Overview

This research group brings together diverse knowledge and skills existing at Iscte’s Business School: Operations, General Management and Strategy. With this grouping we aim at promoting the interdisciplinary nature of management which we deem essential for research endeavors. We are all familiar with the Indian parable of the blind men and the elephant, according to which the men try to guess what the elephant really is by touching different parts of the animal and suggesting different predictions. Likewise, management problems that organizations face need to be approached from different perspectives, but it is the synthesis of these perspectives brought together through discussion and information sharing from diverse disciplines that may produce the best solutions.

Organizations are open systems that exist within a larger system which is the environment. As the strength of systems resides in their weakest links, organizations need to be researched from holistic and not disparate viewpoints. One common concern is the assumption that all the activities undertaken by organizations have an impact on society, that resources are scarce and finite and therefore that such impact must be positive and a carrier of responsible sustainability.

The research conducted by this group is well aware that organizations have a social role and that they exist to satisfy the needs of different stakeholders. One of them, the environment, may not have the kind of voice we are used to, but yet it speaks louder and louder through climatic changes and disruptions. We need to listen to this voice and the research we conduct, no matter how different our fields may be, needs to contribute to the development of organizations in the scope of the two most important problems we face: the increasing inequality between those who “have” and those who “have not”; and the sustainability of our planet. At this crucial moment, research on organizations that disregards these lingering problems may be irrelevant at its best.

Facts and Numbers

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ABS4*/ABS4/ABS3 in 2018-2023
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JCR Q1/SJR Q1 in 2018-2023
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Active projects in 2018-2023

Main Areas of Research

  • Management and Strategy

  • Management Control Systems

  • Operations and Service Logistics

  • Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

Main Achievements

  • Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Invitation to participate in the Technical Commission – Social Responses and Continuing Integrated Care (CT 186) of the Portuguese Quality Institute aimed at elaborating Portuguese Norms that may help organisations in their day to day work of responding to various social problems.

  • Real Estate. A methodological novelty was added through the integrated use of cognitive mapping and multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) techniques, resulting in the involved researchers receiving the Andre Jordan Award 2016 from Confidencial Imobiliário – an independent organization of the real estate sector.

Our Researchers

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Alexandra Fernandes
Integrated Researcher
Alexandra Milici
Research Assistant
Álvaro Rosa
Integrated Researcher
Ana Lúcia Martins
Integrated Researcher
Ana Simaens
Integrated Researcher
Bruno Abrantes
Associate Researcher
Carlos Lopes Cruz
Fernando Ferreira
Integrated Researcher
Helena Almeida
Researcher Assistant
Henrique Martins
Integrated Researcher
Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene
Integrated Researcher
Irene Ciccarino
Integrated Researcher
Isabel Gomes
João Carlos Menezes
Associate Researcher
João Regra
Research Assistant
João Vilas-Boas
Associate Researcher
José Arménio Rego
Associate Researcher
José Moleiro Martins
Associate Researcher
Leandro Pereira
Integrated Researcher
Luís Manuel Martins
Associate Researcher
Márcia Santos
Integrated Researcher
Margarida Lopes
Research Assistant
Margarida Oliveira
Associate Researcher
Margarida Rodrigues Santos
Research Assistant
Maria José Sousa
Integrated Researcher
Marjan Jalali
Integrated Researcher
Nelson António
Associate Researcher
Nuno Araújo
Associate Researcher
Paulo Bento
Associate Researcher
Pedro Fontes Falcão
Integrated Researcher
Renato Costa
Integrated Researcher
Renato Pereira
Integrated Researcher
Shaozhuang Ma
Integrated Researcher
Sofia Kalakou
Integrated Researcher
Teresa Grilo
Integrated Researcher
Ulpan Tokkozhina
Integrated Researcher