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Preface
No full textthe organization of this volume, the sequential line of four parts should be highlighted.
Part I addresses the issues of application of digital technologies for specific areas of healthcare, such as cardiology, surgery, neonatology, neurosurgery and others.
Part II is dedicated to an innovative healthcare ecosystem that is supposed to enhance the dissemination of knowledge and technologies, as well as facilitate communication between all stakeholders of healthcare system in order to make it more
efficient in medical and economic sense.
Part III is dedicated to the development of Smart Hospital concept in the innovative environment, including analysis of the internal architecture of medical organizations, including key factors of their transformation, architecture of IT and digital technologies and integration with the innovative healthcare ecosystem.
Part IV is dedicated to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial leadership, providing several systematic literature reviews covering related topics, such as human capital, human resources management, intellectual capital and entrepreneurial
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CuRbanIsME: A Photographic Self-Analysis to Evaluate the Likelihood of the Occurrence of Predatory Crimes in Downtown Hamburg
No full textIn this study, a triangulation of (a) spatial data, (b) self-awareness, and (c) behavioral self-analysis seeks to provide an explanation from an innovative perspective for the likelihood of the occurrence of predatory crimes in the city center. This study does not examine the circumstances in which criminal acts occur. Instead, it focuses on a broader concept that combines both the configurational factors and the behavioral interconnections in which criminal acts occur. We orient the occurrence probability of crime towards appropriate objectives in the presence or absence of attractors/detractors, with interesting variation in the behavior of the acting subject—in our case, a random walker (also called the Random Movement–displacement Agent, or RDMA, in the text), which is the key variable that triggers the occurrence probability of predatory crimes. The relationship between spatial and/or behavioral observations and the probability of the crimes that may result from such observations is limited in this text to “predatory crimes,” which are the most common and light forms of crimes that endanger both human quality of life and the related safety in the city. Such crimes include theft, damage (specifically crime against public property and all similar oensive acts, such as littering and incivility), physical attacks (restrained to attempted violence against defenseless people), robberies, and car thefts (i.e., the most frequent crimes in urban areas). The theory of complexity, specifically as illustrated by the in-depth work of the 20th century German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, also suggests the importance of self-analysis in specific contexts to construct a mosaic of social phenomena. We conducted both a behavioral self-survey and a metric-based self-analysis by measuring random walks (RWs) to achieve some common behaviors—for example, buying food, shopping, or just looking at shop windows—on the streets of downtown Hamburg, Germany. RWs are used in our article to indicate random walks in the city center and any activities that may arise from them, such as protecting oneself from potentially hostile contexts, seeking information, or conforming oneself to ocial signals and customs. The hundreds of images taken by us in October 2019 during their RWs in Hamburg form a reservoir of our pictures, with the aim of showing the acceptable patterns of random movements–displacements that emerge. This method was primarily discursive but based on the ongoing search for a transformative conduit of behaviors that were intuitively established and observable for us but actually involved a complex process of imaginative ideation that was impossible to promote and pass on to the reader
Undecidability and the Evolution of Ideas in an Emergency Event: An Example of How to Systemically Test Organizational Effectiveness (OE) in University Groups
No full textThe location of this research is the university, through which we are progressively channeled into a seemingly insoluble Gordian knot. What is our participation in the university and what cultural and human commitments inform this participation? More trivially, what rights and duties does the individual acquire or lose within his or her academic identities? Our main target was finding an ideal organizational practice to examine, such as an emergency event. What strategy can the university adopt? Can it realign its distortions and retain its resources? How and in what ways? What information is needed for this purpose? Which actors are relevant in this process? A systemic survey model is, therefore, presented to analyze data obtained from a sample of 200 respondents from various academic groups, including students, professors, administrative sta, and other stakeholders. Quotas were used for the primary challenge posed by the pictures representing dimensions according to a systemic schema of organizational eectiveness (OE). Respondents were then asked to judge the dimensions and pictures against their personal capacity for intellectual identity, functionalism, and materialism. During the test, the participants were expected to develop their capacity to approach phenomenal consciousness and the search for its neural correlates, thereby becoming familiar with the high-order demands and challenges posed by the current information available to them. A nine-item interval behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS) was used to develop a systemic matrix that could show the participants’ collective OE when an emergency event occurs at the university. This study aims to stimulate a broader investigation into the preparation of programs and plans that should be a priority today in the context of sustainability in educational institutions, thereby setting useful thresholds on decision-making paths. To develop the collective model, a matrix generated by each respondents’ dimensional modal values (DMVs) in the test and the overall samples’ modal values (OMMVs) were used. Borrowing from Luce’s theory of probability, we analyzed the similarity of the OE university matrix from the results in descending order, restricting our attention to modal values which were chosen for the test and demonstrate how the learning model was formulated to assume that each group with evolved behavior could respond adaptively to a conditional function thanks to its permanence in a university environment
COMPETENZE IMPRENDITORIALI E IMPRENDITORIA GIOVANILE: MODELLI, STRUMENTI ED ESPERIENZE
No full textLa creazione di impresa e l’incremento del lavoro autonomo nei giovani è cruciale per lo sviluppo delle economie a livello internazionale e locale e per l’inclusione sociale e lavorativa delle nuove generazioni. Questo scritto ha come obiettivo promuovere una riflessione sull’imprenditoria giovanile avendo come focus l’identificazione e lo sviluppo delle competenze imprenditoriali. L’imprenditore è colui che ogni giorno fa una scelta professionale di tipo indipendente e provvede al suo reddito in forma autonoma, il giovane imprenditore è colui che inizia a fare questa scelta in una età che le convenzioni pongono sotto i 35 anni. Il valore che la formazione ha nello stimolare e supportare questo tipo di preferenza lavorativa è riconosciuto e documentato, si dimostra quindi decisivo avere riferimenti concettuali e modelli applicabili relativi alle competenze che caratterizzano l’imprenditoria per poter intervenire con processi coerenti di entrepreneurship education. Verranno affrontati alcuni punti che si ritengono utili al percorso di riflession
Il Luogo del Conflitto nelle Organizzazioni
No full textL’articolo propone una lettura ed una interpretazione del tema del conflitto organizzativo (C.O.) facendo riferimento ai modelli P/E fit di origine Lewiniana. Il contributo si propone di individuare fattori sia oggettivi sia soggettivi come co-protagonisti del manifestarsi di una situazione di C.O. Inoltre da quegli stessi modelli si tenta di ricavare alcune indicazioni di analisi applicativa, ancorando le digressioni teoriche alla sfida della praticabilità. Dalla diagnosi all’intervento di prevenzione del C.O. nell’attualità emergono alcune specifiche e forse irrisolvibili criticità.
This paper proposes a reading and interpretation of the organizational conflict topic (O.C.) referring to the Lewinian origin P/E fit models. It tries to identify both objective and subjective factors as co-protagonists of an O.C. occurrence. Furthermore, from those same models we try to derive some indications of applicative analysis. In other words, the paper tries to anchor theoretical digressions to the challenge of practicability: from diagnosis to the preventive intervention of the O.C. in the current context/environment, highlighting some specific and perhaps unsolvable critical issues
From Cluster to Learning Open Innovative Industrial District
No full textIn this article we revisit the traditional approach on clusters following a complex approach on ecosystems of entrepreneurship an
Less is More. Entrepreneurship as a choice for a sustainable career
No full textAbstract
Objectives: This paper presents a research proposal that aims to answer the following research questions: RQ1)
Why do some immigrant entrepreneurs decide to engage in entrepreneurship as a sustainable career and start a
sustainable business? RQ2) How do these immigrant entrepreneurs build their sustainable careers in this
context? RQ3) Which effects result – at the individual level – from their decision? To answer this RQ, we adopt
the sustainable careers theory to analyse the experience of people who decided to leave their home country and
their previous careers in private or public organisations to engage in entrepreneurship and create a sustainable
business.
Prior Work: The literature on immigrant entrepreneurs has mainly focused on individuals who are forced to
migrate and investigated the factors that may favour or hinder their entrepreneurial identity, path and success.
Some researchers call for further research on the quality of life of immigrant entrepreneurs and point out the
necessity to explore whether and how the initial reasons for migration interact with aspects such as individuals’
well-being, work-life balance and satisfaction.
Approach: This study adopts a qualitative approach based on an interpretive approach by using the life story
interview method and narrative analysis. To date, four interviews have been conducted with an immigrant
entrepreneur who founded and manages ‘a house’ for sustainable tourism, in which she also organises various
activities to spread social and environmental sustainability values.
Results: The analysis of the first interviews indicates that some immigrant entrepreneurs are increasingly
motivated by sustainability at both personal and business levels. They may choose to change careers and
relocate to align more closely with their values and aspirations for a sustainable lifestyle. This often involves
leaving established, lucrative positions to pursue projects that promote personal well-being and job satisfaction
while embodying their sustainability values.
Implications and Value: The primary contribution of this study lies in uncovering an overlooked topic within both
migrant entrepreneurship literature and sustainable careers research. We aim to advance these two areas of
scholarship. Firstly, we seek to examine a new dimension of migrant entrepreneurship by proposing that pursuing
a sustainable career can be a key motivator for establishing a business in a foreign country while also analysing
the factors that influence decision-making career development and its outcomes. Secondly, we adopt the theory
of sustainable careers, a framework typically used to study employees in organisations, into the realm of
entrepreneurship
Eco-Innovation Influencers: Unveiling the Role of Lean Management Principles Adoption
Full text linkThis study analyzes the determinant factors of eco-innovation, considering business units with dierent levels of technological intensity (high technology versus low technology). It aims, in the first instance, to complement the approach on the determinants of eco-innovation in the existent literature by incorporating the novelty related to the analysis of the eects arising from the adoption of the lean management principles. Specifically, it aims to analyze the eects of the previously referred to determinant factors both on the economic performance and on the innovative performance of Portuguese industrial and service companies with dierent levels of technological intensity (high-tech versus low-tech). The conceptual model presented is of an innovative nature, since it includes four groups of determinant factors present in the literature, namely technology, market, public policies, and cooperation relationships, and adds a fifth group of determinant factors still to be explored empirically concerning the adoption of lean management principles. In the empirical approach, five research hypotheses arising from the literature review are tested, using secondary data collected from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS)—CIS 2010 for a total sample of 334 companies, made up of 95 high-tech companies and 239 low-tech companies. The conceptual model is tested using a logistic regression method, which indicated a suitable accuracy and reliability for the purposes of empirical tests. The empirical evidence confirms that most of the groups of determinants previously identified in the literature have a significant influence on eco-innovation. In addition, the empirical evidence obtained here indicates a positive and significant eect of lean management principles on eco-innovation
Women in Family Firms: A Structured Literature Review
No full textThis paper presents a literature review on women in family firms with the aim to answer the following research questions: 1) What is the evolutionary trend of the field? 2) What's new in the (very) recent debate on women in family firms? Based on a structured literature review (SLR) method, we analysed a set of studies published over the last 17 and a half years (2000-2017, June 30) selected from the SCOPUS databases. Results confirmed the growing interest in this topic, highlighting a positive trend of the field of research. Secondly, our findings show a relevant and growing contribution from European researchers. Third, the analysis has allowed us to identify emerging and/or crucial research topics (women in family businesses, succession, women-owned family business and female entrepreneurship, copreneurial ventures) and offer suggestions for future research
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