The purpose of IFKAD 2022 is to understand the knowledge drivers affecting the organization’s capacity for resilience and transformation.
Today, companies live in a complex business landscape that requires them to be more resilient, imaginative, intuitive, and flexible. Organizations are challenged to face the increasing complexity, turbulence, unpredictability, and competitive environment change. Many different forces and trends (re)shape the new business landscape, and the fast-evolving (digital) technologies and sustainable challenges are forcing breakthrough and disruptive innovations. To survive and prosper, organizations must transform businesses and behaviours to respond to the business landscape’s evolution, translating challenges into development and growth opportunities. Indeed, the current business landscape is characterized by continuous digital and sustainable transformational challenges. In this perspective, both private and public organizations need to generate, manage and exploit tacit, explicit and practical knowledge to drive and sustain transformation and stay competitive. Many different factors affect the creation of a transformational culture and make an organization resilient. In particular, the knowledge and intellectual capital assets represent critical drivers to catalyze, facilitate e support the development of an organizational transformative capacity and resilience.
At the 17th edition of IFKAD, we wish to extend our theories, findings, and business discourses about the nature, characteristics, and dynamics of knowledge drivers defining an organization’s capacity to embrace and govern digital and sustainable transformation and make organizations resilient. We aim to understand how knowledge management can support organizations to become resilient and transformative for sustainable organizational value creation capacity.

• Knowledge-based frameworks and approaches for organizational resilience
• Knowledge management and transformative organisations
• Managing knowledge assets for digital transformation
• Remote working re-framing 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 sustainability
• 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 VUCA business landscape
• 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;

Jazz and Management: Jazz as a Metaphor for the Management of the Third Millennium
Organizers
Luca D’Elia | SUPSI, Italy

Investment in Knowledge in Developing European Economies (e.g. Western Balkan)
Organizers
Maja Bacovic | University of Montenegro, Montenegro
Nikola Milovic | University of Montenegro, Montenegro

Knowledge Acquisition at Risk – Transformation and Challenges of Learning in the Age of Information
Organizers
Zlatkin Troitschanskaia | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Jennifer Fischer | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Mita Banerjee | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Marcus Maurer | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Christian Schemer | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Managing Knowledge Networks
Organizers
Giuseppe Cappiello | Università di Bologna, Italy
Rodolfo Baggio | Università Bocconi, Italy

Knowledge Management for Challenging Strategies to Enhance Inner Areas and Fragile Contexts
Organizers
Diana Rolando | Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Manuela Rebaudengo | Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Alice Barreca | Politecnico di Torino, Italy

New Technologies and Entrepreneurship
Organizers
Ciro Troise | University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Elena Candelo | University of Turin, Italy
Gabriele Baima | University of Turin, Italy
John Dinsmore | Wright State University, U.S.

Resilience in Managing Financial Strategies during Uncertain Times
Organizers
Giuseppe Modaffari |La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Niccolò Paoloni | Roma Tre University, Italy
Valentina Santolamazza | Roma Tre University, Italy

Management of Knowledge-Intensive Business Processes
Organizers
Mikhail Monashev | Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Michal Krčál | Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Bouncing Back or Bouncing Forward? The Role of Knowledge from Absorptive to Transformative Resilience
Organizers
Cristina Simone | Sapienza University of Rome Italy
Francesca Iandolo | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Antonio La Sala | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

KM and the Green Transformation – Or the Need for a Responsible and Inclusive Approach to KM
Organizers
Susanne Durst | Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Wolfgang Gerstlberger | Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Malgorzata Zieba | Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Stakeholder Engagement as Source of Knowledge
Organizers
Mario Tani | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Gianpaolo Basile | University Mercatorum, Italy
Mohamed Gheith | Mansoura University, Egypt
Anna Prisco | University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Innovation Systems to Support Sustainable and Resilient Agrifood Supply Chains
Organizers
Pier Paolo Miglietta | University of Salento, Italy
Felice Adinolfi | Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy
Maria Grazia Gnoni | University of Salento, Italy
Giulio Paolo Agnusdei | University of Salento, Italy
Benedetta Coluccia | University of Salento, Italy
Yari Vecchio | Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy

Female Entrepreneurship’s Capacity for Resilience and Transformation
Organizers
Paola Paoloni | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Antonietta Cosentino | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Giorgia Mattei | University of Rome Tre, Italy
Martina Manzo | University of Rome Tre, Italy

Digitalization and Strategic Knowledge in Healthcare
Organizers
Krishna Venkitachalam | Estonian Business School, Estonia
Nina Helander | Tampere University, Finland

Sustainability of Innovation Ecosystem
Organizers
Marco Ferretti | University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Eva Panetti | University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Daniele Leone | University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Andrea Caporuscio | University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Maria Cristina Pietronudo | University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

Collective Wisdom and Participatory Knowledge for Urban and Regional Development
Organizers
Selena Aureli | University of Bologna, Italy
Mara Del Baldo | Roma Tre University, Italy
Paola Demartini | Roma Tre University, Italy
Lucia Marchegiani | Roma Tre University, Italy
Michela Marchiori | Roma Tre University, Italy
Martin Piber | University of Innsbruck, Austria

Driving Innovation within Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Organisations using Technology and Managing Knowledge
Organizers
Mauro Romanelli | University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Alexandra Zbuchea | National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania

Resilience and Transformation Addressed with a Complexity Approach
Organizers
Andrea Fronzetti Colladon | University of Perugia, Italy
Ilaria Giannoccaro | Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Cristina Ponsiglione | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Linda Ponta | Università Carlo Cattaneo LIUC, Italy

Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management in Healthcare
Organizers
Stefano Calciolari | University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Rocco Frondizi | University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Marco Meneguzzo | Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Francesco Saverio Mennini | University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

The Role of Projects for Organizational Resilience: Understanding Knowledge Integration in Complex Public and Private 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 | Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Anna-Maija Nisula | LUT University, Finland

Sustainability Innovation in Service Provision
Organizers
Marco Tregua | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Tiziana Russo Spena | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Cristina Mele | University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Francesco Bifulco | University of Naples Federico II, Italy

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