Advances in Gender and Cultural Research in Business and Economics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019 4th IPAZIA Workshop on Gender Issues 2018, Rome, Italy Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics Series

This volume presents current research on gender and culture from business, management and accounting perspectives with a multidisciplinary approach. Featuring selected contributions presented at the 4th IPAZIA Workshop on Gender Studies held at Niccolò Cusano University in Rome, Italy, this book investigates gender strategies adopted and tested by various companies and assesses the impact of their subsequent dissemination. The contents are structured into four sections each of which addressing a specific theme on gender studies as follows: I) Women in Academia and in the University contexts: A trans-disciplinary approach; II) Gender issues, Corporate Social Responsibility and reporting; III) Woman in business and female entrepreneurship; IV) Women in Family Business. The result is a book that provides an innovative and rigorous analysis of gender issues proposing new challenges and insights in gender studies.

IPAZIA Scientific Observatory for Gender Studies defines an updated framework of research, services, and projects, all initiatives related to women and gender relations at the local, national and international. In order to achieve this objective, the Observatory aims to implement the literature on gender studies, to organize and promote scientific significant initiatives (workshops, seminars, conferences, studies, scientific laboratory) on these issues at the national and international level under an interdisciplinary perspective.

Paola Paoloni is Full Professor at the Niccolò 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 Journal. 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 Ca

Provides an innovative and rigorous analysis of gender studies

Explores topics such as women in business, relational capital, Copreneurships, women entrepreneurship and work-life balance (WLB) issues

Features select contributions presented at the 4th IPAZIA Workshop on Gender Studies