Alessandro D’Atri's research while affiliated with LUISS Guido Carli, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali and other places

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National adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is considered an essential component of the health care system overhaul sought by policy makers and health care professionals, in both U.S. and Europe, to cut costs and increase benefits. And yet, along with the technological aspects, the human factor consistently proves to be a critical compone...
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Usage of software platforms alongside the business transformation potential of information and communication technology enables cooperation between different companies in both open and networked environments. This is possible when multiple actors cooperate in the delivery of services; each one contributes its own resources, and there is an underlyi...
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Purpose The so‐called strategic information systems define systems that represent instruments able to provide a competitive advantage. In this case, the purpose of this paper is to go further and broaden the perspective to examine business sectors. Namely, information systems are conceived also as factors that reconfigure entire business systems....
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A virtual enterprise is an ad hoc coalition of independent business entities who collaborate on the manufacturing of complex products in a networked environment. This collaboration is enabled by the concept of a transaction, a mechanism with which members acquire necessary components from other members. An external procurement request submitted to...
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Individuals and communities affected by disasters are exposed to massive material and immaterial trauma. While material (tangible) trauma are instantaneous and evident (and thus they are treated immediately by rescuers), immaterial (intangible) ones are subtle and mounting over the time. In particular, in the aftermath of the disaster, affected peo...
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The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the benefits of online training in quality control and quality management for professionals and managers of small medium enterprises (SMEs). Moreover, this paper is an attempt to understand how this training can contribute to the improvement of SMEs' activities and the achievement of their business pe...
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The aim of this paper is to understand whether digital natives will need a different approach to leadership development. The authors discuss that in knowledge economies learning approaches based on extrinsic and explicit knowledge (knowing that) are more important than traditional learning methods based on the idea that knowledge has a value per se...
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Knowledge intensive service activities (KISA) are present in all sectors and favour innovation because the exchanges and the interactions of internal or external experts and players disseminate knowledge and thus build the basis for innovation ability. 'Soft' factors and KISA related to the development of organisation and human resources have to be...
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In this paper we briefly discuss how ICT and its applications may impact on the process of social reconstruction of meanings developed by communities affected by a disaster. In particular we refer to the L'Aquila case (hit by a major moment magnitude 6.3 earthquake on April 6, 2009), an extra-ordinary situation in which the sudden loss of the priva...
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eHealth is broadly considered as a promising strategy to improve the economic sustainability and quality of the healthcare service provision in Europe. Nevertheless, despite the enthusiastic declarations of eHealth potential, the adoption of IT in health care has progressed very slowly. A critical factor, not deeply addressed in literature, is rela...
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In a conventional way, we refer to "open source" as the set of tools achieved without licensing, and available to every user in open environments oriented toward democratization of innovation. In another meaning, it is possible to assume open sources as the set of material and immaterial resources shared in open environments to produce innovation....
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After the earthquake of 6 April 2009, the citizens of L'Aquila and the near provinces suffer many discomforts due to difficulties of collecting information they need to come back to a normal life. Most buildings in municipality and province have been damaged or fell down so it's difficult to collect information from this structures. In this paper w...
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This book offers a careful selection of the best contributions to the Fifth Conference of the Italian Association for Information Systems (http://www.itais2008.org), which took place at the European School of Management, ESCP-EAP, in Paris (France) on December 13–14, 2008, in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICI...
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A transaction is a bilateral exchange between two parties in which goods are delivered in return for payment. In virtual enterprise environments, transactions are the principal means of collaboration among the enterprise members, as well as the mechanism with which the enterprise provides its products to its external clients. In this paper we exami...
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The ItAIS (http://www.itais.org) is the Italian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS: http://www.aisnet.org), which brings together both individual and institutional members. The Italian chapter was established in 2003, and since then, it has promoted the exchange of ideas, experience and knowledge among academics and professiona...
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Moodle is an Open Source e-learning platform used by a large and stable community of users and developers for web based education. This paper analyzes the perceived quality of end users of such a platform. The analysis is done by using Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression, a second generation causal modeling statistical technique, and is aimed to...
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n the current context, characterized by a sort of 'open innovation', spin-offs phenomenon represents an innovative approach to support technological knowledge transfer and innovation processes from research organizations to industrial world. Furthermore, spin-offs could be considered an innovative strategy to follow up the results obtained within c...
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Our aim is to create a simulation based on the rules of the Beer Game which includes the variables of a virtual enterprise, VirtuE in particular, and risk management, in order to understand the strategies underlying the subjects behavior in the face of risk within a means-end chain. This study shows the tests carried out on the original game, the v...
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A vital part of a modern economy is an information market. In this market, information products are being traded in countless ways. Information is bought, modified, integrated, incorporated into other products, and then sold again. Often, the manufacturing of an information product requires the collaboration of several participants. A virtual enter...
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The present study integrates the technology acceptance and convergence streams of research to develop and test a model of individual adoption of convergent mobile technologies. Adopting structural equation modeling, we hypothesize that relative advantage, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions affect directly individual att...
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The paper analyses the organizational implications of an advance CRM strategy adopted by customer-oriented service companies in the credit card issuing sector characterized by high investments in very advance technological infrastructure. The study is based on a multiple case analysis. The research model is focused on the evaluation of the organiza...
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The methodology of global management of the distribution process, i.e., the Supply Chain Management (SCM), has gained a high level of diffusion in modern organizations. At the moment the supply chain plays a critical role and constantly challenges the health care domain. In this field, the SCM approach intends to manage the whole specific goods sup...
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What do we mean by implementation, defined as the conversion into concrete actions of an e-government programme? Is it possible to assess the results in terms of the capacity to offer solutions to problems of public import? Literature suggests the need to evaluate the outputs, outcomes and impacts of public programmes. Nevertheless, these principle...
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The development and diffusion of e-learning tools and technology has deeply changed the opportunities for adult education. Originally, a great emphasis was placed on the methodological potentialities provided by the technology, considered as able to substitute other educational methods. Later, it emerged the need to analyze the technological opport...
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In this paper we introduce BPAL, an ontological framework able to support the formal modeling of business processes (BP). BPAL has been conceived to address the problem of dynamic process composition in the context of advanced logistics applications, more precisely Autonomic Logistics Services (ALS). The motivation is that in ALS we need flexibilit...
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The importance of the role of Information Technology (IT) for Knowledge Management (KM) within many companies has been widely recognized, but its impact on organizational performance has resulted difficult to be evaluated. Most of the difficulties depend on the variety and the typology of organizational variables, and on the relevant number of the...
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The term "Business Model" started to gain momentum in the early rise of the new economy and it is currently used both in business practice and scientific research. Under a general point of view BMs are considered as a contact point among technology, organization and strategy used to describe how an organization gets value from technology and uses i...
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This paper describes the methodology and results of a literature review targeting the distinct interpretations of the Grid Computing paradigm within the context of Collaborative Networks. The review is based on the analysis of contributions published in selected scientific journals between 2002 and today. The analysis was performed taking into acco...
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It is well known that software complexity affects the maintenance costs of proprietary software. In the Open Source (OS) context, the sharing of development and maintenance effort among developers is a fundamental tenet, which can be thought as a driver to reduce the impact of complexity on maintenance costs. However, complexity is a structural pro...
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This paper explores the influences that the interorganizational relationship has on the use of ICT characteristics in the supply chain context. In particular it analyzes the emergent patterns of SCMS use considering the underlying supported business process. The performed case study confirms the positive link between relational specific attributes...
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How can self-generating KMS be designed so that contributions arise from intrinsic motivation, or knowledge worker’s personal attachment to knowledge, rather than external influences? Building on previous work on psychological attachment in information systems and psychological ownership in organizational sciences, we introduce KMS design principle...
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The dematerialization problem is still young, it hasn’t been well analyzed yet and its definition is nearly absent in the literature. This paper concentrates on the problem with a methodological approach which will try to describe the underlying structures, the overall system behaviours, processes and stakeholders. We will give an interpretation of...
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The motivation of the current paper is the search for responses about decision making in both context, computer and non-computer scenarios, thus whether no difference shall be found, the large behavioural literature on non-computer decision making can be used to interpret security issues. The effort is then devoted to identify organisational theore...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze if Business Intelligence Systems (BISs) can facilitate the monitoring of the uncertainty inherent in the organisation processes and consequently contribute to achieve its performance objectives.
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This paper presents a study of the strengths and weaknesses of written, multimedia and oral feedback from usability evaluations to developers. The strengths and weaknesses are related to how well the feedback supports the developers in addressing usability problems in a software system. The study concludes that using the traditional written usabili...
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The expression geographically isolated technical workers (GITWs) addresses those individuals which carry out technical tasks and work distant from any other member of their organization. In recent years firms have made substantial investments in Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) in order to support knowledge acquisition by distant workers. KMSs,...
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The premise of this work is based on a belief that information technology is an important driving force not only for following new business strategies but also for contributing to the reorganization of entire business sectors. Normann’s work “Refraining Business” which has been taken as a point of reference for investigating the factors which enabl...
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This paper proposes the definition of a generic infomediation-procurement process for the analysis of ICT added value at the business process level. The interest on this approach lays in one hand in the separation of the information treatment from the procurement process in order to extract its added value and describe it as an independent process,...
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In this paper we present a methodology supporting the planning of eGovernment services on the basis of the appropriateness of the services for the users. Appropriateness is a boundary concept, defining the line of visibility involved in service provision. Besides appropriateness, the concept of homology of the system helps to grasp the tangle betwe...
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Application and context aware infrastructures involve directly the network in the execution of application-layer tasks through special devices, referred to as cards, placed in network nodes. The sharp separation of distributed applications and network is smoothed and, by performing part of the application or middleware inside the network, it is pos...
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This paper presents a semantic enterprise model-ling approach that allows the representation of enterprise knowledge by means of ontologies. The approach supports the analysis and design of KMSs and KM strategies by enabling the representation of Semantic Enterprise Models (SEM). A SEM expresses the enterprise knowledge by means of two interconnect...
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E-business capabilities are widely considered a key requirement for many modern enterprises. New B2B technologies can enable companies all around the world to collaborate in more effective and efficient ways, regardless of their size and geographical location. The ebXML family of specifications provides a standard solution to achieve this kind of i...
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The growth of financial services is today a reality and carries Italian banks in strong competition in the European market. Unique money introduction, European regulatory dimension and new trend of banking internationalization, which increase the number of subsidiaries in several countries, involve ICT challenges to compete not only in a national c...
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Pursuing authentication through appropriate mechanisms for e-government procedures is a complex issue. The problem is not a technological one: from this point of view, the set of available authentication devices may be considered mature and stable. Major difficulties seem to arise from the fluidity of juridical taxonomies and of guiding-principles...
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The paper illustrates a set of best practices used by successful IT managers to manage IT enabled business innovation. In IT intensive business a key point is to build innovative IT solutions for business innovation sometimes without formal requirements. Based on a panel of the largest and most innovative corporations in Telecommunications, Energy,...
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Last July, the University of Exeter, Great Britain, has empirically demonstrated how the human brain learns more from mistakes and unsuccessful events than from successful experiences. Memory, in fact, is more stimulated by mistakes and, after that, tends to generate a self-protection mechanism that, in a reaction period of 0, 10 s, warns of the ex...
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The Italcementi case is a paradigmatic example of how a technological innovation process can lead to overall change of a firm’s organizational and value creation model. The success of the process does not lie so much in the validity of the technological solution, but rather in the ability to manage the change process itself, the main pillars of whi...
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TOCAI.IT is an on-going Italian 3-year project, funded by the Ministry of Universities and Scientific Research under the FIRB program for the basic research, aimed at developing an integrated group of methodologies, techniques and software systems based on the most advanced knowledge technologies for the on-the-field analysis, specification, implem...
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We are investigating how “coopetition” (Co-opetition, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1996; EURAM, Second Annual Conference – Innovative Research in Management, Stockholm, 9–11 May 2002) can improve information-based services by fostering knowledge sharing while safeguarding both competitive interests and business objectives of the involved actors....
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When reading The Roaring Nineties [1], in which the author illustrates his theoretical framework based on the concept of asymmetric information, one realizes that the creation of shareholder value — a cornerstone of modern market economic theory — was not the main driver of top management decisions in those years. Among others, the remuneration of...
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This paper concentrates on Public Private Partnership (PPP) as the main instrument for providing e-services to Public Administrations (P.A.). The objective is to identify the basic element necessary to undertake a PPP in this field and the implementation warnings for the success of this kind of projects. After a brief description of the e-services...
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This work explores the consequences of the managerial discourses on flexible work mediated by technology. The study – based on a multiple case analysis – points out the relevance and the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on both “rational” firm’s productivity and “normative” employees’ psychological contract. Finally, we sugg...
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In this paper the current offer of programs and courses in IS, focusing on the Italian faculty of economics, is investigated. More in details the Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS06) model and the Italian ministerial class for second degree 100/S are taken as a reference for a quantitative evaluation.
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For technical and architectural reasons data in information systems are often redundant in various databases. Data changes are propagated between the various databases through a synchronization mechanism, which ensures a certain degree of consistency. Depending on the time delay of propagating data changes, synchronization is classified in real tim...
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The role of IT in the make-or-buy dilemma represents one of the most important topics in the IS research field. This dilemma is becoming increasingly more complex as new players and new services appear in the market landscape. The last few years have witness the emergence of electronic marketplaces as players that leverage new technologies to facil...
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As innovation and internationalization have increasingly gained importance as core strategies in the processes of growth of firms, it becomes also relevant in the managerial studies related to ICT and to information systems to understand whether such technologies may influence the outcome of these strategic paths. This study focuses on the relevanc...
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In business practice and in scientific research business models seem to have caught much attention as this phenomenon has been investigated by many disciplines, with different objectives and point of views. Researchers’ general opinion on business models is based on value and information technology in an organization or a set of linked ones. Anyhow...
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The paper is a work in progress developed with the collaboration of the Laboratory of Computer Science of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires. The main aim of this research is the analysis, from a qualitative and quantitative point of view, of the characteristics of the principal methodologies used for development e-service...
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The “internetworked” enterprise domain poses a challenge to IT researchers, due to the complexity and dynamicity of collaboration processes that are to be supported in such a scenario typically. A major issue in this context, where several entities are possibly involved that cooperate according to continuously evolving schemes, is to develop suitab...
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Con la nascita e lo sviluppo della new-economy il concetto di “Business Model” si è diffuso sia nella pratica di business che nella ricerca scientifica. Sebbene l’interesse nei confronti di questa tematica, segnalato dalla frequenza della ricorrenza del termine nelle pubblicazioni di carattere scientifico, sia sufficientemente sostenuta, allo stato...
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A sub-symbolic knowledge representation oriented to the enhancement of chat bot interaction is proposed. The result of the technique is the introduction of a semantic sub-symbolic layer to a traditional ontology-based knowledge representation. This layer is obtained mapping the ontology concepts into a semantic space built through Latent Semantic A...
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This paper discusses the professional roles of information systems analysts and users, focusing on a perspective of human intensive, rather than software intensive information systems. The concept of ‘meaningful use’ is discussed in relation to measures of success/failure in IS development. The authors consider how a number of different aspects of...
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This paper provides an overview of our Semantic Driven Service Discovery approach for internetworked enterprises in a P2P scenario, P2P-SDSD, where organizations act as peers and ontologies are introduced to express domain knowledge related to service descriptions and to guide service discovery among peers. Ontology-based hybrid service matchmaking...
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This work focuses on an issue that Lorenz identifies as fundamental among human cognitive strategies: what we could call the tacking knowledge strategy. Knowledge doesn’t go on straight: like a sailing boat coursing against the wind, it must turn and turn again, frequently changing its approaches. This strategy implies that rationality is not, acc...
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This study presents a solution to add annotation functions to an available digital library management system. The solution is based on the integration of a specialized annotation service into an existing digital library, where the annotation service supports the creation, reading and listing of annotations together with the possibility of searching...
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In the literature about information technology and organizational change, organizational dimensions like distribution of authority and control, standardization, centralization, specialization of labour have received great attention but much less attention has been given to the study of the relationship between information technology and the tempora...
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IT is often depicted as a force that will transform the production and delivery of healthcare services, promising lower costs and improvements in service quality. However, research on IT and organizational change emphasizes that the organizational consequences of new technology are not straightforward and easy to predict. In this paper we study why...
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A grid virtual enterprise is a community of independent enterprises concerned with a particular sector of the economy. Its members (nodes) are small or medium size enterprises (SME) engaged in bilateral transactions. An important principle of a grid virtual enterprise is the lack of any global “guiding force”, with each member of the community maki...
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One of the most attractive aspects of virtual enterprises is their agility: the inherent ability to adapt and evolve in response to changing market conditions. Evolving VirtuE is a formal framework within which such agility can be realized. Through the concepts of enterprise time, activity logging, and log mining, the recent behavior and performanc...
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Blind people need to become as independent as possible in their daily life in order to guarantee a fully social inclusion. Mobility means the possibility of freely moving, without support of any accompanying person, at home, in public and private buildings, and in open spaces, as the streets of the town. Mobile and wireless technologies, and in par...
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Location prediction systems have become of interest in several application domains involving ubiquitous systems in the recent years. We propose a novel approach to trajectory prediction, that supports logistics optimization and decision making in a service area of a container terminal at a freight seaport. We devise a prototypical wireless infrastr...
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The financial market have undergone substantial changes because of most recent improvements in technology, deregulation of financial services, regulatory changes, and the globalization of the marketplace. Internet, along with high-speed computer systems, has dramatically altered the way in which securities and commodities are bought and sold, almos...
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the benefits of on-line training in quality control and quality management as an help for professionals and managers of SMEs, to contribute to the improvement of the activities and of the business performance objectives of their organizations. This kind of training includes topics on: managing q...
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According to Pine and Gilmore [1999], over the last two hundred years we have witnessed a shift from an Agrarian Economy based on extracting commodities, to an Industrial Economy based on manufacturing goods, to a Service Economy based on delivering services, and finally to an Experience Economy based on staging experiences. In the same time span,...
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Many areas of information technology implement hierarchi-cal architectures. Notable examples are the organization of computer files in folders, the arrangement of program menus, and the distribution of messages from a source to its clients. In each case, one must address the issue of the optimal configuration of the hierarchy: Assuming a given numb...
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Mobile learning (m-learning) refers to the use of mobile and handheld IT devices in teaching and learning and it may currently be most useful as a support to cultural heritage learning by exploiting portable devices like smartphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), e-books, tablet PCs and laptop computers. M-learning could bring important benef...
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This paper discusses Claudio Ciborra's critique of traditional economic rationality. It recounts his account of the Mann Gulch Disaster. The important aspect of his reading of the disaster is that apparently irrational actions may provide appropriate ...
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This paper discusses Claudio Ciborra's critique of traditional economic rationality. It recounts his account of the Mann Gulch Disaster. The important aspect of his reading of the disaster is that apparently irrational actions may provide appropriate ...
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We consider the process of manufacturing a product from a given number of elementary components. By assembling intermediate products, the target product can be manufactured in a variety of processes, each modeled by a tree. We are interested in manufacturing turnaround: the time between receiving an order at the root and its completion. We express...
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The virtual enterprise is usually cited as an innovative inter-organizational configuration. Is it possible to justify and to assert the innovativeness of virtual enterprises just by claiming that they are made up of innovative “elements”? Is a sum of innovative features making the resulting system innovative too? This contribution will investigate...
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The paper describes the final results and the organisational impact of the HERMES project: an on-line integrated web-based platform to provide multimedia services in tele-medicine and tele-education fields. The project is part of a European Space Agency programme to promote the market of broadband satellite services and the role of satellite system...
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This paper introduces a discourse about the organizational requirements of virtual enterprises (VEs). The growing economic globalization is threatening the competitiveness of traditional industrial districts that represent one of the building blocks of modern economy. VEs are efficient solutions to deal with uncertainty and complexity of the presen...
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Orientation and mobility for visually impaired people are very difficult, especially in environments unknown or not designed with assistive purposes. In modern Welfare States, for guaranteeing autonomous living and social inclusion of blind and partially sighted people, independent mobility is an important objective to achieve. In this paper a nove...
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The recent EU enlargement opens up new opportunities, but poses new issues to be addressed. In particular, in order to enable and support cooperation between firms from different countries, it is necessary to address interoperability issues. The LD-CAST project aims at enabling cross border cooperation between European chambers of commerce (CCs) fo...
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Virtual organisations are considered an innovative configuration able to improve the benefits in the inter-organisational cooperation. In this context the interoperability of the systems and of the organisations, enabled by standards and technologies, represents a main requirement towards flexibility. However, some obstacles to the development of v...
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Chapters of this book offer a careful selection of the best contributions to the Italian Association for Information Systems (ItAIS) Annual Conference, that took place in Venice, San Servolo Island, in October 2007. The main goal of this book is to disseminate academic knowledge, both theoretical and pragmatic, in the information systems community....
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Moodle is an Open Source e-learning platform used by a large and stable community of users and developers for web-based education. This paper analyzes the end users' perceived quality of such a platform with an explorative study. The analysis is done by using Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression, a second-generation causal modelling statistical t...

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... The US Patent office database is the most well-classified and most up-todate source for technical documents on new and innovative technologies [15]. Patent analysis can be used to perform competitive analysis and technology trend analysis [16]. It is a valuable approach that derives information about specific technologies through the use of patent data. ...
... The privacy calculus model originally postulated that users of social network sites (SNS) perform a calculus between the expected loss of privacy and the potential gain of disclosure when deciding whether to use it [9]. That is, the model suggests that people compare potential benefits and costs to calibrate their intention to use the SNS technology [10][11][12]. If the sum of the drivers (benefits) is greater than that of the inhibitors (costs), people will use the technology. ...
... Bu teknolojilere dayalı ortamlarda deneyimlenen etik sorunlar çok ve çeşitlilik göstermektedir. Özel yaşamın gizliliği ve bireysel özgürlükler, fikri mülkiyet, telif/patent hakları, dijital gözetim, veri madenciliği, nefret söylemi, kişisel verilerin güvenliğinin sağlanamaması, bilgiye erişim ve bilginin doğruluğu, sistem kalitesi, risk ve güvenirlik, üretilen içeriklerin olgunlaşmadan ve doğruluğunun teyit edilmeden yayılması, içeriğin asıl kaynağının gösterilmemesi, yanıltıcı etiketleme ve başlıklandırma, haber ve ticari enformasyonun sınırlarının belirsizleşmesi, yeni medya ortamlarındaki yoğun reklam içeriği, bireyin yeni medya ortamında sadece tüketici olarak konumlandırılması (Akdeniz, 2016;Akın vd., 2010;Binark ve Bayraktutan, 2013, s.39;Bynum ve Rogerson, 2006;Heron vd., 2007;Kuzu, 2009;Khan, 2007;Namlu ve Odabaşı, 2007;TBD, 2011;Uysal, 2006) gibi sorunlar içermektedir. İnternet ve interneti oluşturan ortamlarda etik sorumluluğun paydaşları endüstri gibi kurumsallaşmış yapılardan, bireysel kullanıcıya kadar uzanan çok taraflı bir görünüm arz etmektedir. ...