Browsing Vol 8. (2013): Special Issue ALTEC: Social and Sustainable Project, Knowledge and Innovation Management by Issue Date
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The Cultural Challenges of Managing Global Project Teams: A Study of Brazilian Multinationals
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The internationalization of Brazilian companies brings a new reality: the need for implementation of global projects that bring, in turn, the challenge of managing multicultural teams. Since this is a recent phenomenon ... -
The Processing and Marketing of Seeds from the Amazon City of Porto Velho, RO.
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This article aims to show through an epistemological perspective that the sustainability conscious actions implemented in the Amazon rainforest region of the municipality of Porto Velho-RO, have not been created to prevent ... -
Best Practices in Brazilian Companies
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Competitive intelligence (CI) is a systematic and ethical collection, analysis, dissemination and management of information about the external environment that may affect the plans, decisions and operations of the organization. ... -
Sustainable Innovation: Eco-development tendencies and Theory of Communicative Action Standpoint
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The paper aims to show new production tendencies, trying to find out if they can be seen under a sustainable innovation perspective and if their logical action presents a connection to Habermas� Theory of Communicative ... -
Analysis of the Seven Dimensions of Knowledge Management in Organizations
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This study aims to identify critical elements in Knowledge Management in companies in the second and third sectors of the economy of the region of Campos Gerais, Paraná, Brazil. This is a cross-sectional survey. The sample ... -
Diffusion of Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development: Prospective Assessment for Public Policies
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Emerging technologies based on biotechnology, nanotechnology, information and communication technologies (ICT), and green chemistry will shape the future of some industries and will transform many others. In many cases, ... -
Vegetable Charcoal and Pyroligneous Acid: Technological, Economical and Legal Aspects of its Production and Commerce
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The production of vegetable charcoal generates atmospheric emissions, which can be controlled by the instalation of collectors for the condensation of such emissions, forming the pyroligneous acid. The development of ... -
Online Social Networks and the New Organizational Spaces
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)We analyzed the �virtuality� of the social space and the boundaries of organizations from the emergence and dissemination of online social networking. The purpose is to identify how the use of social networks by 10 Brazilian ... -
ALTEC y la Gestión Tecnológica en Iberoamérica: Gestión de Proyectos, Conocimiento e Innovación Social y Sustentable
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The seminars of the Latin Ibero-American Association of Technology Management (ALTEC) they are one of the most important spaces in this region for the discussion of the research in the discipline of innovation and technology ... -
Comunidades de Práctica � una Innovación en la Gestión del Conocimiento
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)By supporting or institutionalizing Communities of Practice (CoP) of strategic relevance, organizations promote collective learning and organizational innovation. Aiming at analyzing how companies are dealing with the CoP, ... -
Performance Evaluation of IT Projects - The Shenhar and Dvir Model
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This paper presents a scale for the ex-post evaluation of IT projects based on the definition of multidimensional performance of projects proposed by Shenhar and Dvir (2009). From the five dimensions proposed by these ... -
Awakening the Biodiversity Potential Trough ST&I Investments in the Sector of Amazonian Biotechnology
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The biotechnological development conciliated to Amazonian biodiversity represents a big potential for richness to Brazil. This study analyses the Brazilian investments in ST&I Amazonia�s, utilizing as indicator for that, ... -
Services for People Innovation Park � Planning Methodologies
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This article aims to identify appropriate methodologies for the planning of a Services for People Innovation Park-SPIP, designed according to the model proposed by the Ibero-American Network launched by La Salle University ... -
Percepción de los Estudiantes de Ingeniería, Tecnología y Curso Técnico sobre Responsabilidad Social Empresarial
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This article identifies the perceptions of students in Engineering, Technology and Technical Course at the Federal University of Technology, Paraná (UTFPR), Campus Ponta Grossa, on Social Responsibility (SR) using a ... -
R,D&I in Electric Sector: a Management Model
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This study was carried out with the support of the companies of Eletrobras (Chesf, Furnas, Eletronorte and Eletrosul) and seeks to develop an integrated management model that incorporates technology and innovation. The ... -
Inter-Organizational Knowledge Conversion and Innovative Capacity in Cooperative Networks
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)In the current business and management environments, organizations are challenged to search for new ways of working focused on findings and practical innovation. In this sense, knowledge management constitutes a tool to ... -
Social Enterprises in Brazil: Socially Produced Knowledge Versus Social Innovation.
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This study investigated whether socially produced knowledge in social ventures in Brazil has promoted social innovation and local development. The research is exploratory and descriptive, and was developed in two stages. ... -
Implication of Legal References on Technological Dissemination: A Study on Transgenic Soybeans Resistant to Glyphosate Herbicide in Brazil
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The following paper aims at establishing a connection between the evolution of legal landmarks related to soybeans tolerant to glyphosate-based herbicide in Brazil and the planting growth of this transgenic soybean in ... -
Public Service Innovation and Evaluation Indicators
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This paper analyzes innovation in public services with emphasis on the application of evaluation indicators. It considers the clean development mechanism (CDM) projects developed in the Bandeirantes and São João landfills, ... -
Strategies for Sustainable Business and Performance in Brazilian Industrial Companies
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The study looks to analyze the adoption of strategies for sustainable business and the performance of Brazilian industrial companies. The quantitative character research has involved the execution of a survey. The results ...