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Solutions for the commercialization challenges of Horizon Europe and earth obse...
Lages, Luis Filipe; Catarino, Nuno; Gomes, Emanuel; Toh, Peter; Reis-Marques, Carlos; Mohr, Mario; Borde, Sebastian Max; Asgari, OmidEuropean Community (EC) Horizon-funded projects and Earth Observation-based Consortia aim to create sustainable value for Space, Land, and Oceans. They typically focus on addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many of these projects (e.g. Commercialization and Innovation Actions) have an ambitious challenge to ensure that partners share core competencies to simultaneously achieve technological and com...
Improving subsidiaries' innovation through knowledge inflows from headquarters ...
Crespo, Cátia Fernandes; Lages, Luis Filipe; Crespo, Nuno FernandesThis study develops a conceptual model that compares the intensity of the impact of knowledge inflows from peer subsidiaries and from the headquarters in the promotion of a focal subsidiary's innovation activities, moderated by socialization mechanisms and national cultural distance. The authors test hypotheses with a dataset comprised of survey data from 202 multinational corporations (MNC) Portuguese subsidia...
VCW—Value Creation Wheel: Innovation, technology, business, and society
Lages, Luis FilipeSimilar to animal and plant species, companies and society also need to adapt to the environment or they disappear. This adaptation process implies solving paradoxical problems, overcoming crises, and addressing constant challenges. The Value Creation Wheel (VCW) helps to identify, analyze, and solve problems by providing a step-by-step dynamic process for creating value for society and all the stakeholders inv...
How to Grow, Create and Capture Value in Domestic and International Markets
Lages, Luis FilipeThe Value Creation Framework (VCF) and the BeGloCal Framework are independent yet complementary tools that can be used by executives, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs to bring new ideas, goods, technology, science, and services to the domestic and international markets. In order to grow, create and capture value, they have to deal with a variety of complex choices that can create tensions and to adjust t...
The impact of using non-media information sources on the future use of mass med...
Seabra, Cláudia; Abrantes, José Luís; Lages, Luis FilipeAn empirical study of 350 tourists reveals that using non-media information sources for planning tourist trips influences expectations fulfillment. The use of non-media information sources also has a direct impact on the future use of mass media information sources for future tourist trip planning, as well as an indirect impact through expectations fulfillment. More specifically, the main determinants of expect...
Pedagogical affect, student interest, and learning performance
Abrantes, José Luís; Seabra, Cláudia; Lages, Luis FilipeUsing a sample of more than 1000 students, this study reveals that students’ perceived learning depends directly on their interest, pedagogical affect, and their learning performance and indirectly on the student–instructor interaction, the instructor's responsiveness, course organization, the instructor's likeability/concern, and the student's learning performance. Likeability/concern indirectly affects studen...
Bringing Relationship Marketing Theory into B2B Practice: The B2B-RP Scale and ...
Lages, Luis Filipe; Lancastre, Andrew; Lages, CarmenThis study presents a new measurement scale to assess the performance of a relationship between two firms. The Business-to-Business Relationship Performance (B2B-RP) scale is presented as a high order concept. When tested in a sample of nearly 400 SME’s purchasing managers operating in a B2B e-marketplace, our findings reveal that greater relationship performance results in better 1) relationship policies and p...
Bringing Export Performance Metrics into Annual Reports: The PERFEX Scorecard
Lages, Luis Filipe; Lages, Carmen; Lages, Cristiana R.At a time when exporting activity is becoming a major resource for creating firms’ value and national economic wealth, it is surprising that annual company reports rarely distinguish between domestic market performance and the performance of export markets’ operations. Even more rarely do annual reports provide information on annual indicators of specific export ventures performance. Shareholders might assume t...
Determinants of Expected Short-term Export Performance Improvement: an Empirica...
Lages, Luis Filipe; Leal, Ana CatarinaIn this research, key determinants of expected short-term export performance improvement are identified. We develop a conceptual framework that incorporates past, current and expected performance, internal and external forces of the firm, and pricing strategy adaptation to the foreign market. The framework is tested via a field survey of industrial exporters. Surprisingly, findings reveal that the effect of fir...
The APEV Scale: A Measure of Annual Performance of an Export Venture
Lages, Luis Filipe; Lages, Cristiana R.; Lages, CarmenAnnual company reports and financial statements rarely distinguish between the domestic and export markets’ operations, and even more rarely provide annual financial indicators on specific export ventures performance. This situation is a major obstacle to the development of export marketing practice and theory. To overcome this state of affairs the authors develop and test a new measure for assessing the annual...