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Why am I so successful? Self-presentation and deliberative attributions of succ...
Santos, S. C.; Caetano, A.; Brochado, A.This study explores the complexities of causes of success mentioned in entrepreneurs' narratives in a broadcasted context. Building on strategic self-presentation and attribution theories, we employed inductive methods to map the configurations of public narratives explaining entrepreneurial success. The data analyzed were gathered from 173 reflective interviews featuring entrepreneurs on the United States' Nat...
Micro-firms way to succeed: How owners manage people
Rodrigues, A. C.; Carvalho, H.; Caetano, António; Santos, S. C.This study explores the configurations of people management practices in micro-firms and their relation with entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in a four-year window. Based on the ability-, motivation- and opportunity-focused practices framework, we identify configurations of HRM practices used in micro-firms and, in conjugation with entrepreneurial orientation, how they affect employee growth and...
The curvilinear relationships between top decision maker goal orientations and ...
Pryor, C.; Santos, S. C.; Xie, J.Ambidextrous firms are those that can simultaneously manage exploitative and explorative innovation, which is why ambidexterity is key for firms that desire to pursue strategic entrepreneurship. Researchers have explored many of the reasons why some firms are more ambidextrous than others. However, little attention has been devoted to understanding how attributes of top decision makers can influence their firms...
Animal protein-based soft materials for tissue engineering applications
Custódio, C. A.; Santos, S. C.; Monteiro, C. F.; Deus, I. A.; Gomes, M. C.; Mano, J. F.Proteins have long been used in coatings for cell culture plates and to supplement cell culture media. Due to their unmatched biocompatibility, biodegradability, bioactivity and immune-privilege, the interest in proteins rapidly advanced for the design and engineering of more complex substrates for biomedical applications. In this chapter, the proteins typically used in the design and fabrication of biomedical ...
Self-employment and eudaimonic well-being: Energized by meaning, enabled by soc...
Stephan, U.; Tavares, S. M.; Carvalho, H.; Ramalho, J. J. S.; Santos, S. C.; van Veldhoven, M.This study investigates why and where self-employment is related to higher levels of eudaimonic well-being. We focus on meaningfulness as an important eudaimonic process and subjective vitality as a eudaimonic well-being outcome that is central to entrepreneurs' proactivity. Building on self-determination theory, we posit that self-employment, relative to wage-employment, is a more self-determined and volitiona...
Uncovering the affective turmoil during opportunity recognition and exploitatio...
Santos, S. C.; Caetano, A.; Costa, S.; Rueff Lopes, R.; Junça Silva, A.; Neumeyer, X.This study explores the affective turmoil experienced by nascent entrepreneurs during opportunity recognition and exploitation. Based on the affect circumplex model, we employed nonlinear methods to identify configurations of affect that emerge during these early stages of the entrepreneurial journey. We analyzed data from 50 nascent entrepreneurs using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) trained with twenty affe...
Entrepreneurship and well-being: the role of national entrepreneurship norm and...
Tavares, S. M.; Carvalho, H.; Santos, S. C.; van Veldhoven, M.This study investigates whether entrepreneurship (operationalized as self-employment status) is related to higher levels of meaningfulness at work and individual’s well-being, specifically subjective vitality, when compared to regular employment. We propose that the impact of self-employment on meaningfulness at work would depend on countries’ normative context, namely on the national entrepreneurship prescript...
Ferramentas jornalísticas na educação: Uma rádio online para jovens
Brites, M. J.; Santos, S. C.; Jorge, A.; Catalão, D.A relação entre jornalismo e educação configura um campo ainda pouco explorado, embora a prática de princípios e técnicas jornalísticas se constitua também como ferramenta pedagógica. Neste artigo, partimos de um estudo de caso com rádio online, desenvolvido junto de comunidades juvenis, e recorremos a observação participante, entrevistas e grupos focais conduzidos no âmbito do projeto RadioActive...
Recognizing opportunities across campus: the effects of cognitive training and ...
Costa, S. F.; Santos, S. C.; Wach, D.; Caetano, A.We analyze the effects of the program Cognitive Entrepreneurial Training in Opportunity Recognition on the accurate assessment of prototypical viability of business opportunities. The training integrates the principles of experiential learning and is designed to reach students across campus. We also investigate the moderating role of entrepreneurial passion on opportunity recognition learning. We use a quasi-ex...
Entrepreneurship as a career option: do temporary workers have the competencies...
Costa, S. F.; Caetano, A.; Santos, S. C.This study analyses the entrepreneurial intentions and the willingness of temporary workers to consider entrepreneurship as a career option. Specifically, we analyse the self-perception of entrepreneurial competencies of a group of temporary workers. A total of 184 temporary workers participated in the study. We performed a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) to identify profiles of entrepreneurial competenc...