Mita Marra
Biographic Data
| ID | 4193152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mita Marra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mita |
| FAMILY NAME | Marra |
| SIGNATURE | MARRA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salerno |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5145-5051 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A quasi-market for evaluation services
Drawing on data from Cohesion Policy funding, evaluation tender notices, and contract expenditures, complemented with semi-structured interviews with commissioners and contractors, the analysis identifies the key factors shaping the demand and supply of market-based evaluation services. Key issues encompass the prevailing large-scale procurement model, which influences industry structure, market dynamics, and evaluation quality. The findings call…
Bridging the gaps in sustainability assessment
I want to break free
The revolution in the organization of work, induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has had, and will have, some long-lasting consequences on how jobs will be performed, affecting adult life well-being. What we know so far about the determinant of satisfaction for work–life balance may not be valid anymore considering this sudden revolution in work organization. This \npaper presents an empirical analysis based on a cross-sectional survey of 803 worker…
Productive interactions in digital training partnerships
Assessing university-business collaborations for moderate innovators
A Behavioral Design to Reform Italy’s Evaluation Policy
Drawing on the extensive ethnographic research I conducted on Italy’s performance evaluation system, this article highlights the cognitive biases associated with evidence use in decision making and institution working. Framing effects, status quo bias, motivated reasoning, and tacit conflicts between personal and organizational interests were only some of the behavioral phenomena policy makers, managers, and evaluators showed to limit their expos…
A few introductory notes on the special issue on the Evaluation Framework for Promoting Gender Equality in Research and Innovation (Efforti)
Intersectionality and emergence in time use analysis
Tracking how time is shared between work and family has the potential to unearth implicit gender biases and empowerment processes as women mobilize hidden resources and become aware of their own agency and differences vis-à-vis social groups they belong to or are excluded from. Building upon a time use study of a sample of 100 women working within administrative agencies, firms and social coops within the Italian Mezzogiorno, I examine work–famil…
Cooperating for a more egalitarian society
Evaluating gender equity involves the assessment of the equality of opportunities and the equality of outcomes that public policies seek to attain for women and men. It focuses on how and to what extent both genders cooperate to expand access to paid work and control over material resources while sharing care and reproductive responsibilities. Drawing on complexity theory, this article puts forward a theoretical framework to identify cooperative …
The missing links of the European gender mainstreaming approach
This article examines how the EU gender mainstreaming approach has addressed work and family reconciliation across Southern Italian regions, to foster a more egalitarian and socially inclusive development. Drawing upon a survey of women of different socioeconomic backgrounds and in-depth interviewing of regional policy-makers, this article assesses what gender equality policies do and don’t do for work–family reconciliation within the Italian Mez…
What coordination mechanisms work to manage regional development programmes? Insights from Southern Italian regions
The European Structural Fund programmes are embedded in a multi-level governance system, which has grown in parallel with European integration. Decision-making power is increasingly delegated to territorial authorities on the assumption that local agents possess both contextual knowledge and political legitimacy to integrate different policy measures in a cooperative fashion. Within contexts of structural socioeconomic constraints, problems of co…
The Contribution of Evaluation to Socialization and Externalization of Tacit Knowledge
International organizations are increasingly focusing on organizational learning. The experience accumulated by development agencies throughout the world has become a source of organizational knowledge, which, according to Nonaka, is transferred through processes of socialization and externalization. Based upon three case studies and in-depth interviewing of World Bank managers and evaluators over two years, this article explores the contribution…
How Much Does Evaluation Matter
This article offers empirical evidence of the utilization of evaluation findings of the World Bank Institute's (WBI) efforts to help reduce corruption in Tanzania and Uganda. These initiatives are part of the World Bank-WBI program to curb corruption in developing countries. This analysis focuses on the mid-term evaluation of the WBI's anti-corruption activities in those countries. The study shows, through a series of examples, how evaluation has…
How Much Does Evaluation Matter
This article offers empirical evidence of the utilization of evaluation findings of the World Bank Institute's (WBI) efforts to help reduce corruption in Tanzania and Uganda. These initiatives are part of the World Bank-WBI program to curb corruption in developing countries. This analysis focuses on the mid-term evaluation of the WBI's anti-corruption activities in those countries. The study shows, through a series of examples, how evaluation has…
I want to break free
The revolution in the organization of work, induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has had, and will have, some long-lasting consequences on how jobs will be performed, affecting adult life well-being. What we know so far about the determinant of satisfaction for work–life balance may not be valid anymore considering this sudden revolution in work organization. This \npaper presents an empirical analysis based on a cross-sectional survey of 803 worker…
Intersectionality and emergence in time use analysis
Tracking how time is shared between work and family has the potential to unearth implicit gender biases and empowerment processes as women mobilize hidden resources and become aware of their own agency and differences vis-à-vis social groups they belong to or are excluded from. Building upon a time use study of a sample of 100 women working within administrative agencies, firms and social coops within the Italian Mezzogiorno, I examine work–famil…
The missing links of the European gender mainstreaming approach
This article examines how the EU gender mainstreaming approach has addressed work and family reconciliation across Southern Italian regions, to foster a more egalitarian and socially inclusive development. Drawing upon a survey of women of different socioeconomic backgrounds and in-depth interviewing of regional policy-makers, this article assesses what gender equality policies do and don’t do for work–family reconciliation within the Italian Mez…
What coordination mechanisms work to manage regional development programmes? Insights from Southern Italian regions
The European Structural Fund programmes are embedded in a multi-level governance system, which has grown in parallel with European integration. Decision-making power is increasingly delegated to territorial authorities on the assumption that local agents possess both contextual knowledge and political legitimacy to integrate different policy measures in a cooperative fashion. Within contexts of structural socioeconomic constraints, problems of co…
Cooperating for a more egalitarian society
Evaluating gender equity involves the assessment of the equality of opportunities and the equality of outcomes that public policies seek to attain for women and men. It focuses on how and to what extent both genders cooperate to expand access to paid work and control over material resources while sharing care and reproductive responsibilities. Drawing on complexity theory, this article puts forward a theoretical framework to identify cooperative …
A Behavioral Design to Reform Italy’s Evaluation Policy
Drawing on the extensive ethnographic research I conducted on Italy’s performance evaluation system, this article highlights the cognitive biases associated with evidence use in decision making and institution working. Framing effects, status quo bias, motivated reasoning, and tacit conflicts between personal and organizational interests were only some of the behavioral phenomena policy makers, managers, and evaluators showed to limit their expos…
How Much Does Evaluation Matter
This article offers empirical evidence of the utilization of evaluation findings of the World Bank Institute's (WBI) efforts to help reduce corruption in Tanzania and Uganda. These initiatives are part of the World Bank-WBI program to curb corruption in developing countries. This analysis focuses on the mid-term evaluation of the WBI's anti-corruption activities in those countries. The study shows, through a series of examples, how evaluation has…
The Contribution of Evaluation to Socialization and Externalization of Tacit Knowledge
International organizations are increasingly focusing on organizational learning. The experience accumulated by development agencies throughout the world has become a source of organizational knowledge, which, according to Nonaka, is transferred through processes of socialization and externalization. Based upon three case studies and in-depth interviewing of World Bank managers and evaluators over two years, this article explores the contribution…
The missing links of the European gender mainstreaming approach
This article examines how the EU gender mainstreaming approach has addressed work and family reconciliation across Southern Italian regions, to foster a more egalitarian and socially inclusive development. Drawing upon a survey of women of different socioeconomic backgrounds and in-depth interviewing of regional policy-makers, this article assesses what gender equality policies do and don’t do for work–family reconciliation within the Italian Mez…
What coordination mechanisms work to manage regional development programmes? Insights from Southern Italian regions
The European Structural Fund programmes are embedded in a multi-level governance system, which has grown in parallel with European integration. Decision-making power is increasingly delegated to territorial authorities on the assumption that local agents possess both contextual knowledge and political legitimacy to integrate different policy measures in a cooperative fashion. Within contexts of structural socioeconomic constraints, problems of co…
Cooperating for a more egalitarian society
Evaluating gender equity involves the assessment of the equality of opportunities and the equality of outcomes that public policies seek to attain for women and men. It focuses on how and to what extent both genders cooperate to expand access to paid work and control over material resources while sharing care and reproductive responsibilities. Drawing on complexity theory, this article puts forward a theoretical framework to identify cooperative …
A few introductory notes on the special issue on the Evaluation Framework for Promoting Gender Equality in Research and Innovation (Efforti)
Intersectionality and emergence in time use analysis
Tracking how time is shared between work and family has the potential to unearth implicit gender biases and empowerment processes as women mobilize hidden resources and become aware of their own agency and differences vis-à-vis social groups they belong to or are excluded from. Building upon a time use study of a sample of 100 women working within administrative agencies, firms and social coops within the Italian Mezzogiorno, I examine work–famil…
A Behavioral Design to Reform Italy’s Evaluation Policy
Drawing on the extensive ethnographic research I conducted on Italy’s performance evaluation system, this article highlights the cognitive biases associated with evidence use in decision making and institution working. Framing effects, status quo bias, motivated reasoning, and tacit conflicts between personal and organizational interests were only some of the behavioral phenomena policy makers, managers, and evaluators showed to limit their expos…
Productive interactions in digital training partnerships
Assessing university-business collaborations for moderate innovators
I want to break free
The revolution in the organization of work, induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has had, and will have, some long-lasting consequences on how jobs will be performed, affecting adult life well-being. What we know so far about the determinant of satisfaction for work–life balance may not be valid anymore considering this sudden revolution in work organization. This \npaper presents an empirical analysis based on a cross-sectional survey of 803 worker…
Bridging the gaps in sustainability assessment
A quasi-market for evaluation services
Drawing on data from Cohesion Policy funding, evaluation tender notices, and contract expenditures, complemented with semi-structured interviews with commissioners and contractors, the analysis identifies the key factors shaping the demand and supply of market-based evaluation services. Key issues encompass the prevailing large-scale procurement model, which influences industry structure, market dynamics, and evaluation quality. The findings call…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Regional Development and Policy (4 works)