Towards Digital and Sustainable Organisations: People, Platforms, and Ecosystems

by Alessandra Lazazzara (Editor), Rocco Reina (Editor), Stefano Za (Editor)

Overview

This book presents a collection of research papers that explore how ICT experts, managers, and policymakers can address sustainability issues in digital transformation (DT) by considering people practices, organizational processes, and platform design issues. Each chapter offers insights into how to create sustainable digital solutions that benefit both society and the environment.

The diversity of views presented makes this book particularly relevant for scholars, companies, and public sector organizations. The content is based on revised versions of selected papers (original double-blind peer-reviewed contributions) presented at the annual conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS, which took place in Catanzaro, Italy, in October 2022.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031528798
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	05/21/2024
Series:	Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation , #65
Edition description:	2024
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alessandra Lazazzara is an Associate Professor of Organization Theory and Human Resource Management at the University of Milan, Italy. Her research interests include job crafting, e-HRM, and diversity and inclusion. Her publications have appeared in HRM and OB journals such as the Journal of Vocational Behavior, The International Journal of Human Resources Management, and Personnel Review. She is an editorial board member for The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Industrial and Commercial Training, SN Business & Economics, Baltic Journal of Management, and Prospettive in Organizzazione. She currently serves as vice president of itAIS, the Italian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems, and as a board member of ASSIOA, the Association of Italian Organization Studies Academics.

Rocco Reina is a Professor of Organization Studies and People Management at “Magna Græcia” University of Catanzaro (UMG), Italy. He is also Academic Director of the ExecutiveMaster program in “People Management and Managerial Tools in Complex Organizations” and an Academic Board Member of the research center “Economics and Service Management” and the spin-off “NET4SCIENCE.” He has been a lecturer at prominent schools of management such as SNA (National School of Administration) and SSAI, and for leading master courses and executive courses in Italy. Since March 2020 he has been the area leading coordinator for a national research project on the organizational models adopted by regional health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, in partnership with the Catholic University of Rome, Italy.

Stefano Za is an Associate Professor of Organization Studies and Information Systems at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He is the President of the Italian Chapter of AIS and was its Secretary from 2008 to 2021. He is a member of ERCIS, a member of various program committees, and a reviewer for national and international conferences and journals in the fields of Information Systems and Organization Studies. His main research interest is in the analysis and design of digital artifacts and organizational systems. His research focuses on how digital innovations and business transformations affect people and organizations in the digital ecosystem.

Table of Contents

Digital transformation and sustainability goals: advancing the “twin transition”.- People and users.- The Role of Social Cooperatives in the Work Inclusion of People with Disability During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Case from Italy.- Moving to New Ways of Working Across the Pandemic Crisis: Managerial Challenges and Human-Technology Configurations.- Digital Job Crafting: Toward an Integrated Socio-Technical Model.- Participative Budgeting Effects on Doctor-Managers’ Well-Being.- Investigating Digital Public Administration and Organizational Change in a Knowledge Translation Perspective.- Group workshop as a “human-centered approach” for identification and selection of business processes for Robotic Process Automation.- Striving to Become Agile in the Public Sector: A Context Theory Perspective.- Analysing the bottom-up approach to develop organisational culture in virtualised organisations.- What is new about e-Human Resource Management? Deepening through a bibliometric analysis.- Platforms and ecosystems.- Designing Reputation Mechanisms for Online Labor Platforms: An Empirical Study.- Additive manufacturing as game changer technology in the manufacturing sector: the business model’s renewal.- Raising Environmental Alerts in the Arctic Region by Analyzing Pollution Data from Sentinel 5p.- Nexus between carbon emissions, FDI, oil prices, economic growth and exports in Italy: Empirical evidence from ARDL-based bounds and wavelet coherence approaches.- Optimal selection of sustainable energy mix to achieve energy security in Italy: A Fuzzy SWOT approach.- Digital platforms, digital ecosystems and the role of emerging (digital) technologies: a bibliometric analysis.- Entrepreneurial narcissism in smart cities: The moderating role of bonding and bridging social capital.- Characterizing Smartness in the Manufacturing Domain: Literature Review and Development of a Classification Framework