Papers by cristina ponsiglione
Journal of Simulation, Jul 25, 2023
Scientific Reports
The study aims at defining the factors affecting the clinicians’ decision of changing or confirmi... more The study aims at defining the factors affecting the clinicians’ decision of changing or confirming the treatment options for frail patients in polytherapy, supporting prescribing patterns, thus also figuring out if the inclination of the clinicians towards digital solutions (INTERCheckWEB) and specific guidelines, could play a role in their decision. A literature review was performed, revealing the main individual, organizational and decisional factors, impacting on the clinicians’ propensity to change the current patients’ therapy: the clinician perceptions of support in case of clinical guidelines use or INTERCheckWEB use were studied. A qualitative approach was implemented, and thirty-five clinicians completed a questionnaire, aimed at evaluating fifteen different clinical cases, defining if they would change the patient’s current therapy depending on the level of information received. Three methodological approaches were implemented. (1) Bivariate correlations to test the relat...
collective cognition's contribution to management research and theorising, 2005
Digital Era and Fuzzy Applications in Management and Economy, 2022
R&D management conference, 2005
The aim of this paper is to investigate the implementation of a Regional Innovation System (RIS) ... more The aim of this paper is to investigate the implementation of a Regional Innovation System (RIS) in the Campania Region, an Italian Region characterized by a medium-low innovation capability. The paper focuses on a comparative analysis using the data of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2009 and the data about services provided by the most innovative Italian Regions. The paper states that low performances of Campania Region Innovation System (CRIS) are due to the lack of actors that act as Catalysts between researchers, which play the role of Explorers of knowledge, and entrepreneurs, which play the role of Exploiters. Furthermore, the paper suggests that it is necessary a strong action of the Regional policy maker (the Governor) to build an effective environment where such Catalysts can effectively develop. To this aim the local Regional government should establish an Agency for Innovation, which acts as a Governor to promote the birth and the growth of new actors and of new competencies needed to complete the CRIS.
In this work the authors present a methodology for elicitation and mapping of training needs of e... more In this work the authors present a methodology for elicitation and mapping of training needs of entrepreneurs in small firms through a competency-based approach. The methodology has been developed within the European research project SOLCO. The analysis of the entrepreneurial action is proposed as the starting point to construct the description of the entrepreneurial competencies. Entrepreneurial action is here intended as a cognitive process through which entrepreneurs perceive and enact menaces and opportunities arising from the context, and builds management solutions both of adaptive nature, as routines related to recurrent job situations, and of proactive nature, through strategic objectives and development plans characterised by various degree of explicitation and formalization.
Purpose – The objective of this study is to model and analyze the exploration-exploitation dynami... more Purpose – The objective of this study is to model and analyze the exploration-exploitation dynamics of March’s model of mutual learning in a complex environment. By enhancing the above mentioned model, the paper seeks to propose a new agent-based model of mutual learning within an organization. Design/methodology/approach – The paper replicates March’s model of simulating learning within an organization using an agent-based simulation approach, and extends it by modelling the problem space as a fitness landscape using Kauffman’s NK model technique. Findings – It was found that it is impossible to find a right balance between exploration and exploitation using the communication structure of March’s model. Practical implications – The proposed model could help create a virtual laboratory for experimenting organizations’ behavior in a complex co-evolving environment. This virtual laboratory may be used in the future to support the decision-making process of managers and policy makers. ...
This model is a computational agent-based laboratory, implemented in Netlogo language. The file (... more This model is a computational agent-based laboratory, implemented in Netlogo language. The file (.nlogo extension) includes the model interface, an information guide, and the code. The model can be simulated using different configurations of model's parameters through Netlogo 5.3.1
Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2011
The aim of the paper is to propose a methodology to compute the cost of competencies involved in ... more The aim of the paper is to propose a methodology to compute the cost of competencies involved in critical organizational processes. We present a costing model for the assessment of competencies integrating a cost technique, Activity Based-Costing (ABC), with a Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The proposed model has been tested in a small manufacturing firm operating in the packaging sector and the first results are reported. The main contribution of the work concerns the development of a costing model useful for managers to acquire awareness about the role of competencies in the activation of critical processes, and consequently, triggering learning processes. Furthermore, the evaluation of the costs of competencies can be used to make a more careful analysis of the cost/benefits ratio associated to an investment in intangible assets than the ones performed by other methods available in the literature that are unbalanced toward the evaluation of benefits.
International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, 2019
The objective of the paper is to present the use of the March model on exploration and exploitati... more The objective of the paper is to present the use of the March model on exploration and exploitation in organisational learning (1991) as a virtual laboratory of organisational design. The virtual laboratory, named CLOD (Computational Laboratory of Organisational Design), will be devoted to exploring the behaviour of organisational learning and evaluation systems under different external and internal conditions. The contribution of the paper would be twofold: firstly, the cellular automata model of March is transposed in an agent-based environment and then extended to be used as a virtual lab supporting organisational design; secondly, a fuzzy version of the model is proposed in order to analyse, through generative experiments, the differences between crisp and fuzzy organisational learning approaches to environmental complexity.
Measuring Business Excellence, 2018
PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the performances of decision-making process of emergency de... more PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the performances of decision-making process of emergency department’s nurses involved in the triage level assessment.Design/methodology/approachThe authors developed a case study in two public hospitals in the South of Italy. The authors administered 25 clinical cases to nurses responsible of priority code assignment in the triage station. The authors simulated the attribution of the priority levels, and through a semi-structured questionnaire, the authors collected data and information about the cognitive process adopted for the final choice.FindingsThe quantitative and qualitative data allowed the authors to verify that there is an impact of the organizational context on heuristics used in the decision-making process.Research limitations/implicationsThe research limitations are that empirical data have been collected only in two emergency departments.Practical implicationsThe practical implications of this paper are that organizations for impr...
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