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Every organization faces the challenge of competing in the digital economy. An increasingly dynamic environment requires more flexible and resilient organizations. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic revolutionized dormant concepts and standards, requiring innovative approaches to bring forth new scenarios. Redesigning the work environment is an issue that cuts across both academic and practical levels and involves reorganizing traditional business models. This book explores the potential of different approaches to work organization and proposes solutions to improve collaboration and efficiency in the work environment, while enabling a better balance between personal and professional life. The book includes an analysis of the public sector. By illuminating advantages and disadvantages, the research results contribute to discussion in the public organizations field, with the aim of proposing new strategic paradigms for sustainable and resilient future work environments.
This book presents insights on digital transformation with a multidisciplinary lens. Collecting chapters from several management perspectives, it provides perspectives on the role of various concepts and elements that are needed by our organizations to win in today’s competition. This book is a contribution to the organizational, to the information and communication technology (ICT) as well as to the sustainability discussion. Here, the readers can find heterogenous inputs to better understand the organizational and technological aspects considering a sustainable business approach. This book is for academicians, students and practitioners interested in the interplay among IT-based solutions, organizational entities and sustainability issues.
This book contains the contributions presented at the 10th international KES conference on Smart Education and e-Learning (SEEL-2023) with the Smart University as the main conference theme. The conference is being held on June 14-16, 2023 in Rome, Italy in both in-person and online modes. The book contains high quality peer-reviewed papers that are grouped into several interconnected parts: Part 1 – Smart Education, Part 2 – Smart e-Learning, Part 3 – Smart University, Part 4 – Smart Education: Case Studies and Research, and Part 5 – Smart Company: Case Studies and Research. Smart education, smart e-learning, smart universities and smart companies are emerging and rapidly growing a...
Offering educators strategies for navigating culturally diverse classrooms Global Classroom addresses the challenges, effective communication techniques, inclusive curricula, and real-world case studies in business and economics education.
In light of the Covid 19 pandemic and its impact on healthcare systems, this book examines health care innovations and service management models and discusses significant reforms and organizational and managerial changes in the healthcare systems of countries in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. It features contributions that shed new light on the impact of the pandemic on healthcare organizations and the lessons that can be drawn from this crisis for management practice. The book covers topics such as best practices in healthcare delivery, healthcare management, process and product innovation, digitization and information technologies, healthcare governance, collaborative healthcare experiences and networks, healthcare financing, and healthcare policy reform. It is aimed at scholars and practitioners in healthcare, as well as anyone interested in innovation in healthcare services and management.
This book contains high-profile contributions that emerged from the Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations and Society (ICTO) conference on "Smart Technologies for an Inclusive World," held in 2020. It focuses on the interplay between technology adoption, digital transformation, and value creation, highlighting various aspects of current issues organizations face in adopting digital technologies to achieve an inclusive and sustainable society in the long term. As such, the book contributes to our understanding of a humanistic approach to managing digital transformation toward inclusive organizations and societies and is a valuable asset for both researchers and managers of organizations.
A breakthrough text for designing a complete and formative internship experience and for coaching students to consciously engage in intercultural environments, this book provides a roadmap for crafting effective learning experiences that will shape the next generation of scholars, activists, and professionals.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th PLAIS EuroSymposium 2021 which was held in Sopot, Poland, on September 23, 2021. The objective of the PLAIS EuroSymposium 2021 is to promote and develop high quality research on all issues related to digital transformation. It provides a forum for IS researchers and practitioners in Europe and beyond to interact, collaborate, and develop this field. The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: digital enterprises; smart cities; digital education; and innovative methods in data and process analysis.
The United Nations included sustainable cities and communities in its 2030 SDGs. Cities and, on a smaller scale, neighborhoods, building managers and firms are now adopting technologies and information systems to help achieve the energy, economic, social and environmental transition. This volume gathers contributions on the key organizational success factors for this transition. To do so, it analyzes the role of information systems, use of data, and technological assistance solutions from multiple perspectives. The goal is to develop a framework that can successfully apply information systems to organizational and environmental issues for smart cities and smart buildings. Accordingly, the book addresses living-lab experiment evaluation techniques, and provides critical analyses of the role of the environment, context and users’ behavioral responses. In addition, it discusses key questions on the efficient management of resources, need for appropriate IT solutions, and employing co-creation with users to improve planning and organization.