António Moniz

Rogério Puga Leal

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Research Papers in Economics

Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies 
Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies, No. 1, 2005 
IET, Monte de Caparica, Portugal 
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Editorial note 
 
António Brandão Moniz and Rogério Puga Leal, Faculty of Science and 
Technology, New University of Lisbon 
 
 
You have in your hands the first issue of the IET journal. It is one of the main projects at the 
r e s e a r c h  c e n t r e  t h a t  i n v o l v e d  t h e  e x i s t i n g  f o u r  r e s e a r c h  l i n e s :  a )  I n n o v a t i o n  S y s t e m s  a n d  
Foresight Analysis; b) Quality and Innovation; c) New Forms of Work Organisation and 
Telework; and d) Ergonomy and Security. As a very recent research centre some of our aims 
were achieved, mostly in 2005 (when the financial support from the Ministry of Science took 
place): the organisation of an international seminar (September), the support for the 
organisation of international workshops (IWOT9 also in September, and WORKS project on 
“Policy, Institutions and Social Dialogue” in November), the annual meeting of master and PhD 
students on “Work and Technology” (May). 
Besides these events, and the research activity (translated into several articles, thesis and 
books published), the journal could aggregate several excellent original articles. They are, 
either from researchers of IET, either from invited articles, evaluated and several presented at 
IWOT9. They are present by alphabetical order and obey not to other specification. The first 
one from Conny H. Antoni (Univ. Trier, Germany) analyses the effects of team task structure 
on team climate for innovation and  team outcomes. José Miquel Cabeças and Isabel Lopes 
Nunes (both from FCT-UNL, Portugal) present the topic of fisheries safety management 
concept. From US comes the article of Daniel B. Cornfield (Vanderbilt University) on 
professions and inter-disciplinary teamwork in socially embedded bureaucracies. The article of 
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger (Univ. Wien, Austria) is about the diversity in teams, and 
investigates the hidden mental models among university students as sources of conflict or of 
creativity. From Heinz-H. Erbe (Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany) is the work on human-human 
collaboration in virtual teams. A case from Finland is presented by Riitta Lavikka (Univ. 
Tampere, Finland) in the article about teamwork and gendered work cultures. A research 
group of the IET quality and innovation line (Rogério Puga Leal, Paula Oliveira, José Mendonça 
Dias and Zulema Lopes Pereira) presents their results in the article on the Portuguese 
perspective of training needs in TQM. From members of other IET research line (on ergonomy 
and security), Isabel Lopes Nunes and José Miquel Cabeças (FCT-UNL), present their article on 
noise management at work. An article on one integrated approach for TQM implementation in 
SMEs was developed by Zulema Lopes Pereira and Leonilde M. Pedroso. Paula Urze, Sónia 
Barroso, António B. Moniz (all from IET), wrote an article on the practices and trends of 
telework in the  Portuguese industry, based on the results of surveys in the textile, metal and 
software sectors. Maija Vähämäki (from the Turku School of Economics and Business 
Administration, Finland) presented the results of her study on democratic dialogue and 
collective learning in the context of self-managed teams. And, finally, Tobias Woll (IET) 
presented an article on the gap between knowledge and action, based on a study for his 
doctorate thesis on obstacles, restraints and deficits during the execution of refurbishments. 
The last article from Paulo Bonifácio, is an study from a research student of Electronics and 
Computers Engineering on renewable power sources, specifically about solar solutions. The last 
parts of the journal are about activities of IET members, like the information on integration in 
academic juries and conference reports. 
We hope that this first issue can reveal the scientific policy of the research centre and present 
some of the activities held in this last period. Is a propose, to report the activities of the centre 
members, and to give a working space to new research results and reflections, developing the 
scientific debate on enterprise and work innovation at an international level.  
 

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