Processo de internacionalização das filiais portuguesas de construção civil para Angola: alguns estudos de caso (Mota-Engil, Soares da Costa e Conduril)

Dissertação apresentada no Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Instituto Politécnico do Porto para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Empreendedorismo e Internacionalização Orientador: Professor Doutor José de Freitas Santos

Innovation through virtual communities of practice: motivations and constraints in the knowledge-creation process

This paper appears in International Journal of Projectics. Vol 4(1), pp. 39-49

Retaining repatriates: an exploratory study in portuguese companies

This study aims to understand the factors which may explain the retention of repatriates from companies acting within Portugal. These factors can be related either to the individual, or to the work, to the organisation or to non-working contexts. Eight companies located in Portugal have participated in this study. Several semi-structured interviews were done to 16 organizational representatives and to 28 repatriates. The obtained results show that the repatriates’ retention on the visited companies may be influenced by several categories of factors. We can conclude that it is (1) the good relation with the leadership, (2) the recognition of the performed job but, also (3) the seniority, (4) the age and the (5) depressed national job market. These are the major factors that emerge as relevant factors for the retention. Hence, there is not only one category of explaining determining factors for the retention decision, but there are several. These findings will be discussed in detail and implications and suggestions for future research will be proposed as well.

Contributos didático-pedagógicos do software smartmusic no ensino do clarinete

Mestrado em Ensino da Música.

Trabalho colaborativo entre professores para integração curricular no 1º ciclo do ensino básico: um contributo para melhoria das planificações pedagógicas em S.Tomé e Príncipe

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de mestre em Didáticas Integradas em Língua Portuguesa, Matemática, Ciências Naturais e Sociais

Performance management in a family business: a case study

This research, still at an early stage, and then presented in a poster format, intended to explain the management of organizational performance of a family business in the succession process using the case study method. The scripts for semi-structured interviews that will apply to managers, owners and other workers who are deemed suitable for the investigation, which include relatives of the owners of the company are being developed. For this work the model of organizational performance management developed by David Otley in 1999 [1], consisting of five questions that seek to explain the existing performance management in any organization is utilized.

Presença das novas tecnologias nos noticiários da SIC: vantagens e problemas da virtualidade nas notícias

Relatório de estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Jornalismo.

Os estereótipos de género no jardim de infância

Relatório da Prática Profissional Supervisionada Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar

Respostas educativas para alunos com multideficiência: conceções e práticas

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em Educação Especial

Formar o “leitor público”: contributos do teatro para o desenvolvimento da leitura em voz alta

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa para obtenção de grau de mestre em Educação Artística, na especialização de Teatro na Educação

Knowledge management in multinational companies: the repatriates’ role in the competitive advantage in subsidiaries

This paper addresses the topic of knowledge management in multinational companies (MNCs). Its purpose is to examine the role of expatriates in knowledge acquisition and transfer within MNCs. Specifically it focuses on knowledge acquisition and transfer from one MNC head office located in Germany to two Portuguese subsidiaries as a basis for competitive advantage in their Portuguese subsidiaries. A qualitative research methodology is used, specifically through an exploratory case study approach, which examines how international assignments are important for the role of expatriates In knowledge acquisition and transfer between foreign head offices and their Portuguese subsidiaries. The data were collected through semi structured interviews to 10 Portuguese repatriates from two Portuguese subsidiaries of one foreign MNC. The findings suggest that the reasons that lead to expatriating employees from Portuguese subsidiaries to foreign head offices are connected to (1) knowledge management strategies to development the subsidiary’s performance; (2) new skills and knowledge acquisition by future team leaders and business/product managers in Portuguese subsidiaries; (3) procuring knowledge, from agents in head office, to be disseminated amongst co-workers in Portuguese subsidiaries; (4) acquiring global management skills, impossible to acquire locally and; (5) developing global projects within MNC. Also our results show that knowledge acquisition and transfer from foreign head office, through subsidiaries’ expatriates, contributes directly to the Portuguese subsidiaries’ innovation, improved performance, competitive advantage and growth in the economic sectors in which they operate. Moreover, evidence reveals that expatriation is seen as a strategy to fulfil some of the main organisational objectives through their expatriates (e.g., create new products and business markets, develop and incorporate new organisational techniques and processes, integrate global teams within multinational corporation with a responsibility on the definition of global objectives). The results obtained suggest that expatriates have a central role in acquiring and transferring strategic knowledge from MNC head office to their subsidiaries located in Portugal. Based on the findings, the paper discusses in detail the main theoretical and managerial implications. Suggestions for further research are also presented. The study’s main limitation is the small size of the sample, but its findings and methodology are quite original and significant.

KM and politics at the highest level: an exploratory analysis

This paper analyzes Knowledge Management (KM) as a political activity, made by the great political leaders of the world. We try to inspect if at the macro political level KM is made, and how. The research is interesting because given that we live in a Knowledge society, in the Information Era, it is more or less obvious that the political leaders should also do KM. However we don’t know of any previous study on KM and world leaders and this paper wants to be a first step to fill that gap. As a methodology we use literature review: given this one is a first preliminary study we use data we found in the Internet and other databases like EBSCO. We divide the analysis in two main parts: theoretical ideas first, and an application second. The second part is it self divided in two segments: the past and the present times. We find that rather not surprisingly, KM always was and is pervasive in the activity of the world leaders, and has become more and more diverse has power itself became to be more and more disseminated in the world. The study has the limitation of relying on insights and texts and not on interviews. But we believe it is very interesting to make this kind of analysis and such studies may help improving the democracies in the world.

Desenvolvimento da autonomia dos alunos na aprendizagem de piano: relatório de estágio

Resumo I - O presente Relatório tem como objetivo dar a conhecer a experiência da estagiária, inserida no âmbito do Mestrado em Ensino da Música, da Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa – IPL. O Estágio decorreu no Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa, no ano letivo de 2014/2015. Foram selecionados três alunos de níveis diferentes para avaliar a atividade da estagiária enquanto docente de piano. Com este intuito, foi feita a caraterização da escola e dos alunos envolvidos no Estágio, assim como a descrição das práticas educativas desenvolvidas. Para cada um dos alunos integrados no contexto deste Estágio foram elaborados planos de aulas semanais e planificações anuais. Por fim, foi elaborada uma análise crítica da atividade docente desenvolvida e a descrição das conclusões resultantes desta prática.

The Port as a “Non Consensual” Organisation: An IC Management Perspective

This paper addresses a gap in the literature concerning the management of Intellectual Capital (IC) in a port, which is a network of independent organizations that act together in the provision of a set of services. As far as the authors are aware, this type of empirical context has been unexplored when regarding knowledge management or IC creation/destruction. Indeed, most research in IC still focus on individual firms, despite the more recent interest placed on the analysis of macro-level units such as regions or nations. In this study, we conceptualise the port as meta-organisation, which has the generic goal of economic development, both for itself and for the region where it is located. It provides us with a unique environment due to its complexity as an “organisation” composed by several organisations, connected by interdependency relationships and, typically, with no formal hierarchy. Accordingly, actors’ interests are not always aligned and in some situations their individual interests can be misaligned with the collective goals of the port. Moreover, besides having their own interests, port actors also have different sources of influence and different levels of power, which can impact on the port’s Collective Intellectual Capital (CIC). Consequently, the management of the port’s CIC can be crucial in order for its goals to be met. With this paper we intend to discuss how the network coordinator (the port authority) manages those complex relations of interest and power in order to develop collaboration and mitigate conflict, thus creating collective intellectual assets or avoiding intellectual liabilities that may emerge for the whole port. The fact that we are studying complex and dynamic processes, about which there is a lack of understanding, in a complex and atypical organisation, leads us to consider the case study as an appropriate method of research. Evidence presented in this study results from preliminary interviews and also from document analysis. Findings suggest that alignment of interests and actions, at both dyadic and networking levels, is critical to develop a context of collaboration/cooperation within the port community and, accordingly, the port coordinator should make use of different types of power in order to ensure that port’s goals are achieved.

A diferença evolutiva de alunos do projeto Orquestra Geração e das escolas vocacionais de música: a importância dos agentes de motivação

Resumo I (Prática Pedagógica) - Nesta secção do relatório de estágio pretende-se expor e caracterizar todos os elementos referentes à prática pedagógica, integrada no estágio, que ocorreu em parceria com a Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional (EMCN) e o Projecto Orquestra Geração realizado no ano letivo de 2014/2015. Este tem por objetivo, a abordagem dos aspetos pedagógicos, as metodologias de ensino, a eficácia do trabalho, a motivação e os agentes motivacionais. Para a elaboração deste relatório, foram observados e devidamente analisados três alunos de forma peculiar. Porém, é de realçar que um dos intervenientes pertencia à EMCN e as aulas apenas eram observadas. Ao longo do ano letivo foram elaborados individualmente para cada aluno, vinte e dois planos de aula e ainda realizadas três gravações de aulas que foram vistas pelo professor orientador. À posteriori serão caraterizadas as duas entidades que fizeram parceria, contribuindo para a possível realização do relatório de estágio. Será abordada a sua contextualização histórica, os parâmetros de ensino, o contexto sociocultural. De seguida, será apresentada a caraterização dos três alunos, abordando nomeadamente, o seu meio envolvente, os métodos de estudo e a evolução motora, expressiva e auditiva. Serão analisadas e descritas algumas das práticas de ensino, desenvolvidas quer ao longo das aulas individuais, quer da observação das gravações e da análise constante dos planos de aulas e das planificações. Para finalizar o relatório de estágio, será elaborada uma reflexão crítica, acerca do desempenho como docente e respetiva prática pedagógica trabalhada com os alunos.