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Proceedings IFKAD 2023

Managing Knowledge for Sustainability
List of Included Articles:
Overcoming Organizational Tensions in a Knowledge Way: The Experience of Smart Working in the Public Sector – A New Way of Conceiving and Using Technology
Lucio Todisco, Giuseppe Modarelli, Gianluigi Mangia, Christian Rainero, Paolo Canonico

This research aims to evaluate and highlight the architecture of established working behaviours and practices based on the change in the working model imposed by the pandemic emergency in the public sector. So, the research investigates how smart working, and its impacts alter the processes of sharing organizational knowledge, according to the introduction and application of technologies in the working life of public employees. After the intervention of an exogenous shock, such as the pandemic, the related availability, perceived usefulness, and ease of use can change considerably in this regard. Starting from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and, in parallel, the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), the authors intend to interpret reality through the lens of multifaceted aspects, reasoning in detail by a perspective based on complexity and non-linearity featured periods. Specifically, the authors investigate: i) how the perception of the use of digital tools in the workplace has changed from the pre-pandemic to the post-pandemic period in the public sector ii) how and in which way digital tools continued to be used after the critical phase of the Covid-19 health emergency.

Innovation and Sustainability: Towards More Smart and Green Forms of Organization for Healthcare
Isabella Bonacci, Maria Zifaro

The paper aims to create the conditions to develop a smart model of work organization 4.0 able to generate sustainability and green logic through a multi-sectoral approach that exploits the central role that the working dimension assumes in the life of the urban community and in the organization of the city. The methodology that we intend to apply is qualitative-quantitative in the sense that we will start with a first desk phase that aims to collect specific information, detailed, useful in the start-up phase and that will then be used to build the survey and will proceed with a longitudinal analysis. The expected results of the research concern, first of all, the overcoming of the state of inconsistency and weakness on the subject of agile work and also the attempt to rationalize the economic and social impacts that this innovative approach entails. The importance of this work lies in the possibility of building a structured SW implementation model that takes into account the different implications (economic, organizational and social) that this innovative approach to work generates. Our scientific and operational contribution is based on the possibility of creating new forms of work. An innovative contribution of this paper appears to be the formulation of proposals and useful indications for change management policies and interventions in terms of new forms of work, in the sectors under analysis. In particular, the paper, through the results of a qualitative-quantitative analysis will focus on the identification of critical issues encountered by employees in the implementation of SW and its impact in terms of individual and organizational performance. That is, this dimension transversally intercepts all aspects of personal and collective organization, affecting the lives of individuals and families, the local economy, the quality of the environment, the demand for mobility, consumption, social relations and urban planning. These aspects allow to consider the change that the SW generates with a logic of combination between the hard aspects of an organization and the soft ones, including the new innovative digital skills, IOT and the so-called soft skills. The overall results of the survey are intended to describe a dynamic process that begins to rethink even the procedures and tools of organizational action, within which the relationship with employees is increasingly placed at the center of the design. The increase in the quantity and quality of time due to the lack of home-work journeys puts people in a position to experiment with new daily forms of re-synchronization of work commitments with family and personal needs.

A Spatial Decision Support System for the Knowledge and Valorisation of Cultural Heritage in Small Towns: Method and Application to a Case Study
Pierfrancesco Fiore, Michele Grimaldi, Emanuela D’Andria, Giuseppe Lombardi

This paper proposes a method for recognising the elements of cultural interest located in inland areas and disseminating the information by a tool based on the data collection and organisation methods. This is done through the use of GIS (Geographic Information System), which makes it possible to map, manage and analyse a whole series of information, guaranteeing better knowledge and communication, as well as better management of decision-making processes. The application to the case study concerned the Province of Avellino as a pilot area, but it should be noted that the validity of the proposed methodology lies in the possibility of replication to any other context. The versatility of this tool can provide useful guidelines to those who wish to know, communicate or intervene on the surveyed buildings/assets, which from time to time will become available through the databases implementation.

The Hidden Knowledge: A Hermeneutic Approach to Sustainable Development of Rock Hewn Settlements. The Case of “Tigray Region, Ethiopia” and “Sassi Matera, Italy”
Betel Workeye Wondimu, Beimnet Kassaye Beyene

The Ethiopian, especially the Tigrian Region, society had been using earth as a construction material since days which cannot be traced back. They chiselled and curved their important shelters out of Mountains. These spaces proved themselves to be of outstanding construction wisdom that they are habitable and sustainable today as they were years ago. Besides the context, Mother Nature had always been the perfect building construction material for ages in different parts of the world where our instinct human nature led us to. The basic comparison to be discussed in this paper will be the case of Sassi Matera, Italy and Tigray, Ethiopia. These locations are known to be one of the first human settlements in the world with same type of structures. This research will find similarities of sustainability among the two regions in their settlements, culture, Religion and ‘Being’. Study 1 focused on grouping these construction techniques of both locations into different groups based on their typologies. After exploring some of the typologies from each regions, similar typologies from each were filtered out and further studied. Study 2 Focused on Literary sources of studies and Found that ‘Being’ to be the basic source of knowledge in Ancient construction techniques. Study 3 Examined the role of Religion and Culture in the regions for the development of ‘Being’ and its impacts on knowledge development as ‘Being in the World’. Study 4 Emphasizes on
the importance of Hermeneutic Phenomenology as a knowledge management strategy for sustainable development in the built environment in a globalised setting. The Research findings will be useful in understanding knowledge as ‘Being’ and ‘Being in the World’ for sustainable developments. It also brings us back to translating existing knowledge of a new/modern yet sustainable, an old/ancient yet long-lasting approach to creating the new sustainable development intended in the country or even worldwide.

Proceedings IFKAD 2023
Managing Knowledge for Sustainability

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