The analysis on the technological and organizational change in the European industry, and particularlly the Portuguese one, has been studied at CESO I&D since its foundation on 1988. Few time after that, started a development project that started from a previous research project on the same...

Based on the literatures of organizational learning and change, this research continues to focus on the individual level of learning in organization. Individual learning comprises of at least the cognitive and behavioral aspects as the two represent two different phenomenon and complementary to...

The objective of this paper was to gain insight into the delimitation of ‘brand territory’ and ‘relationship territory’, in these territories’ interdependencies as well as relevant managerial attitudes and perceptions. Full support for this research was gained from a Dutch hospitality...

Organizational complementarities are an essential factor in the process of creating business value from information technology (IT) investments. Organizational change (OC) is an important complementarity. This paper investigates complementarities between IT capital and OC initiatives of the...

Organized crime´s actions are a complex problem that requires an equally complex governmental policy. This policy requires coordination within the federal government and between the federal and subnational governments. The article starts questioning how to integrate the federal and subnational...

Using firm level data, this paper explores the effect of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and organizational change on firms' productivity. In line with the most relevant empirical literature, it focuses on the complementarity between these two practices. It is argued that there...

The Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence (Masonry Workshop) is of ancient lineage, dating back to the Botteghe Granducali set up in 1588 by the Medici Grand Duke Ferdinand I. In the 1880's, after the Unification of Italy, it was turned into a restoration workshop (a discipline, at that time,...

This paper examines the dynamic and multi-level relationship between organization and innovation from three different but interdependent perspectives: a) the relationship between organizational structural forms and innovativeness; b) innovation as a process of organizational learning and...

Abstract: I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal...