Marcos Ferasso

Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Luís de Camoes · Department of Economics and Business Technologies

Our research explores how Stakeholder Capitalism can contribute to global governance to achieve all the 17 SDGs. We performed a mixed study through research synthesis, categorization, and network analysis. The main findings revealed that Stakeholder Capitalism and its principles are favorable to foster a friendly environment for achieving most of t...

Stakeholder-orientation is critical to fostering sustainable urban development through synergic collaborations among urban stakeholders. However, although Stakeholder Value Creation (SVC) has been widely explored in sustainable organizations, little attention has been given to SVC in Urban Sustainability. Thus, this research explored the conceptual...

Purpose: The study clarifies the student’s perspective in the disputed territory, to inculcate the influence of personality traits, moral obligation, entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial intentions, and these relationships mediated by perceived advantage. A framework for the judgment of entrepreneurial mindset in context of disputed territory...

Comparing companies solely based on tax incentives for R&D activities can be misleading. Hence, this research aims to assess how Portuguese companies that make use of tax incentives for R&D activities on an ongoing basis behave in terms of promoting and appropriating value through innovation. From an initial population of 3,156 companies, a final d...

Purpose – Companies around the world have been challenged by the unprecedented crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although several studies have been conducted to understand how companies are surviving these challenges, little attention has been paid to survival strategies among startups. This research intends to address this gap by exploring h...

Much of the literature has focused on marketing such as social commerce and customer intentions. We performed a literature survey and identified 73 articles that dealt with the application of the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method. However, there is a gap in the literature that needs to be addressed. In t...

Advances in Web 2.0 technologies have led to the wide adoption of electronic commerce platforms as an innovative shopping method to replace traditional shopping. However, due to pro-technology bias, scholars focus on technology adoption and slightly attention has been paid to the impact of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) on customers’ intention to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused overwhelming levels of medical waste, resulting in constant threats to environmental pollution. Furthermore, many environmental issues related to medical waste have emerged. This study aims to propose an application that allows the identification and classification of hospitals that generate overwhelming levels of m...

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/41385/enabling-the-sustainability-models-in-fashion-industry-the-role-of-green-technology-innovation

This research aimed to analyze the meanings that permeate collector’s practices when collecting fountain pens. Based on a nethnography conducted in a social network group of collectors, interactions and interviews were carried for data collection. Main findings showed that, for the collector, the object’s meanings are built on the continuous social...

The case study is one of the preferred research methods in Business Management field due two main reasons, i) it is recommended for exploring new themes, subjects, relations, or contexts, and ii) it helps the researcher to build theory from analyzed case(s). Despite the extensive contributions from different authors in management research for addre...

Responding to environmental concerns is a new indication of innovativeness, allowing businesses to achieve competitive advantages by executing innovative activities that benefit individuals and the entire community. Much intention has been retained in this perspective on “green employee creativity.” However, few studies have examined the combined e...

The creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge have been widely studied. However, studies revealing the influence of peer collaboration on the productivity of academics with widely recognized performance remain scarce. The same can be said about the size of collaboration networks and the expected range of co-authors for maximizing scholarly...

The European Union (EU) launched the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in the 1970s. Currently, a large part of CFP has been financed with the European Maritime and Fisheries Funds (FEMP). This research aims to determine whether there is a high degree of homogeneity in the levels of efficiency achieved by the fishing projects financed by European Funds...

Marketing in a family firm context has been increasingly researched over the past years. This study reviews 104 publications at the intersection of marketing and family firms to identify their theoretical roots, research trajectories, and themes and to propose new research avenues. For this, we integrated three bibliometric analyses: co-citation an...

This study unfolds the nexus between green investment (GI), the sustainable business performance (SBP) of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises by exploring the mediating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR), and green innovation (GIN) in the context of an emerging economy. A well‐structured questionnaire was used for data collection. A tota...

Purpose –This research aims to understand the behaviour of food consumption and waste in Peruvianhouseholds at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach –Exploratory research was carried out with Peruvian households, using a descriptive method design. Data were analysed using descriptive and multivariate statistics. A self...

Purpose: This research aims to analyze the knowledge structure related to the image of the cities as a tool for urban governance in Mercosur context. Method: A research synthesis was applied to analyze and discuss (1) theoretical contributions, (2) urban image ontology and deontology, and (3) the challenges of urban image as a tool for urban govern...

This research explored how strategies and knowledge are used within a medium low-tech industrial cluster to achieve competitive advantages. Firstly, a meta-bibliographical survey of literature was conducted to find theoretical gaps; secondly, an empirical case study was analysed. The dataset comprises collected interviews, several documentation and...

How high-tech SMEs use innovations as strategic factors in a multilevel context of an innovation ecosystem? Driven by this research question this theoretical essay aimed to establish theoretical relations among innovations, strategy, high-tech SMEs, and innovation ecosystems. We concluded that the reduction of uncertainties of high-tech industries...

The assumption that greater education levels of a given population leads to better employability levels thanks to higher education institutions (HEI) is widely known. However, most of the research related to HEI is focused on the determination of efficiency levels from an eminently academic perspective. The objective of this research is to carry ou...

Governmental bodies are considered a key player due to their importance in attributing financial resources and public policies to promote CE at the EE level through the regional officials (Peltoniemi & Vuori, 2004; Chertow, 2000). Governments can support initiatives in many industries by creating stimuli and policies towards CE. These governmental...

This paper presents research results that aimed to explain the multilevel mechanism of the knowledge creation process in biotechnological industrial clusters. Conducted research was cross-national research of four multiple case studies with an inferential and exploratory approach. The key finding of this paper is that the SMEs have in common a know...

The Europe 2030 project raises the need to create a growth model based on a dynamic balance between economic, social, and environmental dimensions. This involves, among other ob- jectives, redirecting the resources allocated to the Common Agricultural Plan (CAP) towards more ecological agriculture and livestock. In recent decades, two packages of E...

Water scarcity is becoming a global concern due to many causes, as its consumption. This research aimed to analyze sustainability inequalities in water consumption of EU countries. Descriptive statistics used data of four AQUASTAT periods (2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), while quotients for AQUASTAT 2017 period were calculated by a proposed econometri...

The United Nations proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to foster sustainable development, including tackling environmental challenges and adopting cleaner production practices worldwide. Green technology is crucial for the implementation of the SDGs. Currently, there is an urgent need to form a long-term sustainable investment mechani...

The field of Circular Economy (CE) is developing and bringing several contributions to scholars and practitioners in the last decades. However, the interrelations between CE and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) proved to be understudied subjects. This research aimed to unfold the knowledge structure of literature related to CE and SMEs. Ch...

This research aims to ascertain how universities' stakeholders perceive the reconfiguration of Corporate/University Governance to enable the production of green knowledge and innovation needed for sustainable development. A questionnaire was applied to 89 academic stakeholders (90% confidence level, 5% relative tolerable error), consisting of three...

We explore the linkage of specific sets of enablers for the knowledge-creation process (KCP) mobilised in innovative projects co-developed by biotech SMEs and the role of industrial clusters in easing the access to enablers. Two French and one Brazilian high-tech SMEs belonging to two biotechnological clusters were investigated. Deductive and induc...

Circular Economy and Green Economy are very popular concepts in modern scientific business management literature. Several papers already addressed both concepts as synonymous while others distinguish them differently. Based on this conceptual gap, this paper aims to shed a light on these topics by mapping how scientific literature is linking these...

Despite the relevance of Green Technology development for economic and environmental sustainability, few studies identify and explore its strengths and weaknesses so as to analyze how GT implementation can lead to more progressive environmentally-friendly economic development, or highlight the importance of green technology, the adoption process, a...

Purpose: This study is the first to explore the effects of COVID-19 outbreak on exports of goods & services, logistics performance, environmental management system (ISO 14001) certification and quality management system (ISO 9001) certification in top effected Asian countries of India, Iran, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Method/...

This research aims to ascertain how universities’ stakeholders perceive the reconfiguration of Corporate/University Governance to enable the production of green knowledge and innovation needed for sustainable development. A questionnaire was applied to 89 academic stakeholders (90% confidence level, 5% relative tolerable error), consisting of three...

This research explores how startups have put into practice causation, effectuation and/or crucible strategies in attempting to secure the survival of their businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applying an inductive approach, this research uses exploratory and comparative case studies from three Brazilian startups. The main findings reveal that:...

The COVID-19 pandemic has represented a major global challenge. In Latin America, both Brazil and Peru reported the highest levels of impact in terms of proportional infection and death rates. Within this context, this study seeks to compare food consumption and wastage patterns in Peruvian and Brazilian households. For these purposes, the authors...

How high-tech SMEs use innovations as strategic factors in a multilevel context of an innovation ecosystem? Driven by this research question, this theoretical essay aimed to establish theoretical relations among innovations, strategy, high-tech SMEs, and innovation ecosystems. We concluded that the reduction of uncertainties of high-tech industries...

The International Organization for Standardization and the Global Reporting Initiative promote their alignment with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. This convergence of standards and information is causing the selection of a certification body to register these sustainability standards to become more complicated. Therefore, this s...

After World War II, the European Union launched the Common Agricultural Policy. Since then, this programme has been adapting to the new economic and social realities that the European agricultural sector has been going through. Currently, a large part of this programe has been financed with the European Agricultural Guarantee Funds and the European...

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo configurar as parcerias estratégicas de uma startup e identificar as influências dos seus parceiros estratégicos localizados em seu ecossistema de inovação. Esta pesquisa exploratória, de corte transversal e de aproximação longitudinal, se embasa em um estudo de caso único, focalizando as redes de relações segundo pr...

During the 2010-2020 period, the European Union (EU) launched a growth strategy based on three fundamental pillars: smart growth, sustainable growth, and inclusive growth. Aiming to finance the projects related to these growth pillars, the EU used mainly the Rural Development Funds, the Structural Funds, those derived from the R&D Framework Program...

The objective of this research was to understand the consumption behavior and residential food waste in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data was collected in May 2020 using a self-administered questionnaire with 60 questions on consumption behavior, characterization of food waste, and its reduction. The target audience comprised Brazilian...

The Renewable Energy Plan for the period 2011-2020 established as a general goal to ensure that renewable sources represent at least 20% of final energy consumption in 2020, together with a minimum contribution of 10% from renewable energy sources in transportation for that year. Then, the goal of this research is to evaluate the effects of the reg...

The European Union (EU) has launched two regional investment programs of European Funds (FE) in the last decade. One covers the period 2007 to 2013 and the second from 2014 to 2020. Among the goals contained in FE regulations is that of achieving sustainable growth through the conversion of fossil energy production systems to renewable energy. This...

Family firms are the most ubiquitous form of business organization in any world economy. Family Business Review, Journal of Family Business Strategy, and Journal of Family Business Management are the three leading academic journals exclusively dedicated to this type of firms. Since the inception of the first of the three journals in 1988, these out...

Purpose: This paper aims to present a tool for helping the mindset organization of graduate students and early career researchers in the process of scientific papers writing. The canvas roadmap is proposed and summarizes the fundamental steps and main features of an academic paper in the Business Management field. Design/methodology/approach: The a...

The purpose of this manuscript is to identify the contribution of knowledge management practices for developing its dynamic capabilities adopted by a service sector company. As a case study, the data was collected from ten interviews addressed to company's employees and managers and analyzed through pattern matching technique built from literature....

Management style and decision-making create an organization’s culture and influence its performance also in the pro-ecological dimension. Therefore, this paper’s originality lies in how it explores the effect of management style to inform our understanding of decision-making when using a sustainable approach. However, the cause-and-effect relations...

Several current research on green jobs focus mostly on rural areas and they analyze this topic in the context of Circular Economy or specific industries. However, the context of multinational companies is still uncovered. This study aims to map the field by relating the Green Jobs in multinational companies in the business/ management literature. T...

The green growth paradigm has gained much attention in the last decade. Green growth not only protects the environment and human beings but also serves as a substitute for scarce natural assets. Governance institutions develop laws and policies for all industries in a country and are directly responsible for natural resource exploration and environ...

Gender equality has been one of the goals of the European Union since 1957. Article 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union authorizes the European Parliament and the Council to adopt all those measures that guarantee the application of the principle of equality opportunities and equal treatment for men and women in employment an...

Emission forecasting is vital for policy-making and emission reduction goals globally. This research aimed to perform an accurate model for forecasting and assessing CO2 emissions and the production of renewable electricity for the top two countries contributing to these emissions, the USA, and China. In this study, we employed three novel advanced...

An analysis of the maturation of the internationalization of Portuguese and Brazilian multinational corporations (MNCs) was undertaken which draws on the data of two case studies based on 30 semi-guided interviews. A content analysis technique supported by MAXQDA software found a more significant maturation of Portuguese MNCs than of Brazilian ones...

Mapeamento do ecossistema de inovação do município de Pinhalzinho/SC.

Mixing qualitative (QUAL) and quantitative (QUAN) research methods challenges researchers in the Social Sciences domain. Scholars need to address proper ways of mixing methods for research quality and academic rigor. In this context, the work of Teddlie and Tashakkori is a recommended book for any researcher who intends to use mixed methods (MM) ap...

This study investigates how the circular economy and business models are related in the current business and management literature. Based on bibliometric analytical procedures, 253 articles were retrieved from the Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect scientific databases. The articles were analyzed according to network analysis principles, and...

This research has had as goal to ascertain how universities' stakeholders perceive the reconfiguration of Corporate/University Governance to enable the production of green knowledge and innovation needed for sustainable development. A questionnaire was applied to 89 academic stakeholders (90% confidence level, 5% relative tolerable error), consisti...

Corporate sustainability is considered a fundamental paradigm and solution in creating a prosperous future for organizations. However, social sustainability issues and pandemic problems from COVID-19 have affected corporations and interrupted plans for sustainable development. To date, corporate sustainability frameworks have taken a relatively nar...

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo configurar as parcerias estratégicas de uma startup e identificar as influências dos seus parceiros estratégicos localizados em seu ecossistema de inovação. Esta pesquisa exploratória, de corte transversal e de aproximação longitudinal, se embasa em um estudo de caso único, focalizando as redes de relações segundo pr...

Climate change represents an increasing threat to society and demands collaborative actions for changing technologies, production methods, and consumption. The concept of Circular Economy (CE) emerged aiming to increase the resource use efficiency and minimize resource inputs, waste and emissions generation. However, the contribution of CE eco-inno...

This call for papers for this special edition, therefore, focuses on the theme of CE considering, although not limited to, the following themes: - CE, business models, circular business models - CE in the context of family businesses - CE, products and waste - CE in Brazilian regional contexts - CE, entrepreneurship and eco-innovations - CE,...

This research intends to contribute to the literature by exploring current changes in de-regionalization of intervention forms in clusters in order to transform them into eco-innovative industrial clusters. The regions of Emilia-Romagna (Italy) and Santa Catarina (Brazil) are analyzed as longitudinal case studies. Findings revealed that Emilia-Roma...

This study investigates how the circular economy and business models are related in the current business and management literature. Based on bibliometric analytical procedures, 253 articles were retrieved from the Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect scientific databases. The articles were analyzed according to network analysis principles, and...

This research aimed to verify the influence of three different variables on encouraging women to start a new business or to work on their own: a) citizens' qualification in primary, secondary, and undergraduate education, b) entrepreneurship, creation, and continuity of firms; and c) social acceptance of women as entrepreneurs. The model was elabor...

This manuscript aims to present connections between scenario building techniques and Kondratieff's long economic waves, as a way of identifying patterns in medium and long-term planning for companies' future scenarios. This essay considers two different conceptual contributions to improve forecasting on organizations taking as a departure point Kon...

How effective is the taken R&D investment decision, considering the effect of bounded rationality? Guided by this question, it is explored the decision-making process at the group level within the firm. A mathematical model for determining the effectiveness of decision-making based on the group’s experience is proposed. By considering subjective an...

How effective is the taken R&D investments decision, considering the effect of bounded rationality? Guided by this question, it is explored the decision-making process at group level within the firm. A mathematical model for determining the effectiveness of decision-making based on group's experience is proposed. By considering subjective and objec...

This manuscript aims to present connections between scenario building technique and Kondratieff's long economic waves for identifying patterns in the medium and long-term planning companies' future scenarios. This essay considers two different conceptual contributions to improve forecasting on organizations taking as departure point Kondratieff's e...

I am Dr. Marcos Ferasso, Assistant Professor at Unochapeco University (Brazil), and I want to expand my academic collaborations to international partners/institutions. We can offer you the opportunity of partnering with my institution (or other Brazilian institutions if you will). Specifically, I can offer to you/your institution: - Short visits as...

This article aims to highlight the importance that technological strategy has to the success and permanence of companies that are in early stages of life cycle. Current organizations are affected by changes in the consumer market and emergence of new technologies that require from firms new technological strategies that allow them to survive and re...