Publication Authors: Anna Maria Melina

Walter Vesperi, Maria Carlotta Rizzuto, Anna Maria Melina

The agrifood business system, in terms of sector turnover and employment, assumes significant weight for creating economic value within local socio-economic systems, with a direct impact on population health. Furthermore, the agri-food business system is a sector that has direct repercussions in terms of public health and well-being of people. In recent years, the agrifood […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
427-433
Anna Maria Melina, Walter Vesperi, Raffaella Coppolino

Family businesses represent the most common form in the entrepreneurial fabric. These are firms of extremely different sizes, from small to large, with peculiar organizational characteristics. Technological evolution has imposed a new challenge on family businesses, traditionally slow in adopting technological innovation (Chrisman et al., 2015; McElheran et al., 2021), including the adoption of artificial […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
3166-3174
Marzia Ventura, Anna Maria Melina, Concetta Lucia Cristofaro, Rocco Reina, Walter Vesperi

The Covid-19 emergency forced the implementation of new ways of providing healthcare services, enhancing the combination of digital and telemedicine tools with traditional face-to-face services. To do this, it is necessary to have a Knowledge Management System (KMS), recognized and applied to define the actions useful to align people, data, processes and technologies to drive […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
2429-2440
Concetta Lucia Cristofaro, Marzia Ventura, Anna Maria Melina, Rocco Reina

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sudden reorganization of surgical activities to deal with the global emergency. Non-urgent surgeries have been postponed providing resources for COVID-19 patients and non-deferrable cases. This collapse in activity has profoundly compromised the training programs of medical residents (whose activity is usually focused on inpatients, outpatient […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2023 – Managing Knowledge for Sustainability
2940-2950
Walter Vesperi, Concetta Lucia Cristofaro, Anna Maria Melina, Marzia Ventura

The agri-food context represents a very complex and dynamic sector, which influenced by the current competitive ecosystem, is experimenting with new way to enhance and implement knowledge. The characteristics of the agri-food organizations impose the need to rethink the “traditional” knowledge management practices (Bresciani, 2017; et al., 2018; Vesperi and Coppolino, 2023). Indeed, even in […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2023 – Managing Knowledge for Sustainability
2845-2857
Walter Vesperi, Marzia Ventura, Concetta Lucia Cristofaro, Anna Maria Melina

The Covid-19 pandemic is radically changing the national and regional health systems. Technological innovation represents a solution capable of solving some of the key points of the pandemic emergency, specifically the speed of response, the need to maintain social distances and support for patient autonomy. In recent years, the potential of the new paradigm called […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 – Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
2098-2110
Anna Maria Melina, Concetta Lucia Cristofaro, Marzia Ventura, Walter Vesperi, Rocco Reina

Health systems face many challenges. New technologies are believed to be a solution to these problems. The digitalization of the health care system plays a significant role in improving health care, as well as in planning and financing health services.However, addressing these issues with the digitalization of health care will involve the correct use of […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 – Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
1975-1988
Anna Maria Melina, Walter Vesperi, Marzia Ventura, Concetta Lucia Cristofaro, Rocco Reina

Knowledge Visualisation (KV) is a discipline that focuses on the collaborative use of interactive graphics to create, integrate and apply knowledge, to support the decision-making process, particularly in emergency contexts during the practice of People Management. This study is of an exploratory and confirmatory nature and helps us to understand how the use of KV […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 – Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
1314-1331
Walter Vesperi, Marzia Ventura, Concetta L. Cristofaro, Rocco Reina, Anna Maria Melina

Since late twentieth century, the concept of smart city has been a central topic in public and academic debate. The smart city term is commonly used by local administrators and policy maker to promote and to prepare the cities for the future challenges. There are recent definitions of smart city but is very difficult to […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 – Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
133-144
Marzia Ventura, Teresa Anna Rita Gentile, Anna Maria Melina

Decision Supports Systems (DSS) are computer-based systems which are characterized as interactive systems, used to help decision makers to utilize data and models to solve problems and support activities linked to their decision making process by enhancing it (Ali, et.al, 2017). Until now most of DSS are developed and implemented for business sector depending on […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2020 – Knowledge in Digital Age
861-874