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Portuguese Management Between Global Rhetoric and Local Reality: The Case of Human Resource Management
Cabral‐Cardoso, Carlos - In: Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican … 4 (2006) 3, pp. 193-204
Portugal, but it is clear that Portuguese academics and practitioners have extensively adopted the global HRM rhetoric. With an …
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An Essay on Archaic Postmodernity: The Case of Portugal
Pina e Cunha, Miguel; Clegg, Stewart R.; Rego, Arménio - In: Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican … 7 (2009) 3, pp. 191-201
In this paper, some peculiarities of a Southern European country are made explicit, namely, how the attraction of new, “global”, management practices combines with deeply persistent, thus traditional, ways of imagining organization. The dominant Anglo‐Saxon and Protestant models of...
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Making sense of expatriation
Pinto, Luisa Helena; Caldas, Regina - In: Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican … 13 (2015) 3, pp. 267-284
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine how international workers engage into and make sense of expatriation and how sense-making enacts further action. Design/methodology/approach – Given the corporate influence over expatriation, empirical data were collected from a single case...
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Culture in small-sized Portuguese family businesses
Casimiro, Mafalda; José Chambel, Maria - In: Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican … 12 (2014) 1, pp. 40-67
Purpose – This study aims to empirically identify cultural patterns in the family business: paternalistic, laissez-faire , participative and professional. Our second goal is to understand whether, besides the variable generation, there are other aspects that are based on the different cultural...
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The usefulness of financial reporting for internal decision‐making in Portuguese municipalities
Nogueira, Sónia Paula S.; Margarida F. Jorge, Susana; … - In: Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican … 11 (2013) 2, pp. 178-212
empirical evidence of the perceptions of internal users on the usefulness of the municipal financial reporting in Portugal, in …
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Are capital structure decisions of service SMEs different? Empirical evidence from Portugal
Serrasqueiro, Zélia - In: Management Research Review 34 (2011) 1, pp. 34-57
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the importance of information asymmetry in the relationships between Portuguese SME's capital structure decisions and creditors, comparing the results of service SME with those found in manufacturing SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – Two...
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Credit risk assessment and the impact of the New Basel Capital Accord on small and medium‐sized enterprises
Matias Gama, Ana Paula; Susana Amaral Geraldes, Helena - In: Management Research Review 35 (2012) 8, pp. 727-749
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a credit‐scoring model as an aggregate valuation procedure that integrates various financial and non‐financial factors and thereby improves small to medium‐sized enterprises' (SMEs) knowledge about their default risk....
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The marketing planning experience: a UK and Portuguese comparison
Dibb, Sally; Farhangmehr, Minoo; Simkin, Lyndon - In: Marketing Intelligence & Planning 19 (2001) 6, pp. 409-417
, research indicates that the majority of businesses are involved in some kind of planning activity. In Portugal, where the … Portugal. Illustrates stark contrasts in the characteristics of marketing planning in each country, although there are signs of … increasing marketing and planning activity in Portugal.  …
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Surf tribal behaviour: a sports marketing application
Moutinho, Luiz; Dionísio, Pedro; Leal, Carmo - In: Marketing Intelligence & Planning 25 (2007) 7, pp. 668-690
, in the particular context of the surfing community in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach – Two focus group meetings …
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“Green” segmentation: an application to the Portuguese consumer market
do Paço, Arminda; Raposo, Mário - In: Marketing Intelligence & Planning 27 (2009) 3, pp. 364-379
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify distinct market segments based on several environmental variables. Given the complexity and the range of variables that may determine the characterisation of these groups, as was made evident in the literature review, it was decided to focus...
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