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Organizational Engineering: The Emerging Stage of Industrial Engineering

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Industrial Engineering (IE) has experienced a remarkable development since its inception in the early years of the past century. From the perspective of the present problematic situation of the world, including people and planet, a new space of opportunities opens to IE research and professional activities. In this respect, this paper reviews the two main previous stages of IE and proposes a characterization of its emergent current stage. The resulting IE concept is an extended one, which is proposed to be identified as Organizational Engineering.

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  1. Dpto. Ingeniería de Organización, Administración de Empresas y Estadística, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Carrasco, Carlos Mataix & Ruth Carrasco-Gallego

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  1. Departamento de Economia Gestão Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Departamento de Economia Gestão Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Marlene Amorim

  2. Departamento de Economia Gestão Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Departamento de Economia Gestão Engenharia Industrial e Turismo, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Carlos Ferreira

  3. Universidade Nove de Julho - UNINOVE, São Paulo, Brazil

    Milton Vieira Junior

  4. Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial, Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

    Carlos Prado

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Carrasco, J., Mataix, C., Carrasco-Gallego, R. (2017). Organizational Engineering: The Emerging Stage of Industrial Engineering. In: Amorim, M., Ferreira, C., Vieira Junior, M., Prado, C. (eds) Engineering Systems and Networks. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45748-2_37

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