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Gianvito D’Aprile

Gianvito D’Aprile
LATTANZIO Learning S.r.l., Italy

PhD

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Introduction
He received his master degree in Psychology of Communication and Organization at the Università di Bari in 2008 and his PhD in Social Psychology of Community at the Università del Salento in 2012. Currently, As a researcher, his research projects concern the study of learning processes in the virtual environments. Moreover, he studies corporate social responsibility and sustainable learning in organizational contexts, explored by a psychosocial perspective.
Additional affiliations
October 2012 - February 2014
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Position
  • Adjunct Professor of Psychology of Social Communications
October 2010 - February 2014
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Position
  • Adjunct Professor of Social Psychology
March 2010 - November 2013
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Position
  • Fellow
Education
January 2009 - June 2012
University of Salento
Field of study
  • Social Psychology of Community
October 2003 - July 2008
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Field of study
  • Psychology of Organizations and Communication

Publications

Publications (17)
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Research has demonstrated that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a predictor of employees’ shared and personal organizational identity processes and work attitudes. However, there is limited understanding of how to promote employee participation in socially responsible activities in organizations. Drawing on social identity theory, this arti...
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Based on behavioral science assumptions, the main purpose of this study is to validate a theoretical model of the relationship between serious game play, patient empowerment and health-related behaviors. We first hypothesized that serious games for health enhanced patients’ empowerment-related education; second, we expected that gender may influenc...
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Inspired by the relational framework (Bassi, in: Franz, Hochgerner, Howaldt (eds) Challenge social innovation, Springer, Berlin, pp 325–350, 2012; Donati in Ital J Sociol Educ 5(1):19–35, 2013) and designed to integrate psychological and sociological aspects, a measure of social added value (SAV) was developed and validated. A study was conducted i...
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The main purpose of this paper is to describe a drawing-based method able to track down young students' representations of their own learning process. This method is used also to analyze whether the metaphors proposed by learning theorists correspond to those produced by students, and whether students' representation of the learning process is affe...
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By integrating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Community of Practice (CoP) frameworks, this paper explores how CSR sense-making processes evolved in virtual CoPs on Facebook between enterprises (production vs. service) and stakeholders. Two different corporate Facebook pages were selected and the textual posts (N = 288) produced by commun...
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Questo contributo mira ad esplorare se e in che modo i serious game per la salute supportano i processi di patient empowerment e i comportamenti di cura. Facendo esplicito riferimento al diabete, ipotizziamo che: 1) l’uso del serious game influenzi positivamente i processi di empowerment dei diabetici; 2) i livelli di empowerment dei diabetici inci...
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The theoretical conceptions of game-based learning are different from those of traditional instruction. Indeed, the classical approaches of needs and task analysis seem to be not appropriate for designing digital serious games as computer-supported collaborative learning environments. This paper aimed at arguing that social, constructivist and info...
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With an increasing economic crisis, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a strategic lever representing a competitive advantage for companies, especially for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Although scholars have analyzed the various dimensions of CSR, the employers ’ agency toward CSR, and its impacts on employees ’ work...
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To date, the discussion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has consistently addressed organizational activities, which are the focus of measures that are able to evaluate CSR in enterprises. However, the psychosocial characteristics of CSR have remained relatively unexplored. Indeed, some scholars have recently proposed that both the perspect...
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Within Community of Practice theory, this study aimed at validating a psychosocial model about sustainable learning as a process of participation in socially responsible practices of organizations, fostered by ICTs. 345 workers, employers and employees of Apulian Small and Medium Enterprises, were involved in our study. Two main groups were conside...
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Purpose Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is conceptualized as the construct describing the relationship between companies and society. Although scholars reached an agreement about the linkages between CSR in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and psychosocial issues – social identity, organizational culture and commitment – it is still...
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In questo contributo le organizzazioni sono concettualizzate come Knowledge Building Communities, dando rilevanza alla conoscenza e all’apprendimento quali risorse intangibili e processi dinamici da gestire e da capitalizzare al fine di garantire alle organizzazioni uno sviluppo sostenibile e competitivo. In prospettiva psico-sociale, si propone la...
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In letteratura la RSI esplorare: (a) le definizioni di RSI; (b) le possibili dimensioni psicosociali della RSI. Il corpus dei dati è costituito da 26 interviste semi-strutturate, organizzate attorno a tre aree tematiche: (1) cultura organizzativa; (2) impresa e territorio; (3) RSI. Le interviste sono state somministrate a 14 imprenditori e 12 dipen...
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This chapter describes a case study referring to a project named DIscourse in COmmunity of practices through TEcnologies (DI.CO.TE.)1. The project takes place in Southern Italy from 2009 through 2012; it involves 60 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Within a psychological point of view and a socio-constructivist approach, the main scope of the p...

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