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The right to work-life balance in Portuguese cooperatives. A legal and empirica...
Meira, Deolinda; Castro, Conceição; Antunes, SofiaThis paper aims to assess whether cooperatives are the ideal setting for promoting the work-life balance, a right whose protection has been built in close connection with the promotion of gender equality. To this end, we intend to answer the following questions: (i) What are the main dimensions of the right to work-life balance, and what is the relevance of protecting this right to promote gender equality? (ii)...
Green and Blue Infrastructures as A Model of Sustainable Urban Planning—Landsca...
Simões, Paula; Matos, Rute Sousa; Costa, Pedro Machado; Castro, Conceição; Ferreira, Pedro TrindadeThe speech about Smart Cities includes a discourse where the sustainability of cities is unavoidable. Blue and green infrastructures (BGI) have a great role in cities sustainability because they offer feasible and valuable economic, social and environmental solutions for urban areas facing the challenges of climate change such as cloudbursts and droughts. BGI connects urban hydrological functions with urban nat...
Ethical behavior of firms and corruption in the public sector – a cluster analy...
Castro, Conceição; Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Lopes, CristinaIn countries where corruption is high, there is less incentive for corporate organizations to behave ethically. Ethics, either in the private and public sectors, can be related to the level of economic development, economic freedom, and the quality of governance. The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between corporate ethics and corruption in the public sector, to group countries according ...
Portuguese social solidarity cooperatives between recovery and resilience in th...
Meira, Deolinda; Azevedo, Ana; Castro, Conceição; Tomé, Brízida; Rodrigues, Ana C.; Bernardino, Susana; Martinho, Ana Luisa; Malta, Mariana CuradoCovid-19 posed several challenges to all organisations in general and to social solidarity cooperatives in particular. However, the challenges faced by these cooperatives have unique features arising from their special characteristics compared to other types of cooperatives. Therefore it is vital to study these challenges and the impacts of covid-19. This study has as main goal to understand those challenges an...
Digital marketing in rural hotels in Portugal
Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Melo, António; Castro, ConceiçãoThe digital revolution has been changing the paradigm in the tourism sector, namely, in rural tourism, which requires following the new trends in marketing. This article aims to analyse the types of digital marketing channels and dynamics that are more recurrent in rural hotels in Portugal. A quantitative methodology was adopted through an online questionnaire to collect rural hotel managers’ opinions, whose an...
E-Government as a Tool in Controlling Corruption
Castro, Conceição; Lopes, Isabel CristinaCombating corruption is crucial to achieve sustainable development. With the digital revolution, the use of Information and Communications Technology by the government can promote more efficient services, diminishing the discretionary power of officials, and thus reducing corruption and promoting sustainable development. This study empirically investigates the impact of e-Government in reducing corruption on a ...
Portuguese social solidarity cooperatives between recovery and resilience in th...
Meira, Deolinda; Azevedo, Ana; Castro, Conceição; Tomé, Brízida; Rodrigues, Ana Cláudia; Bernardino, Susana; Martinho, Ana Luísa; Malta, Mariana CuradoCovid-19 posed several challenges to all organisations in general and to social solidarity cooperatives in particular. However, the challenges faced by these cooperatives have unique features arising from their special characteristics compared to other types of cooperatives. Therefore it is vital to study these challenges and the impacts of covid-19. This study has as main goal to understand those challenges an...
Plantas Nativas na Cidade-Manual Técnico
Belo, Anabela; Pinto-Cruz, Carla; Meireles, Catarina; Castro, Conceição; Machado, Mariana; Simões, Paula; Matos, RuteEste manual foi elaborado no âmbito do projeto “Plantas Nativas na Cidade – Repensar os Espaços Verdes Urbanos”, financiado pelo Fundo Ambiental, e surge com o intuito de promover a biodiversidade e uma gestão mais eficiente e sustentável destes espaços. A lista de espécies nativas apresentadas, neste manual, não é de todo exaustiva nem reflete a abrangência de aplicação destas espécies, uma vez que nele estão ...
Digital technologies and tourism as drivers of economic growth in Europe and Ce...
Castro, Conceição; Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Nunes, PedroAdvances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are rapidly transforming the world, promoting social and economic development. At the same time, tourism is one of the fastest growing economic sectors and can play and important role in boosting a country’s economy. This paper aims to analyse the impact of ICT and tourism on economic growth in European and Central Asian countries. The analysis is bas...
The impact of e-government on sustainable development: a logit model
Lopes, Isabel Cristina; Castro, ConceiçãoThe impact of e-government on sustainable development is analysed using a logit model with a sample of 103 countries in the period 2003–2018. Sustainable development is proxied by adjusted net savings, a variable that embraces a country's economic, social and environmental development. The results show that countries with higher e-government development are more likely to attain sustainable development, particu...