Luisa Cagica Carvalho

Institute Polytechnic of Setúbal - School of Business and Administration · Economics and Management

Access to financing for micro, small, and medium entrepreneurs continues to face obstacles and difficulties. This scenario becomes even more evident when we refer to the situation of the under-development countries, where the financial system still shows tendencies that do not favor the productive sector. Thus, this chapter begins by identifying th...

The relevance of entrepreneurship in the economic systems of the regions is well documented. Recently, a new concept has emerged in the entrepreneurship literature, entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE), to analyze the dynamics of a given territory and its outputs and impact upon entrepreneurship. Moreover, it is also well documented the close relationshi...

Resumen En los últimos años, está siendo consensuada cada vez más la importancia en lo que respecta a la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa para las organizaciones con el objetivo de alcanzar un desarrollo sostenible. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar la divulgación de información sobre Responsabilidad Social Corporativa a través de...

Purpose-Based on the socio-technical systems theory, this study aims to investigate the impact of management innovation (MI) on organisational performance (OP), as well as the mediating role of technology (TEC) use and service innovation (SI) in linking MI and OP. Design/methodology/approach-The research data was derived from 163 knowledge-intensiv...

Technologies that involve great part of firms are those based on high analytics information (HAI) technologies as an essential resource for operating different types of businesses. Through HAI patents analysis filed between 2000 and 2020 in the main patent offices in the world, this study aims to understand whether assignees have been developing HA...

Objective of the study: To analyze the influence of contingency factors (environment, structure, organizational size and organizational culture) on the 100 best-ranked Brazilian municipalities in the 2020 Connected Smart Cities Ranking.Methodology/approach: Data were collected from: Atlas of Human Development in Brazil (AtlasBR); Federal Administra...

This study aims to analyse the entrepreneurial intentions of students comparing Latvia and other Central and Eastern European countries. The investigation examines the impact of factors of micro and macro level as well as entrepreneurial education. The paper contains both qualitative and quantitative analysis including inferential and descriptive s...

A sociedade atual baseada no conhecimento valoriza o papel da inovação. Esta contribui para uma sociedade mais empreendedora e geradora de mais crescimento económico, de mais emprego e mais competitiva. Assim, a educação para o empreendedorismo ganha uma relevância cada vez maior, e a aquisição de atitudes e competências empreendedoras por parte do...

Entrepreneurial ecosystems remain under-theorised and conceptually fragmented, making it challenging to comprehend their disposition and performance in the business process. Accordingly, in this research, we explored how knowledge sharing flows through entrepreneurial ecosystems to make analyses and trials to assess new ventures' creation, continui...

Em épocas de alterações profundas e rápidas é imperioso que as organizações consigam atender ao conjunto de desafios com que se deparam. Temas Emergentes em Ciências Empresariais – Vol. 1 – Novas abordagens nas áreas científicas da Contabilidade, Finanças, Sistemas de Informação, Metodologias e Práticas Pedagógicas é um contributo de um significati...

Em épocas de alterações profundas e rápidas é imperioso que as organizações consigam atender ao conjunto de desafios com que se deparam. Temas Emergentes em Ciências Empresariais – Novas abordagens nas áreas científicas dos Recursos Humanos, Marketing e Turismo, Empreendedorismo e Inovação é um contributo de um significativo número de especialistas...

Em épocas de alterações profundas e rápidas é imperioso que as organizações consigam atender ao conjunto de desafios com que se deparam. Temas Emergentes em Ciências Empresariais – Vol. 1 – Novas abordagens nas áreas científicas da Contabilidade, Finanças, Sistemas de Informação, Metodologias e Práticas Pedagógicas é um contributo de um significati...

The aim of this study is to test and compare the efficient market hypothesis, in its weak form, on the stock markets of Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Japan, the UK and the USA from 2 September 2019 to 2 September 2020. This study is based on the following research question: has the global pandemic (COVID-19) reduced the ef...

Knowledge-intensive significantly contribute to technological development. This paper aims to explore technological routes (TR) on high analytics information (HAI) technologies for sake of technological forecasting through social network analysis (SNA) in a patent database from 2001 to 2020. Applying search path link count (SPLC) algorithm, this st...

Balanced development requires the involvement of all stakeholders. In this context, the smart economy will also create innovative mechanisms, especially digital mechanisms that allow optimizing solutions. The chapter aims to analyze the situation in Portugal and Brazil regarding initiatives to raise awareness of the problem by the fact that they ar...

This chapter aims to discuss the concepts of digital innovation that bring social impacts. In order to develop this approach, this chapter presents a literature review with the main topics and a case study. The case fits in with digitalization with social impact and reports the case of ColorAdd, which is a tool with a revolutionary, simple, and uni...

This paper proposed a comprehensive model to examine the impacts of management and technological innovation on firm performance in knowledge-intensive business services. The main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between innovation type and non-financial performance and financial performance, based on an empirical study coverin...

As hyper-personalization has yet to be perfected, developing hyper-personalized strategies presents a critical challenge; due to this, optimizing hyper-personalization and designing new processes and business models takes center stage in tourism and hospitality to reach new levels of customer service and experience through the introduction and deve...

The organizing committee of the IV Scientific-Pedagogical Conference on Innovation and Sustainability is pleased to inform you that the ISBN: 978-989-53236-5-4 Proceeding is now available on: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/38973

Digitalization is a topic of circular economy in the context of the ReSolve framework. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of social organizations can provide added value in order to foster integrative solutions. The aim of this chapter is aligned with the literature about ICT, circular economy, and sustainabi...

This chapter aims to review the tech evolution in hospitality, from services to eServices, that will provide hyper-personalization in the hospitality field. In the past, the services were provided by hotels through diligent staff and supported by standardized and weak technology that was not allowed to provide personalized services by itself. There...

This study aims to analyze the impact of the 2020 global pandemic on the bankingsectors of the countries of France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain for theperiod from January 1, 2018, to August 10, 2020, with the sample being split into two subperiods: first subperiod from January 2018 to August 2019 (Pre-Covid); and the second...

Studies about success and unsuccess factors for startups are still relevant due to the dispersion of the literature about it. Additionally, it remains important to understand how some usual tools used by the entrepreneurs could support a better diagnosis of the success conditions in an earlier phase of the business, avoiding or preventing the unsuc...

Access to financing for micro, small, and medium entrepreneurs continues to face obstacles and difficulties. This scenario becomes even more evident when we refer to the situation of the African continent, where the financial system still shows tendencies that do not favor the productive sector. Under the Envolver project, which aims to promote the...

Distance education became a reality, increasingly based on higher education. The pandemic context (COVID-19) that devastated many countries and the whole world in general proved this reality and presented a different proposal in education and even in people's lives. It has changed the educational system, and there has been much discussion about e-l...

Mining activities have turned many areas of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) into extreme environments with high concentrations of metal(loid)s. These harsh conditions can inhibit or reduce the colonization and/or development of most vegetation. However, some species or populations have developed ecophysiological responses to tolerate stress factors a...

This study aims to analyze the impact of the 2020 global pandemic on the banking sectors of the countries of France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain for the period from January 1, 2018, to August 10, 2020, with the sample being split into two subperiods: first subperiod from January 2018 to August 2019 (Pre-Covid); and the seco...

Innovativeness is a characteristic of digital technologies (DT), and they have been assuming an important role in economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Therefore, DT are relevant contributors for sustainable development goal (SDG) achievements. This study aims to compare the preference for artificial intelligence-driven digital technologi...

La Responsabilidad Social se ha convertido en una pieza clave para las organizaciones. Al mismo tiempo que la sociedad exige cada vez más el acceso a la información, esto se vuelve particularmente importante en el caso de las organizaciones públicas. El uso de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC) es una forma fácil y eficaz...

This study seeks to investigate the entrepreneurial perceptions among the students regarding their professional careers analyzing macro, micro and entrepreneurial education factors in Latvia, including the analysis of gender differences. The research is based on the analysis of data collected through a survey. The paper uses statistical analysis in...

Purpose – This study aims to analyse the role and importance of trader’s competencies in the context of municipal markets. It is proposed to define the ideal competences profile of traders (ICPT) in a municipal market – Livramento Market of Setubal, Portugal – attending to their key competencies, to assess the degree of similarity between the actua...

The concept of social innovation refers to the development and implementation of adequate and sustainable solutions to the current social and environmental problems of economies. To this end, social innovation is increasingly based on business models on the fourth sector that create or capture social value and generate positive impacts on society,...

The Fourth Sector has large potential to move the traditional economic models to the innovative ones, which serves to improve social and environmental objectives. Social innovation and entrepreneurship in the Fourth Sector are generating economic benefits while adequately addressing the challenges toward the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development....

Entrepreneurship and innovation are positively related (Zhao 2005; Kyvik 2018; Sant et al [...]

We are facing a new trend in doing business moving beyond corporate social responsibility where new hybrid business models are formed to address a variety of societal and environmental challenges. The fourth sector can be defined as the group of organizations, models, and practices whose objective is to solve the great problems of the twenty-first...

This chapter analyzes the efficiency, in its weak form, in the international exchange markets from January 1st, 2019 to July 21st, 2020. The results show that the foreign exchange markets show very high levels of integration, which may jeopardize portfolio diversification as well as possible hedging operations. The detrended fluctuation analysis (D...

This chapter aims to analyze portfolio diversification in the US, Europe, UK, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and the gold market (XAU) from January 2019 to July 2020. The results indicate that the markets have very significant causalities, which may call into question efficient portfolio diversification strategies. The DFA exponent coefficients suggest t...

Este livro apresenta uma visão geral da inovação e da sustentabilidade no contexto das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação. Interligando os diversos conceitos relevantes, aborda ao nível da inovação, a emergência de modelos de negócio assentes no digital. Ao nível da sustentabilidade apresenta as várias dimensões - económica, social, ambiental...

Several anthropic activities can increase environmental concentrations of metal(loid)s, which can be uptaken by plants. However, nature has strategies to overcome these harsh conditions and some plants thrive, withstanding stress factors associated with metal(loid)s, slowly colonizing these contaminated areas. In face of environmental changes allie...

Smart cities are emerging all over the world and are a promise to combat various problems currently faced by cities. This context makes smart cities a relevant topic for research. This study aims to identify which factors influence the development of sustainable smart cities. The empirical study uses a sample with 73 European cities and applies a m...

To answer the research question we used Gregory and Hansen's methodology (1996), and the VAR Granger causality/block exogeneity Wald tests model. Findings-The results indicate that the markets have very significant integrations and causalities, that is, gold and silver do not function as safe havens for the diversification of portfolios in Latin Am...

Case-Studies about Public and Non-Profit Marketing

This research aims to identify the learning styles of Portuguese higher education students in business administration, and in return to enable the identification of effective ways to foster the teaching-learning process. The research is divided into two parts: a theoretical approach and the analysis and discussion of the results obtained in light o...

Due to the growing field of management innovation, there is a need to synthesise and reflect on the existing literature, inventory the work done and identify new courses and challenges. To reconcile prior research, scientific publications, intellectual structure and trends related to the research on management innovation were mapped; namely the res...

As family business research has expanded and evolved there has been a growing need to incorporate new methodological approaches in the field. This article introduces the use of Campbell’s monomyth as a technique for narrative smoothing when structuring interview data, particularly that relating to entrepreneurial trajectories. The authors exemplify...

Designing circular economy (CE) implies the adoption of a set of circular principles that support a society for the future. Understanding how CE principles influence attitudes to consume green products is a key factor aligned with consumer trends. This chapter aims to study how CE principles influence attitudes to consume green products in a partic...

The Covid 19 Pandemic is causing impacts in various contexts of economic and social activity worldwide. In this context, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have also had to adapt and move quickly to distance education. This rapid transition and in most cases without preparation of teachers, students and the very structure of these organizations h...

Estudos sobre estilos de aprendizagem tornaram-se populares nas décadas de 70 e 80 e até hoje muitos professores defendem que a utilização de uma abordagem de ensino alinhada com os estilos de aprendizagem dos estudantes contribua para o desempenho acadêmico, entretanto, pouco vem sendo tratado sobre como apoiar professores na aplicação dos instrum...

The international tourism industry has seen increased growth in the past few years as millions of individuals continue to travel worldwide. As one of the world’s largest economic sectors, creating jobs, driving exports, and generating prosperity worldwide, hospitality and tourism management needs to continually be explored in order to update best b...

Until 2015, air transportation in the Autonomous Region of the Azores faced a strong situation of monopoly as only two airlines where operating on domestic routes between the mainland, Lisbon and Porto, and the archipelago. From a consumer's point of view, there were only two main differences regarding airfares, the so called “resident fare,” which...

Students seldom contemplate the importance of sustainability in family businesses. Indeed, the economic dimension of sustainability using performance statements remains a neglected field of study. The case of a Spain family firm in the tourism sector, Meliá Hotels International, is used to introduce students to sustainability analyses through the s...

Collaboration between companies, especially for SMEs, can increase their ability to compete in new global markets. The emergence of new wine-producing countries over recent decades allows to evaluate its impact on the performance of a collaborative supply chain in countries with wine production tradition. This chapter describes the collaboration in...

The world´s population is growing, day by day, and the latest trends in pertinent magazines show people preferring cities more and more than the countryside. This brings us to take a closer look on the effects brought with this urban sprawl. Cities grow in a dimension; city planners have to excogitate more and more innovative city concepts and solu...

The main objective of this final degree project is to analyze the information that the city councils of the 50 capitals of Spanish provinces offer to entrepreneurs through their institutional pages, using the content analysis technique. The results obtained corroborate the existence of an implication, although still modest, of the municipalities of...

The Youth Start – Entrepreneurial Challenges Project (USTART), is a project co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, that promotes practical experiential learning programmes at the compulsory school level by developing an innovative, transferable, and scalable programme through the collaboration of high-level public authorities of Aus...

Digitalization is more than a trend. It is a reality that influences firms, citizens, and organizations in general. Concerning education, digitalization becomes a key issue. Students try to use technology as a facilitator for learning. Digital tools are largely appreciated by new generations, particularly the millenniums. Telling stories is an anci...

Digitalization is a topic of circular economy in the context of the ReSolve framework. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of social organizations can provide added value in order to foster integrative solutions. The aim of this chapter is aligned with the literature about ICT, circular economy, and sustainabi...

This work aims to approach the reasons for Business Incubators (BINCs) to replace Business Plan by Business Model Canvas (BMC) for creating and accelerating the startup process. The main value of this study lies in its empirical appliance to test the adoption of business modeling for startups in two different entrepreneurial ecosystems. A qualitati...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an e-business assessment framework for organizations that aim to enhance the effectiveness of their online presence and maximize the benefits that result from it. The framework is based on three main pillars derived from the academic literature research: e-marketing strategies, customer relationship m...

Innovation is one of the pillars that sustains the productive dynamism of a company, region or country. This research aims in particular to identify the barriers to innovation that influence the innovative process of Extremaduran knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) companies and their subsequent performance in innovation. Data were obtaine...

Abstract The Youth Start Project promotes experiential learning programs in compulsory school education, developing an innovative, transferable and scalable program through the collaboration of the public teaching authorities of Austria, Luxembourg, Portugal and Slovenia. The modules of the Learning program promote the development of cognitive and...

Purpose Corporate social responsibility orientation (CSRO) is considered a crucial strategy to enhance long-term competitiveness around the world, and it is starting to be a broader issue in Africa. Based on recent works addressing the CSRO–performance relationship in countries outside the African continent, this paper aims to assess CRSO in North...

Students seldom contemplate the importance of sustainability in family businesses. Indeed, the economic dimension of sustainability using performance statements remains a neglected field of study. The case of a Spain family firm in the tourism sector, Meliá Hotels International, is used to introduce students to sustainability analyses through the s...