Innovation and Sustainable Manufacturing

Carolina Machado received her PhD degree in Management Sciences (Organizational and Politics Management/Human Resources Management) from the University of Minho in 1999, a Master degree in Management (Strategic Human Resource Management) from Technical University of Lisbon in 1994, and a Degree in Business Administration from the University of Minho in 1989. Dr. Machado has lectured in human resource management subjects since 1989 at the University of Minho and has been an Associate Professor there since 2004. Her professional experience and research interests include human resource management, international human resource management, human resource management in SMEs, training and development, change management, and knowledge management. She is Head of the Department of Management and Head of the Human Resource Management Work Group at the University of Minho, as well as the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Applied Management Sciences and Engineering (IJAMSE).J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also an honorary professor in several universities/colleges in China, India and Spain. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing, materials, mechanical and industrial engineering, with special emphasis in machining and tribology. He has worked as an evaluator of projects for the European Research Council (ERC) and other international research agencies as well as an examiner of Ph.D. theses for many universities in different countries. He is the editor-in-chief of several international journals, guest editor of several journals, series editor for Elsevier's Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering book series, and scientific advisor for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an editorial board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious journals. In addition, he has also published as editor(and co-editor)

1. Sustainable & Fractal Manufacturing Systems: complexity minimization when sustainability and Industry 4.0 interact
2. Reliability of Manufacturing Technologies
3. Energy Innovations and Sustainable Development of Circumpolar Territories in Russia
4. Analysis of Factors Influencing Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems using a MCDM Tool
5. Catching up with Sustainable Development in Emerging Markets through Financial Innovation
6. Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Sustainability, and Innovation - A theoretical analysis of the importance of these concepts in times of pandemic
7. Sustainability: Leadership and Reporting as its Pillars
8. Comprasion of SLM, SLS and DLMS Techniques in Additive Manufactured AlSi10Mg Alloys