Blurring the Boundaries Through Digital Innovation

Fabrizio D’Ascenzo is full professor of Production Management and ICT in the Faculty of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome. He is currently Director of the Department of Management, Director of the Research Centre "ImpreSapiens", Director of the Master Program in Technologies and Innovation Management of the Faculty of Economics and Director of the post graduate degree in European Projects. Prof. D’Ascenzo is also Delegate of the Dean of the Faculty of Economics for the activities of guidance, tutoring and placement as well as Delegate of the Rector for industry relationships. He is also the scientific director of the project "Campus Mentis" conducted by Sapienza University on behalf of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers. He is the Italian coordinator of the Master program "Economy of Enterprises and International Integration" (EE2i) conducted in partnership with the University of Economics (UNECON) of Saint Petersburg in Russia. Prof. D’Ascenzo is also liaisonfor the cooperation agreements of Sapienza University with the University of California - Berkeley (USA) and the MGIMO University in Moscow (Russia). He has authored and co-authored more than one hundred twenty publications.Massimo Magni is an associate professor of management at Bocconi University and he is the director of the Organization and HR Department at SDA Bocconi School of Management. His research interests include technology-enhanced behaviors, information systems development teams in geographically dispersed settings, and adoption and use of new technologies. He has been Visiting Scholar at University of Maryland, University of Arkansas, and University of Louisville. He also taught at University of Texas (USA), University of Quuensland (Australia), and he currently teaches Organizational Behavior at MISB Mumbai (India). He has been the co-Chair of Junior Faculty Consortium at ICIS 2013. He works with multinational and international firms by supporting them in building and leading work teams. His work has been published in information systems and management journals including Mis Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, International Journal of Human–Computer Studies, Academy of Management Learning & Education, International Journal of Human Resource Management.e: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Alessandra Lazazzara is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan Bicocca. She works in the area of Organizations Studies, focusing primarily on Human Resource Management and Organizational Development. Her research interests focus on age and generational diversity, job crafting, and new technologies impact on employees’ behaviour. Alessandra teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels in the areas of Training & Development, and Organizational Behaviour. She has been Visiting Scholar at The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (The Netherlands) and is involved in several national and international research projects with a wide range of companies and institutions. She is the Italian co-coordinator of Cranet, a worldwide network of over 40 business schools that conducts comparative research into HRM. She has authored several publications in national and international journals, edited books and conference proceedings and is editorial board’s member of The International Journal of Human Resource Management.Stefano Za is Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Information Systems at E-Campus University and Research Fellow at the Research Center on Information Systems (CeRSI "A. D'Atri") at LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy. He has been Secretary of the Italian chapter of the AIS and program committee member of the ITAIS conferences since 2008. Stefano hasbeen a member of program committees, and reviewer for national and international conferences in the domains of Information Systems and Organization Studies. His current research interests include the analysis of the link between digital platforms and individuals and groups behaviour, in order to draw new governance models. He has published on international conferences, journals, and book series, such as ICIS, ECIS, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, British Journal of Educational Technology, International Journal of Innovation and Learning, LNBIP and LNISO Springer series.

• Part I: Individual Behavior and ICT Adoption Within Organizational Boundaries.- Part II: Crossing the Organizational Boundaries.- Part III: Societal Challenges and ICT Adoption Outside the Organizational Boundaries.