Gender Studies, Entrepreneurship and Human Capital. 5th Ipazia Workshop on gender issues 2019

In the current scenario, academic community, practical community, and policy makers are often involved in the discussion of gender issues as well as in the entrepreneurship and human capital issues. A lot of studies are published on gender issues (word “gender”– 621,161 documents ranked Scopus at 26th December 2019 – www.scopus.com) involving many scientific fields among which is business management and accounting (BMA) research (23,342 documents by Scopus). The research trend appears consistent especially in the past few years. Although such evidence is relevant in the international context, we have decided to emphasize in our study the word “entrepreneurship” retrieving 39,908 documents in the Scopus database – the major part of studies is attributable to BMA (22,824 documents). Additionally, “human capital” represents a relevant topic with 27,788 documents in the Scopus database (7956 documents in BMA). Thus, we decided to investigate all together these three significant topics, providing a wide overview to readers on the behalf that in the recent years the intersection of “gender,” “entrepreneurship,” and “human capital” represents a diffused interest among several communities. Interpretative studies, empirical models, literature advances, model, and principles are required! Our research perspective derives from the corporate, management, and accounting issues adopting a multidisciplinary approach as in the previous book published in the a few years ago by the Editors (Paoloni and Lombardi 2017, 2018). Thus, drafting the way of gender issues, entrepreneurship, and human capital, we underline one of the main research ideas investigated in the IPAZIA as Scientific Observatory for Gender Studies (www…). IPAZIA is currently aiming to defining thrilling frameworks of researches, services, and projects, aligning them to all initiatives related to women and gender relations in the international context. Thus, the Observatory is directed to promote a wide discussion on the gender studies, building several scientific initiatives (e.g., workshops, seminars, conferences, studies). This book collects the main output of the researches on gender studies issues, entrepreneurship, and human capital presented at the Annual Workshop of IPAZIA 2019 of Rome in Italy. Interestingly, this book is directed to provide a renewed and fruitful analysis of these topics with the purpose of advancing the gender theories in the international context. This book includes a preface by the Editors Paola Paoloni and Rosa Lombardi and 14 chapters contributed by several scholars, addressing specific issues in the field of gender studies as follows. Particularly, Arena et al. (2020) address the female directors issue in relation to the innovation in public hospitals. Biancuzzi et al. (2020) investigate the post breast cancer coaching path providing an overview on the co-production experience for women. Gennari and Tommaso (2020) present the gender diversity in nomination committee. Sarto and Saggese (2020) explore the influence of female human capital on entrepreneurial orientation adopting a multiple case study approach. Cesaroni et al. (2020) investigate daughter entrepreneurs between birth family and gender stereotypes. Dal Mas and Paoloni (2020) analyze the female start-ups in Italy using the relational capital perspective. Paoloni et al. (2020) describe the gender and identity of BoD members, presenting the influence on CSR and financial performance. Paoloni et al. (2020) investigate the factors affecting the presence of women in company boards from an institutional/cultural perspective. Pietarinen and Kianto (2020) analyze the social capital in the start-up phase of female-owned micro-enterprises. Salaris et al. (2020) explore the gender quotas topic as well as the gender equality issue. Paoloni et al. (2020) investigate the female role in the wine sector adopting the business administration perspective. Arduini and Paoloni (2020) propose the IT Strategy in the Luxury Sector under the Case of a Fashion Company. Pastore and Tommaso (2020) present the gender responsive budgeting processes in the Italian Regional and Local Governments. Modaffari et al. (2020) investigate the relational capital and crowdfunding emphasizing the new opportunity for Italian women-led start-ups.