Acredita Portugal: How to improve the implementation rate of entrepreneurial projects?

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

The crisis and the firm: The case of h3

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

Case study - Herdade Vale da Rosa – The fruits of passion: The role of a positive entrepreneur vision in the success of an organization from a depressed sector and region

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

Return on entrepreneurial passion: A study of funding success and timely delivery in crowdfunding

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

From Strategic Planning to Development Initiatives: a first reflection on the situation of Lisbon and Barcelona

MARQUES, B.P. (2014) From Strategic Planning to Development Initiatives: a first reflection on the situation of Lisbon and Barcelona, in 20th APDR Congress Proceddings, APDR and UÉvora, Évora, pp. 850-857, ISBN 978-989-8780-01-0.

Educação para o Empreendedorismo: Uma prática no ensino da História e da Geografia

Este relatório reflete a experiência vivida durante a Prática de Ensino Supervisionada efetuada no âmbito do Mestrado em Ensino da História e da Geografia, no 3.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e no Ensino Secundário. Descreve as atividades desenvolvidas nas turmas de 2.º ano de Instalação e Operação de Sistemas Informáticos (Curso de Educação e Formação) e 9.º3 da Escola Secundária 2,3 de Alvide e 8.ºD e 9.º C na Escola Secundária da Quinta do Marquês, no ano letivo de 2013/2014. O presente relatório encontra-se estruturado em três capítulos essenciais. No primeiro são abordados os seguintes temas: i) uma breve contextualização da temática; i) uma reflexão acerca da importância da Educação para o Empreendedorismo para as necessidades de educação e formação do mundo atual; iii) exemplos de práticas no sistema educativo português; iv) reflexão acerca dos contributos de um ambiente construtivista de aprendizagem, como uma das várias estratégias a adotar numa formação orientada para as competências-chave da Educação para o Empreendedorismo, com ênfase no trabalho cooperativo, aplicado durante as práticas letivas. Nos dois capítulos seguintes são abordadas as Práticas de Ensino Supervisionadas em Geografia e em História, respetivamente. Nestes capítulos surgem: i) um breve enquadramento e caracterização das escolas e turmas onde decorreram as práticas letivas. As referidas caracterizações foram efetuadas com base em inquéritos por questionário, aplicados aos alunos, orientados para a temática e que permitiram traçar o seu perfil académico e familiar e conhecer os seus planos de futuro profissional; ii) Descrição das práticas letivas desenvolvidas, estratégias implementadas orientadas para a Educação para o Empreendedorismo, materiais utilizados e resultados obtidos. A Educação para o Empreendedorismo consiste na prática pedagógica central aplicada nas referidas turmas, tendo estas, pelas suas caraterísticas, contribuído para o desenvolvimento das competências-chave que estão na sua base, tais como: o trabalho em equipa, o espírito crítico e de iniciativa, a resolução autónoma de problemas, a responsabilidade e a criatividade.

Shiva's dance: Crisis, local institutions and private firms

The uneven spatial distribution of start-ups and their respective survival may reflect comparative advantages resulting from the local institutional background. For the first time, we explore this idea using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess the relative efficiency of Portuguese municipalities in this specific context. We depart from the related literature where expenditure is perceived as a desirable input by choosing a measure of fiscal responsibility and infrastructural variables in the first stage. Comparing results for 2006 and 2010, we find that mean performance decreased substantially 1) with the effects of the Global Financial Crisis, 2) as municipal population increases and 3) as financial independence decreases. A second stage is then performed employing a double-bootstrap procedure to evaluate how the regional context outside the control of local authorities (e.g. demographic characteristics and political preferences) impacts on efficiency.

How does introducing love impact management?

Religion at work is nowadays a hot-topic for organizational researchers. Studies have been conducted in order to understand whether there is a possible connection between God and management. This study aims to understand what is the impact of managing through God’s Love. It was found that managing with Love contributes for a new organizational culture characterized by the way managers face work (Culture of Identification), the way they use their characteristics for the benefit of the organization (Culture of Integration), the way human relations are developed (Culture of Bonds) and that it creates sustainable value (Culture of Entrepreneurship) for organizations. Main implications of these results are presented below.

Inclusion of disabled people in siemens AG'S energy management division

This work project is a business plan for a project regarding corporate social entrepreneurship that will be developed by Siemens Switchboard Factory in Corroios. The main purpose of this project is to understand the viability of a partnership between Siemens AG’s and CERCISA in order to include disabled people into Siemens AG’s Energy Management Division, with the goal of achieving social and economic impact by insources activities while complying with the law1. The produced output, a business plan, aims to study and understand the practical suitability and feasibility of the concepts and propose a sustainable project that can be replicated, starting with a pilot testing and validation period.

The role of individual ability and structural embeddedness on entrepreneurial success

In the present thesis I analyse the roles of individual ability and structural embeddedness on entrepreneurial success. The results retrieved from a matched employer-employee longitudinal data set show prior worker productivities and environmental embeddedness to have a persistent positive impact on the size and growth rates of new firms. What is more, embeddedness facilitates the impact of ability on start-up performance with outsiders of comparable abilities starting smaller and slower growing firms. Those in higher ability categories are more likely to transfer and also, albeit to a lesser extent, close their ventures, an effect attributed to the higher opportunity costs associated with the group. Firms managed by embedded agents enjoy longer longevities and have better chances of finding a new owner after the departure of the previous one. Finally, higher ability types show evidence of specialisation in serial entrepreneurship.

What makes an entrepreneur? The role of feelings

This study uses a sample of 678 observations from the Community Innovation Survey 6 (CIS6) plus the Leadership Module attached in Portugal wherein 55.93% of the respondents are business Owners. It focuses on recent literature on Entrepreneurship to understand how the perceived importance of Personality Traits and Social Ties influence the decision-making process of the Entrepreneur towards an Intuitive or an Analytical Approach. It gets statistical significant values for the Founder/Sample in the traits, and for strong ties in the Founder/Owner Model shows statistical significance.

Glonate your inspiring journey with impact

This work project serves as the very first milestone for my own future social start-up GLONATE. The idea is to create a social giving and storytelling platform that connects donors, messengers and recipients through social interaction. The platform will enable potential donor`s to connect to messengers in order to mutually contribute to a social cause. An innovative donation chain that does not only help the needy people but also at the same time creates and shares emotional stories among all participants. The objective of this paper is to analyse the feasibility of this social giving platform and to demonstrate value proposition. Key words Social Entrepreneurship,

Crowdfunding campaigns: Perceived quality and success

Research in Crowdfunding is an emerging priority within the field of Entrepreneurship. Hundreds of platforms provide nowadays multiple Crowdfunding schemes which are intended to make it easier for entrepreneurs and others to collect money from the crowd. However, only a few campaigns become successful as others don’t reach the pre-established funding goal. It is thus necessary to keep on understanding the dynamics of these platforms and the factors which justify success. The asymmetry of information has been shown to be a delicate issue as people perceive quality in different manners. As so, this research aims to understand which components of perceived quality mostly influence investments decisions. Mainly Entrepreneurship and Marketing theories were explored along the way. This is research follows a causal approach where nineteen hypotheses are tested. An experimental survey was conducted and data was collected from 127 people who were asked to evaluate one of the most important pieces of any Crowdfunding campaign – the pitch video – and consequently invest on the presented products.

Arts management

For the purpose of analyzing how did the considerable increase in the Portuguese tourism has influenced its cultural sector, this paper seeks to explore how has the company AntiFrame | Art Consulting replied to it. Arts Management: Contemporary Art Guides. Alibi – The Portuguese Case reviews some Arts Management literature whilst a multi-method approach is used. A market research was conducted, in which existing contemporary guides were analyzed as well as interviews made to tourists in Lisbon. Findings show that there is a flaw in the Portuguese contemporary art market, which the project Alibi aims to solve. Metrics on how the project’s results should be monitored, as part of a follow-up phase, were included, as well as limitations.

exploring the differences of CSR and CSE activities on consumer attributions and responses

The following directed research project analyzes how different sustainability efforts of an organization influence consumers’ responses in an industry, which faces high controversy. The study tested shows how two different high fit sustainability endeavors, namely high fit Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE), affect the way consumers’ attributions are being made with regard to the company’s motive. With data gathered from surveying 156 participants, the study provides evidence that CSR as well as CSE programs stimulate values-driven attributions which positively affect consumers’ trust, corporate reputation and corporate image. Lastly, theoretical and managerial implications of the study are discussed and future research suggestions provided.