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Leading in the digital age: the role of leadership in organizational digital tr...
Sacavém, António; Machado, Andreia de Bem; Santos, João Rodrigues dos; Palma-Moreira, Ana; Belchior-Rocha, Helena; Au-Yong-Oliveira, ManuelIn the modern digital age, organizations face unprecedented challenges and possibilities while managing the intricacies of digital transformation. Accelerated technological developments, changing customer preferences, heightened competition, and dynamic regulatory environments necessitate companies to synchronize their business goals with technological innovations. Leadership is crucial in steering businesses t...
Competencies and skills for tourism education advancement: A bibliometric a ana...
Au-Yong-Oliveira, Manuel; Bampoori, Mastoureh; Moreira, Ana; Grassos, TheodorosHow may we secure a more sustainable path, in future, for the tourism industry? Following the Covid-19 pandemic, which made evident some frailties and need for change in the tourism industry, the tourism scenario has evolved, and a great deal of upskilling and reskilling is now necessary. Consumer attitudes have altered and are now more focused on sustainable tourism and other such related themes. This study is...
Competence development and affective commitment as mechanisms that explain the ...
Palma, Ana C; Dias, Ana Rita; Pereira, Beatriz; Au-Yong-Oliveira, ManuelThis study investigated the effect of organizational culture (supportive culture, innovation culture, goal culture and rule culture) on turnover intentions and whether this relationship was mediated by organizational practices of competencies development (training, functional rotation and individualized support) and affective commitment. The study sample consisted of 369 participants working in organizations ba...
Fintech: Evidence of the urgent need to improve financial literacy in Portugal
Costa, Mariana; Au-Yong-Oliveira, Manuel; Moreira, AnaFintech has revolutionized the financial sector, providing a new way of providing banking services. Since Fintech can provide the same services as traditional banks but entirely online, it is a competitor. As a result, consumers’ relationships with banking have inevitably changed, and it is therefore relevant to analyze these changes. The main objective of this study is to understand people’s perceptions of Fin...
É necessário ser bom praticante para ser bom professor? Uma nova perspetiva sob...
Pires, Edmundo José Ferreira; Castro, João Carlos Pascoinho Carvalho; Silva, Eliseu; Au-Yong-Oliveira, ManuelAtravés de um inquérito a 96 professores ligados ao ensino da música este artigo exploratório, resultante de um trabalho de pós-graduação, cumpre o seu objetivo de inquirir sobre a importância de se ser bom praticante (performer) para se ser bom professor. Foram feitos testes estatísticos descritivos e inferenciais, incluindo o teste de Kruskal-Wallis e o teste de independência do Qui-quadrado, além da simulaçã...
Competencies and skills for tourism education advancement: A bibliometric analy...
Au-Yong-Oliveira, Manuel; Bampoori, Mastoureh; Moreira, Ana; Grassos, TheodorosHow may we secure a more sustainable path, in future, for the tourism industry? Following the Covid-19 pandemic, which made evident some frailties and need for change in the tourism industry, the tourism scenario has evolved, and a great deal of upskilling and reskilling is now necessary. Consumer attitudes have altered and are now more focused on sustainable tourism and other such related themes. This study is...
Internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises: Best practices and ...
Calheiros-Lobo, N.; Moreira, Ana; Au-Yong-Oliveira, Manuel; Vasconcelos Ferreira, José AntónioABSTRACT: This article introduces a new theoretical concept, the “foreign champion”, which attempts to solve the principal–agent problem and improve academic understanding of foreign market entry decisions by analyzing what experts in the field consider to be best practices. Based on empirical research into the determinants of SME internationalization success, semi-structured interviews (n = 12, t = 5 h 10 min....
Unretirement: Motivational factors among financially independent seniors and th...
Falckenthal, Bettina; Figueiredo, Cláudia; Palma, Ana C; Au-Yong-Oliveira, ManuelThe main objective of this study is to investigate a solution for the current lack of skilled workers in Europe and to optimize the utilization of expertise. For this qualitative study, 36 semi-structured interviews were conducted (with a purposive sample of financially independent (soon-to-be) retirees and employers). The thematic analysis revealed (1) on both the employer’s and recruiter’s side, there are man...
Conflict (work-family and family-work) and task performance: the role of well-b...
Moreira, Ana; Encarnação, Tiago; Viseu, João; Au-Yong-Oliveira, ManuelRecent societal changes brought new challenges to contemporary organisations, e.g., how to properly manage the work-family/family-work dyad and, thus, promote adequate task performance. This study aimed to study the relationship between conflict (work-family and fami-ly-work) and task performance and whether this relationship was moderated by well-being. Thus, the following hypotheses were formulated: (1) confl...
Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Tourism
Au-Yong-Oliveira, Manuel; Bampoori, Mastoureh; Grassos, TheodorosTourism plays a critical role in the economies of numerous countries worldwide. Religious tourism is a significant aspect of cultural tourism. The purpose of religious tourism is to visit holy places and religious centres outside one's country for a maximum of six months. Alternatively, this idea can be seen as an endeavour to offer services to religious tourists. Participating in worshipping and praying is pos...