Paulino Silva

Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto | ISCAP · Department of Accounting

Digital transformation has shown Higher Education Institutions the need to work with more active methodologies in the learning context. Students want to have a greater say in what they learn and teachers are starting to take a broader role in sharing knowledge. Therefore, the adoption of methodologies such as the flipped classroom makes more and mo...

During the first confinement caused by COVID-19 pandemic education shifted to what was coined as Emergency Remote Learning/Instruction/Teaching, trying to balance the need to continue the provision of educational content and the enormous challenges of coping with multiple issues that an unforeseen, unplanned, and urgent situation brought worldwide....

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 triggered a severe disruption in businesses worldwide, with pressing changes aimed business survival and striving. In this context, the pace of the digital transformation of business was tremendously accelerated, launching managers and employees into a new world of digital challenges. In this work, we explore the dyn...

COVID-19 brought a lot of disruption into the business world. To cope with the challenges, companies tried to adopt new work formats, embracing the digital transformation as a possible solution to survive. Together with this change, owners and workers had to adapt and in several circumstances, learning new competencies and developing new capabiliti...

The global COVID-19 pandemic increased social media usage to obtain information and to share concerns, feelings, and emotions, turning it into a prolific field of research through which it is possible to understand how audiences are coping with the multitude of recent challenges. This paper presents results from a social media analysis of 61532 edu...

The flipped classroom and gamification have been identified as essential education methods since they improve students' level of motivation and engagement. The flipped classroom methodology enables teachers to extend their presence outside the classroom while encouraging students to dedicate their own study time to the development of the required h...

This paper investigates the impact of an audience response system (ARS) on student engagement and participation in online large class settings during the COVID-19 confinement period. We use interactive, quasi-participatory problem-based learning to promote active discussions, improve attention and motivation, and real-time feedback. These strategie...

In Spring 2020, the world moved from traditional classes to what was coined as ERL (Emergency Remote Teaching/Learning/Instruction), posing real challenges to all actors involved, requiring an immediate, unprecedented, and unplanned devising of mitigation strategies. The impacts of this transition cannot, however, be studied only at the educational...

Traditionally, there have been many reasons and factors contributing to the disbelieve in remote work as a large-scale efficient work format. But with the social distancing imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work (RW) emerged as an adequate solution to continue labor at a large scale, even in the situations where remote work was unforeseeable...

The outburst and proliferation of the COVID-19 pandemic, together with the subsequent social distancing measures, have raised massive challenges in almost all domains of public and private life around the globe. The stay-at-home movement has pushed the news audiences into social networks, which, in turn, has become the most prolific field for recei...

In Spring 2020, the world moved from traditional classes to what was coined as ERL (Emergency Remote Teaching, Learning, Instruction), posing real challenges to all actors involved, requiring an immediate, unprecedented, and unplanned devising of mitigation strategies. The impacts of this transition cannot, however, be studied only at the education...

Changes brought by the 4th Industrial Revolution and digitalization impact directly in the way we live, shape the organizations, and change the way we work. These changes imply some challenges in the preparation of youngsters to work in such an environment due to their characteristics. All over Europe, and in order to anticipate the scope and depth...

This article presents a review of the literature on the origins of business simulations, such as games and serious games, as well as business simulation experiences in Portuguese higher education. Additionally, we present two international projects that can contribute to the improvement of business simulation experiences.

As new pedagogical methodologies arise within the context of technology-mediated learning, the need to rethink, rebuild or adapt learning contents has also been moved to the centre of attention of educators and organizations. The use of interactive and/or multimedia content has been increasingly growing in every type of educational environment: tra...

As various areas of discipline continue to progress into the digital age, diverse modes of technology are being experimented with and ultimately implemented into common practices. Mobile products and interactive devices, specifically, are being tested within educational environments as well as corporate business in support of online learning and e-...

More Education, Less Regulation: Restrictions Imposed by State Interventions and Consumer Protectionism on Interest Rates for Consumer Credit – The Case of Poland

The goal of the article is to provide comparative analysis of the regulations that are aimed at imposing restrictions on interest rates, usually based on the so-called annual effective rate for consumer loan. The current regulatory solutions implemented in 11 central and eastern European countries are analysed. This analysis provides a valuable con...

The purpose of the paper is to assess –based on a cross-national survey –academic integrity and debt literacy of finance students vis a vis their non-finance peers. Financial crises can be driven by both unethical actions of finance professionals and low financial literacy on either side of financial markets, as shown by the recent global crisis. T...

This presentation was part of a webinar broadcasted for UNIS University - Brazil and shows the main characteristics of Balanced Scorecard and a five step implementation process.

Everyday accounting and management teachers face the challenge of creating learning environments that motivate students. This chapter describes the Business Simulation (BS) experience that has taken place at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Institute of Accounting and Administration (IPP/ISCAP). The chapter presents students' perceptions about t...

3rd European Conference on Social Media, ECSM2016

This poster presents three European projects that are being carried out by Polytechnic Institute of Porto. It presents the way we identify the challenges and needs to be addressed, the way we developed the analysis of the impact and the identification of possible actions and outcomes. We also present the way we tried to understand the general EU co...

This paper presents the results from a study conducted about the importance in the first job, of learned skills acquired at Business Simulation (BS) courses from the degree of Accounting and Administration at ISCAP / IPP. BS courses are part of the curriculum of the Accounting and Administration degree since 2003 and are an alternative to the inter...

In a very changing business environment in which mergers and acquisitions are frequent, it is fundamental for a manager to know how to deal with these happenings. It is recognized today that employees are the best asset of enterprises, and so it is fundamental to maintain them motivated especially during transforming situations. Change Management i...

This paper presents the lessons learned after the introduction of Business Simulation (BS) courses at ISCAP / IPP as a result of the participation in the international project “Entre4Future – Simulation for Entrepreneurship”. Besides the exchange of professional experience among teachers, researchers and students, Entre4future Project intends to de...

In competitive business environments as the ones we live today, it is even more important for a manager to make better decisions. The classical model of decision making assumes managers have access to all the information needed to reach a decision. So, managers can make their decisions by ranking their preferences among existing alternatives. Unfor...

The purpose of the present work was to analyse the importance of the use of information systems and technologies in management procedures in the hospital sector. We therefore intended to evidence the effects of the use of the information produced by means of those instruments in the improvement of management performance and as support to decision-m...

This paper presents some of the results already achieved in the European project titled "Simulation for Entrepreneurship - ENTRE4FUTURE". Seven organizations from six different countries participate in this project. Organizations are from two different groups. We have a group of five educational organizations from Romania (project leader), Portugal...

This article presents a European project that involves a consortium of 7 partners in education field. The Entre4future scope is the exchange of professional practice on issues related to textbooks, curricula and teaching methodologies for the simulation as an effective method to entrepreneurship education of young people, innovative technologies us...

Paper presented at the 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS of EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES and DEVELOPMENT, San Sebastian, 24-26 junho 2015

Early school leaving (ESL) is a serious matter at individual and macro level since it is connected to unemployment, social exclusion, and poverty while impeding productivity and competitiveness. Young people who leave education and training prematurely are bound to lack skills and qualifications, and to face serious, persistent problems on the labo...

Early school leaving (ESL) is a serious matter at individual and macro level since it is connected to unemployment, social exclusion, and poverty while impeding productivity and competitiveness. Young people who leave education and training prematurely are bound to lack skills and qualifications, and to face serious, persistent problems on the labo...

The purpose of the present work was to analyse the importance of the use of information systems and technologies in management procedures in the hospital sector. We therefore intended to evidence the effects of the use of the information produced by means of those instruments in the improvement of management performance and as support to decision-m...

Esse artigo foi premiado para ser publicado - atualizações- no "International Journal of Management Science and Information Technology (IJMSIT) (*)". O presente trabalho teve como objetivo analisar a importância da utilização dos sistemas e tecnologias de informação para o exercício da gestão no setor hospitalar. Pretendeu-se assim comprovar os efe...

A series of two-week international workshops was held in Joensuu, Finland during February 2010, in Glasgow, Scotland in February 2011 and again in Nicosia, Cyprus during February 2012. Entitled “Intercultural Innovation Insight Workshop” (3EYES), they were sponsored by the European Lifelong Learning programme. Students from Portugal, Cyprus, Czech...

A Pesquisa Intervencionista tem sido proposta como uma alternativa para tornar mais relevantes os resultados das pesquisas com os interesses dos práticos, e tem sido crescente a publicação de estudos empíricos nos periódicos internacionais, entretanto, na literatura nacional em Contabilidade Gerencial e mesmo em Administração os estudos são raros....

REPORT ISSN: 2316-2309 <http://www.cti.gov.br/dtsd/gesiti-hospitalar/issn-2316-2309>. Este relatório de pesquisa retrata os resultados do estudo conduzido em cinco hospitais da região do grande Porto – Portugal, integrado no Projeto GESITI – Hospitalar, coordenado pelo Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer – CTI. O estudo incidiu sobre...

Everyday accounting and management teachers face the challenge of creating learning environments that motivate students. This chapter describes the Business Simulation (BS) experience that has taken place at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Institute of Accounting and Administration (IPP/ISCAP). The chapter presents students' perceptions about t...

This paper is about business transfer in family businesses companies. The problem of succession in family businesses in Portugal gets special interest given the high number of these companies. The field study uses interviews from five cases studies which were in a succession process. To help in the succession process is important to take into accou...

Este artigo apresenta o contributo, cada vez mais importante, das metodologias qualitativas e dos paradigmas a elas associadas para o desenvolvimento da investigação em contabilidade. O trabalho desenvolvido permite comprovar a importância dos métodos qualitativos de investigação através da sua utilização em três empresas familiares que procuram a...

A two-week workshop was held in Finland during February 2010 and again in Glasgow in February 2011. The events were sponsored by the European Lifelong Learning programme. Students from Portugal, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Finland and the UK were placed in multicultural teams of five. Each team had two product designers, one graphic designer, one f...

Purpose There is a growing interest in research focusing on performance management practices in the public sector, but research is still limited with regards to public primary healthcare services (PHSs), which play an important role in national healthcare systems. These organisations are frequently criticised for alleged poor performance management...

In the context of the Bologna Declaration a change is taking place in the teaching/learning paradigm. From teaching-centered education, which emphasizes the acquisition and transmission of knowledge, we now speak of learning-centered education, which is more demanding for students. This paradigm promotes a continuum of lifelong learning, where the...