Publication Authors: Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro

Behrooz Moradi, Ettore Bolisani, Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Aurora Martínez Martínez, Tomas Cherkos Kassaneh, Furong Cai

This study tackles the absence of a unified framework for categorizing knowledge workers, a gap that constrains effective management and strategic alignment in knowledge-driven organizations. While these workers are central to innovation and value creation, existing definitions and taxonomies remain inconsistent and fragmented. A systematic literature review of 26 peer-reviewed articles from Scopus and Web […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
1385-1394
Clara Cubillas-Para, Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Eva Tomaseti-Solano

The tourism industry has undergone rapid evolution in recent decades, although this growth was interrupted by the Covid pandemic. The sector’s recovery was largely driven by technological advances that have led and are leading to the digital transformation of the sector. Digital transformation offers numerous opportunities to enhance the tourist experience, from trip planning to […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
1319-1330
Aurora Martinez-Martinez, Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Jose María Viedma Marti

Moral integrity is a key aspect of business, raising trust and reliability among stakeholders. Within servant leadership, moral integrity is principal, aligning with the principles of prioritising the well-being of team members, customers, and stakeholders in general and cultivating ethical conduct. This study investigates the relationship of moral integrity, altruism, open-mindedness, and rational knowledge in […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
87-100
Jorge Cegarra-Sanchez, Aurora Martinez-Martinez, Anthony Wensley, Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro

Malicious Learning has been introduced to encompass erroneous learning that occurs in Machine Learning when erroneous data enters the training sets deliberately or through noise or miscoding. In the social domain, the term counter-knowledge has been used to refer to misinformation, gossip, rumours, and conspiracy theories that masquerade as knowledge. Counter-knowledge leads to inappropriate individual […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2024 – Translating Knowledge into Innovation Dynamics
119-133
Eva Martínez-Caro, Laura Di Chiacchio, Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Alexeis Garcia-Perez

Information privacy has been called one of the most important ethical issues of the information age. In this context, companies need to be able to address the concerns of their stakeholders about how they collect, handle, and process this data. The literature leads to hypothesize that when organisations take explicit actions to address the privacy […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 – Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
914-931
Aurora Martínez-Martínez, Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Tiphaine Valon

This study aim is to examine how businesses can overcome the current challenges (e.g. lack of resources) of sustainable innovation by engaging customers in their value co-creation strategies. Such strategies are based on consumers’ open-mindedness with regard to environmental sustainability, in particular in the face of the negative environmental impact of the fash fashion industry. […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 – Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
710-728
Tomas Cherkos Kassaneh, Ettore Bolisani, Juan Gabriel Cegarra Navarro, Enrico Scarso

Recently, there has been a progressive shift of focus from the traditional intra- firm view of knowledge management (KM) to an inter-firm perspective, which has become increasingly relevant especially in the context of supply chains (SCs). So, knowledge, which is a critical resource of companies, must be managed properly not only in single companies but […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 – Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
271-288
Tomas Cherkos Kassaneh, Ettore Bolisani, Juan Gabriel Cegarra Navarro

These days, business competition is more among supply chains (SCs) than between individual firms. So, knowledge is a critical resource that must be managed properly not only in single companies but also across SCs. Indeed, managing knowledge within a SC can help companies to promote better use of resources and gain value for customers. From […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2021 – Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
277-296
Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Anthony Wensley, Alexeis Garcia-Perez

In the context of business, the concept of ‘peripheral vision’ is usually used to refer to instances involving detecting information that may be important for the “safe and an effective navigation of the world”. In contrast, the concept of ‘tunnel vision’ is used to refer to the situation where peripheral vision is lost and only […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2019 – Knowledge Ecosystems and Growth
236-247
Aurora Martínez-Martínez, Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Ettore Bolisani

In relation to SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises), there is a lack of managerial mechanisms to overcome environmental knowledge barriers. Some of these barriers are related to resource shortages or outdated knowledge, which can impede the utilization of Knowledge. In the following paper, we consider that if environmental knowledge barriers are present then specific […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2019 – Knowledge Ecosystems and Growth
186-202