Organizational Management

Carolina Machado is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Head of Human Resources Management work group at University of Minho, Portugal, and Chief Editor of the International Journal of Applied Management Sciences and Engineering (IJAMSE). Her research interests include International Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management in Small and Medium Enterprises, Training and Development, Management Change and Knowledge Management.  J. Paulo Davim is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal. With more than 28 years of teaching and research experience, he is the Editor-in-Chief of 8 international journals and an Editorial Board member of another 25 international journals. In addition, he has published as author and co-author of more than 6 books, 50 chapters and 350 journal and conference articles.

• 1. What we know about Organizational Commitment: An overview of the literature of the last decades; Santiago Gutiérrez Broncano, Pedro Jiménez Estévez and Mercedes Rubio Andrés2. Purpose, Change and Top Management in the Mid-1920s: Revisiting Selected Papers Presented at the Meetings of the Taylor Society; Aykut Berber3. Managing Careers: Anchored, Plateaued or Drifting?; João Fontes da Costa and Teresa Carla Oliveira4. Other organizational perspectives on the contribution of human resources management to the organizational performance; João Leite Ribeiro and Delfina Gomes5. Viewing training & development by SMEs' Eyes: a Portuguese employers' input; Ana Paula Ferreira and Fernanda Velinças6. Recruitment and Selection in the Expatriation Process: Comparing perceptions between organizations and individuals; Inês Resende and Emília Fernandes7. From a cooperative to a hybrid organization. Internationalization, financing and crisis; Juan José Durán Herrera and Nuria Bajo Davó8. Power and Micro-politics in the Strategic Formation of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises; David Starr-Glass9. Deigning Down or Learning Up? Lack of Voice and Dialogue in Change Management of Public Hospitals; Teresa Carla Oliveira and Vitor Raposo10. About expatriation process in SMEs: a Portuguese look of HRM role; Cláudia Carvalho and Carolina Feliciana Machado