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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)...
Cooperatives and the Use of Artificial Intelligence: A Critical View
Ramos, Maria Elisabete; Azevedo, Ana; Meira, Deolinda; Curado Malta, MarianaDigital Transformation (DT) has become an important issue for organisations. It is proven that DT fuels Digital Innovation in organisations. It is well-known that technologies and practices such as distributed ledger technologies, open source, analytics, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI) enhance DT. Among those technologies, AI provides tools to support decision-making and automatically decide. Coopera...
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...
Can Online Transparency Improve Accountability? The Case of Portuguese Private ...
Ferreira, Augusta; Bandeira, Ana M.; Santos, Carlos; Ferreira, Inês; Tomé, Brízida; Costa, Alberto J.; Joaquim, Carla; Góis, Cristina; Curi, DeniseThe development of the non-profit sector (NPS) in Portugal has been gaining relevance in recent times, particularly in the form of institutions whose purpose is to broaden and increase the response to the needs of the most needy and socially vulnerable citizens. The financing of Portuguese non-profit sector entities is essentially made up of income from their activity, donations and public or governmental suppo...
Literature Review and Theoretical Framework of the Evolution and Interconnected...
Costa, Alberto J.; Curi, Denise; Bandeira, Ana M.; Ferreira, Augusta; Tomé, Brízida; Joaquim, Carla; Santos, Carlos; Góis, Cristina; Meira, DeolindaThe concept of sustainable development (SD) was introduced in the “Our Common Future” report, launched in 1987, which influenced the emergence of many studies related to the role played by organizations as actors supporting SD. SD is a consolidated concept; however, since 1987, many political, social, and natural events have occurred on our planet, which have impacted companies’ behaviors. However, the diversit...
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...
Relevant Information for the Accountability of Private Institutions of Social S...
Inácio, Helena; Costa, Alberto J.; Bandeira, Ana M.; Ferreira, Augusta; Tomé, Brízida; Joaquim, Carla; Santos, Carlos; Góis, Cristina; Curi, DeniseThe social economy (SE) has emerged as an interesting alternative for dealing with social problems. However, there are some concerns related to the abilities of these institutions regarding accountability. Thus, the present work aimed to determine if private social solidarity institutions (IPSS) are prepared to meet management requirements by increasing their accountability. In Portugal, IPSS are social economy...
Accountability and Transparency in Cooperatives: A Comparative Analysis between...
Meira, Deolinda; Bandeira, Ana M.; Santos, MelanieEste estudio pretende evaluar si la legislación sobre mecanismos de supervisión interna y externa vigente para las cooperativas alemanas permite un nivel de rendición de cuentasy transparencia más adecuados en términos de información financiera en comparación con el modelo adoptado en Portugal. Para ello, y a través de una metodología cualitativa, utilizando la técnica de análisis de contenido y el modelo de es...
Cooperatives and the use of artificial intelligence: a critical view
Ramos, Maria Elisabete; Azevedo, Ana; Meira, Deolinda; Malta, Mariana CuradoDigital Transformation (DT) has become an important issue for organisations. It is proven that DT fuels Digital Innovation in organisations. It is well-known that technologies and practices such as distributed ledger technologies, open source, analytics, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI) enhance DT. Among those technologies, AI provides tools to support decision-making and automatically decide. Coopera...
Accountability in the Social Economy: The Case of Private Social Solidarity Ins...
Ferreira, Augusta; Santos, Carlos; Inácio, Helena; Costa, Alberto J.; Bandeira, Ana M.; Tomé, Brízida; Joaquim, Carla; Góis, Cristina; Curi, DeniseGiven the extreme importance of improving the accountability of private social solidarity institutions (IPSS), both for reasons of legal compliance and for reasons of improving legitimacy and notoriety among their stakeholders, in order to be accountable to them and in order to maintain their sustainability, this article aims to present a framework designed under a more comprehensive research project for the as...