About the Author:

Paola Paoloni is Full Professor at the Niccolò Cusano University Faculty of Economy in Rome (Italy), where she teaches Business Administration and Economics of Public Corporations. Her research and publication interests include general management, financial reporting, female entrepreneurship and intellectual-based management. She is the Head of the "Ipazia" Scientific Observatory of Gender Studies. She is author and co-author of several articles and books and she attends as a speaker at many international conferences including the EIASM Workshop on Intangibles, Intellectual Capital and Extra-financial Information; International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB); International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning (ICCKM); and the Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics (IFKAD). She is a member of Societa Italiana Di Ragioneria E Di Economia Aziendale (SIDREA); New Club Paris (NCP); Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA). She is an editorial board member on academic journals such as, Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity and China-USA Business Review Journal. She is Vice-President of the Society of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity (SOItmC) and Scientific Director of the Observatory on Gender "Hypatia." She received the "Outstanding Paper Award 2014" with the paper, "Implementing an IC framework in practice" (Paoloni and Demartini, Journal of Intellectual Capital, 2012).

Rosa Lombardi is Assistant Professor of Accounting at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). She is eligible as Associate Professor under the Italian National Qualification. She had her Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy). She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism (Inderscience); as Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, Guest Editor, and reviewer of several international peer-reviewed academic journals published by Palgrave MacMillan, Springer, Emerald, and Inderscience publishers. Her research interests cover intellectual capital, intellectual capital reporting, corporate governance, corporate disclosure, management control systems, evaluation of firms and business networks, decision making and the professional football industry. She is a member of the Società Italiana di Storia della Ragioneria (SISR), the Società Italiana di Ragioneria e di Economia Aziendale (SIDREA), the Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), and the Laboratory of Intellectual Capital (LInC). She is board member of SIDREA Società Italiana di Ragioneria e di Economia Aziendale and in Italy.She is also winner of the 2015 EMERALD/EMRBI Business Research Award for Emerging Researchers and Best Paper Award SOItmC&RTU 2017 by SOItmC & Riga Technical University Conference".