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‘When I enter the ocean, I forget about all my problems’: Improving young peopl...
Nada, C.; Rios, C.; Miguel, I.; Cailliau, B.; Arbués, D.; Dias, T. S.This paper analyses the ‘Onda Social’ project implemented in the city of Matosinhos, located in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. ‘Onda Social’ (which translates into Social Wave) is a surf therapy project that aims to stimulate the academic, social, and emotional skills of young people at risk through the practice of surfing. The project covered 363 children and young people aged 7–14, organised in groups w...
Sexual well-being across the lifespan: Is sexual satisfaction related to adjust...
Miguel, I.; von Humboldt, Sofia; Leal, I.Sexuality Research and Social Policy is an international multidisciplinary forum for the publication of original peer-reviewed state-of-the-art empirical research on sexuality, theoretical and methodological discussions, and the implications of this evidence for policies across the globe regarding sexual health, sexuality education, and sexual rights in diverse communities. The journal also publishes brief rese...
Teacher professional development in higher education: the impact of pedagogical...
Fernandes, Sandra; Araújo, Alexandra; Miguel, I.; Abelha, MartaThis paper aims to analyze the impact of a pedagogical training program aimed to promote teacher professional development in a higher education institution in Portugal. Based on a mixedmethods approach, the study evaluates the satisfaction of 36 higher education teachers with the pedagogical training program offered and discusses its impact on teachers’ perceptions of teaching practices, conceptions, and profes...
Healthy eating habits for food industry in Portugal
Lopes da Costa, R.; Miguel, I.; Pereira, L.; Dias, Á.; Gonçalves, R.The changes in the eating habits are leading to and increase interest by the consumers regarding organic food making important to understand how consumers see these products and what are the main drivers behind their decision to consume them or not and how the market of organic food can provide an offer that can provide and sustainable growth. The focus of this investigation was to understand the opinion of the...
The boundaries in the area of knowledge transfer in management consulting
Lopes da Costa, R.; António, N.; Sampaio. M.; Miguel, I.In a historical retrospective, although the existing literature calls the management consulting industry an extraordinary sector and a unique phenomenon in the business context, in fact these statements are not accompanied by a number of academic studies that emphasize the importance of the effective work of the management consultants. To contest the lack of studies in this emerging area, this article aims to u...
Relationship marketing through error management and organisational performance ...
Oliveira, M.; Rodrigues, S.; Santos, E.; Miguel, I.The current environment VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) imposes great challenges and constant changes in the business environment, requiring organisations to perform better and better. Companies must constantly reinvent themselves in search of distinguishing competitive advantages, which can often rise from their own internal management processes. Managing mistakes can be therefore important a...
The basis for a constructive relationship between management consultants and cl...
Da Costa, R. L.; Dias, Á. L.; Pereira, L.; Santos, J.; Miguel, I.In a historical retrospective, although the existing literature calls the management consulting industry an extraordinary sector and a unique phenomenon in the business context, in fact these statements are not accompanied by a number of academic studies that emphasize the importance of the effective management consultant’s work. To battle the lack of studies in this emerging area, this article aims to understa...
Privatization process and talent management in Angola
Lopes da Costa, R.; Sampaio. M.; Miguel, I.The problem of the privatization process began in the 1940s, even though it only really began to gain a prominent place in the entrepreneurial path, about 50 years later. The processes of privatization of the world economies, which led to the triggering of a set of cooperative strategies based on the State-owned enterprises privatization, and, of course, all these events, had repercussions also in Angola. Based...
Consultants as strategic practitioners: an analysis in the sociological field r...
Lopes da Costa, R.; António, N.; Miguel, I.Although management consulting activities have obtained a considerable growth in terms of economic significance in recent years, these results have not been duly followed by a greater number of conceptual and empirical researches in this area. In order to fight the lack of studies on the actual work of management consultants, this article aims at answer to one question that remains open. Are consultants the rea...
The analysis of the four paradigms of business management consulting in Portuga...
Costa, R.; António, N.; Miguel, I.; Martinho, F.In a historical retrospective, although the existing literature names the sector of management consulting industry as an extraordinary and unique phenomenon in business and in fact these claims have not been substantiated by academic studies that will assess these same interpretations. This article therefore aims to address the lack of studies in this emerging field, and, from the analysis of a set of semi-stru...