Valentina NdouUniversità del Salento | Unisalento · Department of Engineering for Innovation
Valentina Ndou
Ph.D in eBusiness Management
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In the realm of digital transformation, Blockchain technologies are considered prominent for managing agrifood supply chains due to their contribution to traceability, safety, quality, transparency, and scalability. Both academia and businesses are paying increased attention to the application of Blockchain technologies in the agrifood sector, also...
![Figure 1. Conceptual Layers of Smart Tourism (adapted from [34]).](publication/367345531/figure/fig1/AS:11431281114407124@1674480486905/Conceptual-Layers-of-Smart-Tourism-adapted-from-34_Q320.jpg)
This paper presents a methodological framework aiming to support the creation of a smart-tourism destination. Specifically, the study is realised in the frame of NEST, a European Union Interreg project aiming to create a smart-tourism destination in the Adriatic–Ionian area. Therefore, the study focuses on the southeastern Adriatic–Ionian area, as...
The current economic scenario is being characterized by the dawn of advanced digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things, Big Data, Business Analytics, Advanced Manufacturing, Industry 4.0/5.0, Cloud and Cyber-solutions and Artificial Intelligence, all of which represent a disruptive innovation that paves the way for radical changes in all...
The spread of COVID-19 has caused the interruption of education in all levels of schools, forcing them to seek urgent solutions to reconfigure traditional education programs for distance learning. The emergency restrictions related to social distancing, gathering, etc., have generated a disruption, resulting in a massive quick shift to distance and...
Abstract: This article discusses how travel and tourism organizations, the hardest-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, have used the technology tools to deal with COVID challenges. Specifically, through a bibliometric literature review of relevant research papers on the topic of tourism and COVID-19, we provide evidence of how COVID-19 has accelerated th...
From March 2020, restrictive measures have been taken to limit the Covid-19 pandemic, thus impacting and hugely affecting the tourism industry. In this new scenario, tourism destination managers and stakeholders need to look ahead to the future, trying to wisely react to overcome this crisis. This paper aims at demonstrating how a Smart Tourism Des...
Dear Colleagues,
Entrepreneurship education has recently seen extensive growth among academics and businesspeople (Ndou, 2021; Kuratko, 2005; Ndou et al., 2019; Ndou et al. 2018) due to the relevance it provides to entrepreneurship competencies as an essential factor to support ambition in young people to start their own businesses and generate the...
It is widely accepted that entrepreneurship education has become a key development priority for coping with uncertainty and for addressing various social, economic, and technological concerns related to health, living conditions, education systems, employment, and economic growth. In recent times we have witnessed a proliferation of Entrepreneurshi...
Purpose
The wide development of digital platforms permitted the birth of new financing modalities, namely, crowdfunding, where the crowd of individuals and investors can supply the necessary financial resources for venture creation and growth. While the extant literature has focused on analyzing the dynamics and features of crowdfunding campaigns,...
Purpose
This paper aims to highlight how big social data (BSD) and analytics exploitation may help destination management organisations (DMOs) to understand tourist behaviours and destination experiences and images. Gathering data from two different sources, Flickr and Twitter, textual and visual contents are used to perform different analytics tas...
The COVID-19 crisis has forced universities worldwide to seek urgent solutions to reconfigure traditional education programs for distance learning. The transformation process faces a number of complexities deriving from both institutional and contextual factors. It may generate threats and as well as opportunities to enhance the education system an...
Il tema della trasformazione digitale rappresenta oggi un nuovo paradigma indispensabile per la competitività delle imprese e per l'innovazione. Il volume presenta un'analisi dei cambiamenti avvenuti nel settore del Turismo, quale settore ampiamente interessato da questa trasformazione, offrendo interessanti spunti di riflessione sulle sfide e le o...
Recently, social big data are attracting increasingly the attention of
tourism scientific community and decision makers, as a source of data that carries incredible insights and knowledge for innovation and value creation of the sector. Although it is widely debated about the opportunities of social big data, their practical utilisation for value...
Purpose
Recent figures show that users are discontinuing their usage of TripAdvisor, the leading user-generated content (UGC) platform in the tourism sector. Hence, it is relevant to study the factors that influence travelers’ continued use of TripAdvisor.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors have integrated constructs from the technology accep...
Recent advances in technology and its applications have impacted fundamentally the tourism industry. Technological progress and innovations have for many years worked in facilitating the development of tourism [23, 31]. More recently, the emergence of new advanced technologies such as multimedia technologies, virtual reality (VR) and augmented real...
Understanding the impact that circular economy can have on the development of innovative entrepreneurship is an interesting but under-researched topic. Despite the growing interest of scholars in business management for trends and scenarios of application of circular economy at level of firms’ business models and dynamics of value creation and capt...
This paper aims to provide a Structured Literature Review (SLR) about the strategic role of Intellectual Capital (IC) for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It offers an outline of past and present literature and frames a future research agenda. It analyses papers published in journals from 2003 – 2018 with the aim of deriving signific...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the knowledge management (KM) literature within Entrepreneurial universities, providing an overview of the state of research and outlining a future research agenda.
Design/methodology/approach
In a systematic literature review, 1106 articles indexed at Scopus were initially submitted to a...
The use of big data is growing in relevance and importance in tourism management research. Companies operating in this industry are exploiting big data analytics and developing systems to manage customer knowledge and provide the best service in the right place at the right time. This paper aims to provide a systematic literature review to present...
Purpose The aim of this paper is underline how the new emerging digital technologies could be of great value in expanding the opportunities for women entrepreneurship by supporting them in overcoming the constrains they face as well as in creating more favorable network environment. This is creating the conditions for a new phenomenon called Digita...
Purpose
The creative process through which the territorial resources, knowledge and culture are used, exploited and configured to match needs and to achieve congruence with the changing business environment has become a crucial process for competitiveness. This is even more relevant for economies of developing countries which are continuously strug...
The pivotal role of Entrepreneurship centers in the development of Entrepreneurship Education (EE) is receiving more attention. This study aims to open the “black box” of “how, when, why and what” entrepreneurial mindset and competencies in the field of technology entrepreneurship are learned over time in the Entrepreneurship Centers. The study ado...
It is widely recognized that entrepreneurs are key drivers of economic development, and as such, nurturing an entrepreneurial mindset in young people has become a key priority for innovation. Entrepreneurship education (EE) has emerged as a key instrument to enhance entrepreneurial orientation. A growing number of curricula and programs devoted to...
Social media have become an indispensable tool for promoting events and tourist destinations, but some tourism organizations are still unable to exploit their full potential. The present research addresses this issue and proposes a methodological framework that could help managers increase users’ online engagement with tourist events and destinatio...
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on Open Innovation in the age of Big Data by shedding new light on the role that social networks can play as enabling platforms for tourists’ involvement and sources for the creation and management of valuable knowledge assets. The huge amount of data generated on social media by tourists related to their...
Purpose – Intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) in universities is gaining increasing attention, especially through the adoption of innovative technologies. Online media, as a relevant source of Big Data, is shifting ICD. The purpose of this paper is to explore how Big Data generated through online media, such as websites and platforms like Faceboo...
The paper aims to contribute at the debate on Open Innovation in the age of Big Data by shedding new light on the role that social networks can have in operating as enabling platforms for tourists’ involvement and sources for the creation and management of valuable knowledge assets. Big Data encompass all industries but they become especially relev...
This paper aims to demonstrate how the huge amount of Social Big Data available from tourists can nurture the value creation process for a Smart Tourism Destination. Applying a multiple-case study analysis, the paper explores a set of regional tourist experiences related to a Southern European region and destination, to derive patterns and opportun...
This paper aims to discuss the importance of Living Labs as an effective mechanism that can support the creation of dynamic innovation ecosystems and networks. The analysis of literature related to regional innovation and based on the Quadruple Helix framework, is integrated with exploratory research analysis of 20 cases of Italian Living Labs. The...
Social networks have a significant role in the tourism sector: both on the demand and on the supply. They are an important information source for travelers, allowing destination makers to ‘socialize’ and share information and comments with users and possible visitors. Leveraging off social media to market destinations has proven to be an excellent...
The competitiveness of territories requires creative abilities to support innovation, performance as well as the capacity of catching and anticipating emerging needs in the society. The creative process through which the territorial resources, knowledge and culture are used, exploited and configured to match needs as well as to achieve congruence w...
The aim of this paper is to present a methodological framework that will be useful for supporting destinations (managers, policy makers etc) to create their own identity by using largely the new social media tools. The methodology here presented is the result of two local experimentations realized in the Apulia region with the intent to promote the...
Creating an entrepreneurial mindset among the members of a society (public sector, private sectors, academia, etc.) is seen as a critical process in coping with uncertainty and complexity, but also as a mechanism for creating and thriving on these (Gibb 2005). This scenario translates into a need to equip individuals not only with an entrepreneuria...
The development of entrepreneurial mindsets in graduated students with science and engineering backgrounds represents an emerging priority for the higher education systems. However, this dimension is still in infancy, especially in Europe. Aimed to contribute at this debate, the study provides evidences on how European universities are approaching...
The paper aims to contribute at the emerging debate on smart tourism by presenting a methodological framework to support destinations in creating their own identity. The methodology is the result of a literature review aimed to deepen the meaning of tourism as regional integrated system of actors and knowledge-intensive industry largely interested...
The radical changes occurred in recent decades in the tourism sector, largely due to the diffusion of the Information and Communication Technologies, have intensified the competition among tourist destinations. In this scenario, destinations are called to compete at global level by creating an integrated offer able to satisfy the needs and willingn...
A paradigm shift is taking place today that provides a compelling value proposition for organizations and requires the adoption of new business models for the management of their core activities in a competitive way. The new emerging business models are related with open innovation, cloud computing approach, as well as social networking, which crea...
More and more firms today face situations where “knowledge is generated through the repeated combination and re-configuration of diverse disciplines and expertise in flexible forms of organization” [Lam, (2000)]. As a consequence firms can no longer afford to rely on value created singularly or autonomously [Prahalad and Venkatraman, (2008); Prahal...
The paper presents the conceptual model of an entrepreneurial learning centre as initiative to fertilize the emerging of the knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and the larger diffusion of an entrepreneurial culture in the regions. Framed in the scientific and institutional debate on the intelligent growth of the territories in the knowledge econo...
On the basis of a synthetic review of the literature about the Living Labs phenomenon, the article investigates to what extent the theoretical approach finds a coherent application in the reality. Focusing on 15 Italian living labs associated to the ENoLL, the study addresses a comparative analysis based on a set of features extracted from the lite...
The new competitive scenario based on knowledge resources has led firms to become more open to innovative sources and mainly to focus on collaboration with customers to co-create value (Prahalad & Ramaswamy, 2004; Sawhney, Verona & Prandelli, 2005). The Internet, and more in particular, web 2.0 technologies, enable patterns of collaborative innovat...
Technological Entrepreneurship has been recognized as a crucial process for the economic growth of regions and organizations. The creation of such mindset in people with a science or engineer background is a relevant recent challenge for Universities that are called to operate a deepen reconfiguration of their organizational structures as well as t...
A paradigm shift is taking place today that provides a compelling value preposition for organizations and requires the adoption of new business models for the management of their core activities in a competitive way. The new emerging business models are related with open innovation, cloud computing approach as well as social networking which create...
In the past years, ICTs and its applications had bring fundamental changes in the tourism industry such as in the tourist behaviors, tourism management approaches, structures as well as innovative models. More recently, the emergence of web 2.0 technologies and location based services has created new opportunities for firm's value creation and is p...
In the networked world supply chain, integration and networking is being echoed in various industries as a strategic imperative solution for firms. Firms are recognizing the power of the Internet as a platform for creating different forms of relationships and collaborations aimed to enhance value and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Dig...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship are considered as the most significant processes for economic growth, productivity and employment. While knowledge becomes an increasingly important part of innovation, the accumulation of knowledge through learning t constitutes a driving force in the development and growth (Penrose, 1959; Spender and Grant, 1996)....
This paper analyses the innovativeness and competitiveness of the wine sector in a specific local area through the perspective of the sectoral system of innovation. The aim of this paper is to analyse, using a case study approach, the main factors that affect the competition of wine business and the strategic guidelines for enhancing the competitiv...
The radical changes occurring in the global business environment, that is, in the information technology field and in management practices, call for a general rethinking of firms strategic positioning and competition. In this scenario, firms having the capacity to manage all of their own intellectual assets seem to be the only way to survive and su...
The article is focused on the explanation of the benefits of an open innovation approach in order to drive small and medium enterprises within the actual dynamic environment. In particular, the article gives evidence of the capability of the new paradigm in enabling innovative patterns of growth and development, especially for the small segment, no...
The emergence of the blogosphere has created new challenges for large companies in the management of their corporate reputations, since grass roots blogs can generate negative perceptions about a firm and then spread them rapidly and widely. The blogosphere has also created new opportunities for firms to enhance their reputations, because the infor...
The new competitive scenario based on knowledge resources has led firms to become more open to innovative sources and mainly to focus on collaboration with customers to co-create value (Prahalad & Ramaswamy, 2004; Sawhney, Verona & Prandelli, 2005).
Internet, and more in particular the web 2.0 technologies, enable patterns of collaborative innovati...
We examine the importance and the role that digital marketplaces play for SMEs in developing countries. By building on the
literature of digital marketplace and business models we argue that the features of the context shape the type of the business
models applicable for digital marketplaces. We suggest that before designing a digital marketplace i...
The radical changes occurred in the global business environment, in the information technology field and in management practices call for a general rethinking of firms strategic positioning and competition. In this scenario, the capability of managing all their own intellectual assets represents for firms the only way to survive and success. The co...
The aim of this paper is to propose a dynamic integrated approach, based on modularity concept and on the business ecosystem approach, that exploit different eBusiness services for SMEs under an open business network platform. The adoption of this approach enables firms to collaborate locally for delivering the best product/service to the customers...
In the networked world supply chain, integration and networking is being echoed in various industries as a strategic imperative solution for firms. Firms are recognizing the power of the Internet as a platform for creating different forms of relationships and collaborations aimed to enhance value and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Dig...
Furthermore, the authors, hope that from the assumptions and the insights of the studies reported will follow a high spread of the concept of DMSs considered as a significant contribution for developing strong innovative patterns of collaboration in Tourism Industry.
This chapter’s main objective is to provide a new conceptualization of the tourism which has major implications for management approaches, business models and strategy techniques of the sector. The objective is to try to reconcile the complexity of the environment with the managerial techniques and strategies that aim to create sustainable competit...
Recent development in strategy research has demonstrated the important role of network participation in firm value creation. However understanding the key role of networks in value creation is only the first step, ft is substantial to understand, also, the underlying mechanisms that impact firms capability in appropriating and creating value throug...
This chapter explores the concept of Destination Management Systems (DMSs), as opportunity for innovating in Tourism Industry, enabling different forms of collaboration and cooperation, with a particular focus on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Firstly, it argues on the capability of DMSs to combine new technological applications with manageri...
In the networked economy firms are recognizing the power of the Internet as a platform for creating different forms of relationships and collaborations aimed to enhance value and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Digital Marketplaces represent one of the most powerful solutions adopted by firms to support the networking practices among f...
[eng] Transportation costs and monopoly location in presence of regional disparities. . This article aims at analysing the impact of the level of transportation costs on the location choice of a monopolist. We consider two asymmetric regions. The heterogeneity of space lies in both regional incomes and population sizes: the first region is endowed...
Destinations differ in the modalities of coordination and collaboration, the intensity of interactions, local tourism supply organization and skill sets, technological structure, and, more generally, on the e-Readiness of the entire system. These features may affect the viability and success of destination management systems (DMS). This article arg...
Networks are assumed to enhance small firms' performance and competitiveness. Research indicates that there are various sources of value that could derive from networks, such as cost and time efficiency, quality improvement, flexibility and innovation. However, in most cases these values are associated with a general framework of what Information C...
Today we know that we live in a complex world of emergent behaviour and attributes, in which our powers of prediction are limited (Allen, Strathern, 2005). This counter with the ?classical? views of competitive advantage that implicitly supposed a mechanical environment, in which breaking a process into parts would allow us to predict it and the ov...
Destinations differ in the modalities of coordination and collaboration, the intensity of interactions, local tourism supply organization and skill set, technological structure, and more in general, on thee-Readinessthe entire system. Those features may affect the viability and success of Destination Management Systems. So, this paper argues that f...
Networks are assumed to enhance tourism small firms' performance and competitiveness. Research indicates that there are different sources of values that could derive from these networks such as cost and time efficiency, quality improvement, flexibility and innovation. However, in most cases, these values are associated to a general framework of wha...
The application of Internet technologies to tourism activities has led to the emergence of virtual networks in the tourism industry. This trend is particularly evident at the destination level, where the proliferation of destination management systems has produced substantial improvements in time, costs, quality, and flexibility of destinations' su...
The explosion of digital connectivity, the significant improvements in communication and information technologies and the enforced global competition are revolutionizing the way business is performed and the way organizations compete. A new, complex and rapidly changing economic order has emerged based on disruptive innovation, discontinuities, abr...
Supply chains differ in the modalities of coordination and collaboration, the intensity and density of interaction, the way the supply is organized, the technological structure and more in general the eReadiness state of firms. These differentiated features influence the feasibility and the performance of eBusiness models. In this paper we argue th...
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Call for papers for my academic colleagues!!!
Special Issue: "Social innovation, circularity and green technology for environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices" at International Journal of Innovation Management, EmeraldPublishing, indexed in #webofscience and #scopus.
Submission: Extended abstracts December 31, 2022
Full paper submission is expected by February 28, 2023
Special issue editors:
Eglantina Hysa, Associate Professor, Epoka University, Albania
Alba Demneri Kruja, Associate Professor, Epoka University, Albania
Valentina Ndou, Aggregate Professor, University of Salento, Italy
Mirela Panait, Professor, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti; Institute of National Economy, Romania
The full information on this Special Issue is found at: https://lnkd.in/dyH5ayiQ
#innovation #innovationmindset #innovationmanagement #technology #management #economy #environmental #circulareconomy #circularity #greeneconomy #socialinnovation #governance #sustainabledevelopment #sustainability #decisionmaking #businessmodels #sdgs #entrepreneurship #socialentrepreneurship #environment #environmentalprotection #improvement #development #costreduction #povertyalleviation
Special issue
Industry 4.0 and digital transformation in the Balkan countries.
The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC)
Special issue editors:
Valentina Ndou, Aggregate Professor, Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Italy
Eglantina Hysa, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Epoka University, Albania
Vanessa Ratten, Associate Professor, Department of Management, Sport and Tourism, La Trobe Business School (LBS), Australia
Vera Ndrecaj, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Project Manager at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
The current economic scenario is being characterized by the dawn of innovative and powerful technologies that are transforming every aspect of our life. The application of advanced digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things, Big Data, Business Analytics, Advanced Manufacturing, Industry 4.0/5.0, Cloud and Cyber-solutions and Artificial Intelligence represents a disruptive innovation that paves the way toward radical changes in all activities, offering new innovative opportunities and solutions for thriving in the new competitive scenario. Therefore, a new paradigm has emerged, named “Digital Transformation”, to highlight the sweeping changes that firms, organizations and society in general are undertaking to respond to digitization (Nambisan, 2017; Mariani and Fosso Wamba, 2020; Schab, 2017; Sjödin et al., 2020).
Digital technologies are disrupting organizations (both public and private ) by enabling automation of data processing, timely and effective decision-making processes, as well as innovative ways to create value. There has been a growing attention by academics and practitioners to analyze and understand the different and multifaceted dimensions, perspectives, sectors and dynamics intrinsic to Digital Transformation (Ndou et al, 2021; Messeni Petruzzelli et al., 2021; Nambisan et al., 2019).
Extensive studies, up to the current date, report the unsettled impacts of Digital Transformation for business models and value creation (Ratten, 2014; Urbinati et al., 2018), for business practices and processes (Guenzi and Habel, 2020; Klein et al., 2020; Ndou and Centobelli, 2020), product and service innovation, new customers or markets (Ferreira, Ratten and Dana, 2017), capabilities and competencies to improve customer experience involvement in the innovation process (Nambisan et al., 2019) and business performance outcomes (Millán et al., 2019). Digital transformation is triggering a new competitive scenario and a global race for innovation, skills, competencies, investment, knowledge and research (OECD, 2020).
In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused an acceleration of digital technology adoption on a wider scale, due to the pressures that all of us were asked to face in these difficult times. The pandemic situation has forced companies, customers, and society to make massive use of the technology, thus accelerating the uptake of the technology for performing different activities. As a result, digital transformation is no longer simply an option but is a competitive and innovative factor critical for public and private organizations, as well as for countries and regions. Also, the new post-pandemic recovery strategies consider digital transition as an essential component for speeding up the transformation of economies (for e.g. Next Generation EU, Recovery plan for Europe, EU 2020).
While developed and industrialized countries are heavily investing in and paying particular attention to digital transformation, developing countries are yet struggling due to specific political, social, economic and infrastructural issues. The different reports and observations elaborated by international institutions highlight the digital divide that still persists between developed and developing countries, in terms of digital literacy, digital infrastructure, skills and competencies, advanced technologies, business readiness, online services. The digital divide has become especially apparent in the pandemic situation (OECD, 2020), where many developing countries found their selves unprepared for smart working, online education, digital payments, online services, and cybersecurity. We have planned this special issue with the aim of contributing by providing empirical and conceptual research regarding the digital transformation of Balkan countries.
This focus of this special issue is of particular interest considering that the Balkans are an integral part of Europe and a geostrategic priority for the European Union (EU Commission, 2020), and a relevant market for products and services. In addition, some Balkan countries are now part of the EU, while others are working toward their accession. Therefore, they are all committed to implement fundamental reforms for economic development and integration, as well as to be coherent with EU strategic plans for post Covid recovery and progress (EU Commission, 2020). Among these reforms, the EU’s digital strategy is one of the most relevant ones that aims to accelerate the digitalization of businesses, universities, governments, in a manner consistent with the EU’s values and legal framework (EU Commission, 2020).
Therefore, understanding the state of the art of digital transformation in this area is of particular importance for grasping challenges and opportunities of the adoption of digital technologies and the progress and developments done at private and public sector. Additionally, the special issue aims to contribute to the identification and discussion of the influence of the digital technology revolution on innovation capability, competitiveness and in the achievement of sustainable development goals in the Balkan countries (Slovenia, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bulgaria). The following questions could be explored in this special issue:
· How digital transformation impacts innovation and competitiveness?
· What are the emerging issues and impacts of new digital technologies at private sector (tourism, agri-food, health, etc.)?
· What are the emerging issues and impacts of new digital technologies in the public sector?
· How can private and public organizations take advantage of new digital technologies?
· What is the role of digital technologies for research and education?
· How are customer relations changing due to the digital technology revolution?
· How are working conditions and approaches changing due to the digital technology revolution?
· How can digital transformation contribute to environmental and sustainable objectives?
· What are the emerging issues around digital transformation?
Key research themes include, but are not limited to:
· Critical perspectives on digital transformation and their impact in the Balkan countries;
· State of the art of digital transformation among Balkan countries;
· Digital transformation to manage and mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic:
· Industry 4.0 applications (AI, blockchain, IoT, big data, 3D,… etc.) developed and adopted by business and organizations;
· FinTechs and financial inclusion in Balkan countries;
· Implications of advanced technologies in the Balkan context;
· Digital Technologies, innovation and competitiveness;
· Policies, strategies and approaches for catching up digital economy;
· Human capital and Digital Transformation;
· Sustainable Development Goals and Digital Transformation;
· Sustainability, Digital Transformation and New Business Models;
· Digital Transformation for research and education;
· Digital Transformation of the tourism sector;
· Digital Transformation of the public sector;
· Digital Transformation and the future of work.
Theoretical and empirical studies adopting qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods are encouraged.
The guest editors welcome informal enquiries and can be contacted at:
valentina.ndou@unisalento.it
ehysa@epoka.edu.al
V.Ratten@latrobe.edu.au
We invite interested authors to send extended abstracts (by email) by December 23, 2021. Extended abstracts should be shorter than 500 words (with max 1 figure/diagram) and provide sufficient details on research questions, methods, data, (anticipated) findings for the co-editors to evaluate suitability.
Feedback on the suitability of abstracts will be returned to authors by January 31, 2022.
Full paper submission is expected by April 30, 2022. All submissions of full papers must be made to the EJISDC website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ejisdc, and authors should select the “Digital Transformation of the Balkans” special issue.
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I am running a Special Issue entitled "Knowledge Management & Social Entrepreneurship" for the journal of Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387)
The journal /Administrative Sciences/ has been included in the popular database( SCOPUS).
The aim of this Special Issue is to invite academics to submit novel articles that include conceptual, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches related, but not limited to the following
research questions:
What is the role of technology for social entrepreneurship and KM?
What are some new emerging business models that sustain the
intersection between KM and social entrepreneurship?
What is the interlink between knowledge management and
entrepreneurship in the digital age?
What are the most relevant KM processes that support social
entrepreneurship?
Which are the main factors impacting the optimal exploitation of
knowledge for social entrepreneurship?
How can social entrepreneurship contribute to the post COVID-19
recovery of society?
For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/admsci/special_issues/Knowledge_exploration
The submission deadline is 30 June 2021. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (admsci@mdpi.com).