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A educacao profissional tem se mostrado um importante instrumento para o desenvolvimento regional... more A educacao profissional tem se mostrado um importante instrumento para o desenvolvimento regional dentro dos aglomerados no Distrito Federal e Entorno. No atual contexto competitivo, o modelo baseado em cluster, tambem entendido no artigo como arranjo produtivo local (APL), tem se mostrado como uma das principais formas de fortalecimento dos segmentos da economia de paises em desenvolvimento. Assim, podemos considerar que a competitividade e ampliacao do ciclo de vida e a sustentabilidade de tais aglomerados − aglomeracao geografica de empresas interconectadas de segmentos especificos e/ou correlatos − dependem de educacao profissional contextualizada e os cursos tecnicos e superiores de tecnologia que proporcionam a viabilidade produtiva das atividades economicas, como tambem a inovacao por meio do saber fazer, alem do ser, atraves da postura cidada, etica e responsavel socialmente.

Emerald Publishing Limited eBooks, Nov 26, 2023

Quality and quantity, Feb 6, 2024

Purpose This study aimed to identify scientific research concentrating on climate change impacts ... more Purpose This study aimed to identify scientific research concentrating on climate change impacts on accommodation services and examine the most relevant outputs related to management strategies due to exposure to climate change. Methodology It used a systematic review of the literature of scientific articles published in the Web of Science and SCOPUS. The search strings were validated by academics, who suggested adding more keywords for studying the relationship between accommodation settings and climate change. As a result, four search strings were established and identified 39 articles for qualitative analysis with MAXQDA. Findings Some studies asserted that corporate social responsibility is important for mitigating climate change issues. hotels work together with local businesses, enforcing the community's adaptive capacity to climate change and supporting the need for education and training programs to understand climate change risks better. Moreover, green human resources management directly relates to the level of environmental awareness in local communities. Using air conditioning for combating heat waves consumes high amounts of energy. One option lies in energy-efficient buildings such as passive houses, using compact designs for reducing the cost of operation. Currently, hotel operations rely more on being more transparent regarding informing guests and influencing eco-friendly choices. On the other hand, there is an investment in training employees regarding good practices for energy use and management. Such action leads to accountable energy savings. Nevertheless, hotels still struggling to adapt because of their elevated energy consumption for heating, hot water, lightning, or cooling aggregates.

In 2021, the pioneering project "Digital Nomads Madeira Islands" (DNMI) started in the Autonomous... more In 2021, the pioneering project "Digital Nomads Madeira Islands" (DNMI) started in the Autonomous Region of Madeira (ARM). Specific objectives were defined to systematize the evolution of digital nomads (DN) from 2020 to 2022 and summarize their sociodemographic characteristics and trends. Through a questionnaire, this quantitative and descriptive study aims to understand the reality of DN in the ARM. The sample consists of 14,960 DN registered within the scope of DNMI project by Startup Madeira, who responded to the questionnaire between November 2020 and December 2022. It was observed that the project attracted DN from all around the world, surpassing 135 countries. The most significant profession represented was "Software and Applications Developers and Analysts." The year 2021 had the highest number of registrations of DN, possibly due to the novelty of Digital Nomads Village project and coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic period. This study provides a significant contribution on multiple levels.

This contribution explores the complex intersection between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and huma... more This contribution explores the complex intersection between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human rights, highlighting the challenges and opportunities that arise as AI becomes increasingly prevalent in society. Beginning with a reference to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948 and its legal ramifications, the paper delves into how AI emulates human intelligence, impacting people's lives and rights. The debate surrounding the need to adapt human rights protection laws to technological innovations is examined, with some authors advocating for legal changes, while others argue for an evolution of existing legislation. The literature review details various legal and ethical concerns related to AI, such as algorithmic transparency, discrimination, cybersecurity, privacy, and accountability. The contribution underscores the complex relationship between AI and human rights, identifying significant challenges that require careful analysis. This contribution seeks to contribute to the understanding of these evolving issues, emphasizing that the discussion is still in the exploratory stages in an increasingly technologydriven world intersecting with human rights.

We live in times of uncertainty, where the transition to a new reality proves to be challenging, ... more We live in times of uncertainty, where the transition to a new reality proves to be challenging, especially when considering organizational and personal resistances to change. However, the urgent need for adaptation is evident, particularly in the face of the consequences of the Anthropocene, as described by Leite et al. (2022). Despite the frequent call for a return to "normal," it is crucial to question the desirability of this habitual state, given its influence on environmental issues, unchecked population growth, and unsustainable consumption. Additionally, the concept of "normal" is associated with "business as usual," routine, lack of initiative, and passivity, even in the face of prior knowledge of its negative impacts, as evidenced by Arendt (1964) and Primo Levi (1958). On the other hand, technology, despite its undeniable advantages, imposes a high cost on employment, adding complexity to the scenario. Since the pandemic, despite its devastating effects, there has been significant pressure to adopt emerging technologies. In this regard, the recent World Economic Forum (WEF, 2023) report on the jobs of the future highlights the imminent newness of 85% of professions by 2030, requiring a radically different preparation for future professionals. In this changing landscape, the challenge society is facing is monumental, starting with the university, where the disparity between educational offerings and market demands is evident, as emphasized in the WEF's 2023 report. Curriculum updates are imperative to ensure graduates are prepared for a constantly disruptive market. There is a need for a greater focus on education centered on the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and empathy. The WEF report identifies emerging areas of demand, emphasizing the growing importance of social and emotional skills, as well as specific skills such as artificial intelligence, data analysis, and programming, requiring requalification and continuous learning. ETHICAL STATEMENT All content from JER-JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURIAL RESEARCHERS is licensed under Creative Commons, unless otherwise specified and in the case of content retrieved from other bibliographic sources.

Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability, 2022

This chapter seeks to understand the motivations that lead companies to internationalize and how ... more This chapter seeks to understand the motivations that lead companies to internationalize and how they do it since this has been a constant challenge for business research. For this purpose, a descriptive research was conducted with a qualitative strategy applied on different companies in the wine sector. International trade is a Portuguese tradition that started and reached its peak in the 16th century with the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries, which justifies this study. The wine industry, particularly in the Douro Region, has also always been closely linked to foreign trade and has even benefited from a historic trade agreement with the United Kingdom. The empirical results show that companies are practically born international. The size of the domestic market was the main justification for the demand for external markets. The constant evolution of markets and industries generates opportunities and potential threats to which companies must be able to respond.

Journal of Entrepreneurial Researchers

Conventional learning, based on logical-deductive concepts such as "two plus two equals four" and... more Conventional learning, based on logical-deductive concepts such as "two plus two equals four" and "if we add a third line to two parallel lines, parallelism is maintained," has its value. However, as Spinoza (1632-1677) taught us many centuries ago in his "Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect," memorized technical knowledge alone is insufficient. ETHICAL STATEMENT All content from JER-JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURIAL RESEARCHERS is licensed under Creative Commons, unless otherwise specified and in the case of content retrieved from other bibliographic sources.

Social Science Research Network, 2023

Lecture notes in mechanical engineering, 2023

Dissertação apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do... more Dissertação apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências EmpresariaisA arquitectura económica mundial alterou-se substancialmente nas duas últimas décadas, sendo actualmente caracterizada pela mudança, desmaterialização e globalização. Neste quadro, as empresas deparam-se com crescentes dificuldades de adaptação que afectam o seu comportamento e fazem ressaltar a necessidade de cooperação. Cooperar significa instituir relações privilegiadas entre empresas na procura conjunta de inovações que possam contribuir para alcançar um objectivo comum. O conceito é suficientemente abrangente, podendo ir desde o aprofundamento duma simples relação fornecedor-cliente até ao desenvolvimento de estruturas de mercados baseadas no estabelecimento de redes de empresas. No entanto, os casos mais típicos são as joint ventures, as fusões e aquisições, a subcontratação, o franchising e as licenças de exploração. Tendo por base o tema da...

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 2022

Sustainability

Sustainable development raises various challenges in terms of UPR for putting public policies int... more Sustainable development raises various challenges in terms of UPR for putting public policies into effect, and the concept, namely about the definition of metrics, is adapted to small parcels of territory. The objective of the present study is to introduce an alphanumeric reading scale for the tourism sustainability indicators in UPR, to be precise, Madeira and the Azores to allow a better interpretation and understanding. A total of 25 indicators were compared in the last 5 years and with the COVID-19 pandemic, although there are positive performances, a lack of data was observed for some indicators, and some lack of information in the last 2 years or more. During the last 5 years, the pillar of environmental sustainability has maintained its ideal form, but in comparison with the last 2 years, it has moved to critical status, which is in part a consequence of the lack of recorded data. There are indicators that are not registered on the UPR and some data from Turismo de Portugal r...

Sustainability

e3, 2021

Numa época em que as economias que sustentam o sistema financeiro e empresarial são abaladas por ... more Numa época em que as economias que sustentam o sistema financeiro e empresarial são abaladas por graves crises sistémicas e fraudes financeiras, surge uma pressão política cada vez mais acentuada ao nível do escrutínio da diversidade do conselho de administração (CA) das empresas, no sentido de perceber se, de facto, um grupo heterogéneo é capaz de produzir decisões estratégicas e táticas mais adequadas para o futuro da empresa. A par disto surgem questões relativas ao papel da Mulher no CA, concorrendo para a ideia de que esta poderá contribuir positivamente na gestão empresarial. Neste contexto, o presente estudo tem por objetivo analisar e caraterizar a diversidade do CA das empresas cotadas no PSI-20 em 2019. Especificamente, pretende-se analisar a diversidade à luz dos mecanismos formais de Governo das Sociedades de caráter interno sob quatro dimensões: (i) diversidade de género; (ii) diversidade etária; (iii) diversidade cultural/étnica; e (iv) diversidade na estrutura (indepe...

e3, 2020

O presente ensaio aborda os negócios e os desafios que os empreendedores enfrentam no quotidiano ... more O presente ensaio aborda os negócios e os desafios que os empreendedores enfrentam no quotidiano das suas atividades comerciais, muito para além dos números. Com efeito, por detrás dos negócios existe um conjunto de factos que, com certeza, se refletem financeiramente nas empresas, mas não são suscetíveis de ser captados, muito menos avaliados pelas teorias quantitativas de análise dos negócios, dado a sua origem não ser económica, nem financeira. Assim, no presente ensaio é feita uma análise de caso de uma das mulheres mais empreendedoras e notáveis da época das explorações marítimas portuguesas. Através do seu caso e com recurso a uma análise alternativa às finanças, psicológica e sociológica dos factos sociais, é possível ilustrar que os negócios evidenciam dificuldades financeiras, entram em declínio e perdem-se, mas as causas dessas perdas são sociais e não financeiras, como poderíamos concluir em primeira instância.

Perceber as motivacoes que levam as empresas a apostar no mercado externo e todo o mecanismo que ... more Perceber as motivacoes que levam as empresas a apostar no mercado externo e todo o mecanismo que este processo envolve tem sido um desafio constante para as pesquisas na area dos negocios internacionais. Porem, este nao e o unico desafio. E igualmente importante conhecer o momento em que esta decisao e tomada dentro da estrutura e evolucao de uma organizacao e prever para como uma empresa de pequenas dimensoes se podera expandir internacionalmente e, posteriormente, se manter nesses mercados. Para estudar estas e outras questoes, procedeu-se ao estudo de caso da Regiao Demarcada do Douro (RDD), internacional por excelencia. Foram inquiridas seis quintas, empresas, do setor vitivinicola da regiao e entrevistados os seus responsaveis. Os resultados mostram boas praticas de internacionalizacao, a preferencia por mercados de saudade e proximidade cultural, iniciando com exportacao simples, evoluindo gradualmente para estrategias mais complexas, ultrapassadas as limitacoes de recursos, f...

This study addresses the similarities between two types of hostilities (business wars called comp... more This study addresses the similarities between two types of hostilities (business wars called competition) and physical altercations between nations called wars. We have based this study on the theoretical work of Ephraim Kam. Kam hypothesizes that in the political world there is always the potential for the surprise bellicose attack and that these attacks are not predictable. This study argues that, unlike in the political world, many attacks are predictable in business world. The study argues that the reason for past poor predictive success is that the stochastic model has been used only from the quantitative side. That is to say, scholars and practitioners have analyzed businesses from a mathematical and quantitative perspective rather than a holistic perspective. The current study fills in this gap by adding a theoretical qualitative systematized methodology that permits a more extensive business evaluation and its proclivity to be subjected to a hostile takeover. The study accomplishes this goal by means of theoretical design of one moment in financial history, the study of Portugal's leading 16th century businesswoman, Doña Gracia Nasi. Doña Gracia's life sets the stage for introducing several new analytical tools to the world of finance and business. These are: Q theory, hermeneutic literary analysis, and sociological perspectives. By means of new academic tools, the thesis seeks to fill in some of the lacunae within finance and business academic literature.

Revista de Turism: Studii si Cercetari in Turism, 2019

This research aims in general conceptualize some of the factors that have implications and the le... more This research aims in general conceptualize some of the factors that have implications and the level of business networks and interorganizational cooperation. As nature tourism characterized by being an activity that has highlighted its potential growth, which combined with the importance of networking and cooperation and partnership plays an important role as local and regional development strategy. The purpose of this research is essentially to develop a theoretical framework in order to match with different concepts and elements to explain and understand the phenomenon of partnerships in nature tourism.

Emerald Publishing Limited eBooks, Nov 26, 2023

Quality and quantity, Feb 6, 2024

Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability, 2022

Journal of Entrepreneurial Researchers

Social Science Research Network, 2023

Lecture notes in mechanical engineering, 2023

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 2022

Sustainability

e3, 2021

e3, 2020

Revista de Turism: Studii si Cercetari in Turism, 2019

This study addresses the similarities between two types of hostilities (business wars called comp... more This study addresses the similarities between two types of hostilities (business wars
called competition) and physical altercations between nations called wars.
We have based this study on the theoretical work of Ephraim Kam. Kam hypothesizes
that in the political world there is always the potential for the surprise bellicose attack
and that these attacks are not predictable.
This study argues that, unlike in the political world, many attacks are predictable in
business world. The study argues that the reason for past poor predictive success is
that the stochastic model has been used only from the quantitative side. That is to say,
scholars and practitioners have analyzed businesses from a mathematical and
quantitative perspective rather than a holistic perspective. The current study fills in
this gap by adding a theoretical qualitative systematized methodology that permits a
more extensive business evaluation and its proclivity to be subjected to a hostile takeover.
The study accomplishes this goal by means of theoretical design of one moment in
financial history, the study of Portugal's leading 16th century businesswoman, Doña
Gracia Nasi. Doña Gracia's life sets the stage for introducing several new analytical
tools to the world of finance and business. These are: Q theory, hermeneutic literary
analysis, and sociological perspectives. By means of new academic tools, the thesis
seeks to fill in some of the lacunae within finance and business academic literature.
Keywords: Hostile takeover, Surprise attack, Evaluation, PIE, Kam, Doña Gracia
Nasi.

The world economic architecture has substantially altered in the last two decades, nowadays being... more The world economic architecture has substantially altered in the last two decades, nowadays being characterized by change, dematerialization and globalization. In this picture, the enterprises come across with increasing difficulties of adaptation that influence their behaviour and makes necessity of cooperation to stand up. To cooperate means to establish preferential relation between the demands in enterprises combined with innovations that can contribute to attain a common aim. The concept is sufficiently all embracing, being able to go from the bottom of a simple relation of supplier-customer till the development of market structures based on the enterprise system establishment. Meanwhile, the typical cases are the joint ventures, the fusions and acquisitions, the sub contraction, the franchising and the licences. Having as basis the cooperation’s theme, we defined as the general objective of the present work, the critical of paradigm of enterprise cooperation as a method of strategic development, in especial external, in portuguese industry of foot-wear through a study of one of the most representative groups of the aforementioned industry, the Aerosoles Group. In the ambit of this objective, it was developed a descriptive type of study and with a strategy based on case study resorting an interview, supported by a questionnaire and from the analyses of secondary data, as gathering data methods, these last ones being obtained from private and public sources. The study results enterprise cooperation on Aerosoles Group, revealed a existence from two honoured cooperation agreements, one between the What’s What Portugal, Comércio e Desenvolvimento de Calçado S.A., and Aerogroup International Inc., and the other between the Aeroshoes, Distribuidores de Calçado S.A., The Aerogroup International Inc. and the FIEP, Fundo para a Internacionalização das Empresas Portuguesas, SGPS, S.A. Both of the cooperation agreements are international, due to the enterprise’s partnership nationality (North Americans) and they put in frame the commercial sector. Yet in this study we can conclude that the cooperation cannot be dissociated from the Aerosoles Group.

A globalização do planeta acentuou-se significativamente no final da década de 1980, sendo atualm... more A globalização do planeta acentuou-se significativamente no final da década de 1980, sendo atualmente caracterizada por: i) homogeneização dos centros urbanos; ii) expansão das corporações para regiões fora dos seus núcleos geopolíticos; iii) revolução tecnológica nas comunicações; iv) reorganização geopolítica do mundo em blocos comerciais, em vez de ideológicos; v) anexação das culturas populares locais por uma cultura de massa universal. Neste quadro, os países deparam-se com diversos desafios globais aos quais estão com dificuldade em responder internamente, fazendo ressaltar a necessidade de cooperação externa. Por exemplo, a crise económica e financeira de 2008 teve início nos EUA, mas rapidamente contagiou o mundo. A partir daí, países como Portugal e Espanha, só para citar alguns casos, têm sentido muita dificuldade em financiar-se nos mercados internacionais, sendo essencial a ajuda externa para evitar a entrada em incumprimento, tal como sucedeu anteriormente com a Islândia e a Grécia. Outro exemplo é a crise migratória no Mediterrâneo, em que a Itália e a Grécia, também afetados pela crise, não teriam condições de receber e instalar um número inesperado de migrantes, sem a ajuda dos restantes membros da União Europeia. Por último, o terrorismo em França será muito difícil de combater e erradicar, num quadro de fronteiras abertas e de mobilidade de pessoas e bens, se as outras nações não forem solidárias no combate ao crime organizado. Poderíamos acrescentar outros casos, mas estes são alguns dos exemplos mais paradigmáticos, em que as estruturas dos Estados, por si só, se mostram insuficientes para resolver os efeitos colaterais da globalização, necessitando de recorrer à ajuda internacional.

Tendências globais: oportunidades e desafios de uma realidade que os países da CPLP não devem ign... more Tendências globais: oportunidades e desafios de uma realidade que os países da CPLP não devem ignorar.

Revista Motricidade: Uma questão de compromisso com a ciência e a cultura lusofona

Revista Motricidade, nove anos de contribuição para a reflexão sobre desporto