Agricultura, ambiente e desenvolvimento em territórios periurbanos - Um desafio para todos. Estudo empírico nas freguesias da Marateca e do Poceirão do município de Palmela

Doutoramento em Geografia e Planeamento Regional, Especialidade Planeamento e Gestão do Território

Information Systems Outsourcing Adoption

Dissertação apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Estatística e Gestão de Informação

IWP strategy: TechFrame

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 communication strategy for Continente: proposals to promote fresh products of Continente’s own brands

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

Marketing plan for Gazela

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

Healthy brand extentions targeted at adolescents: Can products encourage healthier eating habits and still be fun?

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

Leading teaming: Evidence from Jazz

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 CSR communication strategy for Continente: Improving brand image and reinforcing local community bonds

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

Emove

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

Validation of alternative additives for paste production

Dissertation presented to confer Master Degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Nestum vs private labels: A renewed identity for Nestum

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

Attitude change in arbitrarily large organizations

The alignment of collective goals and individual behavior has been extensively studied by economists under a principal-agent framework. Two main solutions have been presented: explicit incentive contracts and monitoring. These solutions correspond to changes in the objective situation faced by individuals. However, an extensive literature in social psychology provides evidence that behavior is influenced, not only by situational constraints, but also by attitudes. Therefore, an important aspect of organization is to choose the structures and procedures that best contribute to the dissemination of the desired attitudes throughout the organization. This paper studies how the initial configuration of attitudes and the size of the organization affect the optimal organizational structure and the timing of information flows when the objective is to align the members' attitudes. We identify and characterize three factors that affect the optimal organizational structures and procedures and the degree of alignment of attitudes: (1) clustering effects; (2) member cross-influence effects; and (3) leader cross-influence effects.

The optimization of the complaints management system

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

Vegetables, an innovative nut: A Marketing Plan developed for PepsiCo Iberia

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

Os editoriais como espaço de opinião - breve estudo de caso do jornal Tribuna da Madeira

Este trabalho analisa os editoriais publicados num semanário regional. Num meio como o dos jornais, onde os espaços de opinião abundam, existiu a necessidade de trazer alguma clareza sobre os critérios editoriais utilizados. Partindo do princípio de que um projecto jornalístico implica critérios editoriais e que o editorial representa a posição do meio de comunicação social sobre o acontecimento, fizemos um levantamento dos editoriais publicados no Tribuna da Madeira entre Outubro de 2009 e Outubro de 2012 indo ao encontro dos temas e tons adoptados nesse jornal. Partimos de uma abordagem teórica que entre outras áreas analisa o desenvolvimento da opinião no meio jornalístico, a função dos líderes de opinião e a maneira como podem influenciar a audiência, bem como a relação entre os media e a comunidade. Estes factores juntos permitem aos media criar através dos líderes de opinião uma audiência. O editorial seria uma forma de a comunidade ficar a saber qual é o posicionamento do jornal em relação a determinadas matérias. Apesar de o editorial poder assumir várias formas, este permite esclarecer que tipo de projecto é que o jornal pretende assumir. Chegou-se à conclusão que o Tribuna da Madeira não contém critérios claros nos editoriais e que se encontra desapegado de questões regionais que poderiam ter importância para a região em que se insere.