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Innovazione informatica e lavoro dei medici
No full textIn recent years, exogenous shocks and cuts in public funding affected the ability to provide
health services of adequate quality: an increase in the need for clinical work has combined with
a chronic understaffing of medical personnel to generate a critical crisis. Telemedicine has
emerged as a potential solution, as it allows saving professional work and preserving quality.
Telemedicine is not a new set of practices, but recent advancements in information technology
and management – such as the introduction of big data analysis and viable artificial intelligence
techniques – have generated a debate on many operational and ethical questions. This book
explores the transformations that a widespread use of telemedicine can generate in the
relationships between the affected subjects – doctors, patients, other health professionals – and
between human and artificial agents at the dawn of Artificial Intelligence
MEDIMEDIA: INTEGRATING SEVEN EUROPEAN MEDICAL IMAGES DATABASES BY USING INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES
No full textTradition in Transition: Exploring Organizational Dynamics and Strategies in Small Hotels
No full textIn the evolving hospitality industry, small hotels confront challenges amidst digitalization, sustainability, and shifting tourist behaviors. This paper examines organizational dynamics in Bellaria - Igea Marina, an Italian seaside destination. Employing historical insights and organizational analysis, it explores strategies used by small hotels. A survey of 140 managers, complemented by interviews, reveals a blend of tradition and innovation. Family ownership, local entrepreneurship, and strategic adaptation are prominent. Despite hurdles like generational transitions, small hotels exhibit resilience, offering insights for sustained competitiveness. This study contributes to hospitality management literature, illuminating the interplay between tradition and innovation and proposing strategies for addressing organizational challenges
Culture as a Critical Enabler for Tourism Destination Development
No full textThe relationship between cultural heritage and tourism has stimulated the theoretical debate for many years. While it is evident that cultural attractions have the potential to be critical assets for tourism policymakers and destinations, tourist behaviors are often seen as potential harm to both the preserva- tion of cultural heritage and the development of a profound cultural experience. Nevertheless, a grow- ing number of experiences show that a sound management of cultural tourism can generate substantial social, economic, and even environmental benefits. This chapter aims to investigate the trajectories and strategies tourism destinations can adopt to leverage their (material and immaterial) cultural assets, improve their brand, and eventually, enhance their competitive position in the tourism markets, with particular reference to the case of Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020
Organizational choices and occupational health and safety risks prevention. An interpretation of Italian regulations
Full text linkThe social and economic costs of risks produced by organizations are becoming more and more evident and relevant. Enterprises are expected (and, sometimes, obliged) to become able to efficiently manage the risks they induce: industrial hazards, financial jeopardy, environmental risks, risk to safety and health in the workplace, etc.
By adopting an organizational perspective, this contribution investigates the approaches to Occupational Health and Safety risks prevention that are promoted by the law (specifically, by Italian law).
The goal of this paper is then to discuss the consistency of the norms with respect to the objectives of risks prevention and to understand their actual and potential impact on business practices
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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