Export Market Effectiveness: The Role of Export Commitment, Innovativeness and Marketing Capabilities

Drawing on the resource-based view, this study investigates the way that export commitment and innovativeness contribute to marketing capabilities development, and the effect of all these factors on export market effectiveness. We use a survey data of 202 exporting manufacturing firms based in Portugal to test the relationships between the constructs analyzed in this study. The findings demonstrate that a high export commitment tends to cultivate a higher degree of innovativeness, which in turn allows firms to develop superior marketing capabilities (i.e., pricing, new product development, marketing communication and distribution capabilities). Export commitment and new product development capability have a direct impact on export market effectivenes

Perceções dos profissionais e pais/acompanhantes relativamente à intervenção dos palhaços de hospital em contexto pediátrico

A hospitalização pediátrica constitui uma experiência potencialmente stressante. De forma gradual, foram criadas condições facilitadoras do processo de adaptação a esta situação, proporcionando vivências positivas, enquadradas num paradigma holístico e de humanização da saúde. Um paradigma salutogénico e holístico, no qual os Palhaços de Hospital (PH) adquiriram relevância, pela transformação do espaço hospitalar. Para perceber o efeito dos Doutores Palhaços (DP), a Operação Nariz Vermelho (ONV) e a Universidade do Minho criaram uma parceria, ao abrigo da qual a primeira autora desenvolve a tese de doutoramento sobre as perceções dos profissionais de saúde e pais acerca dos PH. Neste póster são apresentados alguns dados do estudo.Fundos nacionais da FCT, através do projeto UI/CED/1661/2016info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

INTERNATIONAL DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES AND THEIR ORGANIZATIONAL AND EXOGENOUS ANTECEDENTS

International operations, with its multiplicity of objectives, can be seen as a diversification strategy, sometimes even as a strategic option taken as an effective alternative to product diversification. Focusing on a sample of SMEs of Portuguese manufacturing industries, this study analyzes the international diversification strategies and their organizational and exogenous antecedents. Specifically, entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic capabilities of the firm are two factors of organizational nature, while the environmental uncertainty arising from the diversity of the different markets is studied as an exogenous antecedent. Data collected in 390 companies through an online questionnaire, its processing and analysis through the use of a structural equations model suggest the existence of different types of influence of the antecedents, according to companies’ options in various dimensions of the international diversification strategies. These results provide guidelines for managers and generate directions for future research

VITIVINICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND BIODIVERSITY: SUSTAINABILITY ACTIONS

The rational use of resources is currently a widely discussed topic in any organization, although it takes on greater importance in those of productive scope. Measures of different levels − strategic, tactical or operational − are increasingly being implemented, so it is pertinent to analyze their effect on the distinct dimensions of sustainability: environmental, economic and social. Any strategic process must go through those that are considered the four crucial stages: analysis, formulation, implementation and control. The perfect knowledge of the environment and its emerging needs and concerns along with an in-depth survey of the internal situation of the organizations will allow us to achieve truly differentiating levels of excellence. This research, carried out in a wine-producing organization – Adega Cooperativa de Mangualde – identifies its crucial activities, the main strategic, tactical and operational actions that have been implemented in the last eight years, fits them into the above-mentioned dimensions of sustainability and determines its relative weights. Particular emphasis is placed on grapes suppliers − the capital holders −, as regards their mode of production and its impact on biodiversity and the environment. Raising public awareness of this issue is of great importance and people should be encouraged to alter their behaviour by changing some attitudes in everyday life. This awareness to achieve sustainable development becomes even more important insofar as it is a cooperative institution with a management model of well-defined specific characteristics

No inequalities in survival from colorectal cancer by education and socioeconomic deprivation - a population-based study in the North Region of Portugal, 2000-2002.

BACKGROUND: Association between cancer survival and socioeconomic status has been reported in various countries but it has never been studied in Portugal. We aimed here to study the role of education and socioeconomic deprivation level on survival from colorectal cancer in the North Region of Portugal using a population-based cancer registry dataset. METHODS: We analysed a cohort of patients aged 15-84 years, diagnosed with a colorectal cancer in the North Region of Portugal between 2000 and 2002. Education and socioeconomic deprivation level was assigned to each patient based on their area of residence. We measured socioeconomic deprivation using the recently developed European Deprivation Index. Net survival was estimated using Pohar-Perme estimator and age-adjusted excess hazard ratios were estimated using parametric flexible models. Since no deprivation-specific life tables were available, we performed a sensitivity analysis to test the robustness of the results to life tables adjusted for education and socioeconomic deprivation level. RESULTS: A total of 4,105 cases were included in the analysis. In male patients (56.3 %), a pattern of worse 5- and 10-year net survival in the less educated (survival gap between extreme education groups: -7 % and -10 % at 5 and 10 years, respectively) and more deprived groups (survival gap between extreme EDI groups: -5 % both at 5 and 10 years) was observed when using general life tables. No such clear pattern was found among female patients. In both sexes, when likely differences in background mortality by education or deprivation were accounted for in the sensitivity analysis, any differences in net survival between education or deprivation groups vanished. CONCLUSIONS: Our study shows that observed differences in survival by education and EDI level are most likely attributable to inequalities in background survival. Also, it confirms the importance of using the relevant life tables and of performing sensitivity analysis when evaluating socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival. Comparison studies of different healthcare systems organization should be performed to better understand its influence on cancer survival inequalities

Regressos quase perfeitos. Etnografia da memória de guerra em Angola (1971-1973)

Entre 1961 e 1974 Portugal combateu uma guerra em África. Quarenta anos após a revolução que depôs o regime, já não existe a nação pluricontinental em nome da qual foram enviados para África mais de 800 mil homens. Esta guerra, que nunca foi oficialmente declarada, sobrevive ainda na memória daqueles que nela participaram. O objetivo desta dissertação é contribuir para a compreensão do processo através do qual a memória conta a guerra colonial no presente. Impossível que é reproduzir fielmente o momento vivido, o conhecimento do passado resulta da produção de aproximações imperfeitas daquilo que já não existe. A memória não é estanque e imutável, nem tampouco irredutivelmente individual. Ela é recriada e atualizada pelo olhar retrospectivo de agentes – individuais ou coletivos - que a cada momento conferem inteligibilidade ao passado através da negociação do modo pelo qual ele pode ser formulado. Ao combinar de uma forma singular o mundo privado da recordação pessoal e o mundo público da memória social, a memória de guerra constitui um locus privilegiado para a análise do processo pelo qual as experiências pessoais são interrogadas e inscritas em narrativas públicas mais vastas. Partindo da comissão de serviço de uma unidade do Exército português em Angola entre 1971 e 1973, construiu-se uma etnografia da memória de guerra que articula diversos lugares e momentos do tempo e que cruza as várias escalas em que memória vive. As memórias pessoais dos antigos militares desta companhia de artilharia foram confrontadas com outras narrativas sobre o mesmo fragmento da guerra colonial (o relato institucional militar, a narrativa literária de António Lobo Antunes, antigo alferes médico da unidade) e com as retóricas públicas que, durante o Estado Novo e no Portugal contemporâneo, forneceram as ideias e as palavras com as quais o país e o mundo eram pensados. Foi nesta viagem entre tempos e escalas diversas que se procurou compreender a memória de guerra, construção compósita que articula a dimensão pessoal da subjetividade individual com a dimensão social das narrativas públicas que desenham os limites no interior dos quais a guerra, o colonialismo, a nação, o passado e o presente podem ser imaginados

Stepping up to Global Challenges (SGC): Empowering Students across the World

Stepping up to Global Challenges (SGC) aimed to provide students with opportunities for language practice through task-based learning activities and the use of digital platforms for interaction. Marketing students at the Polytechnic of Viseu, Portugal, collaborated with peers from Poland and Turkey, choosing an image on entrepreneurship and posting it on the SGC Facebook page to solicit comments from their own and other groups. This was one of the tasks assigned during the 2nd semester of 2019/20, under the constraints of COVID-19. We analyzed the students' choices, main difficulties, and motivation to persist in learning and improving their skills to share knowledge with (inter)national peersinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

O Compromisso organizacional e a satisfação no trabalho: análise das variáveis socioprofissionais de contexto numa indústria do sector metalúrgico

A presente investigação visa analisar as variáveis: compromisso organizacional e satisfação no trabalho, dos colaboradores de uma organização do sector metalúrgico, bem como, identificar o impacto das variáveis socioprofissionais naquelas variáveis, e o impacto da satisfação laboral no compromisso organizacional. Os instrumentos aplicados para mensurar as variáveis em análise foram: para mensuração do compromisso organizacional a escala das três componentes (afetivo, normativo e calculativo) de Meyer e Allen (1997), adaptada para a população portuguesa por Nascimento, Lopes e Salgueiro (2008), utilizando-se nesta investigação a de Nascimento (2010). Para a mensuração do grau de satisfação laboral adotou-se a Escala de Satisfação no Trabalho, versão portuguesa, do Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1985), adaptada para a população portuguesa por Malheiro (2009). Os dados foram recolhidos numa organização do sector metalúrgico, da região centro, através de questionários aplicados aos 104 colaboradores, correspondendo a uma taxa de 100% de resposta. Os resultados mostram haver uma relação positiva entre a satisfação laboral e o compromisso organizacional, e revelaram também, que a dimensão ”Calculativo” do compromisso organizacional e a dimensão “Condições Operativas” da satisfação no trabalho são aquelas que encontram maiores dificuldades na relação entre os dois constructos.This research aims to analyze the variables: organizational commitment and job satisfaction, of employees in a metallurgical sector organization, as well as to identify the impact of socio-professional variables in those variables, and also the impact of job satisfaction on organizational commitment. The instruments used to measure the variables in analysis were: to measure the organizational commitment, the scale of the three components (affective, normative and calculative) from Meyer and Allen (1997), adapted for the Portuguese population by Nascimento, Lopes and Salgueiro (2008), by using in this, the research of Nascimento (2010). To measure the degree of job satisfaction it was adopted the Job Satisfaction Scale, the Portuguese version, from the Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1985), adapted for the Portuguese population by Malheiro (2009). Data were collected in a metallurgical sector organizational, located in the central region of Portugal, through questionnaires administered to 104 employees, representing which a 100% rate of response. The results have shown a positive relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and also revealed that the "Calculative" dimension of organizational commitment and the "Operative Conditions" dimension of job satisfaction are those that experience greater difficulties in the relationship between the two constructs

Subjective wellbeing, sense of humor and psychological health in hemodialysis patients

Objective: To investigate the relationship between satisfaction with life in general, sense of humor, and anxiety, depression and stress with subjective happiness in chronic kidney disease patients undergoing hemodialysis. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional and correlational study was developed in two units of the Diaverum dialysis clinic and one hospital unit, with 183 chronic kidney disease patients undergoing hemodialysis. An instrument was used to characterize the sociodemographic and clinical profile of the sample (age, gender, nationality, education, occupation, marital status, dialysis sessions length, presence of hypertension and diabetes): the subjective happiness scale; the satisfaction with life in general; depression, anxiety and stress scale 21; and multidimensional sense of humor scale. Inferential procedures included Spearman correlation coefficients, and multiple linear regression adjusting to age, marital status, professional activity and diabetes.Results: Subjective Happiness was positively correlated with satisfaction with life in general, and the three dimensions of Sense of Humor. Nevertheless, subjective happiness was negatively correlated with stress / anxiety and depression. Satisfaction with life in general, humor production and social use of humor, and attitude towards humor had a positive relationship with subjective happiness. However, depression had a negative relationship with subjective happiness. Conclusions: Higher levels of subjective happiness were associated with higher levels of satisfaction with life in general, and sense of humor, however they were also associated with lower levels of depression in patients undergoing hemodialysis

On the origin of Goa Cathedral former altarpiece: Material and technical assessment to the work of Garcia Fernandes, Portuguese painter from 16th century Lisbon workshop

Goa Cathedral former altarpiece is one of the oldest set of paintings in India. The seven remaining paintings from the first altarpiece of Goa Cathedral, nowadays in the sacristy, are attributed by some art historians to Master Garcia Fernandes (act. 1514–1565), Portuguese painter from Lisbon workshop. The 16th century was the “Golden age” of Portuguese painting. In this context the Royal Lisbon workshop played a predominant role, where the activity of the painter Garcia Fernandes and his workshop can be distinguished. In this new approach, Goa paintings are being studied and compared with other works in Portuguese territory attributed to this same painter, as St. Bartholomew altarpiece from the chapel of Bartolomeu Joanes in Lisbon Cathedral. The stratigraphic study allowed to compare ground layers, pigments and binders which, were characterized using complementary analytical and imaging techniques: (X-ray Fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), Infrared Reflectography (IRR), Infrared Photography (IRP), Macro Photography (MP), micro-X-ray Diffraction (μ-XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), Raman micro-spectroscopy (μ-Raman), Fourier Transform Infrared micro-spectroscopy (μ-FTIR), Pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry (PY-GC/MS). This work brought a new insight on the techniques and materials used in this Masterpiece and highlighted the conclusion that Goa Cathedral former altarpiece must be a Portuguese production