Gender Issues in Business and Economics ― Selections from the 2017 Ipazia Workshop on Gender

This volume presents current research on gender studies in the specific context of the knowledge economy. Featuring contributions from the 2017 Annual Ipazia, the Scientific Observatory for Gender Studies Workshop on Gender, this book investigates gender issues and female entrepreneurship from social, economic, corporate, organizational, and management perspectives, with particular emphasis on advancing the understanding of gender in business and economic research.

The post-industrial knowledge economy is characterized by an emphasis on human capital as the real engine of sustainable growth and development. With women comprising an increasing share of the global workforce, gender studies play a central role in exploring and understanding the attitudes and skills of women in business and their impact on economic and social development. Gender inequality in public and private contexts is decreasing due to an increase of women in leadership roles in business, the expansion and diversity of females in education, and a larger presence of women in policymaking roles. Ipazia, the Scientific Observatory for Gender Studies, aims to define an updated framework of research, service and projects on women and gender relations to highlight the evolution of gender in business and economics. This volume features contributions on female-owned family business, gender diversity in organizations, gender capital, and immigration from the 2017 Ipazia workshop.

Paola Paoloni is Full Professor at the Niccolo Cusano University Faculty of Economy in Rome (Italy), where she teaches Business Administration and Economics of Public Corporations. Her research and publication interests include general management, financial reporting, female entrepreneurship and intellectual-based management. She is the Head of the “Ipazia” Scientific Observatory of Gender Studies. She is author and co-author of several articles and books and she attends as a speaker at many international conferences including the EIASM Workshop on Intangibles, Intellectual Capital and Extra-financial Information; International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB); International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning (ICCKM); and the Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics (IFKAD). She is a member of Societa Italiana Di Ragioneria E Di Economia Aziendale (SIDREA); New Club Paris (NCP); Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA). She is an editorial board member on academic journals such as, Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity and China-USA Business Review. She is Vice-President of the Society of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity (SOItmC) and Scientific Director of the Observatory on Gender “Hypatia.” She received the “Outstanding Paper Award 2014” with the paper, “Implementing an IC framework in practice” (Paoloni and Demartini, Journal of Intellectual Capital, 2012).?

Rosa Lombardi is Assistant Professor of Accounting at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). She is eligible as Associate Professor under the Italian National Qualification. She had her Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy). She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism (Inderscience); as Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, Guest Editor, and reviewer of several international peer- reviewed academic journals published by Palgrave MacMillan, Springer, Emerald, and Inderscience Publishers. Her research interests cover intellectual capital, corporate governance, corporate disclosure, management control systems, evaluation of firms and business networks, decision making and the professional football industry. She is a member of the European Accounting Association (EAA), the Societa Italiana di Storia della Ragioneria (SISR), the Societa Italiana di Ragioneria e di Economia Aziendale (SIDREA), the Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), and the Laboratory of Intellectual Capital (LInC). She is also winner of the 2015 EMERALD/EMRBI Business Research Award for Emerging Researchers “Highly Commended Paper.”