Research lines

The project investigates the complex relationship between people – considered in both their individual and social dimensions – and digital technologies, according to three main research lines.

The three areas cover in a complementary and synergistic way the different levels in which the person-technology relationship influences the key characteristics of industrial systems, i.e., the development of technology and its adoption in the transformation processes of organisational systems and in the reconfiguration of work systems.

Human-centred digital technology development models and processes

The goal is to support the development of theories, models, tools and processes capable to integrate the human dimension into managerial practices of technological development with the aim of steering digital technologies toward the well-being of individuals and society.

These are the main research topics:

Models and approaches aimed at introducing a person-centred perspective into innovation processes to contribute to people's well-being and respond to today's social challenges.
Funding human-centred innovation.
Innovation, competition, and industrial dynamics for collective well-being

Poster - 2024

1. From physical to digital: The process for the digital preservation and valorization of corporate heritage

2. Funding human-centred innovation

3. Purpose-driven entrepreneurial strategy: human-centered digital business model design, innovation and validation

4. Open Innovation Lookout: Human-Centric Perspectives on Innovation Management

5. Platform Thinking

6. Purpose and the Tradition-Innovation Paradox in Family Business in the AI Era

7. The impact of immersive technologies in marketing to foster sustainable consumption

8. DTB24: Designing and Generative AI

9. DTB25: Design for Transforming Organizational Systems

10. FUT24 | Human Wellbeing in the Era of Intelligent Technologies (2035)

11. FUT25 | Learning, Reflecting, and Imagining in the Generative Technologies Era (2035)

12. Purpose-driven, human capabilities for strategic reinvention

13. Unveiling AI-driven service innovation in retail through Causal Layered Analysis

14. ActivE3: Everyone, Everywhere, Everyday

15. Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Change in Higher Education: Navigating Polyphonic Narratives

16. Branding in the metaverse: A crosscultural study of Gen Z’s attitudes towards brand experiences in virtual worlds

17. Chatlearn - Personalized project management learning with chatbots

18. Job Polarisation, Labour Market Fluidity and the Flattening of the Phillips Curve

19. SETS - Social Economy Transition Skills

20. Artificial Intelligence and Investment Decisions in Digital Finance

21. Biometric measurement of human attention toward advertising in audiovisual contexts

22. Cultural participation in transition: traditional and emerging forms of culture and the role of smartphones

23. Development of human-centred metrics for evaluating advertising effectiveness

24. Digital finance, the democratization of entrepreneurial finance and inclusive growth

5. Doing sustainability in the metaverse? Metaphors of (im)materiality in sustainability reporting by Italian fashion companies

26. Unrevealing the relationship between AI science and market: a global graph-based analysis

Poster - 2023

1. A managerial view on strategic renewal and resilience through purpose

2. ActivE3

3. ChatLearn

4. Design and Generative AI

5. Driving Performance?

6. Do female entrepreneurs prefer female business angels?

7. Empirical application of AI to Project Managment

8. From Screen to Scene

9. FUTURES | Sense Making by System Thinking

10. IDeaLs

11. Job Polarisation, Labour Market Fluidity and the Flattening of the Phillips Curve

12. Making the old new again

13. Mapping the landscape of metaverse initiatives sustainability and “Made in Italy”

14. Platform Thinking

15. Social Care

16. Stereotype contents about academic scientists

17. The analysis and redesign of the HR Department of an Italian governmental agency: inspiring success in people through people

18. Unlocking start-ups' and SMEs' full potential: the role of resources and their redeployment

Resilient and sustainable production, logistics and supply chain processes, enabled by digital technologies

The line aims to study the role and impact of digital innovation in the development of industrial systems and supply chains oriented towards personal and collective wellbeing, especially through an enhancement of regenerative and resilience capacities.

These are the main research topics:

Collaborative and distributed manufacturing models enabled by digital platforms.
Models and methods for configuring and managing regenerative and resilient industrial supply chains.

Poster - 2024

27. Collaborative business model innovation to enable small farmers' access to smart farming technologies

28. New smart energy-related ecosystems enabled by digital technologies

29. Business models and supply chains design enabling circular economy

30. Investigating the impact of Additive Manufacturing (AM) on Supply Chain (SC) design, strategy and performance

31. Navigating a turbulent world: Digital Technologies and Strategic Relocations in de-risking international business operations

32. Sustainable Urban Futures: The Role of Urban Production Ecosystems

33. Manufacturing As A Service to Increase Resilience in Value Networks ( MAASive )

34. Manufacturing As A Service to Increase Resilience in Value Networks ( MAASive )

35. AI4OPEX

36. Human factor and human well-being in operations management

37. HAIFAIV | Human centricity and AI for cobot maintenance

38. METABRAKE

39. Immersive technologies for business innovation: Unlocking the potential of the industrial metaverse

40. Total Interpretive Structural Modelling of UAV Adoption in Middle- and Last-Mile Logistics: A Sociotechnical Systems Perspective

41. The impact of AI in buyer-supplier negotiation: experimental insights on human-AI interaction

42. The support of AI in the procurement process: Focus on Supply Chain Risk Management and Buyer-Supplier Negotiation

43. Towards human-centric and sustainable Warehousing: a Logistics 5.0 perspective

44. Path planning for robots in a shared warehouse environment

45. Lean Marketing and its implications on Supply Chain Management

46. Supply Chain Automation

Poster - 2023

19. AI in the procurement process

20. AI4Opex

21. Assessing the Influence of Digital Technologies on International Exposure in an Era of Uncertainty

22. Circular Economy

23. Human-centricity in e-commerce logistics

24. Immersive tech assimilation

25. Industrial Metaverse shaping a new playground for factories of the future.

26. Reinforcing the human-centered twin transition through resilient and sustainable next shoring strategy

27. Circular Manufacturing Mastery

28. Start-up database agrifood sector

29. Supply Chain Automation

30. The impact of Additive Manufacturing on Supply Chain Management

31. UAVs’ Influencing Factors Adoption to Middle- and Last-Mile Logistics

Digital-enabled, human-centred organisational models and work systems

This line aims to develop new joint technology-organisation, technology-job, technology-work-system design approaches oriented at improving not only economic but also social performance through a better understanding of the impacts of digital technologies on people, including behavioral, cognitive and psycho-physical aspects.

These are the main research themes:

Digital technologies and new person-centred organisational and work models.
Person-centered digital factory model.
Digital technologies and models for the development of new skills, inclusion and diversity management.

Poster - 2024

47. DE4HUMAN - Developing design driven innovation skills for human centered manufacturing system

48. Examining the Impact of AI capabilities and the Mediating Role of Organizational Agility on Project Value Proposition

49. Rethinking cognitive ergonomics in complex conditions of Human-Robot Collaboration

50. Integrating External Insights into Megaproject Forecasting: The C-BA Method and Its Application Using Unsupervised Machine

51. The Hierarchy of AI-Based and NON-AI-BASED SMEs

52. AI2: Augmenting (the Human Side of) Innovation through Artificial Intelligence

53. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Italian job market in 2024

54. Exploring the adoption and workforce impacts of Intelligent Process Automation in Italian Organizations

55. IDeaLs - Innovation and Design as Leadership

56. Transforming Cultural Heritage Skills with Generative AI

57. Scientists and Society: A Gendered Relationship

58. Unlocking start ups' and SMEs' full potential: the role of resources and their redeployment

59. Academics working on-campus and off-campus: the role of the workspace in ensuring diversity and inclusion at work

60. Exploring Workplace Flexibility: Expanding Practices to Frontline Roles and Balancing WellBeing and Performance in Hybrid Work Contexts

61. The analysis and redesign of the HR Department of an Italian governmental agency

62. Human Resource Analytics: an evidence-based approach to support human resource management

Poster - 2023

32. Artificial Intelligence

33. Academics working off-campus

34. Assessing the impact of digital tools for the monitoring and control of construction projects on workers An artifact proposal

35. Cognitive Ergonomics for Human-Robot Collaboration in Smart Factory

36. Collaboratively exploring new ways of working: overcoming the tradeoffs between (and within) wellbeing and performance in hybrid working settings

37. DE4HUMAN

38. Digital Ergonomic Risk Assessment

39. Digital solutions for workplace’s safety

40. Digitization and the inclusiveness of entrepreneurial finance

41. Extended reality in Human-Machine Collaboration

42. From the lab to the real world

43. Human Resource Analytics: an evidence-based approach to Human Resource Management

44. Prioritization, workload and driver performance

45. Smart Working Observatory