Eleonora Di Maria
Biographic Data
| ID | 2326726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleonora Di Maria |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleonora |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Maria |
| SIGNATURE | DI MARIA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4595-2155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Designing Business Models in Sustainability-Driven Hybrid Organizations
Sustainability-driven hybrid organizations are characterized by for-profit activities centered around specific social and environmental missions. Therefore, designing their business models is essential for structuring organizational activities to achieve the proposed social and environmental goals. Current literature lacks a comprehensive understanding of how business models are designed in such organizations, especially regarding how sustainabil…
The Twin Transition and its geographical dimensions
The concept of the Twin Transition (TT) – the integration of green and digital transitions – has evolved from a loosely linked policy idea – especially in the EU’s post-COVID-19 recovery agenda – to an emerging topic in academic research. TT research has grown rapidly, focusing on the enabling role of digital technologies in addressing climate challenges and on the environmental impacts of digitalization. Recently, academic interest has turned to…
Is this time different? How Industry 4.0 affects firms’ labor productivity
Does Industry 4.0 technology adoption push firms’ labor productivity? We contribute to the literature debate—mainly focused on robotics and large firms—by analyzing adopters’ labor productivity returns when micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) are concerned. We employ original survey data on Italian MSMEs’ adoption investments related to a multiplicity of technologies and rely on a difference-in-differences estimation strategy. Results hig…
The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading
Much of the literature on environmental sustainability in global value chains (GVCs) focuses on how 'lead firms' (usually global buyers or retailers) can improve the environmental conditions of production among their various layers of suppliers. This approach focuses on the vertical governance dynamics of environmental upgrading along with GVCs. In our contribution, we emphasize the role of horizontal governance as a driver that underpins environ…
Which country characteristics support corporate social performance
As a growing number of firms are investing in social and environmental sustainability, academics and practitioners are increasingly becoming concerned with studying the factors that drive firms to achieve higher corporate social performance (CSP). This paper aims to contribute to the literature investigating country‐level characteristics that influence the magnitude of firm CSP based on the framework of the antecedents of green innovation. By con…
Industrial District Firms Do Not Smile
Defined as local manufacturing systems, industrial districts have been recognized as particularly important for the location of firms’ manufacturing activities intertwined with innovation processes. The debate on the internationalization of production has stressed the low value related to manufacturing within value chain activities (smile framework), emphasizing the need to focus on high value-added activities (R&D or marketing). Following multin…
Does Agglomeration Affect Exports? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
This paper analyses whether and how agglomeration economies – related variety, specialisation and urbanisation – affect the export performance of Italian local labour markets (LLM). Adopting spatial econometric techniques, and controlling for potential non‐linear effects, we find that related variety has a negligible effect on LLMs’ export intensity, while the effect of specialisation economies is negative. On the contrary, urbanisation economies…
An Explanation of Firms' Internationalisation Modes, Blending Firm Heterogeneity and Spatial Agglomeration
This paper uses a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2004-06, to investigate whether different types of agglomeration economies affect firms' internationalisation choices. The main novelty of the work consists in linking the hypothesis of firm heterogeneity to the literature on agglomeration economies to explain firms' approaches and forms of internationalisation. We analyse two types of agglomeration economies: localisat…
Environmental Strategies, Upgrading and Competitive Advantage in Global Value Chains
The literature is increasingly focusing on how firms are improving their environmental performances and promoting green strategies to transform environmental constraints into new drivers of competitive advantage. This paper contributes to the literature by expanding knowledge about environmental management at the value chain level by exploring the concept of environmental upgrading and its implications in terms of economic upgrading and greening …
The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading
Much of the literature on environmental sustainability in global value chains (GVCs) focuses on how 'lead firms' (usually global buyers or retailers) can improve the environmental conditions of production among their various layers of suppliers. This approach focuses on the vertical governance dynamics of environmental upgrading along with GVCs. In our contribution, we emphasize the role of horizontal governance as a driver that underpins environ…
Which country characteristics support corporate social performance
As a growing number of firms are investing in social and environmental sustainability, academics and practitioners are increasingly becoming concerned with studying the factors that drive firms to achieve higher corporate social performance (CSP). This paper aims to contribute to the literature investigating country‐level characteristics that influence the magnitude of firm CSP based on the framework of the antecedents of green innovation. By con…
Does Agglomeration Affect Exports? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
This paper analyses whether and how agglomeration economies – related variety, specialisation and urbanisation – affect the export performance of Italian local labour markets (LLM). Adopting spatial econometric techniques, and controlling for potential non‐linear effects, we find that related variety has a negligible effect on LLMs’ export intensity, while the effect of specialisation economies is negative. On the contrary, urbanisation economies…
An Explanation of Firms' Internationalisation Modes, Blending Firm Heterogeneity and Spatial Agglomeration
This paper uses a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2004-06, to investigate whether different types of agglomeration economies affect firms' internationalisation choices. The main novelty of the work consists in linking the hypothesis of firm heterogeneity to the literature on agglomeration economies to explain firms' approaches and forms of internationalisation. We analyse two types of agglomeration economies: localisat…
Environmental Strategies, Upgrading and Competitive Advantage in Global Value Chains
The literature is increasingly focusing on how firms are improving their environmental performances and promoting green strategies to transform environmental constraints into new drivers of competitive advantage. This paper contributes to the literature by expanding knowledge about environmental management at the value chain level by exploring the concept of environmental upgrading and its implications in terms of economic upgrading and greening …
An Explanation of Firms' Internationalisation Modes, Blending Firm Heterogeneity and Spatial Agglomeration
This paper uses a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2004-06, to investigate whether different types of agglomeration economies affect firms' internationalisation choices. The main novelty of the work consists in linking the hypothesis of firm heterogeneity to the literature on agglomeration economies to explain firms' approaches and forms of internationalisation. We analyse two types of agglomeration economies: localisat…
Industrial District Firms Do Not Smile
Defined as local manufacturing systems, industrial districts have been recognized as particularly important for the location of firms’ manufacturing activities intertwined with innovation processes. The debate on the internationalization of production has stressed the low value related to manufacturing within value chain activities (smile framework), emphasizing the need to focus on high value-added activities (R&D or marketing). Following multin…
Does Agglomeration Affect Exports? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
This paper analyses whether and how agglomeration economies – related variety, specialisation and urbanisation – affect the export performance of Italian local labour markets (LLM). Adopting spatial econometric techniques, and controlling for potential non‐linear effects, we find that related variety has a negligible effect on LLMs’ export intensity, while the effect of specialisation economies is negative. On the contrary, urbanisation economies…
Which country characteristics support corporate social performance
As a growing number of firms are investing in social and environmental sustainability, academics and practitioners are increasingly becoming concerned with studying the factors that drive firms to achieve higher corporate social performance (CSP). This paper aims to contribute to the literature investigating country‐level characteristics that influence the magnitude of firm CSP based on the framework of the antecedents of green innovation. By con…
The horizontal governance of environmental upgrading
Much of the literature on environmental sustainability in global value chains (GVCs) focuses on how 'lead firms' (usually global buyers or retailers) can improve the environmental conditions of production among their various layers of suppliers. This approach focuses on the vertical governance dynamics of environmental upgrading along with GVCs. In our contribution, we emphasize the role of horizontal governance as a driver that underpins environ…
Is this time different? How Industry 4.0 affects firms’ labor productivity
Does Industry 4.0 technology adoption push firms’ labor productivity? We contribute to the literature debate—mainly focused on robotics and large firms—by analyzing adopters’ labor productivity returns when micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) are concerned. We employ original survey data on Italian MSMEs’ adoption investments related to a multiplicity of technologies and rely on a difference-in-differences estimation strategy. Results hig…
Designing Business Models in Sustainability-Driven Hybrid Organizations
Sustainability-driven hybrid organizations are characterized by for-profit activities centered around specific social and environmental missions. Therefore, designing their business models is essential for structuring organizational activities to achieve the proposed social and environmental goals. Current literature lacks a comprehensive understanding of how business models are designed in such organizations, especially regarding how sustainabil…
The Twin Transition and its geographical dimensions
The concept of the Twin Transition (TT) – the integration of green and digital transitions – has evolved from a loosely linked policy idea – especially in the EU’s post-COVID-19 recovery agenda – to an emerging topic in academic research. TT research has grown rapidly, focusing on the enabling role of digital technologies in addressing climate challenges and on the environmental impacts of digitalization. Recently, academic interest has turned to…
Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Industrial organization (6 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Sustainability (3 works) · Value (mathematics) (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (2 works)