About ASO
In December 2007 the Sociology Unit of the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) launched a new research group in order to advance the work done by the previous research group, “Business and Society” existing since 2000: in the URV 2007 research evaluation this research group was ranked 2nd in the whole area of Social Sciences (including economics, management, law, psychology, anthropology, etc.). The new group is called “Social and Organizational Analysis” and it is aimed at developing social scientific analysis and research in two areas: organizational phenomena and social problems.
a) Organizational phenomena
This area carries out research on topics, such as private and public organizations, management, innovation, skills-competences, labour relations, business systems, entrepreneurship, etc. This research area is led by Professor Ignasi Brunet. Ignasi Brunet has been in the last decade the coordinator of the Sociology of Organizations Group within the Spanish Sociology Association. Within this area there is a group of about 6 researchers interested in different aspects of organizational phenomena.
b) Social problems
This area carries out research on topics, such as gender, social structures (poverty, social exclusion, etc.), public policies, etc. This broad research area is led by several researchers, according to their areas of expertise. In this track there are about 8-10 researchers specialized in different fields and topics.
RIO: In 2007 the group launched a new academic journal “Revista Internacional de Organizaciones” RIO (International Journal of Organizations), with the institutional support of the Ibero-American Association of Sociology of Organizations. Although it publishes articles mainly in Spanish, RIO is also open to articles in English. It has a target number of 2 issues per year for the first coming years.
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