The purpose of IFKAD 2021 is to understand the role of managing knowledge to support organisations to navigate uncertain times. The scale and variety of disruptions affecting businesses are unprecedented and astounding. Disruptions and overlapping crises threaten the working mechanisms of socio-cultural and economic-production ecosystems, and organisational systems are challenged to understand how they can be sustainable, keep moving forward and growing. The current coronavirus pandemic has brought to the fore a new level of uncertainty and poses difficult and even unprecedented challenges for the sustain­ability of organisations and communities.
During uncertain times organisational business models and traditional working mechanisms are at stake, and organisations must develop strategies and implement management initiatives to respond to the waves of disruptions impacting on their businesses.
The understanding of the strategies, projects and tools to manage the knowledge to navigate uncertain times is essential for survival and sustainability of any private, public and social organisation. The capacity of creating, employing and deploying knowledge is critical to protect the business and to guarantee that organisations can continuously contribute to the value creation dynamics of stakeholders’ wealth creation.

• Knowledge-based frameworks and approaches for leading organisations in uncertain times
• Knowledge management for organisations’ resilience
• Remote working reframing the productivity of knowledge-based organisations
• Lessons and insights from managing crises
• Creating and translating knowledge into action in uncertain times
• Characteristics of intelligent data system helping to cope with the updated information to inform decision-makers
• Features of a knowledge management system to support organisations in navigating uncertain times
• New technologies to create and share knowledge to manage the risks.
• Develop knowledge management system supporting rapid product and service prototyping
• Understanding how to prevent and react to waves of disruption
• Managing organisations’ strategic knowledge assets to navigate through a crisis
• Assessing the most valuable intellectual capital dimensions to handle uncertain times
• Managing infodemic
• Knowledge management and change management
• Managing knowledge for open innovation
• Knowledge and new technologies for business model innovation
• Knowledge value drivers and knowledge management processes: new theories and practices;
• Knowledge management systems, ICT and digitalisation;
• Inter-organisational knowledge dynamics;
• Human resources management, collective intelligence and organisational design;
• Arts-based management approaches and tools for knowledge management and organisational development in the digital era;
• Design thinking methods for innovation and knowledge creation and visualisation;
• Knowledge management and Intellectual Capital-based models for the sustainable and inclusive development of regions and cities;
• Knowledge management and social innovation;

Diversity Management in Times of Crises: Implications for Diversity Management from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Organizers
Petia Genkova | University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany
Henrik Schreiber | University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany

Knowledge to Managing Finance Strategies during Unplanned Events
Organizers
Giuseppe Modaffari | Niccolò Cusano University of Rome, Italy
Niccolò Paoloni | Roma Tre University, Italy
Gaetano della Corte | La Sapienza University, Italy

Knowledge Management and its Role for Addressing Present and Future Societal Challenges
Organizers
Susanne Durst | Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Malgorzata Zieba | Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Circular Economy: the Role of Enabling Factors in Fostering the Transition and Facing the Adoption Hurdles Challenges
Organizers
Davide Chiaroni | Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
Ilaria Giannoccaro | Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Luca Fraccascia | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and University of Twente, Netherlands

Digital Platforms: Challenges and Opportunities for Entrepreneurs
Organizers
Ciro Troise | University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Mario Sorrentino | University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Leon Schjoedt | Babson College, USA

Digital Transformation & Knowledge Management System in Healthcare and Medicine in Uncertain Times: Trends and Future Challenges
Organizers
Francesca Dal Mas | University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Lorenzo Cobianchi | University of Pavia, Italy
Giustina Secundo | University of Salento, Italy
Maria José Sousa | ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Pierluigi Rippa | University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Aesthetic Dimensions of Knowledge: Understanding and Communicating Quality in Arts and Cultural Organizations
Organizers
Francesco Chiaravalloti | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Martin Piber | University of Innsbruck, Austria

Disclosing the Impact of Digitalization at Individual, Organizational, and Ecosystem Levels
Organizers
Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli | Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Gianluca Murgia | University of Siena, Italy
Adele Parmentola | University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

The Agro-Food Sector’ Resilience in the Covid-19 Era
Organizers
Antonietta Cosentino | University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Giorgia Mattei | University of Roma 3, Italy

Managing Knowledge in Complex Organizations and Networks
Organizers
Barbara Bigliardi | University of Parma, Italy
Giovanna Ferraro | University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Alessia Naccarato | University of Roma Tre, Italy
Cristina Ponsiglione | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Linda Ponta | Università Carlo Cattaneo LIUC, Italy

Managing Projects in Uncertain Times: Leveraging and Integrating Knowledge in Private and Public Settings
Organizers
Paolo Canonico | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Ernesto De Nito | University of Salerno, Italy
Alessandro Hinna | University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Antonio Bassi | University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Italian Switzerland, Switzerland
Anna-Maija Nisula | LUT University, Finland

Managing Knowledge for Value Creation, Innovation and Inclusion within Smart and Sustainable Communities and Organisations
Organizers
Mauro Romanelli | University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Alexandra Zbuchea | National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania
Gabriele Palozzi | University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

City Management in Uncertain Times
Organizers
Paola Dameri | University of Genoa, Italy
Paola Demartini | University of Rome Tre, Italy
Francesca Manes Rossi | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Sara Moggi | University of Verona, Italy
Martin Piber | University of Innsbruck, Austria

Working from Home and the Challenges to Knowledge Workers
Organizers
Ettore Bolisani | DTG University of Padova, Italy
Enrico Scarso | DTG University of Padova, Italy

Rethinking Health Care Systems after the COVID-19 Pandemic: New Challenges and Opportunities
Organizers
Lara Agostini | University of Padova, Italy
Lorella Cannavacciuolo | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Emanuela Foglia | LIUC University Cattaneo, Italy
Rossella Onofrio | Politecnico of Milan, Italy
Carmela Piccolo | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Alessandro Stefanini | University of Pisa, Italy

Managing Knowledge in Circular Economy during Uncertain Times
Organizers
Salvatore Ammirato | University of Calabria, Italy
Alberto Michele Felicetti | University of Calabria, Italy
Antonio Violi | University of Sannio at Benevento, Italy
Giacomo Falcone | Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Massimiliano Ferrara | Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

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