Precursores da iniciativa social em Portugal

Resumo estruturado Propósito: É objetivo deste artigo compreender em que medida a formação, as experiências profissionais anteriores e a perceção da viabilidade da iniciativa social condicionam o lançamento de um projeto de empreendedorismo social em Portugal. Desenho/metodologia/abordagem: O artigo parte de uma revisão de literatura, seguindo-se a realização de uma investigação quantitativa, através de um inquérito por questionário enviado aos responsáveis de ONGD existentes em Portugal e de projetos cotados na Bolsa de Valores Sociais. Resultados: A investigação revela que a formação exerce uma influência positiva, direta, sobre o lançamento de iniciativas sociais, verificando-se o mesmo em relação à situação ocupacional do indivíduo e à perceção da viabilidade da iniciativa. O contexto empreendedor não é apontado como um preditor direto da criação de iniciativas sociais. Para a formação da perceção de viabilidade da iniciativa contribui essencialmente a interpretação pessoal das competências necessárias ao lançamento e acompanhamento do projeto e o entendimento de que a iniciativa é desejável. A perceção de um ambiente externo favorável tem uma influência baixa sobre a decisão. Limitações da investigação: A investigação apresenta uma natureza exploratória em virtude do caráter não aleatório da amostra e da sua dimensão. Implicações práticas: O conhecimento dos fatores que exercem maior influência na criação de organizações permite estimular o surgimento de novas iniciativas sociais. Originalidade/valor: O empreendedorismo social é um campo ainda emergente, que carece da produção de mais investigação, em particular de natureza quantitativa. Em Portugal é uma realidade pouco conhecida, onde são necessários novos contributos empíricos.

A cooperação informal para a internacionalização

Dissertação de Mestrado em Gestão e Internacionalização de Empresas

electronic payments in mozambique: A Baseline on their adoption in Maputo and Matola

This study analyses the access and use of financial services by small business owners in the cities of Mozambique, as an important tool for boosting economic growth and diminishing inequality. It correlates owners’ and business characteristics with the probability of adopting Points-of-Sale (POS), Mobile Banking and Mobile Money in everyday transactions. The main findings highlight that what mostly affects the use of POS is the size of business and the volume of transactions (positively correlated with POS adoption), while using mobile phone technologies for payments predominantly depends on the owner’s age and whether he/she is a frequent cellphone user. Moreover, to increase the use of electronic means of payment it is necessary to increase financial literacy and improve the banking services.

O mercado único e as pequenas e médias empresas

Trabalho de projeto de mestrado em Políticas Comunitárias e Cooperação Territorial

Variables efectives de l'empowerment

Aquest treball que porta per títol variables efectives de l’empowerment es el treball investigació del programa de doctorat Interuniversitari en Organització i Administració d’Empreses. El treball està composat per tres parts diferenciades. La primera part del treball consisteix amb el comentari de vint articles relacionats amb la motivació, el downsizing i l’empowerment. Els resums exposats han servit per establir els fonaments teòrics previs al model proposat de variables efectives d’empowerment. La segona part consisteix amb l’elaboració d’un article que resumeix les principals fonts consultades i proposa un model de classificació de les variables que poden contribuir a aconseguir amb èxit un procés d’empowerment. Les variables efectives es poden dividir en variables recíproques, variables unidireccionals, variables compartides i variables reflexives. La tercera part i amb l’objectiu de comprovar la validesa de model s’ha desenvolupat un qüestionari per mesurar l’estat de les variables anomenades efectives d’empowerment i la seva contribució amb l’èxit del procés. Es descriu l’eina desenvolupada, el tractament i la representació de les dades obtingudes. Finalment es pot trobar els primers resultats de la prova pilot realitzada per provar el model conceptual proposat.

Entrepreneurial Orientation, Intangible Assets and Firm Growth: the impact of ‘Spirit and Material’ on the growth of Chinese private firms

This paper has three contributions. First, it shows how field work within small firms in PR Chinese has provided new evidence which enables us to measure and calibrate Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), as ‘spirit’, and Intangible Assets (IA), as ‘material’, for use in models of small firm growth. Second, it uses inter-item correlation analysis and both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to provide new measures of EO and IA, in index and in vector form, for use in econometric models of firm growth. Third, it estimates two new econometric models of small firm employment growth in PR China, under the null hypothesis of Gibrat’s Law, using our two new index-based and vector-based measures of EO and IA. Estimation is by OLS with adjustment for heteroscedasticity, and for sample selectivity. Broadly, it finds that EO attributes have had little significant impact on small firm growth, and indeed innovativeness and pro-activity paradoxically may even dampen growth. However, IA attributes have had a positive and significant impact on growth, with networking, and technological knowledge being of prime importance, and intellectual property and human capital being of lesser but still significant importance. In the light of these results, Gibrat’s Law is generalized, and Jovanovic’s learning theory is extended, to emphasise the importance of IA to growth. These findings cast new empirical light on the oft-quoted national slogan in PR China of “spirit and material”. So far as small firms are concerned, this paper suggests that their contribution to PR China’s remarkable economic growth is not so much attributable to the ‘spirit’ of enterprise (as suggested by propaganda) as, more prosaically, to the pursuit of the ‘material’.

Aplicatiu per a Cafeteria Andana

La finalitat del projecte és la realització d’una aplicació per gestionar l’activitat d’una cafeteria (Andana). El projecte consta de dues parts ben diferenciades: una part interna o Intranet, en la qual el propietari podrà portar un control del negoci i on podrà establir una interacció amb els clients, fet que ajudarà a millorar la gestió del negoci; i una part externa o web pública, accessible per a tothom. Per dur-lo a terme s'ha fet servir el gestor de continguts (CMS) Joomla.

Sistema integral de facturación y fabricación para una empresa de manufacturas metalúrgicas

L'objectiu d'aquest projecte és fer l'anàlisi i el disseny d'un sistema informàtic que gestioni de manera integral la facturació i els estocs de l'empresa García Escalera SL.

ARCHITECTING USER-CENTRIC PRIVACY-AS-A-SET-OF-SERVICES: DIGITAL IDENTITY RELATED PRIVACY FRAMEWORK

AbstractDigitalization gives to the Internet the power by allowing several virtual representations of reality, including that of identity. We leave an increasingly digital footprint in cyberspace and this situation puts our identity at high risks. Privacy is a right and fundamental social value that could play a key role as a medium to secure digital identities. Identity functionality is increasingly delivered as sets of services, rather than monolithic applications. So, an identity layer in which identity and privacy management services are loosely coupled, publicly hosted and available to on-demand calls could be more realistic and an acceptable situation. Identity and privacy should be interoperable and distributed through the adoption of service-orientation and implementation based on open standards (technical interoperability). Ihe objective of this project is to provide a way to implement interoperable user-centric digital identity-related privacy to respond to the need of distributed nature of federated identity systems. It is recognized that technical initiatives, emerging standards and protocols are not enough to guarantee resolution for the concerns surrounding a multi-facets and complex issue of identity and privacy. For this reason they should be apprehended within a global perspective through an integrated and a multidisciplinary approach. The approach dictates that privacy law, policies, regulations and technologies are to be crafted together from the start, rather than attaching it to digital identity after the fact. Thus, we draw Digital Identity-Related Privacy (DigldeRP) requirements from global, domestic and business-specific privacy policies. The requirements take shape of business interoperability. We suggest a layered implementation framework (DigldeRP framework) in accordance to model-driven architecture (MDA) approach that would help organizations' security team to turn business interoperability into technical interoperability in the form of a set of services that could accommodate Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Privacy-as-a-set-of- services (PaaSS) system. DigldeRP Framework will serve as a basis for vital understanding between business management and technical managers on digital identity related privacy initiatives. The layered DigldeRP framework presents five practical layers as an ordered sequence as a basis of DigldeRP project roadmap, however, in practice, there is an iterative process to assure that each layer supports effectively and enforces requirements of the adjacent ones. Each layer is composed by a set of blocks, which determine a roadmap that security team could follow to successfully implement PaaSS. Several blocks' descriptions are based on OMG SoaML modeling language and BPMN processes description. We identified, designed and implemented seven services that form PaaSS and described their consumption. PaaSS Java QEE project), WSDL, and XSD codes are given and explained.

Filtratge de pàgines Web

Filtratge web utilitzant les eines de Microsoft ISA Server 2004, llur implementació, configuració i parametrització, en un escenari de treballdomèstic o de petita empresa.

WEB Cas Pràctic boo-k : Gestió d'una Botiga Virtual

L'objectiu d'aquest treball és especificar, dissenyar i implementar una aplicació web que permeti l'operativa real dels serveis de gestió d'una botiga virtual d'Internet, amb el suport d'un sistema de gestió de bases de dades.

Desenvolupament en java per a Internet

Aquest treball de final de carrera consisteix en el disseny i la implementació d'una 'botiga web' bàsica. Aquesta botiga web ha de permetre mantenir un inventari d'articles en venda, agrupats en categories, i posar-lo a disposició dels clients que hi accedeixin mitjançant un navegador estàndard.

Aplicación web para la gestión de un catálogo de productos.

El present TFC es basa en l'anàlisi, disseny i implementació d'una aplicació web per a una petita empresa que desitja mostrar per Internet un catàleg de productes audiovisuals i d'entreteniment, amb la finalitat de poder incrementar el nombre de vendes.

Desarrollo de una tienda virtual en una arquitectura distribuída

Al llarg d'aquest treball es presenten les tecnologies i els processos que s'han fet servir en la construcció de l'esmentada botiga virtual i el seu gestor. L'objectiu és crear un programari flexible, portable, reutilitzable, d'alt rendiment i intel·ligible

Gestor d'un hospital

La finalitat d'aquest projecte és realitzar el desenvolupament d'una aplicació fent servir la tecnologia .NET, que és una tecnologia actualment en gran expansió, amb la voluntat d'explorar les seves possibilitats. En concret, hem fet servir ASP.NET, C# i la seva connectivitat amb SQL-Server mitjançant ADO.NET.