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La digitalizzazione del procurement
No full textUn nuovo studio, presentato in questo articolo, ha la finalità di espandere la valutazione delle implicazioni organizzative della digitalizzazione, concentrando l’analisi sull’area del procurement, ossia la funzione che sostanzialmente si occupa della ricerca, approvvigionamento e accettazione di beni o servizi da fonti esterne e della gestione dei fornitori
The empowered organization: linking technologies 4.0 with the evolution of roles and tasks
No full textThe study aims to understand the impacts of new digital technologies, also known as "4.0 technologies", on the organizational design at micro level, identifying possible paths of professional evolution in terms of decision-making autonomy and tasks breadth. This research explores these paths within 11 manufacturing companies through a multiple-case study. The results highlight that a relationship exists between technological and organizational innovation, underlining how a joint design of the two dimensions can create the conditions for a successful technological implementation, while promoting the professional evolution of operators through appropriate levers identified
Empowering organizations in the industry 4.0 era: leveraging human and digital resources in sociotechnical systems
Full text linkCon l'avvento della quarta rivoluzione industriale, nota come "Industria 4.0", studiosi e professionisti sono tornati a parlare di digitalizzazione. Questa rivoluzione, coniata nel 2013 in Germania, porta con sé nuove tecnologie abilitanti che si presentano come rivoluzionarie non solo per le organizzazioni, ma per l'intera società. In effetti, la quarta rivoluzione è definita come un fenomeno sociotecnico che interessa sia i domini tecnologici che quelli sociali. Mentre sappiamo già molto sulle tecnologie abilitanti e sui loro effetti positivi sulle prestazioni operative, c'è una scarsa comprensione di come le organizzazioni possano evolvere in relazione alla digitalizzazione 4.0, in termini di processi, struttura organizzativa e risorse umane. La presente ricerca si propone quindi di studiare simultaneamente le dimensioni tecnologiche e sociali che caratterizzano la rivoluzione 4.0, analizzando le potenziali relazioni tra i due ambiti. Attraverso metodologie qualitative, questa ricerca mostra come le organizzazioni evolvono in questo nuovo contesto e come possono essere guidate verso l'empowerment attraverso lo sviluppo delle loro risorse umane e digitali. Questo obiettivo è il filo conduttore dei tre articoli presentati in questa tesi. La raccolta di articoli fornisce un quadro omnicomprensivo del percorso di empowerment considerando le risorse tecnologiche e umane nei contesti organizzativi maggiormente interessati dalla digitalizzazione (produzione e acquisti).With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, known as "Industry 4.0," scholars and practitioners have returned to the topic of digitalization. This revolution coined in 2013 in Germany brings with it new enabling technologies that stand as revolutionary not only for organizations, but for the whole society. Indeed, the fourth revolution is defined as a sociotechnical phenomenon that affects both technological and social domains. While we already know a lot about enabling technologies and their positive effects on operational performance, there is a lack of understanding regarding how organizations can evolve with respect to digitalization 4.0, in terms of processes, organizational structure, and human resources. Hence, this research aims to simultaneously study the technological and social dimensions that characterize the 4.0 revolution by analysing the potential relationship between the two domains. Through qualitative methodologies, this research shows how organizations evolve in this new context and how they can be driven to empowerment through the development of their human and digital resources. This purpose is the common thread running through the three essays presented in this dissertation. The collection of essays provides an omni-comprehensive picture of the empowerment path considering technological and human resources in the organizational contexts most affected by digitalization (manufacturing and purchasing)
Navigating the socio-technical impacts of purchasing digitalisation: A multiple-case study
Full text linkThe wave of digitalisation is impacting companies at multiple levels. Beside the most researched impacts on manufacturing, also other business functions are subjected to the change. Among them, purchasing is expected to greatly benefit from digitalisation, if properly managed. This research analyses the digitalisation of the purchasing process, in terms of how and why it happens, and the co-evolution which is triggered on the social dimension. A multiple-case study approach is adopted, analysing eight companies from industries characterized by different digital intensity levels but all at a relatively advanced stage of digitalisation of the purchasing department. The results show how different technological innovation approaches (i.e., automation and/or augmentation) impact the evolution of the purchasing department's social dimension in terms of autonomy, job enlargement, competences, internal and external collaboration. A new framework describing how automation and augmentation impact on purchasing social dimension, as well as purchasing efficiency and effectiveness, is proposed as main theoretical contribution. The study combines the socio-technical systems perspective with the automation-augmentation paradox and describe the strong relationship between purchasing departments' social and technical dimensions, offering managers insights on handling a purchasing digitalisation process, simultaneously managing the technical and social dimensions impacted along the process
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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