Re-designing knowledge production in the Post-Covid-19 era. A task-based approach

Edoardo Ferucci () and Francesco Rullani ()
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Edoardo Ferucci: LUISS University

No 2, Working Papers from Venice School of Management - Department of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Abstract: This paper seeks to single out what micro-level working activities may be more conducive of faster Covid-19 transmission. We do so from an innovation perspective, knowing that knowledge production has an important component rooted in tacit knowledge, whose sharing is heavily based on physical interaction. Specifically, we hypothesize that communication-intense working activities (including those needed to transfer tacit knowledge) may accelerate Covid-19 contagion, and must be re-designed with more urgency and attention than other working activities that apparently may look as dangerous, such as selling or training. We test this empirically employing data from 9 different sources relative to US Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and confirm our hypothesis, eventually elaborating policy and managerial implications for dealing with innovation (and beyond) during the pandemic.

Keywords: covid-19; pandemic; organizational processes; micro tasks; professions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2020-06
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