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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS - POSTINGS

 

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“Call for Papers” deadline approaching: Feb 15 for the XXVIII Sinergie Annual Conference June 9-10/2016 in Udine-Italy:  http://www.eng.sinergiejournal.it/ & http://www.eng.sinergiejournal.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=519&Itemid=168

 

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Conference theme: “Management in a Digital World”, Decisions, Production, Communication. A Meeting to Debate Management Challenges in the Digital Age

 

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In recent decades, the passage from analogue to digital (as both a ‘qualifying’ process and a form of technology) has assumed diffusive, replicative and integrative qualities. These qualities permeate any decisional, productive and communicative context involving individuals, firms, institutions and the relationships between these entities. The phenomenon of digitalization has also had a profound effect on economies and resulted in a reconfiguration of learning, formation, production, consumption, identification and memory processes along paths that have presently only been partially defined or are yet to be completely traced. These transformational processes offer possible contexts for the creation of ‘value’. Along with public institutions, private firms can (and must) become direct protagonists and/or co-protagonists in the course of the transition towards a complete digital revolution. The analytical management perspective of scholars provides a fertile ground for researching the effect of digitalization on the complex unfolding of interactions among subject-systems and between firms and the environment. Digitalization should not evoke an abstract world of virtual relationships in which physicality and contextual relationships are inconsequential. The digital world should also be interpreted either as an opportunity to create value or a marginalizing threat for real relationships and firms that do not grasp its sense and evolution. The complex development of the effects of digitalization require that multiple visions must be correctly applied to understand the value that it represents to countries, economies, firms and individuals. Theoretical contributions, empirical analyses, experiences and reflections developed from the perspective of management studies and aimed at evaluating the ability of the digital context to generate value constitute the main focus of the conference.

 

 

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SINERGIE INVITES PARTICIPANTS TO PRESENT PAPERS ON THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

 

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• Strategic and managerial decisions in the age of big data;

• The new Chief Digital Officers;

• Digitalization strategies for promotion of “Country of Origin - Made in”;

• Competitive analyses in and of digital contexts;

• Finance and ‘risk’ in the digital world;

• Management and information systems in the digital age;

• Emerging intermediaries in the digital marketplace;

• Changes in consumer behavior patterns;

• The topic of craftsmanship to ‘ownerless’ production (e.g., fablab, digital maker, 3D printing);

• Firm size and digitalization in manufacturing and service processes;

• The digital world and extended logistic networks;

• Social Media and consumer relationships: Experiences and sharing value;

• The ‘Internet of things’ and consumer knowledge;

• Augmented reality and new media;

• Production values in the digital world and territorial infrastructures; and

• Higher education in the digital world: A ‘disruptive’ perspective.