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Manufacturing organisations are adopting Industry 4.0 (I40) technologies to automate decision making and operational tasks down the assembly line. Manufacturing organisations can achieve benefits at the level of capital and labour welfare through a more optimised production process, stable employment and enriched duties for workers. Nevertheless, the benefits of I40 adoption produce on the capital could be detrimental for the labour welfare. I40 automation can lead to job disruption, impoverishment of workforce roles and expertise along the production process. There is a lack of studies that explores how organisations adopt I40 technologies to reach a fair balance between capital and labour welfare benefits because management privileges the I40 automation potential over the workforce role in I40 adoption. We address this gap by conducting a single case study of the Italian production branch of an international manufacturing organisation adopting I40 technologies. The results show that organisations achieve a fair balance between capital and labour welfare benefits by deploying I40 technologies with a worker-centric approach. I40 assembly line operates with a sociotechnical interplay between technologies and workers. I40 technologies automate repetitive and dangerous activities, and workers reduce routine work and enrich their duties taking on supervision activities on the assembly line. To this end, workers are trained to acquire digital competencies and maintain a higher level of knowledge of the production activities.
Emanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. Managing industry 4.0 automation for fair ethical business development: A single case study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2021, 172, 121048 .
AMA StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita, Alessio Maria Braccini. Managing industry 4.0 automation for fair ethical business development: A single case study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2021; 172 ():121048.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. 2021. "Managing industry 4.0 automation for fair ethical business development: A single case study." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 172, no. : 121048.
This work intends to lay the foundations for a theoretical framework of citizen science combining social and organizational implications with the support of information technologies. The proposed theoretical framework moves towards a shared and common research process between experts and citizens to deal with environmental and social challenges. The role and capacity of online communities is explored and their engagement capacity by means of web-based digital platforms supporting crowdsourcing activities. In this contribution, authors highlight the most common practices, methods and issues of citizen science approaches adopted from multidisciplinary application fields to obtain insights for designing a new participative approach for organizational studies. To reach this goal, authors illustrate the results of a systematic meta-review analysis, consisting of an accurate selection and revision of journal review articles in order to highlight concepts, methods, research design approaches and tools adopted in citizen science approaches.
Andrea Spasiano; Salvatore Grimaldi; Alessio Braccini; Fernando Nardi. Towards a Transdisciplinary Theoretical Framework of Citizen Science: Results from a Meta-Review Analysis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7904 .
AMA StyleAndrea Spasiano, Salvatore Grimaldi, Alessio Braccini, Fernando Nardi. Towards a Transdisciplinary Theoretical Framework of Citizen Science: Results from a Meta-Review Analysis. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):7904.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrea Spasiano; Salvatore Grimaldi; Alessio Braccini; Fernando Nardi. 2021. "Towards a Transdisciplinary Theoretical Framework of Citizen Science: Results from a Meta-Review Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 7904.
Widely available digital technologies are empowering citizens who are increasingly well informed and involved in numerous water, climate, and environmental challenges. Citizen science can serve many different purposes, from the “pleasure of doing science” to complementing observations, increasing scientific literacy, and supporting collaborative behaviour to solve specific water management problems. Still, procedures on how to incorporate citizens’ knowledge effectively to inform policy and decision-making are lagging behind. Moreover, general conceptual frameworks are unavailable, preventing the widespread uptake of citizen science approaches for more participatory cross-sectorial water governance. In this work, we identify the shared constituents, interfaces and interlinkages between hydrological sciences and other academic and non-academic disciplines in addressing water issues. Our goal is to conceptualize a transdisciplinary framework for valuing citizen science and advancing the hydrological sciences. Joint efforts between hydrological, computer and social sciences are envisaged for integrating human sensing and behavioural mechanisms into the framework. Expanding opportunities of online communities complement the fundamental value of on-site surveying and indigenous knowledge. This work is promoted by the Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY) Working Group established by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).
Fernando Nardi; Christophe Cudennec; Tommaso Abrate; Candice Allouch; Antonio Annis; Thaine Herman Assumpção; Alice H. Aubert; Dominique Bérod; Alessio Maria Braccini; Wouter Buytaert; Antara Dasgupta; David M. Hannah; Maurizio Mazzoleni; Maria J. Polo; Øystein Sæbø; Jan Seibert; Flavia Tauro; Florian Teichert; Rita Teutonico; Stefan Uhlenbrook; Cristina Wahrmann Vargas; Salvatore Grimaldi. Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges. Hydrological Sciences Journal 2021, 1 -18.
AMA StyleFernando Nardi, Christophe Cudennec, Tommaso Abrate, Candice Allouch, Antonio Annis, Thaine Herman Assumpção, Alice H. Aubert, Dominique Bérod, Alessio Maria Braccini, Wouter Buytaert, Antara Dasgupta, David M. Hannah, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Maria J. Polo, Øystein Sæbø, Jan Seibert, Flavia Tauro, Florian Teichert, Rita Teutonico, Stefan Uhlenbrook, Cristina Wahrmann Vargas, Salvatore Grimaldi. Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 2021; ():1-18.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFernando Nardi; Christophe Cudennec; Tommaso Abrate; Candice Allouch; Antonio Annis; Thaine Herman Assumpção; Alice H. Aubert; Dominique Bérod; Alessio Maria Braccini; Wouter Buytaert; Antara Dasgupta; David M. Hannah; Maurizio Mazzoleni; Maria J. Polo; Øystein Sæbø; Jan Seibert; Flavia Tauro; Florian Teichert; Rita Teutonico; Stefan Uhlenbrook; Cristina Wahrmann Vargas; Salvatore Grimaldi. 2021. "Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges." Hydrological Sciences Journal , no. : 1-18.
To respond to increased competition, manufacturing organisations have started developing digital ecosystems within a supply chain by adopting Industry 4.0 technologies. That approach promises to improve organisational efficiency by automating operations and decision-making activities. The development of the digital ecosystem passes through vertical and horizontal integrations of technologies. Vertical integration represents the integration of various organisational units, and it is a milestone in the process of reaching horizontal integration where different organisations integrate their production processes in a supply chain. The extant literature reveals that the vertical integration of an organisation is challenging to achieve, as the adoption process of Industry 4.0 employs a technocentric perspective without considering the way that technology users can cause strong workforce resistance against Industry 4.0 adoption. The sociotechnical perspective addresses this issue by considering both technology and users during the adoption process. Therefore, this paper illustrates the applicability of the sociotechnical approach to an in-depth single case study of an Italian manufacturing group which successfully adopted Industry 4.0 technologies. We show the adoption process of Industry 4.0 technologies, highlighting the outcome of the adoption and proposing sociotechnical enabling factors that assist in achieving vertical integration.
Emanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. Examining the development of a digital ecosystem in an Industry 4.0 context: a sociotechnical perspective. SN Business & Economics 2021, 1, 1 -18.
AMA StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita, Alessio Maria Braccini. Examining the development of a digital ecosystem in an Industry 4.0 context: a sociotechnical perspective. SN Business & Economics. 2021; 1 (7):1-18.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. 2021. "Examining the development of a digital ecosystem in an Industry 4.0 context: a sociotechnical perspective." SN Business & Economics 1, no. 7: 1-18.
Several industrial initiatives around the globe usher in the Fourth Industrial Revolution that points at the deployment of a Smart Factory. A Smart Factory builds on several advanced digital technologies to integrate the production process within and across organizations. The literature asserts that Smart Factory increased efficiency and production outcome. While the technical aspects of the Smart Factory are quite extensively studied, few pieces of research paid attention to the competencies that organizations need to manage a Smart Factory. Therefore, we develop a competence framework for handling Smart Factory from a systematic literature review of Smart Factory empirical cases. We contribute to the literature proposing a framework with six competences areas.
Emanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. Managing the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Competence Framework for Smart Factory. Econometrics for Financial Applications 2021, 389 -402.
AMA StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita, Alessio Maria Braccini. Managing the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Competence Framework for Smart Factory. Econometrics for Financial Applications. 2021; ():389-402.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. 2021. "Managing the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Competence Framework for Smart Factory." Econometrics for Financial Applications , no. : 389-402.
There is an increasing interest in Industry 4.0 (I40) applications for organizations to act sustainable. Indeed literature agrees the adoption of I40 technologies promises various organizational benefits which lead to the achievement of an enduring sustainability and competitive advantage for organizations. However, there is a lack of a study which provides transparency confirming and summarizing those spawned organizational benefits. This paper aims at addressing this gap performing a systematic literature review analyzing I40 empirical case studies for detecting the spawned I40 organizational impacts on sustainability. We employed the triple bottom line (TBL) concept as sensitive device to confront different studies distinguishing among the sustainability dimensions, namely the economic, social and environmental dimensions. We then categorize and group I40 organizational impacts according to TBL dimensions. The review portrays an initial empirical knowledge regarding the I40 organizational impacts on sustainability since 18 I40 empirical case study have found. Furthermore, the literature review reveals that I40 applications mainly impact the economic dimension whereas few applications generated benefits for the remaining dimensions.
Emanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. Organizational Impacts on Sustainability of Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review from Empirical Case Studies. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities 2020, 173 -186.
AMA StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita, Alessio Maria Braccini. Organizational Impacts on Sustainability of Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review from Empirical Case Studies. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities. 2020; ():173-186.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. 2020. "Organizational Impacts on Sustainability of Industry 4.0: A Systematic Literature Review from Empirical Case Studies." Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities , no. : 173-186.
In this study, we analyse the value creation of Industry 4.0 (I40) technologies in flexible manufacturing (FM) under a sustainability perspective. I40 is a popular strategy that Western manufacturing organizations adopt to face competition from low-cost producers. Organizations adopting I40 use advanced digital technologies to make production processes more flexible and increasingly automated. Several pieces of evidence confirm how I40 leads to higher productivity and higher-quality products, improving the economic performance of organizations. However, increasing automation may also lead to the reduction of human labour in the production process, which may contribute to the disappearance of jobs, the reduction of expertise and the loss of know-how in manufacturing organizations. While the literature acknowledges the technical and economic advantages of I40, the sustainability of the value created through these technologies deserves further investigation. To address the gap, we complement the IT value theory with the concept of sustainability, including the three dimensions of economic, environmental and social sustainability. We perform a multiple case study analysis of four Italian manufacturing organizations that have successfully implemented I40 technologies in FM. The cases show that I40 technologies support sustainable organizational value when they are deployed with a worker-centric approach. In this condition, the organization leverages workforce activities to continuously fine-tune the technologies and to exploit the adaptive features of the technologies to continuously improve processes.
Emanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. Industry 4.0 Technologies in Flexible Manufacturing for Sustainable Organizational Value: Reflections from a Multiple Case Study of Italian Manufacturers. Information Systems Frontiers 2020, 1 -22.
AMA StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita, Alessio Maria Braccini. Industry 4.0 Technologies in Flexible Manufacturing for Sustainable Organizational Value: Reflections from a Multiple Case Study of Italian Manufacturers. Information Systems Frontiers. 2020; ():1-22.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. 2020. "Industry 4.0 Technologies in Flexible Manufacturing for Sustainable Organizational Value: Reflections from a Multiple Case Study of Italian Manufacturers." Information Systems Frontiers , no. : 1-22.
Motivated by the growing significance of the sharing economy, we discuss the roles the public sector may play within the sharing economy and the corresponding implications for public values. The sharing economy represents a transformative agent for the public sector within the current landscape of digital transformation. While the public sector has so far acted mainly as a regulatory body in the sharing economy, we here discuss implications for other roles the public sector may take on, including the roles of customer, service provider, and platform provider. Framed within the context of the public value ideals (professional, efficiency, service, and engagement), we examine the opportunities and challenges of each role for the four public values. Finally, we identify areas for future research, focusing on the implications of public values for the public sector in the sharing economy.
Sara Hofmann; Øystein Sæbø; Alessio Maria Braccini; Stefano Za. The public sector's roles in the sharing economy and the implications for public values. Government Information Quarterly 2019, 36, 101399 .
AMA StyleSara Hofmann, Øystein Sæbø, Alessio Maria Braccini, Stefano Za. The public sector's roles in the sharing economy and the implications for public values. Government Information Quarterly. 2019; 36 (4):101399.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSara Hofmann; Øystein Sæbø; Alessio Maria Braccini; Stefano Za. 2019. "The public sector's roles in the sharing economy and the implications for public values." Government Information Quarterly 36, no. 4: 101399.
Critical thinking is as a systematic habit of being able to question information, confront different information sources seeking diversity of points of view, understanding statements, and being able to make inferences out of information. Critical thinking is an active behavior against information processing which influences in a positive way individual and organizational decision making. While we can observe different levels of critical thinking in different individuals, millennials are reputed to possess low critical thinking skills given their habit of passively receiving information through social media. In this paper, we study the critical thinking skills of millennials, and we explore the level of critical thinking shown in relation to the reported intensity of use of social media and other traditional media for information acquisition. The paper is based on a quantitative analysis of an incidental sample of 424 millennials.
Michael Menichelli; Alessio Maria Braccini. Millennials, Information Assessment, and Social Media: An Exploratory Study on the Assessment of Critical Thinking Habits. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities 2019, 85 -97.
AMA StyleMichael Menichelli, Alessio Maria Braccini. Millennials, Information Assessment, and Social Media: An Exploratory Study on the Assessment of Critical Thinking Habits. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities. 2019; ():85-97.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMichael Menichelli; Alessio Maria Braccini. 2019. "Millennials, Information Assessment, and Social Media: An Exploratory Study on the Assessment of Critical Thinking Habits." Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities , no. : 85-97.
Several studies state information systems lead to organizational benefits improving organization efficiency and effectiveness. Cloud computing is nowadays an established strategy for adopting IS potentially providing many benefits. Among them IT costs savings are the most evident ones. However, literature remarks that the realisation of organizational benefits depends on contextual organizational factors and requires organizational change. Whether a cloud computing based strategy for IS delivers organizational benefits or just contributes to costs reduction can be disputed. Taking this point of view, the paper presents the results of an exploratory comparative study analysing 23 cases of different enterprises who run a cloud computing strategy. Using fs/QCA as a method of analysis in a multiple cases setting, the research paper explores the organizational benefits following cloud adoption other than cost savings.
Emanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. IS in the Cloud and Organizational Benefits: An Exploratory Study. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities 2019, 417 -428.
AMA StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita, Alessio Maria Braccini. IS in the Cloud and Organizational Benefits: An Exploratory Study. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities. 2019; ():417-428.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmanuele Gabriel Margherita; Alessio Maria Braccini. 2019. "IS in the Cloud and Organizational Benefits: An Exploratory Study." Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities , no. : 417-428.
In this paper, we present a process model exploring the roles played by digital technologies (DTs) in the organization of collective action (CA) of social movements (SMs) at different points in their lifecycles. The process model, which is based on an exploratory case study of the Italian Five Star Movement, relates the environmental conditions to the working logic, structure and use of DTs at three different stages of the SMs. We explain how these choices are adopted at each stage to address internal and environmental challenges and how they create further challenges to be addressed to pass to the next stage. We further explore the dynamics between the logic of connective and collective action and reflect on the growing need for structures and control. By so doing, our work addresses the need for a better understanding of the coevolution between DTs and organizational structures and of the ways in which DTs are used to mobilize people to sustain CA along the SM lifecycle.
Alessio Maria Braccini; Øystein Sæbø; Tommaso Federici. From the blogosphere into the parliament: The role of digital technologies in organizing social movements. Information and Organization 2019, 29, 100250 .
AMA StyleAlessio Maria Braccini, Øystein Sæbø, Tommaso Federici. From the blogosphere into the parliament: The role of digital technologies in organizing social movements. Information and Organization. 2019; 29 (3):100250.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessio Maria Braccini; Øystein Sæbø; Tommaso Federici. 2019. "From the blogosphere into the parliament: The role of digital technologies in organizing social movements." Information and Organization 29, no. 3: 100250.
The literature has extensively debated the potential organizational benefits of IT resources. Researchers agree that IT resources generate value under the moderating actions of contextual factors related to organizational structures. Several studies on organizational benefits of IT resources addressed the value generation process. Fewer targeted the role of organizational structures in such process. By building over the empirical evidences of four cases of digital transformation processes occurred in four different organisations, this paper highlights some neglected organisational aspects that negatively affected the actual capability of exploiting organisational benefits of digital technologies
Alessio Maria Braccini; Stefano Za. A Multiple Case Study Investigating Factors Negatively Influencing IT Value. The Art of Structuring 2019, 373 -384.
AMA StyleAlessio Maria Braccini, Stefano Za. A Multiple Case Study Investigating Factors Negatively Influencing IT Value. The Art of Structuring. 2019; ():373-384.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessio Maria Braccini; Stefano Za. 2019. "A Multiple Case Study Investigating Factors Negatively Influencing IT Value." The Art of Structuring , no. : 373-384.
There is an increasing interest in sustainability practices for organizations. Organizations act sustainably when they support the three dimensions \of the triple bottom line. Industry 4.0 (I40) promises to afford organizations to act sustainably. However, few empirical pieces of research targeted the impact of I40 on the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Our investigation considered the adoption of I40 in a manufacturing company which we analyzed as a single case study. We describe the level of I40 adoption and the process through which the unit has adopted them. Our case confirms that I40 applications support the triple bottom line through the improvement of productivity and product quality (economic), continuous energy consumption monitoring (environmental), and safer work environment and less intense work-load and job enrichment (social). We contribute to the literature by identifying two trajectories of interaction among the three dimensions of the triple bottom line in the shift from a traditional manufacturing company to a knowledge-intense organization. In the trajectories found, the three dimensions of sustainability influence and reinforce each other.
Alessio Maria Braccini; Emanuele Gabriel Margherita. Exploring Organizational Sustainability of Industry 4.0 under the Triple Bottom Line: The Case of a Manufacturing Company. Sustainability 2018, 11, 36 .
AMA StyleAlessio Maria Braccini, Emanuele Gabriel Margherita. Exploring Organizational Sustainability of Industry 4.0 under the Triple Bottom Line: The Case of a Manufacturing Company. Sustainability. 2018; 11 (1):36.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessio Maria Braccini; Emanuele Gabriel Margherita. 2018. "Exploring Organizational Sustainability of Industry 4.0 under the Triple Bottom Line: The Case of a Manufacturing Company." Sustainability 11, no. 1: 36.
Universities create academic spin-offs (ASOs) as a strategy to market innovations produced through research. By their nature, ASOs are exposed to risky endeavors and often fail in achieving an adequate level of performance. In this paper, we focus on performance generation in ASOS. By way of a literature review, we contribute with the identification of nine factors associated with positive performance in ASOS: championed start-up, heterogeneity of founders’ skills, access to funding, environmental wealth, networking capital, relative size, trustworthiness, innovativeness and motivation for venturing. The paper describes and discusses the performance factors and suggests implications for research to further study performance in ASOS.
Stefano Poponi; Alessio Maria Braccini; Alessandro Ruggieri. Key Success Factors Positively Affecting Organizational Performance of Academic Spin-Offs. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management 2017, 14, 1750026 .
AMA StyleStefano Poponi, Alessio Maria Braccini, Alessandro Ruggieri. Key Success Factors Positively Affecting Organizational Performance of Academic Spin-Offs. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management. 2017; 14 (5):1750026.
Chicago/Turabian StyleStefano Poponi; Alessio Maria Braccini; Alessandro Ruggieri. 2017. "Key Success Factors Positively Affecting Organizational Performance of Academic Spin-Offs." International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management 14, no. 5: 1750026.
The transition to a circular economy bodes well for a future of environmentally sustainable growth and economic development. The implications and advantages of a shift to a circular economy have been extensively demonstrated by the literature on the subject. What has not been sufficiently investigated is how this paradigm can be enabled through the inter-organisational cooperation among different business enterprises. In order to illustrate this point, in this paper we aim to contribute to the circular economy debate by describing and discussing such a meta-model of inter-organisational cooperation. The present study is therefore based on the analysis of three cases from an equal number of industries, from which we identified factors of potential impact for the stimulation of cooperation in a circular economy perspective. Last, but not least, we discuss the relations between the case studies and try to formulate all possible implications for both managers and research.
Alessandro Ruggieri; Alessio Maria Braccini; Stefano Poponi; Enrico Maria Mosconi. A Meta-Model of Inter-Organisational Cooperation for the Transition to a Circular Economy. Sustainability 2016, 8, 1153 .
AMA StyleAlessandro Ruggieri, Alessio Maria Braccini, Stefano Poponi, Enrico Maria Mosconi. A Meta-Model of Inter-Organisational Cooperation for the Transition to a Circular Economy. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (11):1153.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessandro Ruggieri; Alessio Maria Braccini; Stefano Poponi; Enrico Maria Mosconi. 2016. "A Meta-Model of Inter-Organisational Cooperation for the Transition to a Circular Economy." Sustainability 8, no. 11: 1153.
With the objective of studying the influence of technology on digital natives’ behaviour in professional context focusing on trust and control dynamics, this paper presents the design of an experiment for providing first laboratory data on this topic. After the introduction of the theoretical background for both digital natives and trust, we present the experiment designed by formalizing a one-shot modified trust game in which both trust and control dynamics between two players can be observed. The data gathered through the preliminary experiment sections are analysed in order to answer basic research questions concerning the investigation of potential differences in trust and control dynamics in homogeneous (all composed by digital natives or digital immigrants) and heterogeneous groups (composed by one digital native and one digital immigrants).
Alessio Maria Braccini; Francesca Marzo. Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Behaviour in Trust Choices: An Experimental Study on Social Trust Attitudes and Cognition. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities 2016, 103 -115.
AMA StyleAlessio Maria Braccini, Francesca Marzo. Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Behaviour in Trust Choices: An Experimental Study on Social Trust Attitudes and Cognition. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities. 2016; ():103-115.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessio Maria Braccini; Francesca Marzo. 2016. "Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Behaviour in Trust Choices: An Experimental Study on Social Trust Attitudes and Cognition." Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities , no. : 103-115.
Scholars have been increasingly studying Online Communities (OCs) for a variety of purposes, focusing on issues like individual motivation, knowledge sharing, and governance structure. Few studies focused on the entanglement among technology, people, and organizational structures that support working dynamics within OCs. This paper addresses this issue by exploring causal mechanisms sustaining the collective actions of OCs through a retroduction process. Based on the study of the OC of an Italian political movement, the Five Star Movement, the concept of affordance is involved to describe the generative mechanisms and new affordances are identified on collective action within OCs. Our work contributes to a deeper understanding of the OCs phenomenon, explaining how the different components (people, technology, and organization) interact within a specific mechanism to achieve a specific result.
Alessio Maria Braccini; Tommaso Federici; Øystein Sæbø. Exploring Collective Action Dynamics in Online Communities from a Critical Realist Perspective. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities 2016, 271 -282.
AMA StyleAlessio Maria Braccini, Tommaso Federici, Øystein Sæbø. Exploring Collective Action Dynamics in Online Communities from a Critical Realist Perspective. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities. 2016; ():271-282.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessio Maria Braccini; Tommaso Federici; Øystein Sæbø. 2016. "Exploring Collective Action Dynamics in Online Communities from a Critical Realist Perspective." Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities , no. : 271-282.
This paper presents the design of an experiment to investigate digital natives and digital immigrants trust and control behavior in teams. The paper discusses the theoretical background for both digital natives, and trust. The design of the experiment is motivated by the fact that in order to improve digital natives studies empirical investigations are required by the literature. The experiment designed is a formalization of a one-shot modified trust game in which both trust and control dynamics between two players can be observed. The idea is to use data gathered through several experiments executions to investigate potential differences in trust and control dynamics in homogeneous groups (all composed by digital natives trustors and trustees or digital immigrants trustors and trustees) and heterogeneous groups (all composed by a digital native trustor non digital native trustee or the opposite).
Francesca Marzo; Alessio Maria Braccini. Information, Technology, and Trust: A Cognitive Approach to Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Studies. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities 2015, 147 -159.
AMA StyleFrancesca Marzo, Alessio Maria Braccini. Information, Technology, and Trust: A Cognitive Approach to Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Studies. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities. 2015; ():147-159.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesca Marzo; Alessio Maria Braccini. 2015. "Information, Technology, and Trust: A Cognitive Approach to Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Studies." Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities , no. : 147-159.
The socio-technical approach to the study of the relations between people and technology in organizations has a long standing tradition in the managerial research. The increased adoption of information and communication technologies in organizations contributed to offer new empowerment opportunities for organizations, as well as opened new avenues for research. ICTs offer different, peculiar, organizational and individual affordances if compared to process technologies. ICTs are also continuously evolving at a quick pace. As a result the literature has seen, throughout the years, the growth and the evolution of different conceptualizations of the socio-technical relationship between technology and organization. On this specific topic this book contains a selection of the best papers presented and accepted at the XI edition of the ItAIS conference, held in Genova in November 2014. Papers included in the books discuss the role of empowerment potential for organization of IT artifacts and IT platforms, providing the results of cutting-edge research projects in the Italian and international scientific community.
Teresina Torre; Alessio Maria Braccini; Riccardo Spinelli. Introduction. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities 2015, 1 -11.
AMA StyleTeresina Torre, Alessio Maria Braccini, Riccardo Spinelli. Introduction. Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities. 2015; ():1-11.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTeresina Torre; Alessio Maria Braccini; Riccardo Spinelli. 2015. "Introduction." Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities , no. : 1-11.
Tommaso Federici; Alessio Maria Braccini; Øystein Sæbø. ‘Gentlemen, all aboard!’ ICT and party politics: Reflections from a Mass-eParticipation experience. Government Information Quarterly 2015, 32, 287 -298.
AMA StyleTommaso Federici, Alessio Maria Braccini, Øystein Sæbø. ‘Gentlemen, all aboard!’ ICT and party politics: Reflections from a Mass-eParticipation experience. Government Information Quarterly. 2015; 32 (3):287-298.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTommaso Federici; Alessio Maria Braccini; Øystein Sæbø. 2015. "‘Gentlemen, all aboard!’ ICT and party politics: Reflections from a Mass-eParticipation experience." Government Information Quarterly 32, no. 3: 287-298.