Marika Arena
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marika Arena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marika |
| FAMILY NAME | Arena |
| SIGNATURE | ARENA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Milano |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3145-3032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring the link between Cohesion Funds and tourism attractiveness
This study investigates the relationship between EU Cohesion Policy-funded tourism investments and the attractiveness of Italian municipalities. Utilizing data from OpenCoesione, the research classifies tourism projects to differentiate between various investment types and estimates their association with alternative tourism outcomes through spatial panel models. The findings reveal that Cohesion Policy funds are generally linked to higher touris…
Sustainable development goals and corporate reporting
In recent years, many companies have started to include references to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in their corporate reporting as a means for demonstrating their contribution to sustainable development. However, connecting company results to the SDGs is not straightforward, since this framework has not been originally designed for corporate reporting, resulting in high heterogeneity among companies and industries. Moving from this co…
How can the waste management sector contribute to overcoming barriers to the circular economy
This paper contributes to an emerging literature stream advocating the multifaceted involvement of the waste management sector in supporting the up‐scaling of the circular economy (CE). It explores the role of waste collection and recycling platforms in overcoming various barriers to CE implementation, inductively analyzing the case of postconsumer wood in Italy. Data were collected from multiple sources: interviews with 33 informants, participat…
Practice Variation in Public Sector Internal Auditing
This article aims to analyze the rise of practice variations in public sector internal auditing (IA), giving special attention to the role of agents’ embeddedness in multiple institutional arrangements. IA's trends of development and the characteristics of the public sector context, in fact, make IA inherently subject to multiple institutional forces that interact with the system of values and beliefs of individual internal auditors. The empirica…
Performance Measurement for Social Enterprises
Over the past 20 years, the issue of performance measurement in Social Enterprises (SEs) has gained increasing relevance among researchers and practitioners. From an academic perspective, there has been an explosion in methodologies and tools for assessing social performance and impact, but with little systematic analysis and comparison across different approaches. From a practitioner perspective, SEs need to start measuring their performances in…
Student perceptions and central administrative services
In recent years, various reforms have sought to foster forms of marketisation in the Italian public sector, promoting the uptake of concepts such as customer satisfaction and perceived quality. In the field of higher education, such efforts have focused on certain specific areas, like quality of research and teaching, while the quality of administrative services has been overlooked. This article attempts to fill this gap by presenting a study on …
Performance Measurement for Social Enterprises
Over the past 20 years, the issue of performance measurement in Social Enterprises (SEs) has gained increasing relevance among researchers and practitioners. From an academic perspective, there has been an explosion in methodologies and tools for assessing social performance and impact, but with little systematic analysis and comparison across different approaches. From a practitioner perspective, SEs need to start measuring their performances in…
Sustainable development goals and corporate reporting
In recent years, many companies have started to include references to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in their corporate reporting as a means for demonstrating their contribution to sustainable development. However, connecting company results to the SDGs is not straightforward, since this framework has not been originally designed for corporate reporting, resulting in high heterogeneity among companies and industries. Moving from this co…
How can the waste management sector contribute to overcoming barriers to the circular economy
This paper contributes to an emerging literature stream advocating the multifaceted involvement of the waste management sector in supporting the up‐scaling of the circular economy (CE). It explores the role of waste collection and recycling platforms in overcoming various barriers to CE implementation, inductively analyzing the case of postconsumer wood in Italy. Data were collected from multiple sources: interviews with 33 informants, participat…
Student perceptions and central administrative services
In recent years, various reforms have sought to foster forms of marketisation in the Italian public sector, promoting the uptake of concepts such as customer satisfaction and perceived quality. In the field of higher education, such efforts have focused on certain specific areas, like quality of research and teaching, while the quality of administrative services has been overlooked. This article attempts to fill this gap by presenting a study on …
Student perceptions and central administrative services
In recent years, various reforms have sought to foster forms of marketisation in the Italian public sector, promoting the uptake of concepts such as customer satisfaction and perceived quality. In the field of higher education, such efforts have focused on certain specific areas, like quality of research and teaching, while the quality of administrative services has been overlooked. This article attempts to fill this gap by presenting a study on …
Performance Measurement for Social Enterprises
Over the past 20 years, the issue of performance measurement in Social Enterprises (SEs) has gained increasing relevance among researchers and practitioners. From an academic perspective, there has been an explosion in methodologies and tools for assessing social performance and impact, but with little systematic analysis and comparison across different approaches. From a practitioner perspective, SEs need to start measuring their performances in…
Practice Variation in Public Sector Internal Auditing
This article aims to analyze the rise of practice variations in public sector internal auditing (IA), giving special attention to the role of agents’ embeddedness in multiple institutional arrangements. IA's trends of development and the characteristics of the public sector context, in fact, make IA inherently subject to multiple institutional forces that interact with the system of values and beliefs of individual internal auditors. The empirica…
How can the waste management sector contribute to overcoming barriers to the circular economy
This paper contributes to an emerging literature stream advocating the multifaceted involvement of the waste management sector in supporting the up‐scaling of the circular economy (CE). It explores the role of waste collection and recycling platforms in overcoming various barriers to CE implementation, inductively analyzing the case of postconsumer wood in Italy. Data were collected from multiple sources: interviews with 33 informants, participat…
Sustainable development goals and corporate reporting
In recent years, many companies have started to include references to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in their corporate reporting as a means for demonstrating their contribution to sustainable development. However, connecting company results to the SDGs is not straightforward, since this framework has not been originally designed for corporate reporting, resulting in high heterogeneity among companies and industries. Moving from this co…
Exploring the link between Cohesion Funds and tourism attractiveness
This study investigates the relationship between EU Cohesion Policy-funded tourism investments and the attractiveness of Italian municipalities. Utilizing data from OpenCoesione, the research classifies tourism projects to differentiate between various investment types and estimates their association with alternative tourism outcomes through spatial panel models. The findings reveal that Cohesion Policy funds are generally linked to higher touris…
Business (5 works) · Marketing (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Accounting (2 works) · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (2 works) · Industrial organization (2 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)