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Designing and implementing SMILE: An AI-driven platform for enhancing clinical ...
Pesqueira, A.; Sousa, M. J.; Pereira, R.; Schwendinger, M.Rising levels of anxiety, depression, and burnout among healthcare professionals (HCPs) underscore the urgent need for technology-driven interventions that optimize both clinical decision-making and workforce well-being. This innovation report introduces the Support, Management, Individual, Learning Enablement (SMILE) platform, designed to integrate advanced AI-driven decision support, federated learning for da...
DevSecOps practices and tools
Prates, L.; Pereira, R.Nowadays, software development happens at a fast pace. At the same time, Information Technology organizations face higher demands and competition while struggling with external threats such as cyberattacks. Therefore, many organizations adopt DevOps as a working culture to improve their Software Development Lifecycle (SDL). However, the success of DevOps adoption remains inconsistent, and recently, IEEE introdu...
Mapping DevOps capabilities to the software life cycle: A systematic literature...
Amaro, R.; Pereira, R.; Silva, M. M. da.Context: Many IT organizations are looking towards DevOps to make their software development and delivery processes faster and more reliable, while DevOps revolutionized the industry by emphasizing collaboration between development and operations teams. Nonetheless, there still exist challenges in harmonizing cultural, technical, measurement and process capabilities for its successful adoption. Objective: To re...
How overloaded employees can use resilience and forgiveness resources to overco...
De Clercq, D.; Pereira, R.Purpose Drawing on conservation of resources theory, this study aims to examine how employees’ experiences of excessive workloads may direct them away from efforts to share knowledge with other organizational members, as well as the circumstances in which this process is more or less likely. To untangle the process, the authors predict a mediating role of job dissatisfaction and moderating roles of two compleme...
A framework to support Robotic Process Automation
Farinha, D.; Pereira, R.; Almeida, R.With the increasing demand for digitalization, organizations look to emerging technologies such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to increase their business performance. This makes it essential to identify and select the most suitable processes to maximize the benefits for organizations. However, despite the increasing interest of academics and professionals in RPA, the literature lacks a study on the main cr...
A lack of clarity, a lack of OCB: The detrimental effects of role ambiguity, th...
De Clercq, D.; Pereira, R.If employees lack information about their job responsibilities, do they halt their voluntary work efforts, and if so, why and when? To answer these questions, this study attempts to unpack the relationship between employees’ role ambiguity and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and proposes both a mediating role of procedural injustice and a moderating role of relational resources (i.e. social interactio...
Cross-cultural examination of successful entrepreneurial small and medium-sized...
Balhico, A.; Pereira, R.; Jarrar, H.Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential variances in strategic entrepreneurial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across different countries while also exploring the cultural implications that may arise. Design/methodology/approach In this study, a qualitative research approach was used, involving semi-structured interviews conducted with seven technology start-ups from two countri...
DevOps metrics and KPIs: A multivocal literature review
Amaro, R.; Pereira, R.; Silva, M. M. da.Context: Information Technology organizations are aiming to implement DevOps capabilities to fulfill market, customer, and internal needs. While many are successful with DevOps implementation, others still have difficulty measuring DevOps success in their organization. As a result, the effectiveness of assessing DevOps remains erratic. This emphasizes the need to withstand management in measuring the implementa...
Assessing the effects of institutions on the ownership structure of MNCs invest...
Moreira da Silva, F.; Pereira, R.; Ogasavara, M. H.This study analyzes the relationship between institutions and ownership in cross-border acquisitions. First, this research contributes to the existing literature by considering the relative position of cities of origin and destination in this relationship and examining the asymmetric effects of institutional distance. Furthermore, we contribute by taking the concept of global cities and analyzing the influence ...
Perceived organizational politics, organizational disidentification and counter...
De Clercq, D.; Pereira, R.Purpose—This research seeks to unpack the relationship between employees’ perceptions of organizational politics and their counterproductive work behaviour, by postulating a mediating role of organizational disidentification and a moderating role of perceived external crisis threats to work. Design/methodology/approach—The empirical assessment of the hypotheses relies on survey data collected among employees wh...