Future Health Scenarios (ePub)

Maria José Sousa (PhD in Management) is a University Professor with Habilitation and a research fellow at ISCTE/Instituto Universitario de Lisboa. Her research interests currently are public policies, information science, innovation and management issues. She is a best-selling author in Research Methods, ICT and People Management and has co-authored over 100 articles and book chapters and published in several scientific journals (i.e. Journal of Business Research, Information Systems Frontiers, European Planning Studies, Systems Research e Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). She has also organised and peer-reviewed international conferences and is the guest-editor of more than five Special Issues from Elsevier and Springer. She has coordinated several European projects of innovation and is also External Expert of COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology and is former President of the ISO/TC 260 - Human Resources Management, representing Portugal in the International Organisation for Standardisation.

Francisco Guilherme Nunes, before joining ISCTE-IUL in a full-time position (2005), worked as HRM consultant for five years and Marketing Researcher for ten years. After 2005, he taught several courses in HRM and Applied Research Strategies. It was the manager of several programmes in the HRM field (undergraduate, master and Ph.D. levels). He was the Director of the Human Resource and Organisational Behaviour Department for four years. More recently, he shifted his career to a more research orientation. His research interests are the determinants of organisational performance, organisational identity, and leadership development, especially in highly institutionalised contexts like healthcare services or public and non-profits.

Generosa do Nascimento is a PhD in Management, specialising in Human