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Ridit Publications 2021: Digital and Sustainable Transformations on a Post-COVID World

Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=riditpublications202
Submission deadline	January 24, 2022

Topics: business model innovation industry 4.0 sustainable development smart city

Call for Chapters: EDITED BOOK (New Deadline January 24th, 2022!)

“Digital and Sustainable Transformations on a Post-COVID World.”

Editor-in-chief: Dr. Salvador Estrada, Department of Business and Finance, University of Guanajuato, Celaya-Salvatierra Campus.President of the Research and Teaching Network on Technological Innovation(RIDIT). Co-coordinator of the International Entrepreneurship Lab Smart Money (IELSM).

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of SpringerNature.

ABOUT RIDIT

With more than 20 years of experience, the Research and Teaching Network on Technological Innovation (RIDIT) is a scientific society based in Ibero-America. One of the most important activities is to disseminate fore-front knowledge based on their membership expertise and conference venues. Most remarkable is its activity of publishing books based on Post-Proceedings Selection. This year facing the Pandemics, Annual Conference has been postponed to February 24-25, 2022. This situation opened a unique opportunity window to set and discuss conference topics before the conference is been held. Regarding the outcomes of Pandemics, the world is rapidly transforming to embrace new digital and sustainable technologies and practices. There has been an enormous increase in literature publications on these topics but the Latin American view is shinny uprising so the RIDIT envisages a challenge to give a powerful voice to this world region ensuring brand new perspectives. So scholars all around the world studying this region are invited to contribute to this book and provide guidance to the topics to be discussed, not only in the next conference but from the near future.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

The study of digital and sustainable transition may consider several research and practice disciplines and communities. Future development is at stake without the existing business transformation. Current social, economic, and environmental challenges represented by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals may be partially attained by digitalization and sustainable practices diffusion. This process's antecedents, occurrences, and consequences are currently under investigation, but the big challenge is to get a systemic view.

The book will be dedicated to studying the global Covid-19 crisis consequences and new needs and practices in developing and disseminating digital and clean technologies. The book should cover social and economic matters in addition to the study of organizations and information technology, and natural resources management. Major disciplines include Economics, business, sociology, information technology, computer science, renewable energy, and sustainable development.

The global Covid-19 crisis has stressed and accelerated current and new needs and practices in developing and disseminating digital and clean technologies. Practically whole industries worldwide have been changing the way they operate, organize, and perform. In a scarce-resource environment, savings and efficiency are required to maintain working the Economic Systems. The old business models change to novel and unexpected models and give pace to creativity and entrepreneurship hand by hand with digital technology adoption and sustainable practices.

Whatever these changes may be smooth or radical, the resulted dynamics are stressing tensions and contradictions among systems: resources are needed to keep operations going on but to invest in technological modernization, to maintain employment on a human friendly-organization as to bet on retraining human capital and automate processes, to redesign the product to adapt to the changing client's needs but to retain current customer base and build loyalty, to strength customer-supplier links to explore new platform models and redefine business ecosystems, to manage outbound marketing couple with inbound marketing strategies in such way to optimize sales and foster business positioning in traditional and digital channels, to avoid and minimize waste as to profit from these actions. So, to cope with these conflicts, organizations are demonstrating a tremendous fitness to provide solutions and much flexibility to accommodate their resources, processes, structures, and cultures.

A scientific publication network analysis revealed that extant literature is showing how the digital and sustainable transition is expressing the current COVID crisis:

1. Innovation is a strategic approach towards Industry 4.0.

Digitization is critical for business model innovation and digital entrepreneurship.
Social and economic effects must be considered in this industrial revolution.
Data analytics may lead the Science and Technology as well as Public Administration.
Industry 4.0 poses challenges for management practices, manufacturing, and the triple bottom line.
Digitization has change R&D and Higher Education business models.
Surveys show SMEs are adopting digital solutions to sustain sales and enhance life cycle management.

2.Digital transformation is progressing towards sustainability.

The digital economy is increasingly based on metadata and big data.
Systematic reviews show that Artificial Intelligent is at the core of digital and green transformation.
Digital solutions are growing, mainly based on blockchain, digital storage, big data, life cycle management, ergonomics, and precision agriculture.
Digital technology is contributing to sustainable development through sustainable business models.
Automation, virtual reality, and e-learning may be drivers for industrial research, engineering education, and sustainable business.

3.Sustainable development may be based on smart cities.

Broaden access to the Internet and other services like banking enable smart cities' development.
Smart cities are a result of IT planning and competition.
Smart cities raise sustainability issues.
Tourism intelligence shall be a crucial quest for business and entrepreneur innovation and competitiveness as well as to avoid "over-tourism."

Target Audience

Primarily, we target the book for academicians and undergraduate/postgraduate students who require complimentary books and resources to discuss pertinent issues and challenges faced by organizations based on the above-outlined topics. The book is also suited for class discussions since it is customized to meet the topics relevant in courses like Innovation Management, Service Design, Service Innovation, Digital Transformation, Sustainable Development, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Corporate Environmental Management. Secondly, we offer this book as a reference to researchers and business executives who need both the theoretical and practical element in understanding the subject matter pertaining to digital and sustainable transformations, innovation, culture, and business excellence to achieve sustainable and learning organizations.

List of Topics

1) Digitization Progress and SDG.
- What is the role of digitalization in contributing towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals?
2) Developments on Digital and Sustainable Education and Learning.
- What changes have technologies imposed on institutions during Pandemics?
- How is the education sector managing technological, organizational, and cultural changes related to Digital and Sustainable Transformation?
- How may learning capabilities contribute to sustainable business development and digital entrepreneurship?
- What strategies should universities develop to promote sustainable university entrepreneurship through the use of digital platforms?
3) Digital and Sustainable Transformations in Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Services.
- Which are the determinants and deters for adopting precise agriculture?
- How does the digital economy support development of countries’ manufacturing industries?
- How is the circular economy driving business growth in bio-economy, industry, and services?
4) Digital and Sustainable Transformation on Health and Wellbeing.
- Considering the experience and knowledge in the factory system, which are the critical factors for the company and the sustainability of the levels of worker’s welfare?
- How to explore the digital transformation of health and care to sustain planetary health in various diseases?
- How do digital technologies allow monitoring the evolving prevalence of therapies and the improvement of health services optimization?
- How to develop alert systems based on integrating information technology tools for climate, weather, air pollution, and aerobiology in mobile Health applications?
5) Digital and Sustainable Agendas: Overview and Foresight.
- How should regions understand the digital economy?
- What are the significant issues government and business need to assess to keep pace with worldwide accelerating transformations post-pandemic trends?
- How does digital transformation affect the competitiveness, resilience, and viability of the overall innovation system?
- What are the new roles of government in promoting entrepreneurship by using digital platforms?
6) Digital & Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Business Models.
- Are digitalization and sustainability complementary or substitutive paths toward small business competitiveness?
- How can small businesses create value by leveraging digital platforms?
- How do incumbent firms organize and manage their digital transformation efforts?
- What are the role and processes should digital platforms develop to promote entrepreneurship and new business models?
- How do industrial firms seek to develop offerings that can reduce their negative ecological impact while still economically viable?
7) Cooperation in Sustainability and Digitization.
- How can businesses leverage digital transformation to support engagement with sustainability challenges?
- Will digital innovation create the conditions for an equally rapid and profound transformation of sustainable practices?
- What is the influence that external infrastructure and institutions have on digital entrepreneurship development?
8) Intellectual Property, Financing, and Taxation on Digital and Sustainable Transformation.
- How can the funding gaps facing sustainable infrastructure be bridged using sustainable finance?
- How to combine digital and innovation management investments to prepare and facilitate the use of new technologies in metropolitan city digital transformation planning?
- Which strategies could grant autonomy and sustainability to cultural organizations in engaging in digital transformation?
- Which intellectual property issues are critical to handle the development of digital technologies—such as Internet-of-Things, artificial intelligence, big data, geospatial technologies, smart sensors, wearables?
9) Smart, sustainable, and resilient cities and communities.
- Can AI applications succeed in achieving smart and sustainable cities, which are the barriers and the obstacles?
- Which are the key factors that contribute to the design of a sustainable and smart city?
- How do spatial and digital network effects interact to develop externalities, and how do these outcomes play a vital role in the formation, expansion, and sustainability of ecosystems?
- How to design and implement digital transformation strategies for the uptake of advanced digital services and the smart growth of city ecosystems?
- How to convert metropolitan areas into smart cities that can serve as ecosystems for innovation?
10) Challenges in Digital and Sustainable Infrastructures.
- What role does industrial policy play in the developmental process of data analytics and AI, the platform economy, digital trade, fintech innovation, and societal and economic sustainability?
- How do we define and optimize the manufacturing process in a virtual environment?
- How to assess digital transformation technologies adoption for sustainability purposes?
- How will governance innovation regulate the social embedding of the information commons and their relationship to the free market?

Important Dates

The timeline of this Book is as follows:

Submission dates:

From Aug 10th to ~~Oct 15th~~. Jan 24th, 2022 (NEW DEADLINE)

Review process: On a rolling basis from Aug 25th to ~~Oct 30th~~ Feb 26th, 2022.

Possible Book publication: ~~February~~ June 2022.

Submission Guidelines

This edited book aims at receiving academic contributions for manuscripts between 8000-10000 words. All submissions will undertake a double-blinded peer-reviewed process.

All contributions must be original and meet international criteria that guarantee academic quality. Your chapter must not be in the process of publication in another journal or conference. The following categories are welcome:

Theoretical contributions: these are concept development, literature review with identification of gaps, or critical analysis. This kind of contribution presents the results of research in which several publications have been analyzed and systematized. Such research must include one of the requested follow-up topics to account for progress, criticisms, or trends. One of its main characteristics is that they present a careful bibliography of at least 50 references.-
Contributions with methodological applications: in this category, new practices for studying a particular phenomenon are supported, explained, and shown. This type of research includes both theoretical and practical aspects.
Empirical research contributions: this document shows the original results of research projects in detail and answers questions from a particular field or topic.
Please register and submit your proposal first (Declaration of interest). Here is the format for submissions (guidelines)
The contribution should be written in English formally and appropriately in scientific prose.
The chapter must include, broken down into sections and subsections if necessary, the following: abstract, introduction, methodology, development, results, discussion and analysis, conclusions, and references.
The abstract should be 200 words long.
The maximum extension for the chapter must be 8,000-10,000 words, including abstract, text, references, tables, figures, photos, illustrations, etc.
A camera-ready template will be provided for the papers (Template).

Conference

Authors are invited to present their work at the 11th ICRIDIT Berlin-Celaya conference co-organized by the editors of this book. The conference will address the same significant topics and questions as the book and will be held virtually on February 24th and 25th. If you are interested in presenting a paper to this conference, please contact congresoridit@gmail.com or sestrada@ugto.mx.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to congresoridit@gmail.com or sestrada@ugto.mx.

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