Founded in 2003 CEGE - Research Centre in Management and Economics - is the research center that frames the academic research conducted within the School of Economics and Management/Católica Porto Business School (CPBS). CEGE has 36 researchers and is specialized in three key research areas in which it aims at achieving excellence. The key research areas of CEGE are: (a) Markets and Policy; (b) Service Management and Performance; and (c) Sustainability and Ethics. These are areas in which the members of the center have produced research of excellent quality published in top journals in the past while also engaging in ongoing activities that convert research results into impact in business and society through applied laboratories within CPBS such as the Service Management Laboratory (SLab) or the Leadership Laboratory (LEAD.lab). The expertise achieved in these areas is also used by the Centro de Estudos de Gestão e Economia Aplicada (CEGEA) the consultancy unit of CPBS. CEGE combines Management and Economics and bridges academic outputs and real society through its interdisciplinary key research areas.