Society and technological evolution: challenges and opportunities

摘要

Starting from the assumption that, the organizational learning process influences, in a positive way, the innovative environment and that it shows positive effects on individual,group and organizational performance, this paper deals with the analysis of companiesthat provide knowledge-intensive products. Referring to the initial information obtainedthrough an adequate survey that is still being performed since May 2009, the main goal isto identify the ways to an organizational learning, measure its importance and identify the effects on the social and economic development. Our reflexion study handles twoPortuguese knowledge-rich-organizations, based on the metropolitan area of Lisbon. Thepaper has the following methodological structure: in the first chapter we will make a theoretical contextualization about the organizational learning; in the second chapter wewill handle the data recovered using the SPSS statistics software and, afterwards,presenting the main results. Finally, starting from the main conclusions achieved, we willgive clues to an ongoing reflection.