With Focus on the Digital Economy, Woodbury Business Professor to Lead Management Conf. in Italy

Jan. 27, 2016 - PRLog -- LOS ANGELES (Jan. 27, 2016) – Affirming that the digital economy truly is borderless, Angelo Camillo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Strategic Management in Woodbury University (http://woodbury.edu/)’s School of Business, has been named international coordinator of Sinergie, The Italian Journal of Management’s 28^th Annual Conference, "Management in a Digital World: Decisions, Production, Communication: AMeeting to Debate ManagementChallengesin theDigitalAge."

Bringing together scholars from across Europe and around the globe, the June 9-10 gathering at the University of Udine, near Venice, Italy, attracts academics from various disciplines within business and management.  “The phenomenon of digitalization has had a profound effect on economies… and has resulted in a reconfigurationoflearning, production [and]consumption… alongpaths thathavepresently onlybeenpartially definedorareyettobe completelytraced,” the conference abstract notes (http://www.eng.sinergiejournal.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=519&Itemid=168).

Among the topics under consideration at the Udine conference:

o   Finance and “risk” inthedigital world

o   Emergingintermediaries in the digitalmarketplace

o   Changes in consumerbehaviorpatterns

o   The meaning of “craftsmanship” in “ownerless”  production  (e.g., 3D printing)

o   Social mediaand consumerrelationships -- experiences andsharingvalue

o   The“Internet ofThings” and consumerknowledge

"Thesetransformationalprocesses are creating new notions of ‘value,’” Dr. Camillo said.  “Along withpublicinstitutions,privatefirmscanandmustbecomefully engaged in thisdigital revolution.  By examining digitalization from an analytical/managementperspective, we hope to break new groundresearchingthe effectofdigitalizationoninteractionsamongsubject-systemsand between firmsandtheenvironment.”

Dr. Camillo teaches courses in Strategy, Global Enterprise Management, Business Ethics, Organizational Behavior, and special topics in Hospitality Entrepreneurship and Business Development.  His research encompasses three streams of interest that reflect his specializations and courses he teaches: Strategic Management (Mainstream), Industry Specific, and Cross-disciplinary. Research topics include Strategic and International Management, Food and Wine Business, Marketing Best Practices, Social Responsibility, and Ethics.  He is also Visiting Professor at various institutions in Europe and China, where he teaches Global Entrepreneurship and International Management.  His international industry experience as an expatriate executive spans 35 years in 10 countries and four continents.

About Woodbury University

Founded in 1884, Woodbury University is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Southern California. With campuses in Burbank/Los Angeles and San Diego, the university offers bachelor's degrees from the School of Architecture, School of Business, School of Media, Culture & Design, and College of Transdisciplinarity, along with a Master of Business Administration, Master of Arts in Media for Social Justice, Master of Architecture (MArch), Master of Interior Architecture (MIA), Master of Science in Architecture (MSArch), Master of Leadership, and Master of Arts in Media for Social Justice. The San Diego campus offers Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture, Master of Interior Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees, as well as an MSArch degree with a concentration in Real Estate Development and Landscape + Urbanism.   Woodbury ranks 15th among the nation’s “25 Colleges That Add the Most Value,” according to Money Magazine and is a 2014-2015 College of Distinction.  Visit woodbury.edu (http://www.woodbury.edu/) for more information.

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