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The influence of institutional logics and emotions on the uptake of cervical ca...
Fulane, G.; Major, M.; Lorenzoni, C.; Munguambe, K.This study investigates the role of emotional attachment to competing institutional logics on women’s uptake of cervical cancer screening in Mozambique. Through a qualitative study conducted in Xai-Xai, Southern Mozambique, we identify 2 concurrent logics in the context of screening: preservation logic, influenced by social-cultural norms, and the prevention logic, centered around screening. Women, affected by ...
Implementing an hospital accreditation programme in a context of NPM reforms: P...
Conceição, A.; Picoito, C.; Major, M.This article examines how an accreditation programme emerged and developed in a hospital in the context of New Public Management reforms. A case study demonstrates that healthcare organizations characterized as contested can self-transform into aligned ones. Accreditation programmes can provide the means to do this. Quality assurance practices and technical medical expertise coexisted as the initiative did not ...
Cálculo de custos numa empresa vitivinícola: Método departamental versus Custei...
Deus, D.; Major, M.; Conceição, A.Objetivo: A investigação na área de contabilidade tem vindo a debruçar-se sobre os diversos métodos de custeio existentes, onde se destacam o Método das Secções Homogéneas (MSH) e o Activity-based costing (ABC). O principal objetivo principal deste trabalho é o desenho de cada um dos métodos de apuramento de custos mencionados para que possam vir a ser implementados numa empresa específica do setor vitivinícola...
Preparação de um Balanced Scorecard para uma Pequena e Média Empresa no subsect...
Gomes, P.; Conceição, A.; Major, M.Objetivo: O presente trabalho de investigação, tem como principal objetivo a elaboração de um balanced scorecard (BSC) para uma pequena e média empresa (PME), que atua no mercado da manutenção industrial em Portugal, no subsetor da energia. Metodologia: Este estudo tem por base uma metodologia qualitativa, tendo sido adoptado o método de investigação de estudo de caso. Resultados: Este estudo permite perceber q...
Collective action in institutional entrepreneuirship: The case of a government ...
Pimentel, L.; Major, M.; Cruz, A.This paper seeks to analyse how and why divergent institutional change occurred in a government agency. While there is evidence of research on the concept of collective action and involvement in the literature on institutional entrepreneurship, the focus has been at the macro and field levels, with scarce attention being given to the topic at the micro and organizational levels. This study addresses this gap in...
The stent for life initiative in Portugal: A critical realist perspective
Major, M.; Martins, L.Drawing on the morphogenetic approach proposed by Archer (1995), this study explains how the stent for life (SFL) initiative emerged and developed in Portugal and how it was embraced as a means to reduce mortality following acute myocardial infarction. A qualitative research strategy based upon a case study was adopted. Only by conducting qualitative research was it possible to interact context with explanation...
ABC bridging tensions between logics of care and business: The perspective of p...
Conceição, A.; Major, M.; Clegg, S.In this paper we present an analysis of how activity-based costing (ABC) was included amongst austerity policy prescriptions within the healthcare sector. Relying on the proposition that an increasing quality of outcomes is achievable simultaneously with a reduction in costs, ABC straddles the contradictory logics of care and business. We draw on case study research and combine elements of institutional logic a...
Management accounting innovations and institutionalization process: A case stud...
Pimentel, L.; Major, M.Objectives: Drawing on the institutional relational dynamics model of Dillard et al. (2004), and intending to close a gap found in literature, the main objective of this investigation is the study of micro processes related to how organizations and actors interact with external pressures. The scope of this paper is the organizational context of a specific Portuguese government agency (IGFSS), where a deep manag...
Institutional entrepreneurship and change: The relevance of collective action
Pimentel, L.; Major, M.Objectives: Drawing on the theoretical model of the process of entrepreneurship proposed by Battilana, Leca and Boxenbaum (2009), and on collective involvement/action literature, this paper aims to investigate how and why divergent institutional change was initiated by an individual institutional entrepreneur in a Portuguese government agency, where a new management model and new management control and accounti...
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...