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Supplemental Material - Non-profit organisations in the digital age: A research agenda for supporting the development of a digital transformation strategy
No full textSupplemental Material for Non-profit organisations in the digital age: A research agenda for supporting the development of a digital transformation strategy by Michele Cipriano and Stefano Za in Journal of Information Technology</p
Domestic hospitality: an IT based approach
No full textThe year 2015 forced the world to contend with touching pictures of hundred of thousands of refugees fleeing from their home countries, risking their lives in the Mediterranean sea, trying to reach safer shores. UNHCR estimates that the number of global forcibly displaced people topped nearly 60 million. The main aim of this article is to consider how an IT based solution can contribute to the global refugee crisis. The research focuses on how citizens can contribute in innovative ways, rather than traditional governmental and institutional approaches. The innovative Italian initiative, called ’Refugees Welcome Italia’ promotes domestic hospitality as a way to further integration. Among the other innovative aspects featured by this initiative, the most important is the participative nature. To reach this goal IT gives an important contribution, on the one hand helping people to communicate, on the other allowing social work practitioners to collect data and implement a tailored system
New frontiers of managerial training: the LiVES project
No full textThe evolution of the Internet allowed the Web to become, among the different media, the most global, inter-active and dynamic medium to share information. Therefore, in the last decades, e-Learning has been widely used not only in the academic community, but also in the business sector. Within this context, thanks to their own competences, people can develop specific characteristics which may provide a competitive advantage for their organizations. The development and use of new technologies for the creation of three-dimensional (3D) Virtual Worlds set new challenges and enlarge the very idea of ‘learning environment’. This paper aims at inves-tigating the characteristics of training activities directed at the managerial class, in such a way as to increase their efficacy; it also analyses how the use of specific innovative technologies may be an effective solution.The evolution of the Internet allowed the Web to become, among the different media, the most global, inter-active and dynamic medium to share information. Therefore, in the last decades, e-Learning has been widely used not only in the academic community, but also in the business sector. Within this context, thanks to their own competences, people can develop specific characteristics which may provide a competitive advantage for their organizations. The development and use of new technologies for the creation of three-dimensional (3D) Virtual Worlds set new challenges and enlarge the very idea of ‘learning environment’. This paper aims at inves-tigating the characteristics of training activities directed at the managerial class, in such a way as to increase their efficacy; it also analyses how the use of specific innovative technologies may be an effective solution.Monograph's chapter
A bibliometric study of the literature on intellectual capital, digitalization and information systems: a challenge for management studies
No full textAlthough the concepts of intellectual capital (IC), together with the Knowledge Management (KM), has been broadly investigated over the past 15 years through a remarkable increase in articles, books and conferences, this research area is still at first stages and the multi-disciplinary perspectives of such discipline make it a charming and prolific area of research.
The popularity of KM/IC has increased for both academics and practitioners considering many high-quality books, journals, and conferences (Serenko and Bontis, 2004, 2013a, 2013b, 2017; Serenko et al., 2010). The aim of previous studies has been to establish a unique identity of IC research area in order to “achieve recognition among peers, university officials, research granting agencies, and industry professionals” (Serenko et al., 2010, p.3). Many IC areas have been debated such as the conceptualization of IC (Bontis, 1999), theories (Serenko et al., 2007), refereed journals (Serenko and Bontis, 2009) and productivity rankings and citation impact measures (Serenko and Bontis, 2004), which are critical factors of the academic sphere.
Recent studies (Guthrie et al. 2012; Edvisson, 2013) highlight the need to analyze the IC in relationship to the new innovations that are characterizing the companies.
In the light of this emerging changes available today, our study aims to show the evolutionary trends of research in the field of IC in digitalised age. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the relationship between intellectual capital and digitalisation and to draw a map of the interdisciplinary community focusing on this emerging issue.
We carried out a quantitative bibliography analysis using number of publications and number of citations and co-citations (Pritchard, 1969; Culnan, 1986) as proxies of the influence of contributions in the intellectual capital research in a digital context. We applied this method, that allows to study the cumulative knowledge generation process in the literature. The use of SNA tools for the literature review, especially within the social sciences, (Vogel, 2012; Chabowski, Samiee and Hult, 2013) allows to examine the behavior of a scientific community (or more than one community) based on the data of the related publications (Loet Leydesdorff, 2001), discovering some links among the objects of analysis.
The main results of the research indicate that the number of publications increases through the years, especially after 1995 and mainly in the 21st century, although there is a couple of drops in 2009 and 2012 in the publication trend. Furthermore, the number of citations increases almost exponentially during the years. Overall, the results obtained by the keywords co-occurrence analysis shows that some relevant issues about the relationship between IC (and its components) and digital phenomena should be still addressed. Indeed, from this preliminary analysis, it seems that only “social networks” is considered as digital phenomenon connected with IC issues, the other ones have hitherto received relatively little attention in the literature.
The rest of the paper continuous as follows. The next section analyzes the literature regarding the relation between IC and digitalization. The third section focuses on the bibliometric studies carried out on IC. The fourth and fifth section describe, respectively, the research methodology and the results. Discussion of the findings and conclusions are presented in the last section
Exploring the effects of Social Value on Social Network Dependence
No full textIn a world where around 3.5 billions of the entire population are active social
media users, the individual usage behavior of social network sites and related
aspects should require further investigation. Specifically, this paper focuses on
the social network dependence, considering the utilitarian and goal-oriented facet
rather than the psychological one, usually referred as addiction. It combines an
analysis of personal cultural values with Media System Dependency theory, investigating the role of social axioms in affecting the social network dependence.
Using a large dataset composed by 622 observations, we developed and validated
a research model to shed new light on the investigation of dependence phenomena in the context of social network sites, exploring the role of individual belief
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
Reshaping Organizations with Social Networks and Collaboration
No full textThe digital revolution is impacting many aspects of the society. Collaboration tools are challenging the traditional hierarchical model thanks to pervasive computing and always connected devices. Organizations are transforming to take advantage and to adapt to this new paradigm. When creativity and innovation are critical to the success of a company, flattened hierarchies and decentralized cooperation can leverage human talent better. With this paper the author aims to provide a literature review to highlight the historical and philosophical deployment of the different approaches to the relationship between ICT and Organization Design. This is the first step of a research project aiming at proposing emergent new organization design approach
Digital Resilience to Normal Accidents in High-Reliability Organizations
No full textDigital technologies play a dual role on organizational resilience. On one side, digital systems introduce new technological risks. On the other side, digital systems increase the performances in response to hazardous accidents. Normal Accident Theory (NAT) and High-Reliability Organization (HRO) provide useful ground to explain the dynamics of digital resilience. However, the two theories have been either used as alternatives or with one theory dominating the other. We posit that to fully understand digital resilience we need to integrate NAT and HRO concepts instead of using them in isolation. We conduct a bibliometric analysis to identify major themes and application domains characterizing HRO and NAT research. We look at similarities and differences between the two streams and we build an integrated framework for the analysis of digital resilience. With our systematic analysis of the NAT and HRO discourses we advance the current understanding on resilience in digitally enabled operations
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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