António Moniz

Rogério Puga Leal

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Editorial note 
 
 
António Brandão Moniz and Rogério Puga Leal, Faculty of Science and 
Technology, New University of Lisbon 
 
The second issue of the IET journal “Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies” represents the 
effort of whole team to produce it and integrating the collaboration from other experts from 
different geographical origins. During this year of 2006 took place the organisation of a second 
international seminar (October) by IET. It was held the Conference on “Foresight Studies on Work 
in the Knowledge Society”. Some of the articles were developed for that international conference. 
But IET continued to support the organisation of the European project WORKS project on “Work 
Organisation and Restructuring in the Knowledge Society” (financed under the 6
th Framework 
Programme of R&D). 
The first article to open this issue is a discussion on the industrial society changing process to 
the knowledge-based society. This debate is presented and analysed by Bettina-Johanna Krings, 
researcher from ITAS at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Germany) on the article with the title 
„The sociological perspective on the knowledge-based society: assumptions, facts and visions”. 
The second article is about the working activities and options in IT projects and the limits of the 
work design. Is developed by Erich Latniak and Anja Gerlmaier from the Institut Arbeit und 
Technik of the Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen located at Gelsenkirchen, also in 
Germany. Following the same issue of relation between technology and work organisation, the 
article of Luis Ribeiro and José Barata on the new shop floor control approaches for Virtual 
Enterprises, is a work developed at the UNINOVA Institute and the Faculty of Science and 
Technology, New University of Lisbon. From Holland, the article from Ben S. Kuipers and Marco C. 
de Witte from the Faculty of Management and Organization, University of Groningen, is about the 
responsibilities and responsiveness in the management structure and the work team processes. 
“The quest for a balanced manpower capacity: different flexibility strategies examined” is the title 
of the next article. It was produced at the Centre for Sociological Research of the Katholieke 
Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) by Anne Delarue, Stijn Gryp and Geert Van Hootegem. 
Isabel Lopes Nunes and José Miquel Cabeças (both from FCT-UNL, Portugal) present two 
different articles on the topic of ergonomics. The first one on Ergonomics and Usability as key 
factors in Knowledge Society is authored by Isabel Nunes and the second one is on occupational 
musculoskeletal disorders in Europe. Is a study on the impact, risk factors and the preventive 
regulations, and his author is the co-ordinator of IET research group on ergonomics and security, 
J. Miquel Cabeças. Based on a paper to the above-mentioned conference is the article on 
foresight methodologies to understand changes in the labour process, from the experience of 
Portugal by António B. Moniz (also from FCT-UNL and IET). The article of Tobias Woll (from the 
research line on Innovation Systems and Foresight Analysis of IET) focus on the processes of 
change and on the future perspectives of clothing and textile industry in the Knowledge Society. 
The research line on quality and innovation of the IET centre presented an exploratory study on 
the applicability of SERVQUAL in restaurants in a Portuguese resort (Vera Patrício, Rogério Puga 
Leal and Zulema Lopes Pereira). And, finally, Martin Bechmann, Linda Nierling (both from ITAS-
FZK, Germany) and Tobias Woll (IET) presented an article on the main conclusions of the 1
st 
WORKS Conference on Transformation of Work in a Global Knowledge Economy organised in  
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Crete (Greece). The last parts of the journal are, again, about activities of IET members, like the 
information on integration in academic juries and conference reports. 
We hope that this second issue can continue to reveal the scientific policy of the research 
centre and present some of the activities held in this last period. We continue to report and 
support the activities of the centre members, and to give a platform to the new research results 
held at IET, and to support also the scientific debate on enterprise and work innovation at an 
international level.  

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