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Managing public health spending growth: Public’s views
Araújo, N.; Reis, A.; Borges, A. P.; Rosa, A.The need to guarantee public health spending sustainability remains on the governments’ agenda, despite constant efforts to improve health sector efficiency and to contain health spending growth. In this paper, we analyse citizens’, managers’ and health professionals’ views concerning the choice of alternative National Health Service (NHS)’ financing sources and the selection of priority areas to be financed fr...
Grounded Theory—An illustrative application in the Portuguese footwear industry
Monteiro, M.; Rosa, A.; Martins, A.; Jayantilal, S.Grounded theory is an inductive research methodology aiming at the construction of new concepts or new theories able to explain emerging phenomena. The objective of this paper is to provide insights on the usage of grounded theory in management research. We showcase how grounded theory can bring light to development modes of Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the specific reality of the foot...
Model for quality assessment in small farms in Cape Verde
Saraiva, M.; Rosa, A.; Simões, E.; Pires, A. R.This study aims to perform a holistic quality assessment of Cape Verdean agricultural sector. To achieve this objective, we have constructed an innovative model – SQual4Agri – where the farming units’ internal dimension, external context, and the productivity itself were all brought up together. It includes instruments to assess Farmers' satisfaction toward the quality of services provided by the public departm...
Gaining competitive advantage through artificial intelligence adoption
Rosa, A.; Bento, T.; Pereira, L.; Lopes da Costa, R.; Dias, Á.; Gonçalves, R.Companies are adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be innovative, improve their strategies, and differentiate themselves from competitors. This research's objective is to examine the extent of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence in companies located in Portugal. It explores the reasons and challenges companies face to introduce it, their perception of AI, and whether they feel pressure to adopt this...
Initial coin offerings (ICOs): Why do they succeed?
Campino, J.; Brochado, A.; Rosa, A.Recent literature has addressed initial coin offering (ICO) projects, which are an innovative form of venture financing through cryptocurrencies using blockchain technology. Many features of ICOs remain unexplored, leaving much room for additional research, including the success factors of ICO projects. We investigate the success of ICO projects, with our main purpose being to identify factors that influence a ...
Hybrid conceptual model for assessing quality, production and satisfaction (SQu...
Simões, E.; Saraiva, M.; Basch, G.; Pires, A. R.; Rosa, A.; Chaleta, E.In Cape Verde, small family farming production suffers continuously from limited essential resources such as water and soil for a steady development. This situation is further aggravated by the lack of financial resources. We have developed a hybrid and multidimensional conceptual model for improvement of those small farming units by bringing together concepts of quality management, farmers’ satisfaction evalua...
Fatores de sucesso das Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs): A importância do capital ...
Campino, J.; Brochado, A.; Rosa, A.As Inital Coin Offerings (ICOs) ou em português, Ofertas Iniciais de Moedas, têm ganho relevância pela sua novidade, pelos valores de capital envolvidos nos projetos, bem como pela tecnologia e métodos disruptivos utilizados. As ICOs são uma forma disruptiva de financiar novos projetos de risco e altamente tecnológicos. Esta forma de financiamento de um projeto foi comparada com outras, nomeadamente, crowdfundi...
Success Factors of Initial Coin Offering (ICO) projects
Campino, J.; Brochado, A.; Rosa, A.The Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) concept has been an emerging topic in the literature as well as their success factors. We will build up on the current literature and explore several success factors divided into categories, namely, project, campaign, social network and team’s characteristics. The preliminary econometric model developed was built on data from a database composed of 428 ICO projects in the banki...
Human capital's importance in Initial Coin Offerings' (ICOs) success
Campino, J.; Brochado, A.; Rosa, A.The Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are an emerging topic in the literature with several gaps still to fulfill. The ICOs have increased its importance not only due to the interest they have been raising but also due to the capital amounts involved in the projects, the innovative solutions they offer and the challenges they pose to regulators. There is some research on the ICOs' success factors but there is still ...
Export of dissolved and suspended matter from the main estuaries in South Portu...
Correia, C.; Torres, A. F.; Rosa, A.; Cravo, Alexandra; Jacob, J.; de Oliveira Junior, L.; Garel, ErwanEstuaries are essential drivers of primary productivity in coastal waters through the export of dissolved and suspended material. This study aims at quantifying this fertilization process at the two main estuaries in South Portugal, where typical low river discharge conditions occur in winter due to strong flow regulation by upstream dams and seldom-local rain events. Data were collected across the channel of t...