Maria José Madeira

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

This study aims to explore the relations between financial, knowledge and market barriers to innovation and the innovation propensity of the Portuguese SMEs services sector, specifically at the product level. Utilizing data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) covering the years 2018-2020, the analysis focuses on a sample of 9238 companies wi...

This paper provides insight into the agenda and outlines the literature on pedagogical entrepreneurship education, providing the state of the art and future research avenues. Although the areas of entrepreneurship education and virtual entrepreneurship are receiving increasing attention, research on the pedagogical methods of virtual entrepreneursh...

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-intensi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of R&D investment as a determinant of ongoing or abandoned innovation activities. The literature review focuses especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that deploy R&D investment as a way of developing innovation processes. Design/methodology/approach This study’s design used...

Eco-innovation (EI) represents the combination of innovation and environmental performance and aims to reduce environmental impacts while having a positive influence in the society and in the economy. It seeks a better thought-out choice of materials, distribution, and processes with lower consumption of energy and resources, thus reducing environm...

Os desafios empresariais são assuntos de estudo dentro do contexto das Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PME). O presente trabalho visa identificar os desafios que as PME enfrentam para crescer e sobreviver no mercado e suas medidas para superar estes desafios. Para isso foi feito um estudo de caso em três empresas do setor comercial de vestuário localiz...

This work shows the relevance of financial analysis in the third sector. This book analyses the importance of the third sector being aware of the implementation of strategic actions in its management decisions based on financial analysis. It also shows the relevance that the application of management methods, namely the application of the ratio met...

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...

The West Amazon peoples show a low economic and social development pattern, even when there are plenty of natural resources. It looks like there is a huge gap between these resources, the investments, the knowledge, and the public policies able to create a better life quality for the Amazonians. This work looks forward to promoting the development...

Surging climate awareness is leading to changes in costumers needs and behaviors. Society is increasingly pressurizing firms and governments with ecological concerns, as businesses themselves play a role in pollution emissions. Innovation, thought in a sustainable perspective, helps to deliver the needed eco-goals while contributing to a positive m...

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

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the innovative scenario in Portugal, assess the patterns of goods and service change in the past decade and evaluate several essential characteristics from innovation and its relevant aspects. Design/methodology/approach This research is a case study with secondary data obtained from the Community...

Companies operate in an increasingly volatile and competitive environment. Surviving and achieving some success has become the focus of managers of any type of business, be it small, medium or large. Innovation is now considered one of the factors capable of leading companies to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage. However, in the universe 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...

Entrepreneurship promotes job creation, increase of competitiveness and new forms of economic development and growth of countries or regions. The research aims to understand how it has influenced the intention and entrepreneurial skills of the trainees of the project Apreender 3.0. It is important to examine how various factors, including entrepren...

The aim of this paper is to better understand whether cooperation, absorptive capacity and public financial support for innovation activities, how they influence the innovative performance of Portuguese enterprise. The literature review focuses the importance of these three factors both drivers as the limiters process of business innovation, influe...

The objective of this work is to explore convergence and divergence between business models of circular and collaborative economies in fashion industry and the benefits to sustainable development. The methodological approach is exploratory through bibliographic review and case study of two business models. The first, Rent the Runway, makes use of t...

In fragile environments, such as the Western Amazon, there is a latent concern related to solid waste, deserving emphasis from the conceptual point of view, where the origin of sustainability becomes the emergency that forces the behavior through recycling seeking the reduction and absence of residues. Epistemology has as its function, among others...

The aim of this study is the analysis of the effect that the entrepreneurship activities have in the development of an entrepreneurial profile of the students of a secondary level and their future entrepreneurial intentions. To empirically test the formulated hypothesis, a questionnaire was developed. By the application of methods of factorial anal...

The concept of management innovation, the characteristics of the services, as well as the multiple ways in which innovation can occur in services make it difficult to measure the result of the influence of management innovation on performance. Based on the rational and institutional perspectives relevant in the study of the effects of management in...

This chapter aims to identify and analyze the main strategies for the qualification of inbound tourism and hospitality. This study is supported by the theory of planned behavior and concepts of inbound tourism, hospitality, creativity, and innovation. The study uses method of case study, as methodological procedures workshops were held with stakeho...

The fashion industry is experiencing a new dynamic as many professionals have decided to take the risk to create fashion-related businesses. As universities and private schools provide fashion courses, many paths can be taken by graduates in this vast and challenging industry, including careers as fashion design entrepreneurs. However, the lack of...

This paper aims to discuss the importance of exponential system design in promoting social innovation and influencing collaborative lifestyles, presenting the growth of a business model "Exponential System Design for Sustainability in Fashion Design". The developing product-service system (PSS) business model integrates the lines and contributions...

The general objective of the present study is to identify the antecedents of the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial intentions of 266 potential entrepreneurs, represented by students of the degree courses in Business Administration and Accounting Sciences in brazilians higher education institutions. For this purpose, as specific objectives we soug...

Despite several publications over the last years about Entrepreneurship, there is a lack of evidences showing that Entrepreneurial Education (EE) could influence the predisposition to start-up, or at least increase the entrepreneurial intentions (EI). This paper aims to study the main effects of a typical Entrepreneurship Education (EE) program-spe...

Entrepreneurship is a dominant force in contemporary economy. Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of vision, change and creation. Entrepreneurship is a process of fundamental transformation, from an innovative idea, to the value proposal to the creation a new venture. It requires an application of energy and passion towards the creation and imple...

Cooperation for innovation is understood as an essential element in the innovation process of European firms. The aim is to compare how the different sources of information (external and internal) and cooperation for innovation are used in manufacturing and services in Europe using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data for 15 European countries. T...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand whether firm cooperation and absorptive capacity foster success in seeking public financial support for innovation activities and, by doing so, how they contribute to innovation output. Design/methodology/approach The authors therefore extend the existing literature focusing on the effect...

This work shows the relevance of guarantees provided by the Mutual Credit Guarantee System as an instrument used in the financing of SMEs, especially in restructuring long-term debt and bank loans. The study provides empirical evidence and puts forward an explanatory model of the influence of the mutual credit guarantees on the financing of SMEs. T...

This study's main objective is to study the complexity of technological management of the collection of solid waste, through the prism of reverse logistics; and to propose certain specific objectives: (1) to describe the form of concentration of solid waste in the group studied; (2) to analyze the impact of the volume of solid waste; and (3) to pro...

This paper presents as its main objective an analysis of the epistemological nature of isomorphism in the generation of innovation in organisations. The present research observed current contents such as analyses of design thinking and isomorphism, with their intra-organisational interactions. It concludes that isomorphism is a frequent practice of...

Este estudo tem por base a teoria burocrática da administração. Adicionando-se conceitos de Sistemas, Finanças Públicas, Orçamento e suas Funções, Plano Plurianual, lei de Diretrizes Orçamentarias, Gestão Pública e traz o conceito de Inovação Social. O objetivo geral deste trabalho busca estudar o Sistema de Planejamento, Programação e Orçamento em...

Purpose This paper analyses barriers as a determinant of ongoing or abandoned innovation activities. . The literature exploits barriers as the nature of innovation and its influence on firm’s. The main focus is the Portuguese SMEs and the impact that barriers as in the development of innovation activities. Design/methodology/approach The databas...

This work deals with the potability of water consumed by a municipality located in the Brazilian Amazon. It was sought to know the satisfaction of the local population from the perspective of Institutional Theories and Ecodevelopment, based on the Method of the Case Study, qualitative and descriptive. The general objective is to study the socio-env...

This paper presents, as its overall objective, an analysis of the epistemological nature of isomorphism in the generation of innovation. To obtain the results in this study, the specific aims are as follows: (1) to raise the theoretical-conceptual basis of isomorphism in the innovation process, with regard to design; (2) to characterize the concept...

This paper aims to identify and analyze the main limiting factors of innovation performance in terms of product and process innovation. The limiting factors to innovation make the innovation process of a firm difficult, which influences its innovation performance. The goal of this essay is to develop a theoretical support based on current reference...

The empiric literature regarding on technological innovation suggests that cooperation has a highly positive effect on the performance of firms’ technological innovation, however, very little is known about its impact on the organizational innovation. To fill this gap, the present study aims to analyze the impact of the external relationships with...

Confrontado com a evolução das novas tecnologias e revigorado por inovações organizacionais e estruturais, o turismo vê a inovação como um dos principais motores de crescimento e de desenvolvimento. Este trabalho tem como principais objetivos compreender a influência que a orientação empreendedora e a orientação para o mercado tem no apoio a ativid...

Four common Portuguese rice varieties—Thaibonnet, Gladio, Albatros, and Eurosis—were tested for their relative susceptibility to Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky, a common pest of stored rice in Portugal and in tropical countries. Physical (moisture content, hardness, length, and width) and chemical (by attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform i...

The relationship between total quality management (TQM) and innovation has been studied in several investigations. However, there is some disagreement among the researchers. Many authors suggest that the impact of TQM on innovation depends both on the TQM dimensions considered and on the type of innovation. This paper aims at identifying elements o...

This research aims to analyze the degree of importance of investment and expenditure on innovation activities for innovation capacity, in the scope of Portuguese services firms. The literature review considers three main approaches regarding service innovation: Assimilation, demarcation and synthesis. A conceptual model was proposed and several res...

The relationship between total quality management (TQM) and innovation has been studied in several investigations. However, there is some disagreement among the researchers. Many authors suggest that the impact of TQM on innovation depends both on the TQM dimensions considered and on the type of innovation. This paper aims at identifying elements o...

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GEM-EUROACE 2014 (Report) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A GEM report has been published for the first time, and it reflects the entrepreneurial and dynamic activity in the Euroregion EUROACE, created in 2009, which is about the following three European regions, Alentejo, Centro and Extremadura. The 6.49% of the adult population has been involved in entrepren...

The growing tendency of globalization and interdependency of economies is inferred in highly competitive and chaotic context for firms and universities. Due to the high competitiveness and changes that firms face, Technology Transfer (TT) is assumed as a key factor to success. A better management of innovation created in research units as well as a...

This article analyzes the impact of cooperation with customers and consumers on Portuguese companies’ ability to engage in marketing innovation. To this end, the theoretical framework underlying the study comprises the characterization of marketing innovation and cooperation, especially from the companies’ standpoint of collaboration with customers...

This research aims to identify aspects associated with outcome expectations and entrepreneurial antecedents that are predicted to influence Portuguese students to follow an entrepreneurial career. To empirically test the hypothesis, we used secondary data taken from the EEP (Entrepreneurship Education Project) applied in Portugal. It is an approach...

The main purpose of this research is to identify whether the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) stimulate the creation of business through innovation networks. The theoretical approach, based on network theory and entrepreneurship theory, supports the basic idea of the importance of innovation networks in the process of business creation, since t...

his paper aims to analyze and understand the employment opportunities for the profession of industrial designer and their qualifications that are most conducive to recruitment, adopting a national perspective and an international perspective. To achieve this, we chose to develop a two­pronged approach aimed, firstly, to identify pathways to integra...

This research considers the factors that contribute to venture creation, through the use of innovation networks, within state-owned higher education institutions (HEIs) in Portugal. The paper reviews the literature on current approaches to firm creation through models of innovation networks and analyses data collected through a questionnaire comple...

The article analyzes factors stimulating firms' capacity for marketing innovation in terms of the design and packaging of goods and services. The data were obtained from the 4th Community Innovation Survey. The results of the logistic regression show that R&D activities relating to internal R&D activities; acquisition of machinery, equipment, and s...

This article aims at identifying and analyzing the drivers of innovation capacity of marketing in the context of Portuguese firms. From this standpoint, a theoretical framework is considered, which comprises the characterization of marketing innovation, as well as the determinants that underlie it. Based on the literature several research hypothese...

This research aims to analyze the degree of importance of investment and expenditure on innovation activities for entrepreneurial innovative capability, in the scope of Portuguese services firms and the firms belonging to the KIBS - knowledge-intensive business services. A conceptual model was proposed and several research hypotheses were empirical...

This paper aims to provide evidence to add to current knowledge on the contribution of R&D capital to private production based on panel data of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 to 2005. The differences in how R&D capital affect firm production is explored for small and large firms and for technological intensity of the firm. The emp...

This research aims to study the identity of cities, presenting a proposed conceptual model and applying the model of the city identity study to the case of a small city in rural and peripheral areas of Portugal, namely Covilha. It has as reference sources several approaches, conducted construction of the model, and this is comprised of four differe...

Due to the importance of the entrepreneurial in society today, activities that foster this spirit among youngsters has become an important issue. In Portugal, there has been a significant increase in the activities organized in schools by private entities focusing on entrepreneurship. The aim of this research is to analyze the effect of these entre...

O estudo apresenta proposta de um modelo que sistematiza o processo de construção de um novo curso de ensino superior. Buscou-se por meio de pesquisas anteriores que esclarecem as estratégias em serviços e a oferta de novos serviços, o desenvolvimento de novos serviços educacionais. Apoiado nos estudos encontrados sobre o desenvolvimento de novos s...

The study has proposed a model that systematizes the process of construction of a new course of higher education. From the fundamentals that guide the strategies in services and the new services development, and supported in studies found on the new services development for the education sector, the construction of the model was possible, which is...

This research aims to analyze the degree of importance of investment and expenditure on innovation activities for entrepreneurial innovative capability, in the scope of Portuguese services firms. The literature review considers three main approaches regarding service innovation: assimilation, demarcation and synthesis. A conceptual model was propos...

This paper aims to analyse the relationship between total quality management (TQM) and innovation, and the relationships between these variables and organizational performance. The literature reviewed indicates some disagreement among the authors that have studied the relationship between TQM and Innovation. Some consider, total quality management...

The research aims to identify and analyse the formal institutional factors in the environment that constrain the creation of industrial enterprises in small city in rural and peripheral areas of Portugal, namely Covilhã County. It has as reference sources several approaches about enterprise creation and institutional economic theory due to their ad...

The main objective of this study was to present a proposal for a model explaining the construction of a new higher education course to be offered to the market. Having quite a limited theoretical basis and with few investigations dealing with innovation in educational services, a case study was made to help in construction of the model. The case st...