Farley Simon Nobre

Farley S. Nobre (PhD, MSc, BSc) is Professor at the School of Management of Federal University of Parana, Brazil. His research interests include organizations, knowledge management systems, innovation and sustainability. He received his PhD at The University of Birmingham (UK) with thesis On Cognitive Machines in Organizations, and he participated in the ARMMS project. He was Guest Researcher with the Institute of Organization Theory and the Artificial Intelligence Research Group of the Humboldt University of Berlin, and he participated in the Socionics project. With the multinational NEC he worked in the areas of software process improvement. He received the 1998 NEC Industrial Honor Prize for his contributions in the areas of innovation and quality. Dr. Nobre has authored international books, chapters and papers in journals and conferences worldwide. He is first author of “(Nobre, Tobias & Walker, 2009) Organizational and Technological Implications of Cognitive Machines: Designing Future Information Management Systems, IGI Global, USA.” He is member of SERVAS (a voluntary worldwide institution in support of peace and multi-cultural integration).

Publications

Innovating and Serving the Poor with Antiretroviral Drug Systems: Advances in the HIV Brazilian Program
Innovating and Serving the Poor with Antiretroviral Drug Systems: Advances in the HIV Brazilian Program
Maria Matilde Zraik Baracat, Farley Simon Nobre. © 2015. 14 pages.
This chapter presents an exploratory study about the Brazilian program on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). It highlights the social and technological contributions, which have...
Innovating and Serving the Poor with Antiretroviral Drug Systems: Advances in the HIV Brazilian Program
Innovating and Serving the Poor with Antiretroviral Drug Systems: Advances in the HIV Brazilian Program
Maria Matilde Zraik Baracat, Farley Simon Nobre. © 2013. 19 pages.
This chapter presents an exploratory study about the Brazilian program on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). It highlights the social and technological contributions, which have...
A Dynamic Ability-Based View of the Organization
A Dynamic Ability-Based View of the Organization
Farley Simon Nobre, David S. Walker. © 2013. 17 pages.
This paper investigates theoretical micro-foundations of core competencies in the organization that pursues sustainable competitive advantage. It advocates that there is a lack...
Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development
Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies: Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development
Farley Simon Nobre, David Walker, Robert J. Harris. © 2012. 732 pages.
Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies and products, goods and services, and provide...
The Roles of Cognitive Machines in Customer-Centric Organizations: Towards Innovations in Computational Organizational Management Networks
The Roles of Cognitive Machines in Customer-Centric Organizations: Towards Innovations in Computational Organizational Management Networks
Farley Simon Nobre. © 2012. 22 pages.
This chapter proposes innovative features of future industrial organizations in order to provide them with the capabilities to manage high levels of environmental complexity in...
A Dynamic Ability-Based View of the Organization
A Dynamic Ability-Based View of the Organization
Farley Simon Nobre, David S. Walker. © 2011. 16 pages.
This paper investigates theoretical micro-foundations of core competencies in the organization that pursues sustainable competitive advantage. It advocates that there is a lack...
New Frontiers in Industrial Organizations
New Frontiers in Industrial Organizations
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2010. 12 pages.
This paper proposes the features of future industrial organizations in order to provide them with the abilities to manage high levels of environmental complexity in the 21st...
Organizational and Technological Implications of Cognitive Machines: Designing Future Information Management Systems
Organizational and Technological Implications of Cognitive Machines: Designing Future Information Management Systems
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 338 pages.
Organizational cognition concerns the processes which provide agents and organizations with the ability to learn, make decisions, and solve problems. Organizational and...
General Introduction
General Introduction
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 21 pages.
The practice of organizing is ancient, but formal study of organizations is relatively new. The search for knowledge on organizations through scientific methods of investigation...
Rationale for Organizational Cognition
Rationale for Organizational Cognition
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 12 pages.
This chapter presents rationale for a theory of organizational cognition on the basis of contingency theory and bounded rationality concepts. According to the bounded rationality...
A Theory of Organizational Cognition
A Theory of Organizational Cognition
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 25 pages.
Chapter III introduces definitions, premises, and propositions towards a theory of organizational cognition. It proposes principles about organizational cognition and thus it...
Rationale for Cognitive Machines
Rationale for Cognitive Machines
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 6 pages.
This chapter outlines rationale for cognitive machines. It connects theories of bounded rationality of Herbert Simon with theories of fuzzy systems of Lotfi Zadeh in order to...
Principles of Cognitive Machines
Principles of Cognitive Machines
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 13 pages.
This chapter presents principles of cognitive machines. It presents definitions of intelligence, cognition, autonomy, and complexity for machines. It proposes a definition of...
Design of Cognitive Machines
Design of Cognitive Machines
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 17 pages.
This chapter is concerned with the design of cognitive machines. These machines and their models were chosen in order to increase and to improve: i. The degree of cognition of...
Analysis of Cognitive Machines in Organizations
Analysis of Cognitive Machines in Organizations
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 12 pages.
This chapter introduces analyses of cognitive machines and perspectives about their participation in organizations. Therefore, it connects cognitive machines with the discipline...
The Organization of Study
The Organization of Study
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 9 pages.
This chapter presents the organization1 of study and the research methods selected for its investigation. It explains the scope, the purpose, and the motivations for this...
Organizational Cognition in the Industrial Case Study
Organizational Cognition in the Industrial Case Study
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 11 pages.
This chapter is concerned with the implementation of The Capability Maturity Model in the organization of study. In this application, we define measures of organization process...
A Cognitive Machine in the Organization of Study
A Cognitive Machine in the Organization of Study
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 20 pages.
Chapter X is concerned with the design of a management control system whose functional elements execute cognitive tasks of analysis, decision and control of the organization...
Findings for the Industrial Case Study
Findings for the Industrial Case Study
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 10 pages.
Chapter XI presents results, analyses, and conclusions about the industrial case study. From a micro perspective, it presents findings of the management control system of the...
Implications of Cognitive Machines for Organizations
Implications of Cognitive Machines for Organizations
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 7 pages.
Analyses and predictions about the implications of cognitive machines for organizations are a topic of further research which demands a high level of imagination in connection...
Beyond the Thresholds of Manufacturing Organizations
Beyond the Thresholds of Manufacturing Organizations
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 19 pages.
The major contributions of this chapter are concerned with: a. Analysis of the limitations of past and current manufacturing organizations (and operations management systems). b....
The New Organization: Towards Computational Organization Management Networks
The New Organization: Towards Computational Organization Management Networks
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 13 pages.
This chapter contributes by proposing the definition, the structure and the processes of Computational Organization Management Networks (COMN) which are new organizations whose...
Contribution and Extensions
Contribution and Extensions
Farley Simon Nobre, Andrew M. Tobias, David S. Walker. © 2009. 16 pages.
This book has provided many contributions to the concepts of organizational cognition and cognitive machines, but most importantly, we have to acknowledge that this work has put...