João Carlos Correia Leitão

University of Beira Interior | UBI · Department of Management and Economics

This study explores the contributions of different dimensions of the intellectual capital of higher education institutions (ICHEIs) to their performance, incorporating the previously unexplored dimension of quality of life (QoL) as a performance measure, and correspondingly taking into account the connection between the Theory of Stakeholders and t...

Overall, the literature strongly validates the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis and the decoupling of the economy regarding energy intensity and raw materials. However, there is no assessment of whether such evidence derives from the non-linearities of macroeconomic fundamentals from considering a simultaneous supply-demand market perspective...

This study measures the output (start-ups) of an entrepreneurial ecosystem and estimates the moderating effect of institutional transparency on the relationship between entrepreneurial ecosystem and start-ups, applied to the context of Portuguese municipalities. Using factor analysis, a composite index of the entrepreneurial ecosystem is constructe...

This study presents a systematic literature review aimed at mapping the main areas of study on the relationship between higher education institutions' strategic alliances and sustainable entrepreneurship. To that end, it carried out three complementary analyses: topic mapping, co-citation, and overlay visualization, in order to provide a comprehen...

Climate change and implementation of the European Green Deal have raised the demand for ecologically friendly financial products and green finance, particularly fixed-income instruments such as green bonds. Given the scarcity of research on the simultaneous effects of market and accounting-based characteristics when combined with green business inn...

We are pleased to invite academics, researchers, and practitioners to contribute chapters to an upcoming edited volume titled: Innovation Districts: Navigating the Future Landscapes of Urban Development and Innovation. The study of innovation districts (ID) is critical in today's rapidly evolving economic and urban landscapes. The ID characterized...

The present study maps and classifies industrial districts in Portugal, identifying the features of specialization and the current capacity of industrialization. It employs an adaptation of the algorithm developed by Canello and Pavone (2016) in 308 Portuguese municipalities based on six phases. In terms of methodological innovation, a new concentr...

In our paper, we examine the simultaneous impact of the agglomeration economy (AE) and the innovation ecosystem (IE) on the competency development of SMEs in the Piemonte region in three high-tech sectors: aerospace, mechatronics, and automotive. This study focuses on the critical challenge for SMEs: survival and market position expansion amidst ra...

The article aims to assess the connection between sustainable leadership and sustainable entrepreneurship, by providing a framework based on the main findings of the clusters relating the effectiveness of that connection. Using the Web of Science databases and applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 149 articles were retrieved and analysed. The...

The evidence reveals that for innovation followers, ambidexterity has a greater influence on the practice of eco-innovation, marketing innovation, and product innovation. For moderate innovators, ambidexterity has a greater influence on the practice of product innovation, process innovation, and eco-innovation. Concerning modest innovators, ambidex...

The current economic crisis and the COVID-19 have had severe consequences on individuals that lost their job and got anxious on career. The uncertainty on the future and career anxiety may have a negative impact on the future career decisions-making and entrepreneurial intentions. Entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship in particular, can not onl...

Without employees, there are no organizations. In healthcare organizations, it is employees who define the services and the impact these will have on the health status of the people who consume them. These employees organizationally are translated as Human Resources. Thus, the search for a model for the Management of Human Resources in healthcare w...

Public institutions’ leadership and intellectual capital (IC) are vast areas of study. The study of these themes is frequent but very dispersed due to the complexity and diversity of public institutions. The studies focused on specific themes of this large area without any general and systematic approach to the subject. In this study, we intend to...

Leadership has a responsibility to subordinates and organisations, and abusive leadership needs further study to determine its effects on leaders, subordinates, and organisations. Abusive leadership is associated with different terms and generated by different situations, so the aim of this study is to establish a unified framework of the anteceden...

To be successful, institutions need motivated employees to achieve their goals, especially in contexts of economic crisis. As such, an effective leader is fundamental to mobilize and influence people. Executive leadership is an essential component of social institutions (SIs)’ success. This study is based on a systematic literature review, with the...

In the field of management and psychology, recent years have seen increased interest in the topic of leadership profiles. This research contains a bibliometric analysis followed by a literature review with a narrative approach on servant and positive leadership, using rstudio software with the bibliometrix function package, aiming to respond better...

This research aims to provide an overview of thematic events and their impacts on organizational performance. The mapping of the theme under analysis was prepared based on a systematic literature review of 171 scientific articles published in several reference journals. Regarding methodology, two analyses were used. The first is a co-citation analy...

Purpose This systematic literature review aims to identify the main areas of study related to co-creation and innovation in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), as well as the main external and internal stakeholders with whom co-creation is made. Design/methodology/approach The empirical approach is based on 258 articles selected from the Web of...

Considering the importance of Digital Transformation (DT) for better performance in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and the role played by leadership in the DT process, this study has a twin aim. The first is to analyse how DT can influence different performance dimensions of State HEIs. The second is to analyse the possible moderating effect...

Using a multi-layer review based on stakeholder, institutional and legitimacy theories, the current study presents and empirically analyses a novel conceptual framework addressing the relationship between sustainable development practices, internationalisation and students' satisfaction in public higher education institutions. Based on participants...

Universities are crucial in empowering a sustainable campus through the adoption of sustainable development practices (SDP), which are expressed in terms of economic, organizational , environmental, and social dimensions. Previous findings point out that students' satisfaction ensures universities' sustainability. Both SDP and students' satisfactio...

We confidently approach current issues in Green Finance (GF) from the perspective of an international organization, where the first author has previous experience as a support assistant. In fact, the economy of the EU (European Union) is deeply involved in the changing needs related to the dramatic consequences of climate change and environmental d...

Key topics and research questions: We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions that address one or more of the key topics listed below corresponding to the sections of the edited volume. The contributions can be theoretical essays, literature surveys, systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, content analysis, social network analysi...

Call for Chapters, Springer Edited Volume Title: Global Energy Transition and Sustainable Development Challenges: Models, Scenarios, Materials, Technologies and Regions Editors: Tessaleno Devezas, Atlantica University, Lisbon, Portugal and St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation João Leitão, University of Beira I...

Water security is a hot topic all over the world, due to global warming, climate change, natural calamities such as droughts and floods, overuse of water, and other factors. Water issues have been scientifically investigated from several perspectives, namely institutional, economic, social, environmental, managerial, and technological. However, the...

Water security is a hot topic all over the world, due to global warming, climate change, natural calamities such as droughts and floods, overuse of water, and other factors. Water issues have been scientifically investigated from several perspectives, namely institutional, economic, social, environmental, managerial, and technological. However, the...

Call for Papers, IECER 2023, Track: "Entrepreneurship and the Learning Region". Key topics and research questions of the track: - Civic universities and regional knowledge spillovers; - Smart Specialization Strategies for Sustainability (4S) and learning regions; - Cognitive capital and learning regions; - Diversification, complexity, embeddednes...

Revisiting the traditional tripartite mission of Higher Education Institutions, a gap was found in the literature concerning the role played by digitalization in fostering civic universities. Based on a bibliometric analysis, a new taxonomy of Hybrid Civic Universities is proposed, in which open science and open innovation allow universities to bec...

Our article is part of a micro-inquiry into the small reality of co-ownership to formulate hypotheses on the evaluation of behaviors (non-pharmaceutical precautionary measures) in addition to pharmaceutical actions put in place by the authorities against future pandemics. Our article takes its first steps in the fact that one of the most common way...

Purpose Adopting the research concept of socioemotional wealth (SEW) as applied to family firm leaders, this study aims to analyse the literature on succession and corporate governance processes in family firms in keeping with this still developing concept and thereby not only contributing to advancing knowledge on this field but also proposing a c...

There are many definitions of the concept of Social Capital (SC). A high level of consistency in sustainable management and accounting literature agreed in considering SC as the resources, knowledge, and information that an individual, group of people, or an organization accesses through social networks within and between the organizations, commun...

During 2020, EIT Food with University of Warsaw carried out a comparative analysis of agri-food innovation policies in 17 countries of EIT Food RIS. During 2021, the data collected by the 17 experts, have been further summarised, by an external expert into 17 Country fiches and 17 Gap Analysis. Another part of the material is an outcome of i...

Research defines coopetition as a mix of cooperation and competition among firms oriented towards producing innovation, and generating net value added or economic benefit. The importance of studying the determinants of firms’ innovative behaviour, based on those coopetition relationships, has warranted increasing attention from scholars. However, t...

October 1973 marked an important turning point that paved the way toward our modern global socioeconomic system, when the members of the OPEC proclaimed the well-known oil embargo, during which oil prices rocketed from US$ 3 per barrel to about US$ 12 per barrel globally by the end of embargo in March 1974, an increase of about 400%. This embargo w...

Using a stochastic frontier analysis log-linear function and comparable data for 26 economies over the 2008–2020 period, the relationship between selected socioeconomic indicators of energy poverty and the eco-efficiency measures for a sample of European countries, is examined. Concerning selected energy poverty determinants, the main empirical fin...

This study evaluates the nexus between renewable and non-renewable energy, carbon dioxide emissions, labor force, gross capital formation, human capital, trade openness, crude oil prices, urban and rural access to electricity, on the economic growth. In empirical terms, we used aggregate data for the 2005–2018 period, in 22 Asian and 22 African eco...

This study analyzes the relationship between burnout and quality of work life among municipal workers subjected to higher levels of stress and emotional exhaustion, impacting their occupational health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a sample of 459 municipal workers, the relationship between burnout and quality of work life is tested...

The way entrepreneurship occurs is an important determinator of its success in the marketplace. This means studying context is an integral part of any entrepreneurship study. In this chapter, we examine what context means and how location, time, and culture are important. This is useful as a foundation for exploring the role of context in entrepren...

This systematic literature review identifies the different research paths that help us to understand the emerging aspects that explain leadership presence and its importance to drive intellectual capital to innovation and internationalization. It congregates research articles collected from the Web of Science database, within management or business...

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is devoted to the “Frontiers in Occupational Health and Safety Management” [...]

Brazil is a large country in South America with an interesting history. For this reason, it makes it an interesting context in which to study entrepreneurship. This chapter focuses on the role of Brazilian entrepreneurship in the global economy. Thereby taking into account political and historical factors that have contributed to economic and socia...

This research chapter uses a self-anchored scale that aims to enhance the importance attributed to the promotion of an “entrepreneurial culture” among university students in Brazil. This last is seen as a crucial reference point to ensure the new Brazilian generations will deal with higher awareness of their future educational and professional deve...

Purpose This study aims to analyse the efficiency of public higher education institutions (HEIs) through teaching and learning (T&L), research and technology (R&T) and social responsibility (SR) activities. It also aims to assess the external factors influencing the efficiency of T&L, R&T and SR, and influence of this efficiency on sustainable regi...

Context plays an important role in entrepreneurship and this is increasingly being acknowledged both in research, practice, and policy considerations. Where, why, and how entrepreneurship occurs can be considered when studying the effects of context. This book focuses on the role of context in entrepreneurship by analyzing different factors, includ...

This study analyses whether founders’ human capital and social capital affect the sustainable growth and exporting performance of new companies. This is achieved through a sample of Portuguese data gathered from the Staff Register database and a set of data on international commerce, covering 26,990 companies created in 2002, which were followed un...

Latin American and Iberian entrepreneurship represents a special kind of innovation, risk-taking, and futuristic business activity based on a common cultural heritage. There has been an increased interest in entrepreneurship related to specific cultural groups, and this edited book will be among the first to provide a Latin American and Iberian per...

This study assesses whether the association of place-branded foods and the adoption of responsible and sustainable management practices (e.g., quality management, environmental management, and corporate social responsibility) influence the financial performance of regional restaurants linked to the land of origin. The data collected from 265 region...

A Economia da Empresa é uma disciplina necessária para a tomada de decisão estratégica, com fundamentos teóricos e analíticos, assim como para o reforço das competências empreendedoras e inovadoras de economistas, gestores, marketeers, engenheiros e outros profissionais envolvidos em processos complexos de organização, gestão, inovação e aprendizag...

O mercado de trabalho, além de complexo e multidimensional, sofre a influência de diferentes políticas públicas e é permanentemente confrontado com enormes desafios e transformações de matriz social, económica e tecnológica. A presente obra tem dois intuitos fundamentais: em primeiro lugar, proceder a uma caraterização abrangente e detalhada das ev...

Entrepreneurship happens in a variety of contexts but is closely linked to the culture, cultural heritage, and history of a region. The aim of this chapter is to examine the role of entrepreneurship in Latin America and Iberia, thereby highlighting the unique way specific social and political conditions have affected entrepreneurial rates and procl...

The growing attention paid to the performance of state Higher Education Institutions (HEI), caused by the growing demands and changes in these institutions’ ways of acting, has contributed to valorization of leadership as an instrument guiding their line of action, able to stimulate their success and with positive impacts on HEIs’ performance. This...

Los productos agroalimentarios regionales, al margen de su vital función alimentaria, siempre tuvieron un papel preponderante sobre la forma y el modo en que las personas se relacionan en, y entre, los diferentes territorios. En este artículo se presentan los resultados de una investigación, de tipo exploratorio y descriptivo, llevada a cabo sobre...

Los productores agrícolas y agroindustriales ibéricos, por cuenta de la creciente globalización de los mercados, luchan por evidenciar sus productos en entornos cada vez más competitivos a la vez que, en muchos casos, son también el principal elemento diferenciador de sus territorios de origen y motor de su sostenibilidad. En este artículo, se proc...

This review aims to identify the typologies of business incubators (BI) and business accelerators (BA) and to define a taxonomy integrating both the BI's and BA's characteristics and services portfolio, facilitating the adoption of open innovation practices. A systematic literature review (SLR) was carried out encompassing the research topic concer...

Local agri-food products are one of the most important differentiating assets of the rural territories of Portugal and Spain. They are often considered part of the representative cultural capital of their home territories, country, society, and history. They are also a tourist resource, with the potential to promote creative tourism activities that...

Organizational contexts demand superhuman productivity, and work-related illnesses are becoming increasingly common. While there is no change in companies” strategies from savage capitalism to a humanized management, alternatives are required for employees” well-being. Spirituality and mindful tourism can be one of the options for fostering it, sim...

Innovation should by design have a strategic purpose in order to make a difference to society. The strategic purpose can have an associated positive or negative connotation depending on its impact and usefulness. The aim of this chapter is to understand how strategic innovation can be utilised for entrepreneurial purposes thereby adding to the exis...

This contributed volume introduces the innovative landscapes and business models used in tourism entrepreneurship initiatives of Portugal and Spain. It provides benchmarks for entrepreneurial initiatives covering tourism services, place-branded tourism, social networks, spiritual tourism, cross-border tourism initiatives, and tourism in low-density...

Purpose: Considering the current importance of leadership, digital transformation and performance in the changes state higher education institutions have been subject to, this study aims to present an analysis of how these three concepts have been related in the literature. Design/methodology/approach: This study proposes to study the state-of-t...

Mindful Travel trends have been increasing in the last years. This kind of spiritual tourism has been addressed as a source of well-being. We are in a context of people sickening from work-related pathologies, so the search for well-being urging. Moreover, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, tourist demand was reoriented to the safest destinations and ex...

This chapter highlights the importance of tourism for the sustainable development and economic growth of the Iberian Peninsula, both as a destination market and as a destination for investment and technological innovation, particularly through the accelerated digitalization of business models. The importance of fostering opportunity entrepreneurshi...

The tourism industry is crucial to the competitiveness of the Spanish and Portuguese economy. This chapter focuses on how tourism is becoming increasingly innovative in order to derive better performance outcomes. The need for a better contextual understanding of tourism based on country contexts will be discussed. This will enable the emergence of...

Purpose This paper aims to propose an explorative metamodel of the key organizational competences management and presents a Web-based tool (Co.S.M.O. © Competences Software Management for Organizations) for all-around assessment of the identified competences. Design/methodology/approach Building on the Great Eight Competencies Model- GEC, the Euro...

Tourism is one of the sectors that have undergone substantial change for several decades and in particular due to the restrictions and change in national and international policies since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book focuses on how tourism has been innovative, especially in light of these changes, by providing new and novel ways...

This article studies how in mining multinationals the shareholders' perspective of the creation of economic value combines with social and environmental values in the perspective of the local community, following a glocal corporate social responsibility founded on a simultaneous exercise of shared values co-creation. To do so, a case study is prese...

Although Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) develop and announce actions related to sustainable development (SD), these actions and the results achieved are often not perceived by their stakeholders. This article aims to analyse how the SD of HEIs can contribute to better development and regional transformation, through the promotion of sustainab...

This edited book focuses on strategic aspects of innovation in the context of resilience during and after a crisis. It investigates the strategies that firms utilize in order to cope with change especially in the competitive global marketplace. The book contends that, by design, entrepreneurship is strategic and innovative in every decision and act...

The protection of geographical indications and respective use of PDO, PGI or TSG quality labels for quality regional agri-food products is a factor that induce development in the European regions that strengthen the endogenous potential of their territories. As such, the present work tries to understand the existing relationship between these produ...

This empirical study analyses the effects of institutional, economic, and socio-economic determinants on total entrepreneurial activity in the contexts of developed and developing countries. It fills a gap in the literature, regarding the lack of empirical studies about the relationships among entrepreneurial activity, corruption, commercial freedo...

This study is focused on assessing the effects of burnout as a moderator of the relationship between employees’ quality of work life (QWL) and their perceptions of their contribution to the organization’s productivity by integrating the QWL factors into the trichotomy of (de)motivators of productivity in the workplace. The empirical findings result...

Values guide actions and judgements, form the basis of attitudinal and behavioral processes, and have an impact on leaders’ decision-making, contributing to more sustainable performance. Through a bibliometric study and content analysis, 2038 articles were selected from Scopus, from the period 1994–2021, presenting global research tendencies on the...

This study analyzes the relationships and dynamics between material production, foreign direct investment (FDI), economic activity, carbon productivity, the stock market, and green tech, both in a global and European context, using panel vector autoregressive methodology (PVAR). The empirical evidence obtained for the Global Group reveals four sign...

The recent economic crisis that lasted between 2007 and 2009 was predetermined not only by the presence of “bubbles” in the financial sector, but also by the allometric character of the sectorial development. This structural imbalance, which accumulated over the years, was the result of a lack of conjugation between the new technological platform,...

Well-being is increasingly positioned as the completion of a physical and mental condition related to the social environment in which a person lives and works. Work-related well-being is a component of subjective well-being. This component of well-being is influenced by physiological and psychosomatic components of work and the workplace, still une...

This study assesses the efficiency of higher education institutions (HEIs), considering the social, environmental and cultural factors (pro-sustainability), and at the same time examines how this efficiency can influence regional quality of life (QoL). The study adopts a two-step methodology. In the first step, the standard Data Envelopment Analysi...

This study assesses the non-linear effects of green bonds, conventional bonds and energy commodities on the behaviour of the cap-and-trade European Union carbon market (EUETS). By estimating four models, using Markov-Switching (MS) econometric methodology, non-linearities are confirmed in dynamic behaviours, observing in the global calculation a po...

This book takes an in-depth look at the economics of digital transformation. Presenting a variety of perspectives from experts, it deals with the socioeconomic changes associated with the digital transformation of production systems. The chapters also address the impacts of digital transformation on the sustainable functioning of socioeconomic and...

The article analyzes the development of the labor market with the active integration of artificial intelligence methods in various areas of human activity: from light industry to the public sector. A hierarchical structure of artificial intelligence methods is proposed, in which emphasis is placed on machine learning and the introduction of robots...

Recent oil price developments contribute to renewed interest in the subject of oil shocks regarding international stock market performance. In this connection, this study uses a structural VAR (SVAR) model to evaluate the impact of BRENT and WTI crude oil price effects on the Dow Jones, DAX, CAC, ATHENS Composite, and PSI20 performance. The dynamic...

Generating innovation with environmental impact is crucial for firms to achieve sustainable eco-innovative performance. In the reference literature on open innovation, gaps still persist at the level of scarce and limited knowledge on the use of knowledge sources and flows, for the purpose of strengthening the eco-innovative performance of the bioe...

This study analyzes the productive structure of Portugal in the period 2013-2017, using indicators of localization and specialization applied to 308 Portuguese local authorities. From an empirical approach using a threshold model, the following indicators are used: (i) localization quotient; (ii) specialization coefficient; (iii) Theil entropy inde...

Corporate governance (CG), initially associated with private organizations, has been adopted by higher education institutions (HEIs). These are being managed more as firms in this post-standardization phase, in which the commercialization of higher education, competition and selective choice, finite resources and sustainable development (SD) have b...

High-growth firms are of particular interest for academics and policymakers due to their serious contributions to the economy, job market and knowledge creation (Coad et al., 2014). Previous studies have majorly focused on firm growth rates, their persistence over time, and their determinants. Nevertheless, open research windows still remain in pre...