Transparência e responsabilidade(s) na prestação de contas: contributos para um indicador auditável em entidades públicas empresariais do sector da cultura e das artes

Mestrado em Auditoria

A gestão e avaliação do risco: perspectiva das organizações e da auditoria no sector público

Mestrado em Auditoria

A importância da informação financeira e da auditoria externa para as comissões de trabalhadores enquanto utentes das demonstrações financeiras : estudo de caso do sector bancário português

Mestrado em Auditoria

Contributos para a compreensão das dimensões e características do Capital Intelectual valorizadas por uma Empresa líder no Sector dos Seguros em Portugal

Mestrado em Gestão e Empreendedorismo

Developing corporate image in higher education sector: a case study of University of East Anglia Norwich, United Kingdom’ [de] Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Moazam Fraz [recensão crítica]

Recensão crítica do livro "AMJAD, Muhammad; FRAZ, Muhammad Moazam - Developing corporate image in higher education sector: a case study of University of East Anglia Norwich, United Kingdom. Lisboa: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012”.

Gestão de risco no Sector Automóvel - O caso do grupo Soluções Automóveis Globais

Mestrado em Controlo de Gestão e dos Negócios

Legal and political regulation of higher education in Portugal: an evolutionary perspective on the current policy issues and the problem of order

The higher education system in Europe is currently under stress and the debates over its reform and future are gaining momentum. Now that, for most countries, we are in a time for change, in the overall society and the whole education system, the legal and political dimensions have gained prominence, which has not been followed by a more integrative approach of the problem of order, its reform and the issue of regulation, beyond the typical static and classical cost-benefit analyses. The two classical approaches for studying (and for designing the policy measures of) the problem of the reform of the higher education system - the cost-benefit analysis and the legal scholarship description - have to be integrated. This is the argument of our paper that the very integration of economic and legal approaches, what Warren Samuels called the legal-economic nexus, is meaningful and necessary, especially if we want to address the problem of order (as formulated by Joseph Spengler) and the overall regulation of the system. On the one hand, and without neglecting the interest and insights gained from the cost-benefit analysis, or other approaches of value for money assessment, we will focus our study on the legal, social and political aspects of the regulation of the higher education system and its reform in Portugal. On the other hand, the economic and financial problems have to be taken into account, but in a more inclusive way with regard to the indirect and other socio-economic costs not contemplated in traditional or standard assessments of policies for the tertiary education sector. In the first section of the paper, we will discuss the theoretical and conceptual underpinning of our analysis, focusing on the evolutionary approach, the role of critical institutions, the legal-economic nexus and the problem of order. All these elements are related to the institutional tradition, from Veblen and Commons to Spengler and Samuels. The second section states the problem of regulation in the higher education system and the issue of policy formulation for tackling the problem. The current situation is clearly one of crisis with the expansion of the cohorts of young students coming to an end and the recurrent scandals in private institutions. In the last decade, after a protracted period of extension or expansion of the system, i. e., the continuous growth of students, universities and other institutions are competing harder to gain students and have seen their financial situation at risk. It seems that we are entering a period of radical uncertainty, higher competition and a new configuration that is slowly building up is the growth in intensity, which means upgrading the quality of the higher learning and getting more involvement in vocational training and life-long learning. With this change, and along with other deep ones in the Portuguese society and economy, the current regulation has shown signs of maladjustment. The third section consists of our conclusions on the current issue of regulation and policy challenge. First, we underline the importance of an evolutionary approach to a process of change that is essentially dynamic. A special attention will be given to the issues related to an evolutionary construe of policy analysis and formulation. Second, the integration of law and economics, through the notion of legal economic nexus, allows us to better define the issues of regulation and the concrete problems that the universities are facing. One aspect is the instability of the political measures regarding the public administration and on which the higher education system depends financially, legally and institutionally, to say the least. A corollary is the lack of clear strategy in the policy reforms. Third, our research criticizes several studies, such as the one made by the OECD in late 2006 for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, for being too static and neglecting fundamental aspects of regulation such as the logic of actors, groups and organizations who are major players in the system. Finally, simply changing the legal rules will not necessary per se change the behaviors that the authorities want to change. By this, we mean that it is not only remiss of the policy maker to ignore some of the critical issues of regulation, namely the continuous non-respect by academic management and administrative bodies of universities of the legal rules that were once promulgated. Changing the rules does not change the problem, especially without the necessary debates form the different relevant quarters that make up the higher education system. The issues of social interaction remain as intact. Our treatment of the matter will be organized in the following way. In the first section, the theoretical principles are developed in order to be able to study more adequately the higher education transformation with a modest evolutionary theory and a legal and economic nexus of the interactions of the system and the policy challenges. After describing, in the second section, the recent evolution and current working of the higher education in Portugal, we will analyze the legal framework and the current regulatory practices and problems in light of the theoretical framework adopted. We will end with some conclusions on the current problems of regulation and the policy measures that are discusses in recent years.

A solução POWERLINE para o sector residencial

Apesar de muito utilizada no sector industrial, a automação ainda não atingiu o mesmo patamar de implementação no sector doméstico. A evolução tecnológica leva a que quase todos os dias apareçam novos produtos que visam a implementação de sistemas domóticos que possibilitem o conforto, a segurança e a eficiência nas habitações. Contudo, quando se pretende instalar um sistema domótico com o objectivo de simplificar os processos numa habitação, a palavra que surge não é “simplicidade”, mas sim “complicação”. Para além de a grande maioria das pessoas não estar familiarizada com as funcionalidades que um sistema domótico permite, existe sempre o pensamento que esses sistemas têm um custo elevado, o que de certa forma não é um pensamento errado. Se quanto ao aspecto do preço, não há muito a fazer, ele depende das leis do mercado e do custo da inovação, quanto à complexidade da instalação e utilização dos sistemas, trata‐se de um pensamento induzido nas pessoas que não conhecem os sistemas domóticos e que facilmente se consegue desmistificar. Os projectos de domótica nas habitações deveriam ser pensados aquando do projecto da habitação. No entanto, a realidade não é essa. A grande maioria das habitações não foi pensada para a instalação desses sistemas e só depois da instalação eléctrica estar efectuada e a habitação habitada é que se percebe que se precisava de ter mais alguma flexibilidade e funcionalidade na instalação. A evolução tecnológica permitiu desenvolver soluções para este tipo de situações. Hoje em dia não é necessário reconstruir a habitação para instalar sistemas domóticos. Existem soluções que usam a rede eléctrica já instalada e que permitem instalar funções domóticas na habitação.

Extinção das tarifas reguladas no sector eléctrico

O sector eléctrico foi, historicamente, um sector de monopólio natural, controlado por uma única entidade a qual assegurava as diversas actividades relacionadas com o fornecimento da energia eléctrica, desde a sua produção, transporte e distribuição até ao abastecimento ao consumidor final. Esta é uma realidade que tem vindo a ser radicalmente alterada nas últimas décadas. Após longos anos de actuação em regime de monopólio (público, privado ou misto) verticalmente integrado, verificaram-se em diversos países, em diferentes latitudes, várias experiências que resultaram em processos de desverticalização do sector com separação das suas actividades. O primeiro destes exemplos ocorreu no Chile no final da década de 70 do século XX, tendo as alterações consistido, basicamente, no fim dos monopólios da energia eléctrica e na introdução duma lógica de concorrência no mercado da electricidade. Esta passou a verificar-se na produção e na comercialização, mantendo-se como monopólios as actividades ligadas a infra-estruturas de rede como são o transporte e a distribuição.

A filosofia da qualidade total aplicada a uma empresa do sector alimentar

Mestrado em Controlo de Gestão e dos Negócios

A criação de valor no sector da pasta, papel e cartão : caso Portucel Soporcel

Mestrado em Gestão e Empreendedorismo

Federação Portuguesa de Atletismo: breves notas sobre a comunicação estratégica no sector do atletismo em Portugal

Relatório de estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Gestão Estratégica das Relações Públicas.

The globalisation in the clothing sector and its implications for work organisation: a view from the Portuguese case

The clothing sector in Portugal is still seen, in many aspects as a traditional sector with some average characteristics, such as: low level of qualifications, less flexible labour legislation and stronger unionisation, very low salaries and low capability of investment in innovation and new technology. Is, nevertheless, a very important sector in terms of labour market, with increased weight in the exporting structure. Globalisation and delocalisation are having a strong impact in the organisation of work and in occupational careers in the sector. With the pressure of global competitiveness in what concerns time and prices, very few companies are able to keep a position in the market without changes in organisation of work and workers. And those that can perform good responses to such challenges are achieving a better economical stability. The companies have found different ways to face this reality according to size, capital and position. We could find two main paths: one where companies outsource a part or the entire production to another territory (for example, several manufacturing tasks), close and/or dismissal the workers. Other path, where companies up skilled their capacities investing, for example, in design, workers training, conception and introduction of new or original products. This paper will present some results from the European project WORKS – Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society (6th Framework Programme), focusing the Portuguese case studies in several clothing companies in what concern implications of global context for the companies in general and for the workers in particular, in a comparative analysis with some other European countries.

Concept of Customer Relationship Management as an example of innovation in banking sector

Banks that has introduced CRM system, had to make some difficult changes in their organization in order to become more customer oriented. Beside the pure CRM banks try to adopt other innovative tools related with the core CRM. Some of these solutions are constructed in such a way so that ensured could be also access to the information beside to bank’s organization.

Sistemas energéticos para o sector edifícios em Portugal

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente