http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2166 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:21:03 GMT 2013-05-20T20:21:03Z http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4017 Title: Managerial strategies in canning industries: A case study of early twentieth century Portugal Authors: Mata, ME Abstract: The paper discusses entry barriers in the Portuguese canning industries in the early twentieth century. The most important challenge facing the canning industries was a dependence on unsteady supply of raw material. The available technology, branding trademarks, product differentiation and product quality, versus abundance or scarcity of resources to be used as inputs and international trade presented contradictory effects on entry barriers. The paper discusses entry barriers in the Portuguese canning industries in the early twentieth century. The most important challenge facing the canning industries was a dependence on unsteady supply of raw material. The available technology, branding trademarks, product differentiation and product quality, versus abundance or scarcity of resources to be used as inputs and international trade presented contradictory effects on entry barriers. Deterrence was inefficient, some foreign firms delocalised to Portugal, and the sector is an interesting case-study in the historical context of globalisation Description: Business History, Vol, 51 Issue 1, p45-58 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4017 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2436 Title: Perceptions of organizational virtuousness and happiness and predictors of organizational citizenship behaviors Authors: Rego, A; Ribeiro, N; Cunha, MPE Abstract: Moral and financial scandals emerging in recent years around the world have created the momentum for reconsidering the role of virtuousness in organizational settings. This empirical study seeks to contribute toward maintaining this momentum. We answer to researchers’ suggestions that the exploratory study carried out by Cameron et al. (Am Behav Sci 47(6):766–790, 2004), which related organizational virtuousness (OV) and performance, must be pursued employing their measure of OV in other contexts and in relation to other outcomes (Wright and Goodstein, J Manage 33(6):928–958, 2007). Two hundred and sixteen employees reported their perceptions of OV and their affective well- being (AWB) at work (one of the main indicators of employees’ happiness), their supervisors reporting their organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). The main finding is that the perceptions of OV predict some OCB both directly and through the mediating role of AWB. The evidence suggests that OV is worthy of a higher status in the business and organizational psychology lite Description: Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 93 Issue 2, p214-235 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2436 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4018 Title: Economic ideas and policies in nineteenth-century Portugal Authors: Mata, Maria Eugenia Abstract: O objectivo deste artigo é ilustrar a necessidade de se considerar o panorama das ideias económicas e o diálogo entre o pensamento intelectual dos economistas e as acções dos políticos, por forma a que se possa compreender o processo de crescimento económico português. Ao mesmo tempo analisa-se o impacto de políticas económicas assumidas. Apesar da transformação do pensamento económico português do século XIX, com a divulgação do paradigma da escola clássica, a preocupação com o desenvolvimento económico fez desviar a acção política das recomendações doutrinárias. A conclusão apresenta as consequências para o regime de Salazar resultantes do fraco crescimento económico antes alcançado. Description: Luso-Brazilian Review Vol.38 Issue 2, p1-15 Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4018 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4016 Title: The role of implicit contracts: Building public works in the 1840s in Portugal Authors: Mata, Maria Eugenia Abstract: This article studies financial schemes for building public works in the 1840s. The study of the Portuguese case clearly illustrates the importance of implicit contracts with governments in peripheral Europe, shedding light on solutions for financing the provision of public goods. Building roads and railways seems to have been the fruit of an implicit contract behind the tobacco monopoly in a country involved in social turmoil and civil wars. Reputation effects are called to explain the relevant range of the partners’ negotiations, to reject the traditional historiography based on wrong management and speculation in a period of savage capitalism. Description: Business History, Vol 50 No 2, p147-162 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4016 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z