Celebrating Impact: The Research and Scholarship of President Katia Passerini: Books

Are business schools on the wrong track? For many years, business schools enjoyed rising enrollments, positive media attention, and growing prestige in the business world. However, due to the disruption of Covid-19, many previously ignored issues relating to MBA programs resurfaced. As a result, MBA programs now face lower enrollments and intense criticism for being deficient in preparing future business leaders and ignoring essential topics like ethics, sustainability, and diversity and inclusion. The Future of Business Schoolsdiscusses these issues in the context of three critical areas: complexity, sustainability, and destiny. How do we prepare students for a new and complex world, how can business schools focus on the planet's sustainability, and how will they shape a better future for everyone? The chapters present views and suggestions of business school professors, researchers, and leaders from different contexts and countries as well as ideas for business school stakeholders, on topics from program structures, course content, and teaching materials to research topics. In addition to examples of innovations, there are tools offered to help universities navigate complexity and prepare for uncertainty. The material will assist business school faculty, staff, and administrators as well as professionals, policymakers, and organizations in identifying new directions for business schools in this evolving field.

Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise provides an overview of how small and medium business enterprises (SMEs) can use flexibility, agility, and anticipation strategies to better utilize information technology and knowledge management. Because small and medium businesses tend to be late technology adopters, they could miss versatile and strategic workforce advantages that enable them to achieve higher efficiency and effectiveness through technology. This book shows these SMEs new technology trends that can transform the nature of their operations both in an evolutionary business path and through revolutionary opportunities. Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise applied correctly to small and medium business can be used as a strategic tool to reach growth and profit goals for the SMEs competing in a very dynamic and global marketplace. Examples include: identifying ways that IT can be used to develop strong relationships with customers and suppliers, and how to select the best technologies for business needs. Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise targets SME owners, educators, and practitioners working in the related fields of management, IT, IS, and CS-related disciplines. Advanced-level students and policy makers focusing on SMEs will also find this book valuable in terms of main concepts for discussion.

Dr. Passerini published her first monograph, "Business Restructuring: Strategies for Management of Personnel Redundancies" in 1995 with Lombardi Editor in Rome.

Chapter titled "What do my customers really want? Pivoting digital technology and business models in emergency response management" with C. Bandera.

Chapter titled "Sample Pathways and Persisting Challenges Along the Digital Transformation of Universities: Internal and External Influences" with M. Juszczak.

Chapter titled: "Post-COVID-19 future of hybrid education: internationalization, inclusion, opportunities" with M.K. Naatus, K. Pon, and M. Somers.

Chapter titled "Connecting knowledge management and entrepreneurship: Processes and technology" with C. Bandera and M. Bartolacci.

Chapter titled "Knowledge Management and Entrepreneurship Research and Practice: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities" with C. Bandera and M.R. Bartolacci.

Chapter titled "Cross-cultural entrepreneurship education: localization amidst globalization" with C. Bandera, A. Eminet, and K. Pon.

Chapter titled "Legal Issues in the Transition to Electronic Records in Health Care," with D. Walsh, U Varshney, and J. Fjermestad.

Chapter titled "Selecting the Right Knowledge Management Tools: Software Trends and Key Evaluation Criteria" with G. Balmisse and G. Meingan.

Chapter titled "Evaluating Learning Management Systems".

Chapter titled "Understanding Gender Discrimination in Information Systems: A Review" with L. Ghoshal.

Chapter titled "Achieving University-Wide Instructional Technology Literacy: Examples of Development Programs and Their Effectiveness" with K. Cakici.

Chapter titled "The Implementation of an Executive Reporting System Using Top-down Performance Systems Development" with M. Granger and K. Cakici.

Chapter titled "Web-Based Instruction in Organizations: Impact, Advantages and Disadvantages" with M.J. Granger and K. Cakici.

Chapter titled "Integration of Instructional Approaches through Media Combination in an Undergraduate Information Systems Course" with M.J. Granger.