Joana Pereira

• Master of Business Administration
• Lecturer at University of Leeds

This paper analyses why and how design-centred industrial firms with internal design teams contract external designers. This research is based on an exploratory multiple case study methodology, with a sample of five highly reputable design-centred industrial firms, operating in hypercompetitive industries. While some results challenge the mainstrea...

This paper aims at understanding whether producer cooperatives are efficient organisational forms, through the lenses of Transaction Cost Economics. To accomplish this goal I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, why do cooperatives exist, which transactions should producer cooperatives govern, how are they internally organised, and wher...

This paper explores the imprinting of entrepreneurs' motivations on the practices and processes of enterprises. We investigate the question in the context of creative industries (CIs) as an extreme case of entrepreneurial motivations (EMs) prevalence. We analyse the EM of 14 founders of design consultancies. Three EMs emerge: self‐fulfilment, freed...

In the post-Bitcoin era, many cryptocurrencies with a variety of goals and purposes have emerged in the digital arena. This article aims to map cryptocurrency protocols across three main defining dimensions, which are governance decentralization, security, and scalability. We theorize about the organizational and technological features that impact...

Blockchain technology has been receiving much public attention recently, promising to disintermediate transactions through decentralized governance and distributed data-infrastructures. However, the majority of the previous studies have focused on the technical aspects, and overlooked blockchain investigation from a managerial perspective. In this...

This paper studies the processes and mechanisms that enable online communities to coordinate and transform contesting contributions from multiple heterogeneous members with distinct visions and knowledge into productive outputs. Our research studies the OpenStreetMap communities of Belarus and Portugal, building on the analysis of 100 arguable case...

This study explores the different motivations and learning styles of students using a game for revision in a leading university. The research is unique in attempted to understand the coaction of motivation and learning style through rich qualitative empirical work, which unpacks the opinion of game users and their inherent real-life experience of e...

This study explores the different motivations and learning styles of students using a game for revision in a leading university. The research is unique in attempted to understand the coaction of motivation and learning style through rich qualitative empirical work, which unpacks the opinion of game users and their inherent real-life experience of e...

This paper aims at understanding whether producer cooperatives are efficient organisational forms, through the lenses of Transaction Cost Economics. To accomplish this goal I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, why do cooperatives exist, which transactions should producer cooperatives govern, how are they internally organised, and wher...

Hybrid organisations, which embody conflicting logics in the core of their activities, are widely spread in our modern societies. Because they combine different fields of knowledge, hybrids may be able to solve market and societal problems in unconventional and innovative ways. Therefore, researchers have been extensively using hybrids as a setting...

The 18th academic conference hosted by the Design Management Institute (DMI) of Boston, Mass., attracted a greater number of papers than any previous conference. The event was intended to highlight the importance of the contribution of design to organisational effectiveness and success, particularly in the ways that it can improve the new product d...