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- Corporate governance nas empresas familiares em contexto de sistemas produtivos locaisPublication . Braga, Alexandra; Braga, Vitor; Carvalho, AméliaO envolvimento de famílias em empresas é observável nas economias de todo o mundo, apesar das diferenças evidentes entre países diferentes, não só no que diz respeito à sua predominância nas economia, mas também ao tipo de envolvimento que se pode observar. Esta investigação visa compreender a gestão das empresas familiares quando comparados com os das empresas não familiares, nomeadamente em termos de corporate governance. A análise é baseada em dados secundários de estudos de caso recolhidos da literatura e em dados primários obtidos para se perceber qual o impacto que a organização empresarial familiar tem na relações intra e inter-empresas. Estes estudos de caso possibilitam a oportunidade de comparar as empresas familiares em Portugal, por um lado, e nas economia Anglo-saxónicas, por outro. Este estudo demonstrou que há diferenças importantes no mundo dos negócios em países em que a família é uma instituição muito dominante na sociedade (onde o negócio é baseado em laços fortes, existe uma relação harmoniosa entre os membros da família, e a família é aceite localmente e domina a organização da empresa) e nos países onde a família desempenha um papel mais marginal n sociedade e economia. Os resultados obtidos dos dados primários confirmam a teoria e outros estudos empíricos investigados. Assim, este artigo mostra quais os factores determinantes na estrutura de corporate governance nas empresas familiares sublinhando as vantagens e desvantagens destas em comparação com empresas não familiares
- Desenvolvimento: um conceito multidimensionalPublication . Santos, Elinaldo; Braga, Vitor; Souza, Reginaldo; Braga, AlexandraO presente trabalho faz uma reflexão sobre o processo de construção do conceito de desenvolvimento na sociedade capitalista. Para tanto, utiliza-se da análise histórica com ênfase em quatro dimensões: econômica, política, social e ambiental. O estudo demonstra que o conceito surge na biologia, empregado como processo de evolução dos seres vivos para o alcance de suas potencialidades genéticas, porém, incorpora-se nas teorias e práticas sociais, por meio da economia, da sociologia, da antropologia e da ciência política. Ao longo de seu percurso histórico, o termo proporcinou algumas concepções diferentes de sociedade, como sociedade do crescimento, sociedade do bem estar social e sociedade sustentável. Portanto, este ensaio propõe compreender a lógica que fundamenta essas mudanças paradigmáticas do significado de desenvolvimento na sociedade.
- Diana Machado, Aldina Correia and Vítor Braga Women's Entrepreneurship and InternationalizationPublication . Machado, Diana; Correia, Aldina; Braga, Vitor
- Entrepreneurial universities and social capital: The moderating role of entrepreneurial intention in the Malaysian contextPublication . Salamzadeh, Y.; Sangosanya, T.A.; Salamzadeh, A.; Braga, Vitor
- Factors influencing innovation decision making in Portuguese firmsPublication . Braga, Alexandra; Braga, VitorThere is an undeniable positive effect of innovation for both firms and the economy, with particular regards to the financial performance of firms. However, there is an important role of the decision making process for the allocation of resources to finance the innovation process. The aim of this paper is to understand what factors explain the decision making process in innovation activities of Portuguese firms. This is an empirical study, based on the modern theoretical approaches, which has relied on five key aspects for innovation: barriers, sources, cooperation, funding; and the decision making process. Primary data was collected through surveys to firms that have applied for innovation programmes within the Portuguese innovation agency. Univariate and multivariate statistical techniques were used. Our results suggest that the factors that mostly influence the Portuguese firms’ innovation decision-making processes are economical and financial (namely those related to profit increase and labour costs reduction).
- Female Entrepreneurship: A Grouped Division of Europe and Central AsiaPublication . Machado, Diana; Correia, Aldina; Braga, VitorThe constant changes in sociocultural conditions in the global market and the tremendous growth in the number of women's companies culminates in the growing interest in research on female entrepreneurship (Brush, 1992; Moreira et al., 2019). The main objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of how the economies of Europe and Central Asia group in terms of female entrepreneurship. The research was based on a quantitative analysis of data from companies belonging to 35 countries in Europe and Central Asia, using a multivariate technique, namely Cluster Analysis. This study has as an implication a better understanding of how the economies of Europe and Central Asia are distributed in terms of female entrepreneurship. The results of the study suggest that the economies of Europe and Central Asia can be divided into two groups and the difference between the two clusters can be justified by the role of women in the countries concerned.
- Heterodox economics approach to business co-operationPublication . Braga, VitorPurpose- Economics and business have evolved as sciences in order to accommodate more of ‘real world’ solutions for the problems approached. In many cases, both business and economics have been supported by other disciplines in order to obtain a more complete framework for the study of complex issues. The aim of this paper is to explore the contribution of three heterodox economics disciplines to the knowledge of business co-operation. Design/methodology/approach- This approach is theoretical and it shows that many relevant aspects of business co-operation have been proposed by economic geography, institutional economics, and economic sociology. Findings- This paper highlights the business mechanisms of co-operation, reflecting on the role of places, institution and the social context where businesses operate. Research Implications- It contributes with a theoretical framework for the explanation of business co-operations and networks that goes beyond the traditional economics theories. Originality/value- This paper contributes with a framework for the study of business co-operation both from an economics and management perspective. This framework embodies a number of non-quantitative issues that are critical for understanding the complex networks in which firms operate.
- Impact of Innovation & Technology in InternationalizationPublication . Pereira, José; Braga, Vitor; Correia, Aldina
- Innovation and the performance of Portuguese businesses: a ‘SURE’ approachPublication . Marques, Carla; Covelo, Susana; Gerry, Chris; Braga, Alexandra; Braga, VitorThere is a general consensus that in a competitive business environment, firms’ performance will depend on their capacity to innovate. To clarifying how, when and to what extent innovation affects the market and financial performance of firms, the authors deploy seemingly unrelated regression equation model to examine innovation in over 500 Portuguese firms from 1998 to 2004. The results confirm, as theorists have frequently assumed, that innovation positively affects firms’ performance; but they also suggest that the reverse is true, a result that is less intuitively obvious, given the complexity of the innovation process and local, national and global competitive environments.
- Intuition and Rationality in Intrapreneurship and Innovation Outputs: The Case of Health Professionals in Primary Health Care.Publication . Marques, Carla; Lopes, Candido; Braga, Vitor; Ratten, Vanessa