The macro-level determinants of user entrepreneurship in healthcare: an explorative cross-country analysis

Francesco Schiavone is an associate professor in management at University Parthenope, Naples, Italy. He received the PhD degree in network economics and knowledge management from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) in 2006. He is also an affiliated professor in innovation management at Paris School of Business and a visiting professor at IESEG Business School (France). In April 2017 Prof. Schiavone has been habilitated as dull professor in management by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education and Research). Currently, his main research areas are technology management, strategic innovation, communities of practice and healthcare management and innovation.

Giorgia Rivieccio is an associate professor in Economic Statistics at Department of Management Studies and Quantitative Methods of Parthenope University, Naples (Italy). She got the economic statistics Phd in 2006 at Parthenope University. She actually teaches at Parthenope University; previously she taught academic and MSc course at other universities (Bicocca and Iulm in Milan and in Salerno) on several topics: statistics, applied statistics, marketing research and time series analysis. She is author of many articles on prestigious journals, and she was lecturer to international conferences on dependence modeling by means of copulas in many fields: economics, finance and management science.

Francesco Paolone is an associate professor of business administration at Mercatorum University in Rome. He holds a degree in business administration and management at Bocconi University in Milan. He is also an adjunct professor at Luiss G.Carli University and a visiting professor at ESCP Europe Business School - London campus. His research profiles are mainly focused on financial reporting, corporate governance and business models. He has also been visiting researcher at Aalborg University for more than one year. He is also in the editorial boards of scientific journals such as International Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting, Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal, Accounting and Finance Research, Research Journal of Finance and Accounting and others.

Antonella Rocca is an assistant professor in economic statistics at the Department of Management and Quantitative Studies, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy, where she teaches statistics for business and information systems for decision-making processes in public administration. Her research interests are: Neets, youth unemployment and school-to-work transition, gender gap in the labor market, innovation processes, statistical data quality. She is an expert for the assessment of international research projects, such as the Erasmus Plus Jean Monnet projects of European Commission.