data envelopment analysis (DEA) models.FindingsThe framework is used to carry on a benchmarking study in the air cargo industry on a sample of 27 airplanes. The average VfM is 67.04 percent, with measurements between 39.96 and 116.03 percent. Only three airplanes achieve full VfM and behave as benchmarks to the remaining airplanes. Boeing B727-200 is a broad player in the market. Some old cargo models (DC 9-30F) deliver the same amount of VfM as more recent aircraft models (i.e. MD-11F and A300-600F).Research limitations/implicationsThe decision-making framework and benchmarking methodology can usefully support managers to make sound decisions and plans. Even though DEA generates attributes weights to different alternatives that are independent of the buyer preferences, the framework flexibility allows introducing a weighting scheme to take into account the managers preferences for certain aircraft performance/functional features. It can easily include new functional/performance measurements and adapt the VfM measurement to the particular economic context, strategy, and business model of the airlines, or be transferred to different industries.Originality/valueThe framework combines technical, functional performance, and economic cost measurements to get a unique efficiency index to evaluate the airplane VfM.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Product benchmarking in the air cargo industry. Benchmarking: An International Journal 2017, 24, 857 -881.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Product benchmarking in the air cargo industry. Benchmarking: An International Journal. 2017; 24 (4):857-881.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2017. "Product benchmarking in the air cargo industry." Benchmarking: An International Journal 24, no. 4: 857-881.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2017 in Energy Policy
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Anatoliy Goncharuk; Corrado Lo Storto. Challenges and policy implications of gas reform in Italy and Ukraine: Evidence from a benchmarking analysis. Energy Policy 2017, 101, 456 -466.

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Anatoliy Goncharuk, Corrado Lo Storto. Challenges and policy implications of gas reform in Italy and Ukraine: Evidence from a benchmarking analysis. Energy Policy. 2017; 101 ():456-466.

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Anatoliy Goncharuk; Corrado Lo Storto. 2017. "Challenges and policy implications of gas reform in Italy and Ukraine: Evidence from a benchmarking analysis." Energy Policy 101, no. : 456-466.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2016 in Advanced Science Letters
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A methodological framework based on the implementation of the Fuzzy Cognitive Map method was developed to investigate the organization cognitive practices and social behaviors in the technical problem-solving activity. The framework was implemented in a real case to elicit expert knowledge and generate a cognitive map useful to describe the technical problem-solving activity occurred within a group of engineers and technical managers involved in the development of a new product in the food machinery industry, and finally identify the critical cognitive practices and social behaviors that mostly influence the generation of new knowledge during the innovation process.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Small Group Problem-Solving and Knowledge Creation: A Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Investigation. Advanced Science Letters 2016, 22, 1282 -1286.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Small Group Problem-Solving and Knowledge Creation: A Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Investigation. Advanced Science Letters. 2016; 22 (5):1282-1286.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2016. "Small Group Problem-Solving and Knowledge Creation: A Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Investigation." Advanced Science Letters 22, no. 5: 1282-1286.

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Published: 29 January 2016 in Sustainability
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In this paper, a method is proposed to calculate a comprehensive index that calculates the ecological efficiency of a city by combining together the measurements provided by some Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) cross-efficiency models using the Shannon’s entropy index. The DEA models include non-discretionary uncontrollable inputs, desirable and undesirable outputs. The method is implemented to compute the ecological efficiency of a sample of 116 Italian provincial capital cities in 2011 as a case study. Results emerging from the case study show that the proposed index has a good discrimination power and performs better than the ranking provided by the Sole24Ore, which is generally used in Italy to conduct benchmarking studies. While the sustainability index proposed by the Sole24Ore utilizes a set of subjective weights to aggregate individual indicators, the adoption of the DEA based method limits the subjectivity to the selection of the models. The ecological efficiency measurements generated by the implementation of the method for the Italian cities indicate that they perform very differently, and generally largest cities in terms of population size achieve a higher efficiency score.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Ecological Efficiency Based Ranking of Cities: A Combined DEA Cross-Efficiency and Shannon’s Entropy Method. Sustainability 2016, 8, 124 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. Ecological Efficiency Based Ranking of Cities: A Combined DEA Cross-Efficiency and Shannon’s Entropy Method. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (2):124.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2016. "Ecological Efficiency Based Ranking of Cities: A Combined DEA Cross-Efficiency and Shannon’s Entropy Method." Sustainability 8, no. 2: 124.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2016 in Cities
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This paper presents the results of an empirical study aimed at evaluating the cost efficiency of 108 Italian major municipalities, and investigating to what extent the municipality efficiency is also associated to the effectiveness of public expenditure, and consequently to quality of services offered to citizens. The study implements Data Envelopment Analysis to calculate the efficiency score and understand if it is influenced by scale economies and determine the type of these economies. For this purpose, every municipality was modeled as a production function using 6 cost item inputs and 2 outputs. Finally, the study implemented a truncated regression equation using the bootstrapped efficiency estimate as the dependent variable, and a selection of indicators measuring the quality of public services offered in the context as the independent variables.\ud Results reveal that there exist important scale-inefficiencies in a number of municipalities, but unexpectedly a great amount of inefficiencies are caused by decreasing returns to scale. Additionally, the study suggests that a trade-off between expenditure efficiency and effectiveness, i.e. the quality of public service, seems to exist

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Corrado Lo Storto. The trade-off between cost efficiency and public service quality: A non-parametric frontier analysis of Italian major municipalities. Cities 2016, 51, 52 -63.

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Corrado Lo Storto. The trade-off between cost efficiency and public service quality: A non-parametric frontier analysis of Italian major municipalities. Cities. 2016; 51 ():52-63.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2016. "The trade-off between cost efficiency and public service quality: A non-parametric frontier analysis of Italian major municipalities." Cities 51, no. : 52-63.

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Published: 01 October 2015 in Advanced Science Letters
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This paper presents a method useful to generate a measurement of supercomputers performance. This method is based on the implementation of a non-parametric technique, e.g. Data Envelopment Analysis. In particular, it uses different formulations of the cross-efficiency concept to calculate a comprehensive efficiency index to rank supercomputers. The method is adopted to perform a benchmarking study of sample that includes 77 supercomputers utilized to solve complex problems in research applications

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Corrado Lo Storto. A Non-Parametric Measurement of Supercomputers Performance. Advanced Science Letters 2015, 21, 3257 -3260.

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Corrado Lo Storto. A Non-Parametric Measurement of Supercomputers Performance. Advanced Science Letters. 2015; 21 (10):3257-3260.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2015. "A Non-Parametric Measurement of Supercomputers Performance." Advanced Science Letters 21, no. 10: 3257-3260.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2015 in International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development
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This paper presents the findings of a study aimed at investigating how managers in small supplying firms translate their vision of quality as a strategic tool into a set of principles, practices, and techniques that shape the firm quality-based strategy in the customer-supplier relationship. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from a sample of 139 small suppliers. Three groups of firms were uncovered, associated to three conceptualisations of quality denominated 'process-oriented', 'market-oriented', and 'product-oriented'. Results show that: 1) there is a positive association between industry type and the vision of quality as a strategic leverage; 2) there is a positive association between the managers quality vision and the commitment of supplier firms to pursue a quality-based strategy through the implementation of quality-related practices; 3) there is a positive association between the supplier managers quality vision and the customer-supplier relationship pattern. Finally, a comprehensive framework is proposed to define future streams of investigation.

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Corrado Lo Storto. Is quality still an important determinant of small suppliers' competitive strategy? An empirical cross-industry comparison. International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development 2015, 14, 345 .

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Corrado Lo Storto. Is quality still an important determinant of small suppliers' competitive strategy? An empirical cross-industry comparison. International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development. 2015; 14 (4):345.

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Corrado Lo Storto. 2015. "Is quality still an important determinant of small suppliers' competitive strategy? An empirical cross-industry comparison." International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development 14, no. 4: 345.