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Business, management, and entrepreneurship in romanian and portuguese proverbs

dc.contributor.authorMarina Nunes Albuquerque, Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorScarlat, Cezar
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-14T07:33:56Z
dc.date.available2023-06-14T07:33:56Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractBusiness and trade, along with the development of arts and crafts, have always offered wonderful opportunities for interaction between different people, customs, and cultures. Doing business and trading, people needed effective means of communication to manage their businesses and administer related institutions. Folk wisdom has treasured, from a popular prospective, this language of business—over all natural, cultural, and language obstacles—in its extremely concentrated but self-explanatory form: proverbs. Surprisingly, the relatively new principles of business management and entrepreneurship have quite interesting correspondents in peoples’ oral culture as proverbs. Certain proverbs distil people’s experiences from diverse business situations, management positions, and entrepreneurial standpoints, regardless of country of origin, hence their universal and global value. As part of more extensive work on the above subject, as well as a base for comparative studies, this paper is the first research work to illustrate how elements of global management culture are reflected in proverbs. Hence, a number of proverbs are analyzed and their educative value emphasized as cases or examples in business, management, and entrepreneurship education. This paper tries to set off the almost unexplored and challenging potential of proverbs to be used as teaching aids, while working with both undergraduate students (mainly) and international students. Moreover, this paper aims at analyzing the correspondence between Romanian and Portuguese proverbs (as two countries of similar cultural background—Latin), as far as the way they reflect the elements of business, management, and entrepreneurship. Illustrative examples are analyzed according to 21 different key-issues of business, management, and entrepreneurship (7 for each). The major conclusions are these: (i) all 21 principles are covered by proverbs in both languages; (ii) there is an astonishingly high degree of correlation between Romanian and Portuguese proverbs: out of a sample of 30 Romanian proverbs on business, management and entrepreneurship issues, 28 have Portuguese counterparts. A good part of this paper is based on previous research (Scarlat, 2008a, 2008b).pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/23149
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSPACEpt_PT
dc.subjectBusinesspt_PT
dc.subjectGlobal and universal value of proverbspt_PT
dc.subjectManagementpt_PT
dc.subjectHigher educationpt_PT
dc.subjectEntrepreneurshippt_PT
dc.subjectRomanian and Portuguese proverbspt_PT
dc.titleBusiness, management, and entrepreneurship in romanian and portuguese proverbspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage134pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage121pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleJournal Advances in Higher Educationpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume2.1pt_PT
person.familyNameAlbuquerque
person.givenNameAlexandra
person.identifier1034310
person.identifier.ciencia-idBA19-9BC5-825A
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-9234-5174
person.identifier.ridO-2689-2015
person.identifier.scopus-author-id57223010733
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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