Management Decision: Volume 60 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Knowledge visualisation for strategic decision-making in the digital age

Giovanni Schiuma, Tatiana Gavrilova, Daniela Carlucci

Pandemic vulnerability knowledge visualisation for strategic decision-making: a COVID-19 index for government response in Australia

Tan Yigitcanlar, Nayomi Kankanamge, Tommi Inkinen, Luke Butler, Alexander Preston, Maqsood Rezayee, Palvinderjit Gill, Mahsan Ostadnia, Giuseppe Ioppolo, Mahanama Senevirathne

First, the key vulnerability factors from the literature are identified. Second, using the vulnerability factors as indicators, a composite index is developed. Last, from the…

Strategic visualization: the (real) usefulness of cognitive mapping in smart city conceptualization

Ana Luísa A. Vaz, Fernando A.F. Ferreira, Leandro F. Pereira, Ricardo J.C. Correia, Audrius Banaitis

The concept of smart city has recently become more topical in academic and policy discussions. This idea is considered a complex, non-consensual subject since its definition has…

Productivity dispersion in the Italian knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industry: a multilevel analysis

Domenico Campisi, Paolo Mancuso, Stefano Luigi Mastrodonato, Donato Morea

This paper aims to provide an analysis of the productivity evolution of a sample of 18,459 knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms operating in Italy over the period…

Competitive advantage of data-driven analytical capabilities: the role of big data visualization and of organizational agility

Mauricius Munhoz de Medeiros, Antônio Carlos Gastaud Maçada

In the digital age, the use of data and analytical capabilities to guide business decisions and operations plays a strategic role for organizations to gain competitive advantage…

Visual disclosure through integrated reporting

Giuseppe Nicolò, Alessandra Ricciardelli, Nicola Raimo, Filippo Vitolla

This study, based on stakeholder theory, aims to analyse the factors that can affect the level of visual disclosure in the context of integrated reporting (IR), which represents…

Meta-choices in ranking knowledge-based organizations

Cinzia Daraio, Gianpaolo Iazzolino, Domenico Laise, Ilda Maria Coniglio, Simone Di Leo

The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of knowledge visualization and its connection with performance measurement from an epistemological point of view, considering…

Knowledge management visualisation in regional innovation system collaborative decision-making

Marina Weck, Iris Humala, Pia Tamminen, Fernando A.F. Ferreira

This study was developed in response to the need to develop age-friendly smart living environments due to the complex demands placed on society by the ageing of the population…

Knowledge visualisation for construction procurement decision-making: a process innovation

Nan Zhao, Fei J. Ying, John Tookey

In the construction sector, the knowledge-based process outgrows its emphasis on technological aspects. Yet, there is a lack of applied studies showing how a procurement system…

The value of system dynamics' diagrams for business model innovation

Salvatore Ammirato, Roberto Linzalone, Alberto Michele Felicetti

System dynamics (SD) is emerging as a powerful approach to understand, analyse, simulate and predict complex and dynamic business processes. In particular, it is true in the…

Visualizing knowledge for decision-making in Lean Production Development settings. Insights from the automotive industry

Paolo Canonico, Ernesto De Nito, Vincenza Esposito, Gerarda Fattoruso, Mario Pezzillo Iacono, Gianluigi Mangia

The paper focuses on how knowledge visualization supports the development of a particular multiobjective decision-making problem as a portfolio optimization problem in the context…

Integrated knowledge visualization and the enterprise digital twin system for supporting strategic management decision

Min-Ren Yan, Lin-Ya Hong, Kim Warren

This paper proposes an integrated knowledge visualization and digital twin system for supporting strategic management decisions. The concepts and applications of strategic…

Exploring knowledge visualization in the digital age: an analysis of benefits and risks

Ciro Troise

The purpose of this paper is to explore the main benefits and risks of knowledge visualization in the current digital age.

A knowledge visualization approach to identify and discovery inner areas: a pilot application in the province of Lecce

Valentino Moretto, Gianluca Elia, Sara Schirinzi, Roberto Vizzi, Gianpaolo Ghiani

The paper aims to propose a knowledge visualization approach and algorithm to support public decision makers to define the inner areas, which represents a strategic topic in the…

Strategic decision making in project management: a knowledge visualization framework

Giustina Secundo, Gianluca Elia, Alessandro Margherita, Karl-Heinz Leitner

Managing a project involves taking a number of critical decisions that can have a crucial impact on the success or failure of the initiative. The analytical definition and…