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The plurality of communication channels and the spread of fake news are widespread phenomena in today's society. Those constituted a serious risk during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis management, increasing the confusion among the population. This research aims at assessing the effectiveness of institutional communication amid the management of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in Italy. We first assessed the phenomenon by building a structured theoretical background stressing the concepts of risk communication, community engagement, and health literacy, highlighting the dynamic and continuously changing scenario of communication strategies, also due to the spread of social media and the mutation of conventional media outlets. We sent a questionnaire to a sample of citizens to assess the impact of three predictors, i.e., the perceived communication, the perceived knowledge, and the perceived information. Based on answers, we built an ordered logit model assigning continuous intervals as values for the dependent variables. The observed results enhanced the crucial role of the phenomenon of health literacy and the impact of asymmetric information on the effectiveness of institutional communication. Education played a fundamental role in understanding communication pillars and building an individual consciousness about health risks prevention.
Carmine Viola; Pierluigi Toma; Francesco Manta; Marco Benvenuto. The more you know, the better you act? Institutional communication in Covid-19 crisis management. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2021, 170, 120929 .
AMA StyleCarmine Viola, Pierluigi Toma, Francesco Manta, Marco Benvenuto. The more you know, the better you act? Institutional communication in Covid-19 crisis management. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2021; 170 ():120929.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarmine Viola; Pierluigi Toma; Francesco Manta; Marco Benvenuto. 2021. "The more you know, the better you act? Institutional communication in Covid-19 crisis management." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 170, no. : 120929.
Companies are continuously pressured for the dissemination of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information, because of the constant debate on the issue of corporate sustainability, considered a critical and very important topic for society; despite this pressure, ESG's disclosure practices vary considerably from company to company, both in quantity and quality. The study aims to address the issue and verify the effectiveness of ESG reporting through the influence that the ESG disclosure has on profitability and value of listed European agri‐food companies. The results obtained, studying a sample of 57 European‐listed companies (EU28) in the agri‐food sector observed in the period 2010–2018, show that the ESG disclosure practices of the companies impact corporate profitability; specifically, evidence is provided for the existence of a positive relationship between profitability and disclosure practices of strictly environmental and social information and a negative effect between company market value and disclosure practices relating to governance. These results suggest that greater transparency and accountability help to improve business profitability.
Lavinia Conca; Francesco Manta; Domenico Morrone; Pierluigi Toma. The impact of direct environmental, social, and governance reporting: Empirical evidence in European‐listed companies in the agri‐food sector. Business Strategy and the Environment 2020, 30, 1080 -1093.
AMA StyleLavinia Conca, Francesco Manta, Domenico Morrone, Pierluigi Toma. The impact of direct environmental, social, and governance reporting: Empirical evidence in European‐listed companies in the agri‐food sector. Business Strategy and the Environment. 2020; 30 (2):1080-1093.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLavinia Conca; Francesco Manta; Domenico Morrone; Pierluigi Toma. 2020. "The impact of direct environmental, social, and governance reporting: Empirical evidence in European‐listed companies in the agri‐food sector." Business Strategy and the Environment 30, no. 2: 1080-1093.
Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze and measure the effects of intellectual capital (IC), i.e. human capital (HC), relational capital (RC) and structural capital (SC), on healthcare industry organizational performance and understanding the role of data analytics and big data (BD) in healthcare value creation (Wang et al., 2018). Through the assessment of determined variables specific for each component of IC, the paper identifies the guidelines and suggests propositions for a more efficient response in terms of services provided to citizens and, specifically, patients, as well as predicting effective strategies to improve the care management efficiency in terms of cost reduction. Design/methodology/approach The study has a twofold approach: in the first part, the authors operated a systematic review of the academic literature aiming to enquire the relationship between IC, big data analytics (BDA) and healthcare system, which were also the descriptors employed. In the second part, the authors built an econometric model analyzed through panel data analysis, studying the relationship between IC, namely human, relational and structural capital indicators, and the performance of healthcare system in terms of performance. The study has been conducted on a sample of 28 European countries, notwithstanding the belonging to specific international or supranational bodies, between 2011 and 2016. Findings The paper proposes a data-driven model that presents new approach to IC assessment, extendable to other economic sectors beyond healthcare. It shows the existence of a positive impact (turning into a mathematical inverse relationship) of the human, relational and structural capital on the performance indicator, while the physical assets (i.e. the available beds in hospitals on total population) positively mediates the relationship, turning into a negative impact of non-IC related inputs on healthcare performance. The result is relevant in terms of managerial implications, enhancing the opportunity to highlight the crucial role of IC in the healthcare sector. Research limitations/implications The relationship between IC indicators and performance could be employed in other sectors, disseminating new approaches in academic research. Through the establishment of a relationship between IC factors and performance, the authors implemented an approach in which healthcare organizations are active participants in their economic and social value creation. This challenges the views of knowledge sharing deeply held inside organizations by creating “new value” developed through a more collaborative and permeated approach in terms of knowledge spillovers. A limitation is given by a fragmented policymaking process which carries out different results in each country. Practical implications The analysis provides interesting implications on multiple perspectives. The novelty of the study provides interesting implications for managers, practitioners and governmental bodies. A more efficient healthcare system could provide better results in terms of cost minimization and reduction of hospitalization period. Moreover, dissemination of new scientific knowledge and drivers of specialization enhances best practices sharing in the healthcare sector. On the other hand, an improvement in preventive medicine practices could help in reducing the overload of demand for curative treatments, on the perspective of sharply decreasing the avoidable deaths rate and improving societal standards. Originality/value The authors provide a new holistic framework on the relationship between IC, BDA and organizational performance in healthcare organizations through a systematic review approach and an empirical panel analysis at a multinational level, which is quite a novelty regarding the healthcare. There is little research focussed on healthcare industries' organizational performance, and, specifically, most of the research on IC in healthcare delivered results in terms of theoretical contribution and qualitative analyzes. The authors even contributed to analyze the healthcare industry in the light of the possible existence of synergies and networks among countries.
Ginevra Gravili; Francesco Manta; Concetta Lucia Cristofaro; Rocco Reina; Pierluigi Toma. Value that matters: intellectual capital and big data to assess performance in healthcare. An empirical analysis on the European context. Journal of Intellectual Capital 2020, 22, 260 -289.
AMA StyleGinevra Gravili, Francesco Manta, Concetta Lucia Cristofaro, Rocco Reina, Pierluigi Toma. Value that matters: intellectual capital and big data to assess performance in healthcare. An empirical analysis on the European context. Journal of Intellectual Capital. 2020; 22 (2):260-289.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Gravili; Francesco Manta; Concetta Lucia Cristofaro; Rocco Reina; Pierluigi Toma. 2020. "Value that matters: intellectual capital and big data to assess performance in healthcare. An empirical analysis on the European context." Journal of Intellectual Capital 22, no. 2: 260-289.
The present study aims to analyze the existence of a possible significant relationship between social disclosure and financial performance in banking institutions. This phenomenon was analyzed by considering the percentage of female executives on boards, and the implementation of the equal opportunity policy when it was applied. We used a sample of 61 banks from European Union countries (between 2015–2017), and sampling was environmental, social, or governance (ESG)-driven in order to capture the effect of non-financial disclosure provided by Bloomberg. A cross-section econometric model was built in order to examine the relationship between the percentage of female directors on boards and the equal opportunity policy. Both the independent variables of banks and performance indicators were adopted as dependent variables. Our study provides empirical evidence that while there is a lack of efficiency and performance when boards are fragmented, the enactments of equal opportunity policies create a good reputation for the firm and the positive performance of staff. The study aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on social sustainability and on the phenomenon of the glass ceiling, and provides political and entrepreneurial implications.
Francesco Manta; Annunziata Tarulli; Domenico Morrone; Pierluigi Toma. Toward a Quadruple Bottom Line: Social Disclosure and Financial Performance in the Banking Sector. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4038 .
AMA StyleFrancesco Manta, Annunziata Tarulli, Domenico Morrone, Pierluigi Toma. Toward a Quadruple Bottom Line: Social Disclosure and Financial Performance in the Banking Sector. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (10):4038.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesco Manta; Annunziata Tarulli; Domenico Morrone; Pierluigi Toma. 2020. "Toward a Quadruple Bottom Line: Social Disclosure and Financial Performance in the Banking Sector." Sustainability 12, no. 10: 4038.
China has recently established a new policy for the energy use of the Arctic region. Even though it is not a part of the Arctic Council, China has started a series of partnerships with public and private entities of countries that are geographically and politically members of the Arctic polar Circle. The project has to be carried out within the “Belt and Road Initiative”, by establishing new trade routes between China and the rest of the world. The study aims at assessing the fuel consumption for the Arctic shipping routes and comparing them to the traditional ones, in terms of cost reduction and time efficiency. Moreover, a brief consideration on oil&gas arctic fields has been carried out, in order to understand how the energy policy of China is changing the resource utilization.
Francesco Manta. China’s policies on Polar Silk Road and impacts on trade and energy use in Arctic region. Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment 2019, 17, 322 -328.
AMA StyleFrancesco Manta. China’s policies on Polar Silk Road and impacts on trade and energy use in Arctic region. Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment. 2019; 17 (4):322-328.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesco Manta. 2019. "China’s policies on Polar Silk Road and impacts on trade and energy use in Arctic region." Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment 17, no. 4: 322-328.