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Small and medium-sized enterprise financing in the manufacturing industry: Dema...
Murambire Júnior, B. J.; Falcão, P. F.; Esperança, J. P.This paper examines the demand-side factors that influence small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) access to bank financing in the manufacturing industry in Mozambique. A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design was applied, starting with quantitative research on a sample of 347 SMEs followed by qualitative research on 30 SMEs. Managers' experience, firm size, gross profit, and equity were found to be the...
Telecommuting potential analysis
Babu, D.; Ramalho, N.; Falcão, P. F.Commuting is a problem for developed societies that translates into economic, social and environmental losses. This study is set to explore the potential of telecommuting. The empirical study started with interviews to build a survey that was answered by 126 Lisbon commuters. Results show interviewees perceived telecommuting consequences are in line with extant research and that attitudes towards telecommuting ...
Does customer-based reputation add to social and mass media reputation in judgi...
Rebelo, R.; Ramalho, N. C.; Falcão, P. F.Purpose: Reputation is a critical asset for finance and banking organizations where the mere suspicion of a problem suffices to trigger media turmoil with high risk of market share losses. Investing in media to build reputation has been therefore a priority for banks. However, another source of reputation may stem from direct front-office contact and it is yet unknown to which extent it plays a role when confro...
A proposal of an analytical conflict management model for the Chinese context
Falcão, P. F.; Faria, R. de O.; Costa, R. L. da.China’s culture is different from Western cultures, with various implications including conflict management styles. Many conflict management studies have been based in a set of models with the same or similar assumptions, namely two axis related with concern for self and concern for the other or for the relationship with the other, that produce four or five conflict management styles (e.g., Rahim 2002). However...
Clinicians’ perceptions of Norwegian women’s experiences of infertility diseases
Fernandes, A.; Skotnes, L.- L.; Major, M.; Falcão, P. F.Background: Norway has one of the best health systems in the world. However, it has a low birth rate, which decreased by 21.2% between 2009 and 2018, and one of the highest rates of infertility prevalence. The aim of this study is to understand how Norwegian doctors perceive female infertility diseases, namely those that are more difficult to diagnose and to treat, and that are more common in their practice. Me...
An expanded conceptualization of 'smart' cities: adding value with fuzzy cognit...
Miguel, B. P.; Ferreira, F. A. F.; Banaitis, A.; Banaitienė, N.; Meidute-Kavaliauskiene, I.; Falcão, P. F.The world’s rapidly growing population is an issue to be taken seriously. Its consequences could be dramatic if the required steps are not taken. Concerns about this problem have led to the creation of “smart” cities, which promote improvements in citizens’ quality of life through a combination of new technologies and environmentally sustainable practices. For these cities to be truly “smart”, they need to be e...
Bounded rationality in decision making: Biases in managers of the Portuguese po...
Jordão, A. R. F.; Costa, R. L. da.; António, N. J. dos S.; Falcão, P. F.Decision-making is a multidisciplinary and ubiquitous phenomenon in organizations, and it can be observed at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Decision making plays, however, an increasingly important role for the manager, whose cognitive competence is reflected in his ability to identify potential opportunities, to immediately detect and solve the problems he faces, and to predict and prevent f...
Big Five personality traits in simulated negotiation settings
Falcão, P. F.; Saraiva, M.; Santos, E.; Pina e Cunha, M.Purpose: After a hiatus in the research on individual differences in negotiation, there has been a surge of renewed interest in recent years followed by several new findings. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects that personality, as structured by the five-factor model, have over negotiation behavior and decision making in order to create new knowledge and prescribe advice to negotiators. Design/m...
A inteligência emocional e o desempenho dos colaboradores: Estudo empírico numa...
Falcão, P. F.; Pina e Cunha, M.; Curto, J. D.; Oliveira, F.A literatura sobre inteligência emocional mostra que este tipo de inteligência tem uma relação positiva e direta com o desempenho dos gestores. Com o objetivo de contribuir para esta linha de investigação, procedeu-se a um estudo envolvendo 149 gestores comerciais de empresas numa grande instituição financeira portuguesa. A análise empírica baseou-se num questionário de autorrelato da inteligência emocional e d...
A inteligência emocional e o desempenho dos colaboradores: estudo empírico numa...
Falcão, P. F.; Cunha, M. P.; Curto, J.; Oliveira, F.A literatura sobre inteligência emocional mostra que este tipo de inteligência tem uma relação positiva e direta com o desempenho dos gestores. Com o objetivo de contribuir para esta linha de investigação, procedeu-se a um estudo envolvendo 149 gestores comerciais de empresas numa grande instituição financeira portuguesa. A análise empírica baseou-se num questionário de autorrelato da inteligência emocional e d...