Workplace Bullying in Academia Creates a Negative Work Environment. An Italian Study
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 2012Workplace bullying is recognized internationally as a serious problem, but few studies have been conducted in Academia to assess the risk of bullying. A survey was taken in a large-sized Italian university to identify possible relationships between working environment, bullying at work and health.
Gabriele Giorgi, Giorgi Gabriele
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The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Academia and Academic Freedom: An Italian Perspective
2021This article concerns the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on academic freedom. In the dramatic framework of the pandemic, science is playing a pivotal role and many aspects of its freedom are challenged. I examine the monopolisation of scientific debate, the impact of “social distancing” on achievement of research objectives and the new challenges of digital ...
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The Enactment of Gender Equality Plans in Academia. Insights from the Italian Context
SIDREA Series in Accounting and Business AdministrationThe European Union has been advocating for Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in academic and re-search organizations since 2015, recognizing them as a criterion for eligibility in Horizon Europe calls for research and innovation. In compliance with Decree No.
Annalisa Sentuti +2 more
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From Academia to Amicitia: Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1998Estelle Haan
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The effectiveness of promotion incentives for public employees: evidence from Italian academia
Economic Policy, 2022Abstract We investigate how promotion incentives affect the productivity of a large sample of high-skilled public employees: academics. In a fuzzy regression-discontinuity design, we exploit the three bibliometric thresholds of the 2012 National Scientific Qualification (NSQ), the centralized evaluation procedure regulating career ...
Nieddu, Marco, Pandolfi, Lorenzo
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On the evolution of the glass ceiling in Italian academia: the case of economics
Science in Context, 2019ArgumentFollowing an international trend, Italy has reformed its university system, especially concerning methods and tools for research evaluation, which are increasingly focused on a number of bibliometric indexes. To study the effects of these changes, we analyze the changing profiles of economists who have won competitions for full professorship in
Giulia Zacchia +2 more
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Gender Discrimination and Evaluators’ Gender: Evidence from Italian Academia [PDF]
Relying on a natural experiment consisting in 130 competitions for promotion to associate and full professor in Italian universities, we analyse whether gender discrimination is affected by the gender of evaluators. We examine the probability of success of each candidate in relation to the committee gender composition, exploiting the random assignment ...
SCOPPA, Vincenzo, DE PAOLA, Maria
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Scientific Productivity in the Italian Academia from a Gender Perspective
2022The article investigates the gender gap in scientific productivity in Italy, using data from a national survey carried out between 2015 and 2016. It allows us to observe the relationship between gender and productivity on a large representative sample of structured academic staff (N = 5,123) in all disciplinary areas and on different types of ...
Anzivino M., Dordoni A.
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Comparing Fields of Sciences: Multilevel Networks of Research Collaborations in Italian Academia
2015In this chapter we want to identify a suitable approach that can be applied to the study of scientific collaborations. In other words, we are interested in modelling the multilevel structure of scientific work, looking at social networks of collaborations between scientists, and at how these networks are embedded in disciplinary and organizational ...
Bellotti Elisa +2 more
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Dossier SeSaMO 4 - Italian Academia, Publishers and the Public
2022Surfing the Italian Editorial Outputs on the Middle East and North Africa: Still an Unbeaten Track?
D. Melfa, R. Di Peri
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