Corporate social responsible behaviour in the financial industry

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Portuguese Ministers, 1851-1999: Social Background and Paths to Power

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Corporate social responsibility: How internal and external CSR perceptions influence employee outcomes

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

A responsabilidade social na comunicação da ciência nos laboratórios de Estado portugueses

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação

Cyberscience 2.0 – research in the age of digital social networks [Michel Nentwich, René König]

Recensão sobre o livro Cyberscience 2.0 – Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks, Frankfurt, Campus Verlag, 2012, 238 pp. ISBN: 978-3-593-39518-0

Escola multicultural: a sala de aula como espaço de integração e inclusão social

Relatório de Estágio apresentado para cumprimentos dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ensino da História e da Geografia no 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e Ensino Secundário

InnovationCity Ruhr: a prime example for social and technological innovation

The project “InnovationCity Ruhr” deals with the reconstruction of the city of Bottrop with regard to energy saving measures. The aim is to make the city more environmental friendly in order to create a model for other industrial cities. Until the conclusion of the project in the year 2020, it is planned to change the surface of Bottrop in several positive ways. This paper focuses on the description of the project to give the reader an example of what exactly is done within the scope of InnovationCity Ruhr. Besides that, the link to the subject of sociology shall be given in order to show that the project is a prime example for social innovation.

Formas de tratamento nas relações sociais na Golegã. Para uma leitura da estratificação social

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Estudos Portugueses

A inserção profissional dos diplomados do ensino superior: conciliação e conflito na relação entre o trabalho e outras esferas da vida social

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Sociologia, ramo de Sociologia da Cultura, do Conhecimento e da Educação

O Fim da Transgressão na Performance Social e Artística

A presente dissertação intitulada “O fim da transgressão na performance social e artística” pretende descrever e enquadrar numa perspectiva teórica a contemporaneidade destas duas dimensões, problematizando-as, de forma a indagar um estado de posição argumentativa coerente e actual sobre as mesmas. “O fim da transgressão” anuncia que o conceito de transgressão será aqui analisado e aprofundado tendo presentes as perspectivas de vários autores, compreendendo o seu surgimento, as variantes e influências que o conceito pode tomar e ser influenciado. Este conceito é inserido em possíveis interpretações da sociedade, desde escalas macro sociais a casos particulares, e depois enumerado num esquema transversal da história da performance artística. De modo que a correlação entre o estado da sociedade influencia o estado da arte, e vice-versa, reflectindo-se sobre as suas regras e lei. A argumentação apresentada é um estudo da transgressão na reflexão da moral e da psicologia da massa social, inquirindo o normativo, o desvanecimento dos valores considerados ultrapassados e a biotecnologia vigente desde o humanismo, passando pelo pós-humanismo no devir do homem-máquina e enquadrando o metahumanismo da segunda década do século XX. Problematiza-se a viabilidade da transgressão ou norma num mundo de consumismo espectacular, de hedonismo personalizado e narcisismo massivo.

Mulheres entre muros: do moral ao social

coord. Lima, Joana; Pereira, Maria Joana Alves, Silva, Maria Manuela Antunes da

How enterprise 2,0 firms take advantage of emergent social software platforms to manage knowledge

This research aims to provide a better understanding on how firms stimulate knowledge sharing through the utilization of collaboration tools, in particular Emergent Social Software Platforms (ESSPs). It focuses on the distinctive applications of ESSPs and on the initiatives contributing to maximize its advantages. In the first part of the research, I have itemized all types of existing collaboration tools and classify them in different categories according to their capabilities, objectives and according to their faculty for promoting knowledge sharing. In the second part, and based on an exploratory case study at Cisco Systems, I have identified the main applications of an existing enterprise social software platform named Webex Social. By combining a qualitative and quantitative approach, as well as combining data collected from survey’s results and from the analysis of the company’s documents, I am expecting to maximize the outcome of this investigation and reduce the risk of bias. Although effects cannot be universalized based on one single case study, some utilization patterns have been underlined from the data collected and potential trends in managing knowledge have been observed. The results of the research have also enabled identifying most of the constraints experienced by the users of the firm’s social software platform. Utterly, this research should provide a primary framework for firms planning to create or implement a social software platform and for firms willing to increase adoption levels and to promote the overall participation of users. It highlights the common traps that should be avoided by developers when designing a social software platform and the capabilities that it should inherently carry to support an effective knowledge management strategy.

Enterprise Social Networking

Microblogging in the workplace as a functionality of Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) platforms is a relatively new phenomenon of which the use in knowledge work has not yet received much attention from research. In this cross-sectional study, I attempt to shed light on the role of microblogging in knowledge work. I identify microblogging use practices of knowledge workers on ESN platforms, and I identify its role in supporting knowledge work performance. A questionnaire is carried out among a non-representative sample of knowledge workers. The results shed light on the purposes of the microblogging messages that knowledge workers write. It also helps us find out whether microblogging supports them in performing their work. The survey is based on existing theory that supplied me with possible microblog purposes as well as theory on what the actions of knowledge workers are. The results reveal that “knowledge & news sharing”, “crowd sourcing”, “socializing & networking” and “discussion & opinion” are frequent microblog purposes. The study furthermore shows that microblogging benefits knowledge workers’ work. Microblogging seems to be a worthy addition to the existing means of communication in the workplace, and is especially useful to let knowledge, news and social contact reach a further and broader audience than it would in a situation without this social networking service.

How do companies use social media?

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