Papers by Maria Elena Latino
Journal of The Knowledge Economy, Feb 22, 2018
The ex ante definition of business model offers the possibility to create a static picture of Bho... more The ex ante definition of business model offers the possibility to create a static picture of Bhow^the company is able to generate value in a given moment. But is this business model able to generate value over time? The time factor of the value proposition life cycle is not usually taken into account. This paper, starting from the lean canvas model (Maurya 2012), proposes a framework able to consider the temporal factor and, coming from Rogers's innovation diffusion theory (Die Diffusion von Innovationen in der Telekommunikation, 17, 25-38, Rogers 1995), to evolve the business model from a single picture to a set of pictures representing the many phases of the value proposition life cycle. A local context analysis was conducted, interviewing 10 CEOs of University of Salento start-ups, and the framework's tool kit was developed: application methodology, questionnaire, and glossary. To validate the tools and methodology, a real business case was considered. Using the framework proposed in the business model definition would allow managers of start-ups to identify
Foods, Nov 25, 2022
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
Agriculture Digitalization: A Global Examination Based on Bibliometric Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2022
Cybersecurity in the food and beverage industry: A reference framework
Computers in Industry, Oct 1, 2022
IOP conference series, May 29, 2019
Aquaculture is a growing sector and could satisfy the future worldwide fish demand. New sustainab... more Aquaculture is a growing sector and could satisfy the future worldwide fish demand. New sustainable consumption patterns arise from food market, based on the consumer' need to know more information about food product. Technological and methodological innovations are needed to create more efficiency in aquaculture industry, but also to create product able to respond to the emerging market needs. The paper shows a case study in Aquaculture Company useful to demonstrate how collect product and production processes information and use it for traceability purpose. Starting from the as-is production process analysis and modelling, several strategically information for consumer are identified. The possibility of using the devices developed in S.E.A. research project has been exploited to collect some of this information and a new traceability layer was create in order to collect manually the missing data. At last the new production process was modelled. The benefits coming from the system adoption are multiple, for the final consumer that could see demonstrated the food quality and safety, for the company that could increase own environmental, economical and ethical sustainability.
Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, Jun 20, 2022
During the last two decades several studies were developed to understand the attributes able to a... more During the last two decades several studies were developed to understand the attributes able to affect consumer vegetable choice over the world. Focusing on fresh and processed tomato product, this study proposes a systematic literature review to systematize and critically apprise the current body of knowledge in this research field. In order to discover suggestions useful to enhance market strategies and policies about vegetable intake, the discovered tomato attributes were categorized, according the Search Experience and Credence logic, into: price, product features, packaging, convenience, brand, sensory properties, sustainability, origin, safety and health, production processes. By synthesizing the review findings, a multidimensional integrative content framework was conceived with the aim to maps the extant literature with multiple levels of analysis: antecedent, phenomenon and consequences. As part of the review, a future research agenda, theoretical and practical implications were discussed.
Sustainability, Jul 25, 2019
Labels play a strategic role in communication, representing the interface between consumers and t... more Labels play a strategic role in communication, representing the interface between consumers and the food system. Consumers' ability to correctly understand product label information was essential for health and safety, making a sustainable choice, as also demonstrated by the Federal Regulations of USA, which define several guidelines to increase the readability of labels. Human Factor studies the interface design in order to assure users' safety, comfort, and productiveness. So, it could be applied in label design to enhance consumers' safeguard and healthcare. The aim of this study is to analyze the fields of application of the Human Factor in label design to evaluate the current methods of utilization in the food industry. A two-step literature review was applied, using bibliometric and content analysis. From bibliometric analysis, 6 clusters of themes and the predominance of medical terms arose. The absence of terms related to the food domain is surprising. So, a content analysis on lead papers' sample related to the Food Industry was carried out to identify evidence about the human factor in food label design. From content analysis, 2 groups of works' results, focused on the possibility to consider the human factor in: i) pharmaceutical label design, ii) food label design, respectively. The studies in food label design primarily focused on label readability related to content positioning and not on its understandability. The practical implications of the study include the construction of a new concept of label in terms of contents and communication channels.
Sustainability
Nowadays, digital platforms are applying some game-linked elements in their services with the aim... more Nowadays, digital platforms are applying some game-linked elements in their services with the aim to attract, retain and shape human interaction. Therefore, it is essential to investigate gamification with regard to its social sustainability. Gamification strategies are strategical in the agri-food industry to reach social and marketing goals. Despite the presence of several literature reviews on gamification, no study proposes a reflection on the meaning and purposes of gamification in the agri-food industry. This paper aims to identify the core dimensions underlying the concept of gamification, analysing its definitions and purposes through a systematic literature review, content analysis and principal component analysis. Eight core dimensions were detected leading to the conception of a new definition of gamification in the agri-food industry. Our results highlighted the potential of gamification to impact society, leaving points of reflection on how it can be made more inclusive...
Foods
Olive oil is largely produced in southern European countries. It encompasses a mix of search (e.g... more Olive oil is largely produced in southern European countries. It encompasses a mix of search (e.g., price, color, packaging features), experience (e.g., taste), and credence attributes (e.g., organic, health claim). The importance of these attributes on consumers’ attitudes and preferences for Olive oil has been explored quite extensively in the past. However, a recent body of literature has focused on product nutritional information and health claims in shaping consumers’ attitudes and preferences for Olive oil. This work aims to offer an updated review of consumers’ acceptance and preferences for Olive oil features. Applying the Systematic Literature Review method, a sample of 47 studies published over the last 20 years was reviewed through descriptive and content analysis. The following attributes, grouped in search, experience, and credence categories, were discussed: origin, sustainability, brand, health and safety, the production process, packaging, color, taste and flavor, an...
Sensors
A novel and low-cost framework for food traceability, composed by commercial and proprietary sens... more A novel and low-cost framework for food traceability, composed by commercial and proprietary sensing devices, for the remote monitoring of air, water, soil parameters and herbicide contamination during the farming process, has been developed and verified in real crop environments. It offers an integrated approach to food traceability with embedded systems supervision, approaching the problem to testify the quality of the food product. Moreover, it fills the gap of missing low-cost systems for monitoring cropping environments and pesticides contamination, satisfying the wide interest of regulatory agencies and final customers for a sustainable farming. The novelty of the proposed monitoring framework lies in the realization and the adoption of a fully automated prototype for in situ glyphosate detection. This device consists of a custom-made and automated fluidic system which, leveraging on the Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) sensing technology, permits to detect unwanted glyphos...
Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization
During the last two decades several studies were developed to understand the attributes able to a... more During the last two decades several studies were developed to understand the attributes able to affect consumer vegetable choice over the world. Focusing on fresh and processed tomato product, this study proposes a systematic literature review to systematize and critically apprise the current body of knowledge in this research field. In order to discover suggestions useful to enhance market strategies and policies about vegetable intake, the discovered tomato attributes were categorized, according the Search Experience and Credence logic, into: price, product features, packaging, convenience, brand, sensory properties, sustainability, origin, safety and health, production processes. By synthesizing the review findings, a multi-dimensional integrative content framework was conceived with the aim to maps the extant literature with multiple levels of analysis: antecedent, phenomenon and consequences. As part of the review, a future research agenda, theoretical and practical implication...
Cybersecurity in the food and beverage industry: A reference framework
Computers in Industry
Biomarkers in Soil Organisms: Their Potential use in the Assessment of Soil Pollution and Remediation
Soil is \u201cthe top layer of the earth's crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter... more Soil is \u201cthe top layer of the earth's crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms\u201d (ISO 1996). Soil can also be defined as the interface between geosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere. Soil has got a crucial role in environmental, economic, social and cultural development. It is the basis for food production, it facilitates accumulation and processing of minerals, organic matter, water and energy. Soil is also the habitat for a large amount of organisms and thus it plays an essential role in ecological terms. Soil also represents the basis of the human activities. However, the anthropic impact has largely exploited soil resources, inducing a slow but constant degradation process (Lal 2005). In particular, soil pollution has been strongly increased during (Aelion 2004, Ashraf 2014) the last decades due to: \uf0d8 industrialization, which has increased pollutant atmospheric depositions onto the soil; \uf0d8 the increasing use of chemical products directly or indirectly conferred into soil; \uf0d8 intensive agricultural practices employing high amounts of biocide and fertilizers onto soil. Dry deposition is characterized by pollutants transferred simply by gravity or interception of the soil surface inside the trajectory of motion of the contaminant, while wet deposition is characterized by pollutants transferred into the aqueous phase and transported to the ground by direct impact (rainflow), or when, remaining suspended in the air, dragged from the meteoric events (washout). When toxic compounds reach the soil surface, they can undergo different processes such as infiltration, immobilization, transformation and accumulation. The growing use of toxic substances has caused alteration of soil structure reducing its fertility and increasing contamination of crops and groundwater and an overall disturbance of the ecosystemic relationships (Abbasi et al. 2013). Soil pollution can be distinguished in diffuse or local according to the source and effects of pollution processes. The first is caused by the introduction of significant amounts of organic and inorganic chemical products (from industrial, civil and agricultural activities) and can be originated, for example, from the atmospheric transport of pollutant containing substances and subsequent ground deposition. Soil diffuse pollution is critical because it usually affects large areas, contamination sources can be unknown and pollutants may evolve along with the soil matrix. Conversely, in local pollution contamination is limited to defined industrial areas or arise from disposal of industrial and civil wastes (e.g. landfills) (APAT 2004). Independently on the type of pollution, contaminated soils undergo changes to the microbiome structure that modifies the quantity and quality of the organic matter, leading to damages to the entire vegetation-soil ecosystem (Ashraf et al. 2014). The presence of pollutants in soils above certain levels entails a series of negative consequences for the food chain and thus for human health (Nesheim 2015). In the last two decades, soil pollution has caused an increasing interest for pollution monitoring and toxicity assessment by the scientific community and national or international environmental agencies. However, traditional approaches such as those based on chemical analysis and threshold values are far from being applicable in soil pollution assessment. As reported by some authors, in fact, pollutant bioavailability is the most critical parameter since it can be shaped by some soil characteristics such as pH or organic matter content, eventually affecting organism tolerance to certain pollutant types (Bradham et al. 2006, Spurgeon et al. 2006, Criel et al. 2008). For these reasons, a more comprehensive practice including chemical, biological and ecological evaluations is required for soil. In analogy, Chapman (1990) proposed for sediment assessment the Sediment Quality Triad, consisting of three evaluation stages, i.e. sediment chemistry measuring contamination levels; bioassay for toxicity assessment and macro-invertebrate community structure. Nowadays, the new strategies for evaluating ecosystem alterations are mainly based on effect-based approaches integrating chemical analysis with a series of prognostic biological markers. The use of biological parameters, i.e. biomarkers, can identify the adverse effect of pollutants thus representing a early warning of ecosystem changes as well as environmental risk. Since soil invertebrates are in direct contact with both ground and groundwater (Kammenga et al. 2000), they can be considered excellent sentinel organisms to be used for biomarkers measurement and for soil toxicity evaluation (Hyne and Maher 2003, Weeks et al. 2004). The aim of this chapter is to review the use of biomarkers utilized for soil monitoring, assessment and remediation analysing their advantages and limitations
Agriculture Digitalization: A Global Examination Based on Bibliometric Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2022
Voluntary traceability in food supply chain: a framework leading its implementation in Agriculture 4.0
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022
Sustainability, 2019
Labels play a strategic role in communication, representing the interface between consumers and t... more Labels play a strategic role in communication, representing the interface between consumers and the food system. Consumers’ ability to correctly understand product label information was essential for health and safety, making a sustainable choice, as also demonstrated by the Federal Regulations of USA, which define several guidelines to increase the readability of labels. Human Factor studies the interface design in order to assure users’ safety, comfort, and productiveness. So, it could be applied in label design to enhance consumers’ safeguard and healthcare. The aim of this study is to analyze the fields of application of the Human Factor in label design to evaluate the current methods of utilization in the food industry. A two-step literature review was applied, using bibliometric and content analysis. From bibliometric analysis, 6 clusters of themes and the predominance of medical terms arose. The absence of terms related to the food domain is surprising. So, a content analysis...
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019
Aquaculture is a growing sector and could satisfy the future worldwide fish demand. New sustainab... more Aquaculture is a growing sector and could satisfy the future worldwide fish demand. New sustainable consumption patterns arise from food market, based on the consumer' need to know more information about food product. Technological and methodological innovations are needed to create more efficiency in aquaculture industry, but also to create product able to respond to the emerging market needs. The paper shows a case study in Aquaculture Company useful to demonstrate how collect product and production processes information and use it for traceability purpose. Starting from the as-is production process analysis and modelling, several strategically information for consumer are identified. The possibility of using the devices developed in S.E.A. research project has been exploited to collect some of this information and a new traceability layer was create in order to collect manually the missing data. At last the new production process was modelled. The benefits coming from the system adoption are multiple, for the final consumer that could see demonstrated the food quality and safety, for the company that could increase own environmental, economical and ethical sustainability.
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2018
The ex ante definition of business model offers the possibility to create a static picture of Bho... more The ex ante definition of business model offers the possibility to create a static picture of Bhow^the company is able to generate value in a given moment. But is this business model able to generate value over time? The time factor of the value proposition life cycle is not usually taken into account. This paper, starting from the lean canvas model (Maurya 2012), proposes a framework able to consider the temporal factor and, coming from Rogers's innovation diffusion theory (Die Diffusion von Innovationen in der Telekommunikation, 17, 25-38, Rogers 1995), to evolve the business model from a single picture to a set of pictures representing the many phases of the value proposition life cycle. A local context analysis was conducted, interviewing 10 CEOs of University of Salento start-ups, and the framework's tool kit was developed: application methodology, questionnaire, and glossary. To validate the tools and methodology, a real business case was considered. Using the framework proposed in the business model definition would allow managers of start-ups to identify
Lesson Learned and Best Practice Management: A Tool to Support the Enterprise
Knowledge and Process Management, 2016
This paper describes SKILLS—Sharing Knowledge in Lesson Learned System, a solution composed by a ... more This paper describes SKILLS—Sharing Knowledge in Lesson Learned System, a solution composed by a web‐based tool and a business process that supports the enterprise in managing and sharing Lessons Learned and Best Practices. SKILLS follows a community based approach, increasing the percentage of explicit knowledge. The solution deals with real issues in Aerospace Company domain, following a methodology composed by three main phases: Analysis of operative contest; analysis of Processes and needs and Solution Development. Starting from a context analysis, conducted using interviews, we identify the company needs. Then, we propose a new Lesson Learned and Best Practice management process, and we explain the functionalities of SKILLS, a tool useful to solve the issues identified and satisfies the company needs. Several users can access to two types of services: the first one oriented to contents (discussion, lesson, lesson learned, best practice) creation and validation, the second one m...
An integrated path for supporting spin-off creation: Desirable features of University-Industry interface in the Triple Helix Model
2017 6th International Conference on Industrial Technology and Management (ICITM), 2017
This study examines the University-Industry (UI) interface, in Triple Helix (TH) Model. In the er... more This study examines the University-Industry (UI) interface, in Triple Helix (TH) Model. In the era of Knowledge-based Economy, the Third Mission generates new value that depending from UI interface. New businesses, revealed with the Spin-offs creation, catalyzed by this interface, aims to commercialize the results coming from research activities. The purpose of this article is to understand features of an UI interface in order to support adequately the spin-off establishment and reduce the risk of not overcome the Death Valley. The study was conducted through direct interviews to 39 CEOs of the University of Salento' spin-offs. So, applying Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Sentiment Analysis (SA) techniques, four clusters of main emerged themes and the relative text sentiment were identified.
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