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Investigating Digital Public Administration and Organizational Change in a Knowledge Translation Perspective

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Towards Digital and Sustainable Organisations (ItAIS 2022)

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The paper responds to the call to shed more light on the knowledge transfer and knowledge translation related to digital transformation process in a public domain. Our research has considered a digital transformation project triggered by the introduction of the Telematics Civil Process in the Italian final court of appeal. We show that the project of change itself may act as a knowledge translation mechanism. The project is interpreted as the interactional space where different players share the framework and develop a common language. This means that both project, as coordination mechanism, and project tools themselves have the potential to become a “place” where participants may effectively enhance knowledge translation, sharing and translating their expertise, adopting a framework and developing a common ground.

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  1. University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Paolo Canonico

  2. University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

    Ernesto De Nito

  3. University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy

    Vincenza Esposito

  4. University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Capua, Italy

    Marcello Martinez & Mario Pezzillo Iacono

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  1. Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Milano, Italy

    Alessandra Lazazzara

  2. Department of Law, Economics and Sociology, Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

    Rocco Reina

  3. Department of Management and Business Administration, University "G. d'Annunzio", Pescara, Italy

    Stefano Za

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Canonico, P., De Nito, E., Esposito, V., Martinez, M., Pezzillo Iacono, M. (2024). Investigating Digital Public Administration and Organizational Change in a Knowledge Translation Perspective. In: Lazazzara, A., Reina, R., Za, S. (eds) Towards Digital and Sustainable Organisations. ItAIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 65. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52880-4_6

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