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ISSUE #10, Oct 2022

Research E-News

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Knowledge Centers' first annual meeting 

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In September Nova SBE organized the first Annual Meeting of the Knowledge Centers (KCs). The goal was to foster inter-KCs collaborations, namely, to strengthen international and national research grant applications. The event was open to members of the KCs, core faculty, researchers, and PhD candidates. The one-day meeting included the presentation of the nine KCs —the team, research interests, databases, methodologies, and/or other aspects deemed relevant – and the presentation of ongoing/potential or finished projects that could have a follow-up. The presentations aimed to reflect on potential collaborations with the other KCs. This year edition was organized by Judite Gonçalves, from the Health Economics & Management KC, with the support of the Research & Innovation Funding and the Research Office. The KCs will rotate and each will organize the meeting in the coming years. We hope this Annual Meeting will bring the KCs closer together and provide a fruitful ground for strong research collaborations.

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Spotlight

Vendrell-Herrero, F., Darko, C. K., Gomes, E., & Lehman, D. W. (2022). Home-market economic development as a moderator of the self-selection and learning-by-exporting effects. Journal of International Business Studies, 53, 1519-1535.

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Publications

  • Barros, P. P. (2022). Performance of subnational governments in the COVID-19 pandemic. BAR - Brazilian Administration Review, 19(4), [e220034].

  • García-Altés, A., McKee, M., Siciliani, L., Barros, P. P., Lehtonen, L., Rogers, H., Kringos, D., Zaletel, J., & De Maeseneer, J. (2022). Understanding public procurement within the health sector: A priority in a post-COVID-19 world. Health economics, policy, and law, 17(4), 1-14.

  • Ji, R., & Han, Q. (2022). Understanding heterogeneity of investor sentiment on social media: A structural topic modeling approach. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 5, [884699].

  • Rego, A., Cunha, M. P. E., & Giustiniano, L. (2022). Are relationally transparent leaders more receptive to the relational transparency of others? An authentic dialog perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 180, 695-709.

  • Fragoso, P., Chambel, M. J., & Castanheira, F. (2022). Commitment profiles: An analysis of the Portuguese navy officers. Military Behavioral Health, 10(3), 191-201.

  • Sousa, J. B. D., Díaz-Saavedra, J., & Marimon, R. (2022). Introducing an Austrian backpack in Spain. SERIEs, 13, 513-556.

  • Velez, M. J., & Neves, P. (2022). A followership approach to leadership: The interplay between leadership, context, and follower behaviors. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 21, 161-174.

  • Ninan, J., Mahalingam, A., & Clegg, S. (2022). Asset creation team rationalities and strategic discourses: Evidences from India. Infrastructure Asset Management, 9(3), 114-122.

  • Blevins, D. P., Ragozzino, R., & Eckardt, R. (2022). “Corporate governance” and performance in nonprofit organizations. Strategic Organization, 20(2), 293-317.

  • ECOS consortium, Sabat, I. et al. (2022). Psychometric evaluation of the Mental Health Quality of Life (MHQoL) instrument in seven European countries. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 20(1), 129. [129].

  • Valente de Almeida, S., Correa, R., & Gonçalves, J. (2022). Can intersectoral interventions reduce substance use in adolescence? Evidence from a multicentre randomized controlled study. International Journal of Public Health, 67, [1604677].

Achievements

  • Pedro Martins received best paper award published in Labour Economics 

    Pedro Martins won the award for the best paper published in Labour Economics in 2021. Each year, Labour Economics gives an award to the best paper published in the journal in the previous calendar year. The award was given to the paper “Employee Training and Firm Performance: Evidence from ESF grant applications” Congratulations!

  • Luís Lages paper won Best Competitive Paper Award at the “5th Global Conference on Creating Value”

    Luís Filipe Lages paper, with other authors, “Value creation in space business and commercialization of Earth Observation Services: the case of an EU H2020 project” based on the EC H2020 NextLand project developed by the VCW Lab won the Best Competitive Paper Award at the “5th Global Conference on Creating Value” held in Japan.

  • Miguel Pina e Cunha published “Organizational Paradox” book

    Miguel Pina e Cunha, with Medhanie Gaim (Umeå School of Business and Economics), Stewart Clegg, and Marco Berti (University of Sydney), has another book published. “Organizational Paradox” was published online by Cambridge University Press and analyses the presence of paradoxes in the life of organizations.

  • Pedro Neves started his mandate as  President-Elect at IAAP

    Pedro Neves had his kick-off of the mandate in his new role as President-Elect (2022-2026) of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) with the Division President's Meeting. Good fortune!

  • Design Thinking Roundtable new episode

    Listen to the new episode of the Design Thinking Roundtable produced by the DESIS Lab and the ERA Chair in Social Innovation in partnership with the Design Lab NYU MakerSpace: Tales of the Field with Tonya Gayle, Executive Director of Green City Force (GCF) and an advocate for economic justice for young people of color.

  • Nova SBE congratulates PhD student

    Nova SBE congratulates the PhD student João Barata de Oliveira on successfully defending his doctoral thesis - Essays on Macroeconomic Policy -  with the supervision of Pedro Brinca.

Researchers on Media

Nova SBE Finance Knowledge Center

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The Nova SBE Finance Knowledge Center, in partnership with CFA Society Portugal and with the support of Fidelidade, created the Finanças para Todos program, a financial literacy program that will provide free training to families with the aim of learning how to better manage their income, gain savings habits and plan for the future in a sustainable way. The program was featured in HR Portugal, Marketeer, Jornal Económico and Diário de Notícias da Madeira, among others.

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Nova SBE Open & User Innovation Knowledge Center

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The Nova SBE Open & User Innovation Knowledge Center (OUI) launch made the news. The OUI was mentioned on Jornal Económico, Executive Digest, Link to Leaders

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Zona de Impacto

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The 5th episode of the Zona de Impacto podcast analyzed the increase in poverty in Portugal in the pandemic and energy poverty, which will be felt again this winter in the homes of many Portuguese due to poor thermal conditions and the rise in energy prices. Listen to Susana Peralta's analysis, together with students and researchers Mariana Esteves and Catarina Pintassilgo.

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Alex Armand

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Alex Armand gave interviews to the Brazilian newspapers Poder 360 and ECO about the elections in Italy. According to him “Economic problems are nothing new for Italy, GDP per capita has not grown since 2000 and formal unemployment among young people has remained high in recent years. (...) The Italian economy suffers from low productivity, due to a mixture of demographic, cultural and structural problems, but in the last campaign, I did not hear a single politician provide real solutions to this problem.”

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Ana Balcão Reis

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Ana Balcão Reis defended in a debate on Ao Vivo (Público) the possibility of introducing new criteria that take into account the work already carried out by teachers throughout their professional careers for direct recruitment by schools. That could contribute to improving not only the model of placement of teachers, but also to valuing them.

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João Duarte

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João Duarte was one of the specialists contacted by Lusa for the analysis of how the taxation of extraordinary profits will have a "big" impact on energy companies and will lead to a decrease of their market value" and may "have the perverse effect of discouraging" any eventual price drop. The news was replicated in Visão, Jornal de Negócios, Jornal Económico, Dinheiro Vivo, ECO and Observador, among others.

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Nova SBE

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Nova SBE secured, through the ERA (European Research Area) and the Horizonte Europa program, around 3.7 million euros for research projects in several areas of interest and the topic was featured in Briefing, Executive Digest and Jornal Económico, among others.

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Anne-Laure Fayard

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Anne-Laure Fayard was quoted on CNBC article about Tesla’s Optimus and the big questions on the quest to make a humanoid robot. Fayard told that “Robots are a prevailing object used to evoke our technological future” and “They reflect our hopes and fears about technology.”

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Pedro Freitas

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Pedro Freitas in an interview with Rádio Observador, analyzed the lack of teachers, stressing that it is necessary to know whether the existing teacher scholarship is sufficient to meet the needs throughout the year and to fill the teachers who will retire. Pedro Freitas also highlighted the importance of school stability, making teachers visit fewer schools. The professor also spoke to Visão about the recovery of post-pandemic learning losses.

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Nova SBE Economics of Education Knowledge Center

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With the start of the new academic year, data from the study on teacher turnover carried out by the Nova SBE Economics of Education Knowledge Center was once again mentioned by various media. Namely: Correio da Manhã, Expresso, Ensino Magazine and Jornal de Notícias, among others.

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Miguel Ferreira

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Miguel Ferreira was interviewed by Jornal Económico about teaching and research in sustainable finance. “A manager, an economist, a financial market professional, must be equipped with tools to help companies become more responsible and sustainable in the three ESG aspects – environmental, social and governance”, he said. Imbued with the purpose of preparing students for major economic and financial trends, such as issues related to sustainability, he also highlighted the introduction of sustainable finance topics in several compulsory subjects during the recent revision of the curricula.

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Francesco Franco

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Francesco Franco was interviewed by Antena 1 about whether the possibly dramatic speech of the President of the European Central Bank on the economic evolution of the Eurozone could itself have negative effects on markets and economies. To RTP he analyzed the elections in Italy. To Público he told that the risk of creating an inflationary spiral is present, but that “it is in fact important not to turn inflation into a structural phenomenon”.

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Pedro Brinca

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Pedro Brinca to Expresso commented on the Brazilian economic status quo the next president will be faced with. He was also interviewed by RTP, CNN Portugal, Expresso, Antena 1, Jornal Económico, Novo and TVI, among others, on the recent economic activity indicators regarding the Portuguese and international economy. Concerning the new measures approved by the government to support companies in their struggle with inflation and energy price he was interviewed by Jornal de Negócios, SIC Notícias and RTP3, among others. To Jornal de Negócios he commented on the recent trend of financial groups acquiring multiple stakes in different clubs at different tiers and the threat it poses to the current business model for the three biggest clubs in Portugal.

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Paulo Soares Pinho

Paulo Soares Pinho was interviewed by Money, Money, Money (Expresso podcast) about the fact that the European Central Bank has raised rates twice this summer and about the fact that it can do so again by the end of the year. Credit is more expensive for families and companies at a time when the economy is starting to run out of steam.

Susana Peralta

Susana Peralta was interviewed about the general rise in the prices of goods and services, inflation, support for companies, the increase in the cost of living and the near future by pela Antena 1, TSF, RTP, Expresso, Dinheiro Vivo, Jornal de Negócios, É ou Não É (RTP) and Público, among others.

Patient Innovation Bootcamp

The projects of the 3rd edition of the Patient Innovation Bootcamp were mentioned on Rádio Renascença as solutions created by caregivers and patients for their health problems. Pedro Oliveira was interviewed by the same rádio where he explained that “at the moment we have around 1,800 solutions validated by the Patient Innovation medical team, in a context of more than five thousand submitted by patients and informal caregivers”.

Daniel Traça

Daniel Traça in an interview with Sol stressed that “next year's budget cannot be too expansionary, when the ECB is cooling down the economy to control inflation”. He also explained that, in relation to the new airport, “it should be seen as an important work, as a pillar of a great vision that is wanted for Portugal”. He added: “Each additional month needed to take a decision is delaying the country's destiny”.

Filipa Castanheira

More than 86% of students and 60% of employees from several Portuguese and international companies revealed a preference for a hybrid work model. This was the main conclusion of the Re-imagining Work study carried out by BNP Paribas and by students of the Master in International Management CEMS at Nova SBE, led by Filipa Castanheira. The study was cited in media such as Imagens de Marca, Human Resources, ECO and Jornal Económico, among others.

Pedro Martins

Pedro Martins participated in the Sociedade Civil program (RTP 2) where he addressed the question how will we manage to have average wages competitive with the rest of Europe with the increase in the cost of living? To Rádio Observador he analyzed the work sector and still in this area, but in an interview with Jornal Económico, he commented the study by the Ministry of Economy that shows that, between 1995 and 2019, 4.6 jobs were created in Portugal for every 100 thousand euros of investment in digitalization, above the European Union average.

Eduardo Costa

Eduardo Costa participated in Antena Aberta (Antena 1) where, within the scope of the 43 years of the National Health Service (SNS), the decrease in investment in the Health area was discussed. What SNS do we have, and do we want to have? It is the question raised for reflection in this program.

Social Equity Initiative

Fundação “la Caixa”, BPI and Nova SBE renewed the “Social Equity Initiative” partnership project for another three years, until 2024. This initiative aims to boost the social economy sector in Portugal, through research and training projects developed by specialized academic teams. The renewal of the partnership was featured in SIC, Jornal Económico, Forbes, Dinheiro Vivo, Executive Digest and Jornal Económico.

Pedro Pita Barros

Pedro Pita Barros was interviewed by various media about the new Minister of Health. The professor told Visão, RTP and Sol that “there is enough space for [Minister Manuel Pizarro and SNS executive director Fernando Araújo] to introduce improvements in the functioning of the SNS and also in the Portuguese health system”.

Miguel Lebre de Freitas

Miguel Lebre de Freitas was interviewed by Expresso da Manhã (Expresso podcast) about how the national accounts are doing and which paths we should follow, taking into account that the President of the Republic has already asked the government to anticipate the macro-economic scenario because he is concerned about the turn to a more “depressing” speech by the ECB president.

Ricardo Zózimo

Ricardo Zózimo in an interview with Rádio Renascença, said that “in a country where only

20% of the poor have a job, it is a priority to improve working conditions, which does not only involve raising wages”. Ricardo Zózimo, linked to the project ‘Francisco’s economy’, talked about the priorities that should be included in the next State Budget, in the light of what the Pope proposes. 

Researchers Corner

Consumers respond positively to activist brands when they are perceived as helping to beat an opposition in a socio-political debate

What if brand activism were detrimental to brands? My research shows that brand activism may backfire because speaking up on partisan socio-political issues often sparks controversy, and when it does, consumers are put off by it. We find that this happens because when brands spark controversy, they exude qualities of dominant leadership to consumers: they signal that they are agentic – they can influence outcomes through their actions, but also that they are abrasive – they are willing to confront those who oppose their views. Indeed, when we present participants with brands that spark (vs. don’t spark) controversy, purchase intentions for brands that spark controversy is reduced because it is perceived as more abrasive. However, we find that when consumers perceive that the brand takes a stand on issues in which they would lose something if their opposition were to win the debate (e.g. abortion bans), the brand’s abrasiveness is seen as a desirable tool to fight the opposition. In such cases, brands that spark controversy benefit from higher purchase intention. As such, our theorizing & current evidence offer some hope to companies who want to participate in important socio-political debates.


Lucas Franieck, PhD student in Management with Irene Consiglio, Associate Professor of Marketing

 

Opinion Articles

Events

  • Patricia Xufre talked about Artificial Intelligence in business

    Patricia Xufre participated on an event organized by Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center about how Artificial Intelligence can be used in business with the Nova Tech Club students. It was a great opportunity to show them how to get started in the AI Movement, through Elements of AI, a free and online course about the principles of artificial intelligence, implemented in Portugal by the partnership between Nova SBE, University of Helsinki and MinnaLearn.

  • Mariia Murasheva presented a paper at Stockholm School of Economics

    Mariia Murasheva, PhD student in Economics and Finance and member of the Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center, presented her paper in a brown bag seminar at the Stockholm School of Economics about The impact of industrial pollution exposure on hospital admissions: Evidence from a cement plant in Russia, a working paper she co-authored with Antonieta Cunha e Sá.

  • Eduardo Costa explained the new challenges of HIV stigma

    Eduardo Costa participated in the conference “The new challenges of HIV: stigma and social impact”, an event integrated in the Horizonte 2030 project, by Expresso with the support of ViiV Healthcare. Eduardo Costa spoke in the debate on the stigma and social impact of the disease, which aims to be a proactive driver of literacy and give visibility to the improvement of the conditions of those who live and work with HIV in Portugal.

  • Anne-Laure Fayard in the ESG Talks

    Anne-Laure Fayard participated in the ESG Talk – Reconstruir o Futuro to discuss“O Futuro do Trabalho”. She talked about diversity & inclusion, hybrid work and leadership as a form of service and an opportunity to learn. She also stressed that “we have to rethink profoundly the meaning of work”. In the scope of the Patient Innovation she also hosted an inspiring and interactive workshop on rapid prototyping with the bootcamp entrepreneurs.

  • Pedro Brinca at CES conference

    Pedro Brinca participated in the conference “O Desafio da Produtividade na Economia Portuguesa”, promoted by Conselho Económico e Social (CES), in partnership with Conselho para a Produtividade (CpP), where he commented on the Portuguese economy on productivity and public subsidies.

  • Pedro Oliveira shared PI research with the ROSI group

    Pedro Oliveira shared the research on Patient Innovation (PI) with ROSI group - Research on Open Social Innovation –and contributed to a lively discussion on innovation and healthcare, creating a space for exploring ideas and sharing perspectives around these topics. Patient Innovation was also at NOVA Sustainability.

  • João Marques Gomes at PROJETOR 2030 conference

    João Marques Gomes participated in the PROJETOR 2030 conference cycle, promoted by Associação Comercial do Porto. Health was at the center of the debate and speakers were invited to answer the question “Is the citizen at the center of the system?”

  • Rodrigo Tavares participated in the ESG Talks

    Rodrigo Tavares participated in the ESG Talks, a partnership between VISÃO, EXAME, Nova SBE and PwC Portugal, in the panel “What do we talk about when we talk about ESG?”, stating that the best ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) companies are those that do not need to mention that they are ESG. The professor also participated in the event Digital With a Purpose in the panel SMES with a purpose: The next generation of companies and solution providers.

  • Alex Armand at Nova Sustainability week

    Alex Armand participated in a debate at Nova Sustainability week where was discussed the Value of Sustainability for Research. The discussion was with researchers with ERC grant. He also presented The global impact of coastal water contamination on economic development study.

Other News

  • Nova Vista Program

    NOVA Vista, a program created by the ERA Chair in Social Innovation, has just been launched with the support of Nova SBE. It promotes community engagement through art and design with a focus on social impact and sustainable development. The NOVA Vista program chaired by Anne-Laure Fayard and in collaboration with Largo Residências, a Lisbon-based organization that contributes to local development through art and culture, designed 4 art and craft workshops led by artists and refugees.

    The ERA Chair in Social Innovation at Nova School of Business and Economics is a research center funded by the European Research Agency which is based on three pillars:

    Research – producing high level academic knowledge and applied knowledge,

    Education – leveraging design thinking, experiential learning and project-based learning through formal and informal teaching,

    Community Engagement – collaboration with multiple stakeholders, including local communities and social innovators, to support their efforts in tackling grand challenges.

  • Impact Makers course

    The Impact Makers course, taught by Anne-Laure Fayard under the Master's in Impact Entrepreneurship and Innovation, kick-started with a special guest Karine Sarkissian. Karine was the Fall 2022 Social Innovator in Residence, invited by the ERA Chair in Social Innovation, and shared both her personal and professional journey. Leveraging her expertise, she also gave a workshop on Early Ideation: From Problem Framing to Impact Assessment, offered by the DESIS Lab @ Nova SBE and the ERA Chair in Social Innovation in partnership with Haddad Institute in Entrepreneurship.

  • Le Wagon Portugal Demo Day

    The Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center participated in Le Wagon Portugal Demo Day, where web development and data science students shared the projects, they developed during the nine weeks of the coding bootcamp.

Good to know

Gold open access publication is now more accessible

 Aligned with Plan S, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) has been working on transformative agreements with the publishers belonging to b-on (library resources national consortium). 2022-2024 brings the possibility of 12 new agreements with international publishers starting with Elsevier, Wiley, SAGE, and Annual Reviews. For the 2022-2024 triennium, b-on has negotiated with most of its publishers’ agreements that include advantageous Open Acess publishing conditions for b-on member-affiliated authors. Details of each agreement will be made public by FCT as soon as the corresponding contracts are finalized but it is important to mention eligibility is in place only for the corresponding author who is affiliated with a member institution.

Publishing Open Access in hybrid journals (subscription journals in which some of the articles are open access) will be paid by the standing contract between FCT and the publishers (meaning Universities via b-on consortium) and will not include other processing charges (yearly limits apply). This information will be updated @Research SharePoint when new publishers join these agreements and details will be available for each publisher.

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