Empowering Organizations

Teresina Torre is Associate Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Genoa, Department of Economics and Business, School of Social Science, where she teaches: organization theory (bachelor’s degree) and human resource management (master’s degree). She is editor of Impresa Progetto Electronic Journal of Management and director of the International MBA – University of Lima and Genoa. She is vicepresident of Assioa – Association of Italian Organization Studies Academics and members of Aidea and Icto.Her current research interests focus on human work, its organization and assessment, and its evolution in connection with IT. She presented her research in national and international conferences such as WOA, RCM, ECIE, ECKM and ICTO; she published contribution in books and in national and international journals.Alessio Maria Braccini is Senior Assistant Professor of Organization Theory and Information Systems at the La Tuscia University, Viterbo (Italy). He received his PhD from the LUISS Guido Carli University, where he also currently cooperates with the CeRSI Research Centre. His research interests concern the impacts of information technology on organisations, with specific regard to organizational performance, and the organizational behaviour of intense ICT users and digital natives. His research appeared in international journals such as the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Communications of AIS, VINE: The Journal of Knowledge Management Systems, Journal of Cases in IT, and was presented in national and international conferences such as ICIS, ECIS, BIS, WOA, and ItAIS.Riccardo Spinelli received his PhD in Service Management and Economics from the University of Genoa (Italy). He is an Assistant Professor in Management at the same institution. His research interests include the foundations of the digital economy, the relationship between the development of e-business and the internationalization of firms, the application of ICT in SMEs and the management of SMEs. He published in international journals such as the International Journal of Services, Economics and Management, the International Journal of Online Marketing and the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, and presented his research in national and international conferences such as ECIME, ICE-B, ISBE and ItAIS.

• Introduction.- Smart Mobility in Smart City.- Designing e-sustainable parliaments.- Investigating the Sailing Ship Effect as Newcomers’ Strategic Reaction to Technological Change.- Bridging the gap between theory and practice: Socio-Technical Toolbox.- The University in the Polis: an Emerging Role of Democratic Intermediary in e-Participation?.- Designing a new model of DMS for developing a resilient community.- Using collaboration platforms for management control processes: new opportunities for integration.- Innovating e-Recruitment Services: An Italian Case Study.- The Inextricable Intertwining of the Firm, the Platform and the Customer: the Case of a Social Media Platform for Innovation.- From e-marketplace to e-supply chain: re-conceptualizing the relationship between virtual and physical processes.- Comparing Classifieres for Web User Intent Understanding.- E.Y.E. C. U.: an Emotional eYe trackEr for Cultural heritage sUppor.- A Wizard based EUDWeb Development Process.- Practicing Mobile Interface Design Principles through the Use of HCI Design Patterns – a Training Strategy.- A Mobile Application for Supporting Archaeologists in the Classification and Recognition of Petroglyphs.- End user effects of centralized data control.- Risk assessment to support liability allocation performed by the system GUI analysis.- Cognitive Antifreeze: The Visual Inception of Fluid Sociomaterial Interactions for Knowledge Creation.- Requirements and Open Issues for ISs Supporting Dynamic Community Bonding in Emergency Situations.- Digital innovation in the job market: an explorative study on cloud working platforms.- Mt.Gox is dead, long live Bitcoin!.- Research Methods in the itAIS Community: Building a Classification Framework for Management and Information Systems Studies.