Sub-theme 45: Redesigning a Digitalized and Sustainable Public Sector: A Crossroad between HRM, Changing Mindset, and Sources of Knowledge

Convenors:
Andrea Tomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Manuela Barreca, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Manuel Castriotta, University of Cagliari, Italy
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 09:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 10:30 to 10:45
Paulina Ekendahl, Izabelle bäckström and Andreas Norrman
Comparing three change initiatives: A critical discourse analysis of change management processes at a Swedish government authority
Ludovica Del Barone, Alessandro Hinna, Rocco Palumbo, Filomena Buonocore, Concetta Metallo, Alessandro Hinna, Filomena Buonocore and Concetta Metallo
Socio-technical mechanisms shaping performance information use in central public administrations
Emilia Romeo and Nicola Capolupo
Strategic Human Resource Management Governance in Central Governments: A Configurational Analysis of HRM Delegation in OECD Countries
Roberta Romano, Simona Mormile, Gabriella Piscopo and Paola Adinolfi
Do AI-based HRM systems affect organizational well-being? Evidence from the Italian healthcare sector
Davide de Gennaro, Maria C. Annosi and Filomena Buonocore
Humanness as Organizational Work: How Managers Enact Judgment, Accountability, and Care in AI-Supported Decision Environments
Ilaria Falvo and Benedetto Lepori
Governing What Is Already Adopted: Three Universities in the Face of Generative AI
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 17:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Marcus Nikolay Vatne and Vibeke Vatne
Middle managers’ perceived leeway for sustainable leadership through health-promoting workplaces: A case study of a Norwegian public welfare organization
Junhyung Byun, Massimo Maoret and Ricard Gil
Revolving door non-profits: The impacts of cross-sector leadership on non-profit’s financial performance
CHARALAMPOS CHRYSOMALLIDIS, Paris Chrysos and Constantinos - Symeon Nisiotis
Do socioeconomic factors affect project coordinators’ orchestration styles? Evidence from the Digital Europe Programme
Faddia Aljhany
Navigating complexity: How digital systems and social networks co-shape leadership succession in Saudi universities.
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 09:00 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 10:30 to 10:45
Marta Ingaggiati, Martina Pisarra, Adina Dudau and Giovanni Barbato
The paradox of co-production: between the bright and dark side of co-assessment
Luiza Jardim and Eduardo H. Diniz
Organizing participation in a digitalized public sector: Affordances, constraints, and the redesign of participatory governance
Sébastien Damart and Maria Eugenia Heyaca
The best of both worlds: Paradoxical tensions in the digital transformation of public bureaucracies
Meytal Masuri, Zehavit Levitats and Dana Vashdi
Sustainable Employability of Public Servants: Preliminary Findings and the Path Forward
Andrés Salas-Vallina, Juani Swart and Alma Rodríguez-Sánchez
Toward a theory of work enchantment
RAKHI GUPTA
redesigning hrm in a digitalized and sustainable public sector: a more-than-human perspective on employee well-being, knowledge practices and mindset change
Marcel Patalon
Coordinating the More-than-Human: Vocabulary-Based Sensemaking and Semantic Enactment in Municipal Digital Transformation
Manuel Castriotta, Michela Loi and Francesca Chiara Serri
Wayfaring Knowledge: Walking, Orienteering, and Nomadic Organizing in Academia
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 17:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Frédéric Naedenoen and François Pichault
Local managers and digital monitoring of alternative workers: an exploratory study in a public broadcasting company
Daniela Aliberti and Lucio Todisco
Bright and dark sides of hybrid work models in the public sector: a social symbolic perspective from the Italian context
Lucio Todisco, Andrea Tomo, Gianluigi Mangia and Paolo Canonico
The future of remote working in the public sector: organizational flexibility and its relationship with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Andrea Tomo, Lucio Todisco, Gianluigi Mangia and Paolo Canonico
Remote work, technology and work meaningfulness in the public sector
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 08:00 to 12:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)