The main purpose of this article is to contribute to a better understanding of the organizational sources pertaining to continuous innovation. This work identifies a set of best practices, which once integrated, create the innovative activities that help organizations to…

At the moment, the debate about what human resources practices include as High Involvement Work Practices would have to be considered still open. In this communication we try to make a revision of the theoretical framework. This allows us to…

L’objectif de ce mémoire est de faire un état des lieux des connaissances produites sur les risques environnementaux et la vulnérabilité et appliquer ces connaissances à la ville de Kigali (Rwanda). Après avoir présenté différentes approches, nous avons retenu le…

11-16 July 2010 Melbourne, Australia ICAP 2010 will be the first International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) Congress to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and the Australian Psychological Society (APS) is delighted to be hosting this prestigious, global event.…

It is a fact that mood-state knowledge is of particular relevance for the understanding of consumer behavior. The belief that it may be affected by the content of marketing communication and the context in which these communications appear was the…

Since the first Computer and Internet based learning developments, there has been a recurrent idea: the creation of reusable didactic pieces, developed once and used many times in instructional processes, called learning objects. These elements promised to constitute knowledge bases…

This article aggregates empirical evidence of the main barriers to and facilitators of the implementation of different strategies at organizations in Brazil. It is a theoretical study that uses as its starting point those studies that regard strategy as a…

In the past few years, schools have been looking for options that enable them to raise the quality of education. Technological advances and their amazingly fast evolution, shape in Multimedia Systems (MMS) as the present and future of humanity. For…

In numerous animal groups, individuals within the group often wish to impose
their preferences and guide the group in a certain direction. Conflicting preferences are
common in these situations and, in order to maintain group cohesion, collective decisionmaking
needs to…

La Plata National University is making a great effort to support and encourage scientific, technologic and artistic research and innovation, maintaining its quality, as well as the development and knowledge transference that benefit society and generate new scientific, technologic and…