Ilona Kovács

Positions:

• Full Professor at Department of Social Sciences of Faculty for Economics and Management of Technical University of Lisbon
• Coodenator of the Section of Sociology of Department of Social Sciences.
• Coodenator of the Master's Degree Course "Socio-organizational Systems of Economic Activity".
• Member of CRI - Center for Intelligent Robotics at UNINOVA.
• Co-founder of Portuguese Association for Sociology of Industry, Organization and work (APSIOT) as well as of Portuguese Association of Sociology (APS).

Education

• Agregation degree in Sociology, Economic and Management Faculty of Technical University of Lisbon, 1991.
• PhD in Economic Sociology, University of Economic Sciences (BKE), Budapest, 1973.
• Economist degree University of Economic Science, Budapest, 1971.

Research Interests

• New models production
• Advanced technological systems, organizational and job design.
• Technical-organizational changes and new skill.
• Anthropocentric Production Systems.

Publications

• Uma gestão alternativa (An Alternative Management), (with José Baptista and Conceição L. Antunes), Lisbon, 1985, Relogio d'gua, 357 pp.
• "Automatização e flexibilidade" (Automation and flexibility), Robótica e automatização, Porto, 2 1989, pp. 21-28.
• "Introdução de novas tecnologias e gestão participativa" (Introduction of new technology and participative management) Organizacoes e Trabalho, Lisboa, APSIOT, 1, 1989, pp. 53-72.
• "Tendências de transformação tecnológica e organizacional nas empresas: a emergencia de novos sistemas produtivos" (Trends of technological and organisational change in enterprises: the emergence of new production systems) Economia e Sociedade, Lisboa, CESO, 1, 1989, pp. 39-66.
• "Modernização tecnológica e inovação organizacional na indústria portuguesa: Análise de casos" (Technological modernisation and organisational innovation in the Portuguese industry: Case studies) Economia e Sociedade, Lisboa, CESO, 2, 1990. pp. 157- 175.
• "Estratégia de produção flexível e práticas organizacionais" (Flexible production strategy and organisational practices) Revista de Gestão, ISCTE, 1991, 35-39.
• "As qualificações na estratégia antropocêntrica" (Qualifications in anthropocentric strategy) in: 3»s Jornadas Nacionais de Projecto, planeamento e producao assistidos por computador (PP/AC), Ordem dos Engenheiros, Lisboa, 1991, pp. 41-46.
• "Novas tecnologias, recursos humanos, organização e competitividade" (New technologies, human resources, organisation and competitiveness) in: Ilona Kovacs et al: Sistemas flexíveis de produção e reorganização do trabalho (Flexible production systems and re-organisation of work), CESO I&D, PEDIP, DGI, Lisboa, 1992, pp. 17-68.
• "Novo paradigma produtivo e requisitos de ensino-formação" (New productive paradigm and requisites for education-training), in APS: Estruturas Sociais e Desenvolvimento - Actas do II Congresso Portugues de Sociologia Vol. I, Lisbon, Fragmentos, 1993, pp. 229-247. "Understanding What Is the Human Factors in CIM Systems: Some International Evidence", (with Bryn Jones, António Brandão Moniz), in E. PUENTE and P. MacCONAILL (eds.), Computer Integrated Manufacturing-Proceedings of the 4th CIM Europe Conference, Bedford, IFS Publication/Springer Verlag, 1988, pp. 99 - 106. The Context for Uptake of New Production Technology and New Robotic Technology in Portugal, (with A.B. Moniz and Jorge Pamies Teixeira), Monte da Caparica, FCT-UNL/EFILWC, 1989, 35 pp.
• "Recent Trends of Work and Organisations Changes in Advanced Manufacturing Systems" (with A.B. Moniz) in STEIGER-GARÇÃO, A. et al (orgs.), Proceedings - First Workshop on Robotics and CIM, Vol. II, Lisboa, UNL/UNINOVA, 1989, 17 pp. "New Production Technologies, YouthÕs Qualification and Attitudes: The Portuguese situation in the industrial sector" (with A.B. Moniz), in Ruza Furst Dilic (org.): European * Youth and New Technologies - A comparative analysis of 12 European countries, ECCRDSS-UNESCO, Vienna, 1991. pp. 137 - 155.
• Prospects for Anthropocentric Production Systems in Portugal, APS Research Papers Series vol. 16, December 1990, (with A.B.Moniz and Augusto Mateus), Brussels, FAST, (FOP 260), 1990, 30 pp.
• "A comparabilidade das qualificacoes no contexto europeu" - "Comparability of qualifications in the European context" (with Conceicao Cerdeira and A.B.Moniz), Emprego e Formação, 15, Lisboa, IEFP, 1991, pp. 5-19.
• "La introduccion de sistemas antropocentricos automatizados en Portugal" (with A.B. Moniz), Sociologia del Trabajo, n¼ 16, Madrid, 1992, pp. 27 - 51.
• Tendências de evolução da indústria electrónica na Península Ibérica: tecnologia, gestão e qualificações, (Trends in electronic industry: technology, management and skills), (with C. Cerdeira, A.B. Moniz and Joaquim Juan i Albalate), CINEL, CESO I&D, CIREM, ANIMEE, INEM, Venda Nova, 1993.
• Qualificações e mercado de trabalho (Qualifications and labour market), (with A.B. Moniz, C. Cerdeira and Mário Bairrada) IEFP, Lisboa, 1994, 206 pp.

Contacts

Department:of Social Sciences
Rua Miguel Lupi 20, 1200 Lisboa
Phone:+351-1-60 70 99 
Fax:+351-1-395 18 85 
mail: Ilona Kovács ISEG
Phone: +3511 3912537 ISEG

Uninova

Center:CRI-Centro de Robótica Inteligente
Address:UNINOVA
Campus da FCT		
Quinta da Torre
2825 Monte de Caparica
Portugal
Location:CRI
Phone:3500200
Fax:351-1-2941253

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