Mario Raposo

University of Beira Interior | UBI · Department of Management and Economics / NECE Research Center in Business Sciences

Internationalisation has become crucial to economic development, especially for companies that are more technological and scientific. These companies arouse curiosity, as they quickly begin their internationalisation process (IP), adopting the Born Global model shortly after its creation. It has also been noted that, when they seek to benefit from...

Dynamic capabilities (DCs) are a growing field of research within the scope of theoretical structures based on resource and strategic management. Given the demonstrated impact of DCs on company performance, it is important to study the effects of DCs on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, th...

Family firms (FF) represent an important business segment worldwide, contributing greatly to their country's GDP and social well-being, giving employment and contributing to communities' development. Due to their particularities, these organizations also face various challenges, one of the most relevant being inter-generational succession – transve...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought terrifying effects for labor markets all around the world. Just as we witness rapid changes in terms of the ways of working (working from home), we are also observing an increase in unemployment. The ways in which major corporations with international operations process their global talent management (GTM)...

Family businesses represent a significant percentage of GDP and employability in developed economies, and their continuity and transition to a new generation is a crucial challenge. This study aims to analyse the nature of succession processes in small and medium-sized family business, exploring critical skills and succession strategies. A qualitat...

This study examines the role of Management Accounting and Control Systems (MACS) in the successful implementation of the Uppsala Internationalization Model (U-Model) and in the improvement of firms' performance. To achieve this, and after a broad literature review, a case study was conducted. Using a dynamic and "inside-out" approach, data was coll...

Purpose Research into the relationship between entrepreneurial ecosystems and sustainability has deepened in terms of both quantity and quality even while still remaining a fragmented and divergent field. Hence, the purpose of this study is to put forward empirical evidence to advance the literature on the relationship between entrepreneurial ecosy...

Previous research on entrepreneurship education (EE), specifically directed to students from the science and technology fields, has been very sparse. This research aims to analyse how Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) develop EE programmes, as well as discussing how the barriers to EE are perceived by STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and M...

Este trabalho procura analisar a relação entre a estrutura organizacional, representada pelo Sistema de Contabilidade e Controlo de Gestão (Management Accounting Control Systems) e a estratégia, e entender como o desenho do MACS se ajusta à estratégia de internacionalização e em que medida isso afeta o desenho do MACS. Para responder a este objetiv...

As empresas familiares são cruciais para o crescimento económico e desenvolvimento em todo o mundo. Estas empresas apresentam certas especificidades em termos da sua visão, intenções e comportamentos que envolvem profundamente os membros da família. No âmbito do projeto SPRING (Succession Planning and Regeneration in Family Businesses for New Growt...

As empresas familiares assumem uma percentagem expressiva do PIB e da empregabilidade nas economias desenvolvidas, sendo a sua continuidade e transição para uma nova geração, um desafio crucial. Este estudo procura analisar a natureza dos processos de sucessão de pequenas e médias empresas familiares portuguesas, explorando as suas competências crí...

Purpose National systems of entrepreneurship (NSE) broadly act as a means of allocating resources driven by the constant search for opportunities at the individual level through the launching of new businesses and firms with such activities, and their results are governed by the specific institutional characteristics of each country. In contrast to...

This study aims to understand how and to what extent internationalisation processes (IP) affect Management Accounting and Control Systems (MACS), and how the latter contribute to the successful implementation of IP. A conceptual framework is developed from MACS research to highlight how the use and characteristics of accounting information influenc...

Purpose A key point in the internationalisation process of companies comes with the choice of international market. Following this choice, the results companies may thereby obtain help in measuring their level of international performance. This study aims to measure the impact of internationalisation processes in keeping with company market orienta...

Purpose Family firms have been the subject of various scientific studies. This interest derives not only from their unique characteristics in terms of their management but more specifically in terms of their succession in a dimension that does not impact on other companies in the same way. Hence, and as a complex field of research, this study seeks...

The general objective of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between strategy and organizational structure, namely how the use of Management Accounting and Control Systems (MACS) contributes to the successful implementation of the internationalization strategy and consecutively to the improvement of the company’sper...

The growing trend for globalisation changes the way companies organise themselves and their way of acting, and impels them to consider the development of their activities in the international trade. This paper revises the main contributions regarding the debate on the internationalisation of companies. Considering that internationalisation is part...

Objective - Organisational change necessarily requires an adaptation of a company's information structure, particularly its Management Accounting and Control Systems (MACSs). These systems should be designed according to the defined strategies to assist managers in the decision-making process. This paper reviews research that analyzes the MACSs con...

Innovation capabilities are important for firms to compete in the market. However, the literature has rarely examined how exploitative and exploratory innovation influences the export performance of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs). As exploitative and exploratory innovation plays different roles in sustaining SMEs' competitive advantages, this...

Abstract: This paper analyses to what extent the relationship among firms in downstream B2B activities in the supply chain stimulates the relationship in upstream B2B activities. This paper follows a qualitative methodology based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews in seven firms from the plastics industry, in three different countries that led...

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...

This study aims to measure and understand the psychological effects of entrepreneurial intentions among university students from two countries (Portugal and Spain). Following a review of the literature, there is a lack of studies incorporating an integrative model that deploys self-efficacy, risk-taking propensity and proactive personality as psych...

Academic entrepreneurship currently features as a leading topic in the field of entrepreneurship. This research study aims to carry out bibliometric analysis on this topic through recourse to cluster analysis. We carried out extensive search (1971 – 2017) of the Web of Science database that identified seven clusters in the literature: Entrepreneuri...

Purpose This paper aims to study the effects of cross-border psychological determinants among students of two Iberian universities (Portugal and Spain) on entrepreneurial intentions. Design/methodology/approach Based on previous literature, the studies do not include any model that simultaneously uses self-efficacy, risk-taking propensity and pr...

Dado el gran interés de la comunidad académica y el mundo empresarial sobre la internacionalización de las pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes), esta investigación tiene como objetivo revisar la literatura empírica sobre la internacionalización de las pymes en el continente americano, a partir de las principales bases de datos académicas. Partiendo...

Considering the pressing interest of the academic community and the business world over the internationalization of Small and Medium- sized Enterprises (smes), this research is aimed to review the empirical literature about smes’ internationalization processes in the American continent, according to information included in the main academic databas...

This paper analyses the internationalisation of SMEs highlighting the importance of social network analysis (SNA) to display the main categories involved in SME internationalisation research. Methodologically, the paper uses a systematic review of the literature as a departure point to select the main papers on the internationalisation of SMEs and...

This paper analyses the internationalisation of SMEs highlighting the importance of social network analysis (SNA) to display the main categories involved in SME internationalisation research. Methodologically, the paper uses a systematic review of the literature as a departure point to select the main papers on the internationalisation of SMEs and...

Although there are several studies analysing how innovation capabilities influence export performance, this study aims to present the impact of a set of internal innovation capabilities on export performance of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs), with the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation contingent upon the proactive or reactive behav...

Dynamic capabilities currently emerge as a vibrant field of study within the theoretical framework based on resource and strategic management. To this end, and as a complex field of study, we set out to conceptually map this approach. Hence, we carried out a bibliometric study with recourse to co-citations. For the multivariate analysis, we applied...

Education in general is considered an encouraging element of entrepreneurial intention and behavior. However, most of entrepreneurship courses are designed for students who have already taken some courses in economics, business or finances and have no feedback from the real business world. This research focuses on STEM (Science, Technology, Enginee...

Purpose With this work, the authors seek to advance knowledge in this field mentioned above. The purpose of this paper is to stress the role of two groups of components related to individuals’ knowledge: the intrinsic base of existing knowledge and exposure to external knowledge. Design/methodology/approach The present study examined the impact of...

This paper proposes a conceptual model that analyses the factors influencing the export performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and integrates international entrepreneurship theory and international strategies. Rooted in an extensive bibliography that provides the basis for key constructs, the proposed model brings together the fun...

This paper proposes a conceptual model that analyses the factors influencing the export performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and integrates international entrepreneurship theory and international strategies. Rooted in an extensive bibliography that provides the basis for key constructs, the proposed model brings together the fun...

This study carries out content analysis and systemizes articles on social media marketing in the Web of Science database. Forty-four studies were analyzed in accordance with a variation on the systematic review approach, involving synthesis- and interpretation-based assessment. The results demonstrate how most of the studies analyzed focus on the c...

The relevant literature recognises Schumpeterian and Kirznerian entrepreneurship as mechanisms that can impact economic growth. This article seeks to explore the effects of these two types of entrepreneurship on economic growth across the three GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) economic ecosystems (factor-driven economy, efficiency-driven econo...

This paper offers a review of published conceptual and empirical studies indexed in the main academic search databases, covering literature on the internationalization of small and medium-sized firms. We analyzed a total of 554 papers covering the period between 1977 and 2014, and found the following general trends: empirical research focuses mainl...

The objective of this research project is to evaluate the performance of Portuguese state universities in accordance with the expectations and satisfactions of their students and through recourse to the DEA methodology and thus representing one of the very few studies analysing university performance based upon student perceptions. According to an...

Introduction: Empathy is the mediating role of the physician-patient relationship. Through this process the practitioner seeks to understand the patient's frame of reference and also to establish a relationship of openness, mutual respect, trust and deep understanding. Objective: This study aims to analyze the perceptions of medical students on th...

Research interest in the service sector has boomed in recent years as deindustrialisation became entrenched. Instead of being regarded as merely supplementary to traditional industry and manufacturing, services have generated progressively rising levels of growth in developed economies while at the same time coming to be recognised as major drivers...

In recent times the relevance of the business model design overlapped the business plan conception, having the lean start-up approach contributed to this situation. This approach consists in a methodology that focuses on agile testing and learning cycle to validate hypotheses in the business idea. It can be taught in higher education institutions b...

This study provides new evidences on the way men and women process the information in venture creation decision (VCD) and the differences that may arise when taking this decision. To reach this objective, this study carries out an experiment and identifies 120,536 people from twenty-five countries with different levels of development. The main find...

The theory and research existing on relationships between competitors concentrates on either competitive relationships or cooperative relationships and broadly argues that one relationship type harms or threatens the other. There has been little empirical research on firms simultaneously involved in and benefitting from cooperation and from competi...

In this paper we analyse whether entrepreneur location decisions differ across industries and identify the factors determining the choice of location between rural and urban environments. Firm location is based on a new taxonomy developed over the influential three dimensions of Hayter’s (1997) approach. The paper uses data from sample of one thous...

This research seeks to ascertain the extent of the effects of location on the innovation capacities of companies across different industrial sectors. We thus answer the question: Does company location near an urban centre enable innovation capacities? This article argues that company location does wield an effect on innovation capacities, and it is...

This study aims to review what we do (and do not) know about technology entrepreneurship (TE) research to date. Based on a categorized bibliometric analysis resulting from a systematic review of 135 scientific articles published in refereed journals over the past 27 years (1986–2013), we identify the core domains of TE, its intellectual structure,...

The present work attempts to examine the different cultural patterns and factors of Spanish and Portuguese university students in terms of their respective intentions either to become self-employed or to launch their own businesses. As tested in numerous studies, entrepreneurial intentions stem from various different psychological and socio-cultura...

From the perspective of the Stakeholder Theory, the objective of this paper was to, initially, identify and classify by importance the expectations of editors from scientific journal that are indexed in ISI about its relationship with the universities. After that, the objective was to measure the satisfaction levels of the same editors as to its re...

Sob a ótica da Teoria dos Stakeholders, o objetivo deste estudo foi, inicialmente, identificar e classificar por importância as expectativas de editores de periódicos científicos indexados no ISI quanto ao seu relacionamento com as universidades. Na sequência, o objetivo foi medir os níveis de satisfação dos mesmos editores quanto ao seu relacionam...

This paper aims to investigate the link between business regulations, pillars of competitiveness, and new firms at country level using a structural equation model. The research developed to support this paper is based on the idea that entrepreneurship, measured as the process of new firm formation, is a vital link to the economic growth of countrie...

This article carries out an integrative analysis of internationalisation theories. The most important contributions to the literature on internationalisation theories are used to create a schematic table giving a framework overview. This approach shows the high-level interaction of the literature, covering all internationalisation theories, their f...

In this chapter, the authors study the importance of regional entrepreneurship as well as the characteristics of location, and show that the basis for creation of new firms is knowledge, thus giving emphasis to broadcasters (spillovers) of knowledge coming from universities and other R&D institutions. Thus, the knowledge generated arises from the c...

The existence of empathy in the physician-patient clinical relationship enables a positive impact on interactions and is an essential aspect of care quality associated with patient satisfaction and adherence to treatment. The purpose of this research is to determine the students " empathy level over the course and their different specialty interest...

This chapter aims to define a coherent theoretical framework enabling a broader understanding of the strategic entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) and to evaluate their effects on small firm growth. A sample made up of 211 small Portuguese firms from various different sectors of activity was surveyed by questionnaire. The results demonstrate how the...

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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...

In this paper, a study is made of the effects of local and cross-border cooperation between small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) on company innovation and performance. In line with previous works, it is maintained that cooperation positively impacts on company performance and innovation levels, while also finding that this effect is likely to...

Students’ satisfaction with their university and course is of fundamental importance to retain students and promote their positive worth-of-mouth. The objective of this research is to analyse the level of efficiency of Portuguese public universities, according to the expectations and satisfaction of their students. To accomplish the objective, this...

This research seeks to ascertain the extent to which the innovative and competitive capacities of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) companies are influenced by the service type (technological vs. professional) and their respective location (rural vs. urban) in times of crisis. Through recourse to structural equation models, the results d...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the acquired knowledge of university management students on strategy and strategic management concepts. Phenomenography was used in the analysis and a collective description was conducted. A sample of students taking management degrees at five universities was adopted. Following data analysis, a model explaini...

This chapter aims to define a coherent theoretical framework enabling a broader understanding of the strategic entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) and to evaluate their effects on small firm growth. A sample made up of 211 small Portuguese firms from various different sectors of activity was surveyed by questionnaire. The results demonstrate how the...

This paper aims to investigate the link between business regulations, pillars of competitiveness, and new firms at country level using a structural equation model. the research developed to support this paper is based on the idea that entrepreneurship, measured as the process of new firm formation, is a vital link to the economic growth of countrie...

This research aims to analyse the drivers to company innovation and their effects on the financial performance. This study is based upon a sample of companies, located in two neighbouring countries (Portugal and Spain). Linear regression was the methodology deployed to analyse the importance of innovation types (differences between Portugal and Spa...

In accordance with the importance of the student stakeholder to universities, the objective of this research project was to evaluate student satisfaction at Portuguese public universities as regards their self-expressed core expectations. The research was based both on stakeholder theory itself and on previous studies of university stakeholders. Th...

The objective of this research is to investigate the role of the relationship quality and culture between Portuguese companies and their export market intermediaries in Angola. In particular, we aim to understand the importance that the quality of the relationship has and the role of cultures in export activities. In terms of methodology we opted f...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test a model of entrepreneurial intentions among secondary students based on their psychological characteristics. Furthermore, this seeks to determine whether teenage students (14-15 years old) possess entrepreneurial characteristics and whether these characteristics correspond to entrepreneurial intentions...

ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to investigate the role of the relationship quality and culture between Portuguese companies and their export market intermediaries in Angola. In particular, we aim to understand the importance that the quality of the relationship has and the role of cultures in export activities. An important aspect of...

Purpose This article examines the influence of marketing-controlled external motivators of impulse buying behaviour of snack foods in cafeterias among young students. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was used to inquire a sample of 200 young consumers about their impulse buying behaviour in cafeterias. The resulting data was submitted t...

The stakeholder theory proved highly useful to some specific organisations with dispersed powers, such as is the case of universities. This theory may serve to explain the focus on varying communities in the environments surrounding these organisations as well as the relationships between organisations and communities. However, identifying and prio...

This article seeks to determine whether the innovative capabilities of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) do actually differ from other industries through comparing the innovation capacities and financial performance of KIBS with firms operating in other sectors (non-KIBS). Based upon a 1000-firm sample, the results of our estimated econo...

The assessment of patients’ satisfaction levels, and the knowledge of what factors influence satisfaction are very important for healthcare managers as it influences healthcare results and healthcare institutions financial results. The objective of this research is to analyse patients’ satisfaction levels in a set of four Portuguese primary Healthc...

Entrepreneurship education has played an important role in promoting entrepreneurial intentions and furthering the development of enterprising citizens. Thus, education and training can contribute towards increasing management knowledge and developing the psychological attributes and behaviours associated with entrepreneurship. This study therefore...

The objective of this research is to investigate the role of the relationship quality, cooperation and culture between Portuguese companies and their export market intermediaries in Angola. In particular, we aim to understand the importance that the quality of the relationship has in cooperation and the role of cultures in export activities. An imp...

The management literature provides extensive coverage of the different motives and factors that encourage companies to cooperate and adhere to cooperative relationships. Nielsen (1988), who influenced a wide body of authors (Heide and Miner 1992; Parkhe 1993; Hagedoorn and Schakenraad 1994; Mohr and Spekman 1994; Gulati 1995; Browning et al. 1995;...

This chapter has three main aims. The first of these is to discuss and critique the main spatial and non-spatial theories that address methods by which societies may transition from a hydrocarbon to a post-hydrocarbon technological regime. It is argued that the first approach, which combines urban regime theory of politics with ecological modernisa...

Cooperation and clusters have become the guiding paradigms for explaninig and promoting regional competitiveness, but the cooperation process between firms and universities and the transfer os knowledge in guiding and nurturing regional competitiveness has received relatively litle attention...