The XVI edition of IFKAD on the theme of MANAGING KNOWLEDGE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES will be held in Rome (University of Rome Tre), Italy, 1-3 September 2021.

Our member, prof. Giovani Schiumma and his colleagues are delighted to announce the CALL FOR TRACK PROPOSALS

Deadline for track proposal submission: 30 November 2020.

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.
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.
 
For further information, please visit the IFKAD website - https://www.ifkad.org/

The President of the IAKM, prof. Constantin Bratianu invites all the IAKM Members to an online meeting organized by our member, prof. Alexeis Garcia-Perez from the Coventry University, UK, before the ECKM Conference.

All the members can join.  The meeing is on Tuesday 1 December at 2 p.m. BST.

Please find the details below:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://coventry-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/2151721934

Meeting ID: 215 172 1934

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Meeting ID: 215 172 1934

 See you on Tuesday!

Our members, prof. Giovanni Schiuma, University of Basilicata, prof. Tatiana Gavrilova, Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University and prof. Daniela Carlucci, University of Basilicata announce the call for papers for the special issue of the Management Decision journal, entitled: Knowledge Visualisation for Strategic Decision Making in the Digital Age. More details are available here: www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/md/knowledge-visualisation-strategic-decision-making-digital-age

Our member, prof. Eduardo Tome  announces TAKE 2021 Conference – Theory and Applications in the Knowledge Economy. It is a multidisciplinary conference on the intangibles which will hopefully take place between the 7th and 9th July 2021 in Portucalense University in Porto, Portugal. Following the events of the last months, TAKE 2021 has as the main topic “The Knowledge Economy in the Covid-19”. Submissions of long abstracts (about 1500 words) are welcome until December 14th 2021 for one of the 24 streams available. For more information, please check the webpage:   https://take-conference2021.com/ The team of TAKE 2021 waits for you in Porto in July 2021. 

The European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education (ISSN 2254-9625, indexed by ESCI) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Blockchain as a New Trigger in the Education Arena". Dr. Maria José Sousa (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Business Research Unit), Dr. Sónia P. Gonçalves (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), our member Dr. Francesca Dal Mas (University of Lincoln, UK) and Dr. Davide Calandra (University of Turin, Italy) are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. We think you could make an excellent contribution based on your expertise, and we would like our colleagues from the KM community to contribute to the Special Issue. Submission deadline is February 28th, 2021.
Please have a look at the Special issue website:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ejihpe/special_issues/blockchain_education

Our member, professor Eric Tsui and his research students were awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on E-Learning, 21-23rd July 2020. Their paper was titled "Use of Hybrid Classroom and Open Educational Resources: Experience gained from a Hong Kong university". Reviewers found this paper with many refreshing ideas and it is also very timely for universities to apply during the Covid-19 siege.

Our members, professors Aurora Martínez-Martínez, Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Anthony Wensley and Alexeis Garcia-Perez would like to inform about a call for papers for the conference IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions (IEEE ICTMOD). Their track is track 19: Sustainability and knowledge structures and it is chaired by them.

More information in this link: http://www.ciems.ma/conference/en/conference_tracks/

On 15.07.2020 prof. Constantin Bratianu delivered a webinar on Strategic Thinking to the master and doctoral students from the Faculty of Business, City University of Macau, China.

The 14th International Conference on Business Excellence (ICBE), organized by Faculty of Business Administration, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania and the Society of Business Excellence with the cooperation of the Romanian Academy, took place online on 11-12 June 2020. The present edition had in the Program 200 papers with contributors from 17 countries.  The members of the IAKM’s Board were invited to promote the knowledge management (KM) and its challenges for the complex business environment we live in. Professor Ettore Bolisani from Padua University, Italy was invited as a Guest Speaker in the plenary session where he presented the challenges of KM for the actual crisis generated by the COVID-19. As a Program Chair of the conference, professor Constantin Bratianu from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies organized a Workshop dedicated to KM. There were three majors topics discussed during that Workshop:

1. Learning and unlearning in organizations, presented by professor Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain and professor Anthony Wensley, Toronto University, Canada.
2. Knowledge risks and their impact on business performance, presented by professor Malgorzata Zieba, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.
3. Cybersecurity as a new philosophy in designing KM systems, presented by professor Alexeis Garcia Perez, University of Coventry, UK.

These excellent presentations created a stimulating atmosphere for debates, for all the 47 participants at this great event, which needed almost two hours and a half to cover the main ideas.

Finally, in the parallel session the conference organized a session of Knowledge Economy, where there were presented 15 papers, 5 of them being delivered by Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro & Ettore Bolisani, Malgorzata Zieba, Constantin Bratianu, Ruxandra Bejinaru and Alexandra Zbuchea, who are members of IAKM. In conclusion, IAKM members had an important contribution to this international event dedicated to business excellence.

Prof.Dr. Constantin Bratianu
Program Chair, International Conference on Business Excellence
President of IAKM

Our Board member, prof. Ettore Bolisani has been appointed as Management Committee member (in representation of Italy) of the INDCOR Cost Action "Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representations". There are cooperaton possibilities for KM researchers, so if anyone wants to join this group, please contact ettore.bolisani(at)unipd.it. More information is available at https://indcor.eu.