Cristina Ponsiglione

• Engineering
• Professor (Associate) at University of Naples Federico II

Green energy transition models provide frameworks for policymakers, businesses, and stakeholders to plan and implement the shift toward more sustainable energy systems. These models evolve as technologies advance, policies change, and societal priorities shift, highlighting the importance of flexibility and adaptation in energy transition planning....

The European Union Regional Innovation Scoreboard (EURIS) is currently and broadly used for the definition of regional innovation policies by European policymakers; it is a regional innovation measuring tool for the analysis of each specific innovation indicator, from which it is possible to analyze the overtime evolution of each regional innovatio...

Welcome to the Special Issue on Applications of Complexity for Resilient Organizations, Management, and Innovation Systems. This Special Issue includes six articles highlighting how complexity science and complex systems approaches can be employed to study resilient aspects in organizations, management and innovation systems. Nowadays, governments,...

Background The Covid-19 pandemic provided new challenges and opportunities for patients and healthcare providers while accelerating the trend of digital healthcare transformation. This study explores the perspectives of healthcare professionals and managers on (i) drivers to the implementation of telemedicine services and (ii) perceived benefits an...

In the knowledge society, universities are asked to contribute to regional development and economic growth through the direct exploitation of research products and, indirectly, through enhancing entrepreneurial awareness in students. Student entrepreneurship (SE) gained increasing relevance among scholars that suggest more research is needed and id...

The study aims at defining the factors affecting the clinicians’ decision of changing or confirming the treatment options for frail patients in polytherapy, supporting prescribing patterns, thus also figuring out if the inclination of the clinicians towards digital solutions (INTERCheckWEB) and specific guidelines, could play a role in their decisi...

Technological innovation and the Industry 4.0 paradigm have gained increasing attention from both the scientific community and practitioners, with the two themes being considered topical research avenues of great interest. Adopting a systematic literature review approach, this paper aimed to provide an overview of the existing scientific literature...

This study explores the role of NGOs in Innovation Value Chains (IVCs) and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). It investigates how NGOs' presence influences RRI adoption in ecosystems and whether their strong RRI focus enhances its diffusion. Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation are employed for analysis. Findings reveal that NGOs promote RR...

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic provided new challenges and opportunities for patients and healthcare providers while accelerating the trend of digital healthcare transformation. This study explores the perspectives of healthcare professionals and managers on (i) drivers to the implementation of telemedicine services and (ii) perceived benefits a...

This Research Topic focuses on both strengths and weaknesses of social innovation, technological innovation, and health innovation that are increasingly recognized as crucial concepts related to the formulation of responses to the social, health, and environmental challenges. Goals of this Research Topic: (1) to identify and share the best recent p...

The cruise ship industry has faced in recent years a continuous increase in the number of passengers, reaching 28.5 million passengers in 2018, 60.11% more than in 2009. In this context, the research literature has acknowledged the key role played by the passengers' safety and has considered different aspects when dealing with the ship evacuation p...

Background and Aims INTERCheckWEB is one of the most outstanding digital technologies, that could be implemented at the hospital level, supporting the clinicians in the evaluation of the therapy appropriateness, reducing the potentially inappropriate prescriptions, for the improvement of the clinical decision‐making process. The paper aims at inves...

Over the past two decades, different drivers have prompted institutional players to adopt digital innovations in healthcare systems. Telemedicine represents a digital innovation solution to guaranteeing the continuity of care, and patient and personnel safety. However, despite its potential benefits (such as improving care access in rural areas, re...

Qualitative Comparative analysis (QCA) is a method used to test theory-based conditions considering multiple interrelated variables that lead to the same outcome. QCA has been applied in several fields (political, sociological, organizational, and marketing), but recently studies are bridging configurational analysis using fsQCA with complexity the...

The paper explores the usage of agent-based modeling in the context of large event halls evacuation during music festivals and cultural events. An agent-based model is created in NetLogo 6.2.2 for better representing the human behavior when involved in such situations. A series of characteristics have been set for the agents in order to preserve th...

This paper presents a dashboard for assessing the quality of Triage decision-making process in the assignment of the priority code to patients arriving at an emergency department. The quality is assessed through performance indexes aimed at measuring both the nurses’ accuracy and the presence of nurses’ shared behavior in the Triage assignment proc...

The deliverable D5.2 contains the collection of all scenarios and assumptions, model input data, simulations re- sults, including calibration of the model and summary of the main insights coming from the simulations. The deliverable represents a natural consequence of the deliverable D5.1, in which we have reported the fol- lowed verification steps...

The Report contains the final description of the I AM RRI AB model also known as I AM RRI SKIN model, in its version v0.21, including the description of verification steps and the refinements imple- mented with respect to the version of the model presented in the deliverable 3.3, the version v0.12. The deliverable it is divided into the following m...

IAMRRI belongs to the group of projects under the priority "Science with and for Society" and addresses the question of how innovation systems consisting of networks of innovation value chains will develop in future when RRI objectives guide their actions and innovations. This research question was studied on the case of additive manufacturing. Thi...

The model developed (I AM RRI SKIN model - v0.1), coded in NetLogo using an Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) approach, originated as an extension of the already existing SKIN model, and it is mainly focused on the study of IVCs, webs of IVCs and especially their openings for RRI. The I AM RRI SKIN model incorporates complexity, covering various stages...

The significant progress in scientific research and innovation has led to the need for a new paradigm to legitimise the innovation process in society and politics. The European Union, with the Horizon 2020 framework program and Horizon Europe, institutionalises this change by defining the concept of responsible research and innovation (RRI), aiming...

This article describes how innovations are exploited in Campania (Italy) to improve health outcomes, quality of life, and sustainability of social and healthcare services. Campania's strategy for digitalization of health and care and for healthy aging is based on a person-centered, life-course, “One Health” approach, where demographic change is con...

This paper intends to contribute, theoretically and methodologically, to the debate in organizational design’s research on the need of new approaches and tools able to cope with the increasing complexity of the organizations and of the environments in which they operate. The article presents a set of simulative experiments carried out through an ag...

In this paper, we apply a Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (FsQCA) to identify possible configurational paths conducive to the ability of start-ups to reach the first external funding. Based on the literature, we propose an investigative model considering a set of causal conditions linked to the achievement of first round funding. Therefo...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate on exploration–exploitation trade-off in the context of new ventures creation, where, particularly at the empirical level, there is a limited understanding of whether and how this trade-off is achieved and how start-ups performances are affected by the way in which they face the explo...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of organizational factors on individual decision-making under conditions of uncertainty and time pressure. A method to assess the impact of individual and organizational factors on individual decisions is proposed and experimented in the context of triage decision-making process. De...

The objective of the paper is to present the use of the March model on exploration and exploitation in organisational learning (1991) as a virtual laboratory of organisational design. The virtual laboratory, named CLOD (Computational Laboratory of Organisational Design), will be devoted to exploring the behaviour of organisational learning and eval...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the performances of decision-making process of emergency department’s nurses involved in the triage level assessment. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed a case study in two public hospitals in the South of Italy. The authors administered 25 clinical cases to nurses responsible of priority cod...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the performances of decision-making process of emergency department’s nurses involved in the triage level assessment. Design/methodology/approach – The authors developed a case study in two public hospitals in the South of Italy. The authors administered 25 clinical cases to nurses responsible of priority co...

This article proposes an agent-based model to support the development of self-sustaining regional innovation systems (RIS). The model is the base of a computational laboratory, CARIS (Complex Adaptive Regional Innovation System), which aims at evaluating the self-sustainability of RIS and at investigating what are the resources, competencies and me...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the configuration of factors affecting the accuracy of triage decision-making. The contribution of the work is twofold: first, it develops a protocol for applying a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) in the context of triage decision-making, and second, it studies, through two pilot...

This study aims at proposing a methodological approach supporting the allocation of indirect labour costs to different projects in complex multi-project environments. The purpose is to build a flexible methodology based on activity-based costing principles, which is suitable in all situations characterized by a high impact of indirect labour costs...

The chapter presents a computational model for the development of a self-sustaining Regional Innovation System (RIS). The computational agent-based model is the core of a virtual laboratory, called CARIS (Complex Adaptive Regional Innovation System) aiming at (1) introducing the CAS (Complex Adaptive System) approach in the analysis of RISs; (2) en...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a social network approach for identification of micro-organizational re-design interventions to make more efficient and fluid the knowledge flow in a rehabilitation multidisciplinary team. The structural information of different kinds of knowledge networks within a team is augmented with additional a...

Purpose The purpose of this work is to explain emergence of collaboration networks in entrepreneurial clusters as determined by the way entrepreneurs exchange knowledge and learn through business transactions needed to implement temporary supply chains in networks of co-located firms. Design/methodology/approach A socio-computational approach is...

This study presents a new interpretation of bias and variance error components affecting individual cognitive heuristic process. Usually bias and variance are applied to evaluate the accuracy of cognitive heuristic process in prediction. Drawing on the bias-variance decomposition’s error, we propose a revised model for measuring individual and orga...

The aim of this paper is to present a new approach to the representation and elaboration of fuzzy causal reasoning. The proposed approach is based on some results obtained by several studies on causal explanation in the field of cognitive sciences. Drawing form such results, we present a fuzzy linguistic inference called generalized equivalence tha...

Purpose – This paper aims to present a methodology for the mapping and evaluation of suppliers’ competencies and know-how. The authors operationalize the concept of organizational competence and provide companies with a customized management tool to map suppliers’ critical competencies for screening strategic from non-strategic suppliers and provid...

The relationship between fairness and efficiency is a central issue for policy makers. To date there is no agreement among economists whether a public policy that pursues fairness entails a loss of efficiency of an economic system, or an oriented towards efficiency policy is able to facilitate the achievement of a higher fairness. In this paper we...

Structured Abstract Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present a computational laboratory to explore how to support the development of Regional Innovation Systems (RISs) in so-called lagging regions. Over the years, models and tools to define effective innovation policies have been developed. Notwithstanding, there is a strong discrepancy among...

Purpose The paper sets out a methodological framework to investigate how the integration of an ABC (Activity-Based Costing) logic into the pre-existent accounting system supports healthcare organizations in identifying the inefficiencies related to their Diagnostic Therapeutic Pathways (DTP) and related reengineering interventions. Design/methodol...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to set out a methodological framework to investigate how the integration of an activity-based costing (ABC) logic into the pre-existent accounting system supports healthcare organizations in identifying the inefficiencies related to their diagnostic therapeutic pathways (DTP) and related reengineering interven...

Structured Abstract Purpose – Due to the small size and to the high level of labour division, small firms in Industrial Districts need to establish horizontal and vertical cooperative relationships (Camuffo and Grandinetti, 2011; Malberg and Maskell, 1999) in order to share and combine complementary knowledge assets. Whilst the network approach (Gr...

Best care is not necessarily the most expensive, but the most appropriate, and prevention is the most powerful tool to promote health. A novel approach might envision the reduction of hospital admittance (thus meeting a requirement from long term condition patients: they would rather not being hospitalized!) and the enforcement of peripheral (both...

Abstract-Best care is not necessarily the most expensive, but the most appropriate, and prevention is the most powerful tool to promote health. A novel approach might envision the reduction of hospital admittance (thus meeting a requirement from long term conditionpatients: they would rather not being hospitalized!) and the enforcement of periphera...

In this paper we present a model based on activity based costing and analytic hierarchy process to assess the impact of individual competencies on value creation and its application to a case study of a small manufacturing firm. Namely, our model is designed to support managers to deal with the following concrete situation: suppose that a company h...

This paper aims at exploring conditions under which the need for knowledge exchange within a small firms’ cluster generates a structure of links between firms. We focus in particular on small firms’ clusters called Industrial Districts (IDs). Specifically, we analyze IDs with flexible specialization, in which knowledge exchange is driven by the sea...

Purpose The objective of this study is to model and analyze the exploration‐exploitation dynamics of March's model of mutual learning in a complex environment. By enhancing the above mentioned model, the paper seeks to propose a new agent‐based model of mutual learning within an organization. Design/methodology/approach The paper replicates March'...

SOMMARIO Il presente lavoro intende contribuire al dibattito che, in letteratura e soprattutto nel contesto europeo della pianificazione strategica per lo sviluppo e l'innovazione, si sta svolgendo sin dalla metà degli anni '90 sul tema dei modelli e degli strumenti a supporto dell'inno-vazione regionale. Il focus è, quindi, rappresentato dai Siste...

In this paper an agent-based model is proposed in which effects of collective cognition are represented via the operazionalization of the construct of collective memory. The model is aimed at representing an evolving local networks of suppliers and final firms competing among them, making alliances and selling products on the market in the presence...

The Italian Healthcare National System is involved in a deep process of change aimed at diffusing managerial techniques used in the private sector to public administrations. In this context, an extensive literature on healthcare planning and control systems (PCSs) is growing. PCSs are characterised by a complex architecture made up of three element...

This paper proposes a modelization of complex social systems based on the integration of two computational methodologies: fuzzy logic and agent-based modelling. In particular, the objective of this work is to present a methodology to take into account the ambiguity of verbal interactions in learning processes. To this aim, we revise and fuzzify a c...

This paper introduces a new and novel deterministic technique for mining association rules from quantitative data tables and databases and show how to use these techniques to devise a fuzzy-inference based apriori algorithm for discovering associations. The algorithm is sound and efficient. It introduces a complexity level that is equivalent to the...

Literature about Industrial Districts has largely emphasized the importance of both economic and social factors in determining the competitiveness of these particular firms\' clusters. For thirty years, the Industrial District productive and organizational model represented an alternative to the integrated model of fordist enterprise. Nowadays, the...

Summary For Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs') competencies we mean the capability of entrepreneur and of her/his collaborators of acquiring, using and developing successfully resources for their business purpose, in the specific context in which firm operates. Thus a direct link exists between competencies, value creation and firm's strategy and...

This paper presents the methodological approach and the final outcomes of a research work carried out by the Dept. of Business and Managerial Engineering (DIEG) at the University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) within the research project SOLCO, funded by the European Union (Leonardo Program). DIEG's partners were RSO (Italy), ASE (Belgium), CGIL (It...

For thirty years, the Industrial District productive model represented an alternative to the fordist enterprise. Nowadays, the district model suffers from competitive gaps largely due to the increase of competitive pressure of globalization. This work aims to analyze, through an agent-based approach, the influence of informal socio-cognitive coordi...