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- Empreendedorismo em economias em desenvolvimento: uma aplicação ao sector turísticoPublication . Reis, NunoO contexto idiossincrático dos países em desenvolvimento, marcadamente distinto dos países da Tríade normalmente objeto de investigação académica, poderá levar a efeitos na decisão de empreender.turístico, de Jeremias Dias Furtado, Antonia Mercedes García Cabrera e Maria Gracia García Soto. A obra, resultado de uma tese de doutoramento, oferece uma abordagem institucional à problemática do empreendedorismo. A abordagem institucional estabelece as bases para um estudo empírico sobre a realidade de Cabo Verde que permite validar as relações propostas. A abordagem institucional selecionada é particularmente adequada para abordar a questão do empreendedorismo em países em desenvolvimento. As condições institucionais, nomeadamente os défices em instituições que potenciem o empreendedorismo, serão um fator distintivo determinante entre economias desenvolvidas e economias em desenvolvimento.
- Understanding the Footprint of the RBV in International Business Studies: the Last Twenty Years of ResearchPublication . Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Reis, Nuno; Serra, Fernando; Costa, BennyInternational business (IB) research has evolved substantially over the past four decades incorporating new concerns and theoretical contributions. During the past two decades, the Resource-Based View (RBV) has gained the preference of many IB scholars and has gradually become one of the dominant theoretical perspectives for studying IB decisions and operations. The 1991 article “Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage” by Jay Barney is recognized as a fundamental contribution to the Resource-Based View (RBV). In this paper we assess the influence of the RBV, proxied by Jay Barney’s (1991) article, on IB research over the twenty years period, from 1991 to 2010. In this bibliometric study of the articles published in the leading journal for IB research – Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) – we conduct citation and co-citation analyses, the networks of co-authorship, and delve into the analysis of the key research topics. Beyond understanding the extant research we also contribute to i identifying future research avenues.
- On the adaptation of the firm to the international business environment: a knowledge-based and evolutionary perspectivePublication . Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando; Reis, NunoThis paper advances on the importance of the adaptation of the firm to the International Business Environment (IBE). The IBE is a distinguishing factor in international business studies and the firm’s adaptation to the environment has been presented as a basic survival strategy. We argue that adaptation is indeed a dynamic and largely internally driven process that leads the firm to co-evolve with the external environment. The ability to adapt to different international business environments is developed over time through the firm’s experiences and built into its routines. Adaptation is both suggested to incorporate the elements of a planned strategy and of random variation in search for local peaks given bounded rationality, imperfect information and the current pool of resources and capabilities. The ability to adapt to the environment may be conceptualized as a knowledge-based capability and a potential source of competitive advantage for the multinational corporation.
- Managing in a foreign country: the influence of culture in management decisionsPublication . Reis, Nuno; Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Santos, João CarvalhoThe world’s increasingly global economics is well documented fact. Globalization means people worldwide are becoming more similar, but there are still very important differences. Culture is an important factor that makes two countries unlike. In this paper we present three conceptual propositions on the effects of culture in management, at three different levels (corporate, business and functional). We argue that culture plays influences the management decisions at all three levels, affecting the firm’s success.
- Two decades of management research on emerging economies: a citation and co-citation reviewPublication . Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Reis, Nuno Rosa; Pinto, Cláudia FriasRecent years have witnessed an unprecedented increase in scholars’ interest in emerging economies, with an increasing number of articles published. This study investigates the knowledge base that has formed the foundation for research on emerging economies. Using bibliometric techniques of citations and co-citations, we reviewed the extant management/business research on emerging economies to identify the intellectual structure and the main research concentrations of the field over the past two decades, from 1992 to 2013. The findings reveal that an institutional perspective has been foundational to the research on emerging economies multinationals. Yet, there is a growing emphasis on firms’ strategic choices and the use of resource, and dynamic capabilities-based views – entering and exiting emerging economies. Institutional perspectives complement a greater emphasis on the global strategies of firms in and out of emerging economies as scholars delve into the emerging countries multinationals’ dynamic capabilities as sources of competitive advantage. This study extends the current comprehension of the theories and themes researched, how the research agenda has progressed, and the conceptual idiosyncrasies of emerging economies studies. We provide scholars and practitioners with a global rear view of the field, organize, classify and systematize the stock of accumulated knowledge and the trends of theorizing, as a foundation to spawn future research endeavors.
- On the adaptation of the firm’s strategies to the international business environment: a knowledge-based and evolutionary perspectivePublication . Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Serra, Fernando A. Ribeiro; Reis, NunoThis paper discusses the importance of the adaptation of the firm’s strategies to the International Business Environment (IBE). The IBE is a distinguishing factor in international business studies and the firm’s adaptation to the environment has been presented as a basic survival strategy. We argue that adaptation is a dynamic and largely internally driven process that leads the firm to co-evolve with the external environment. The ability to adapt to different international business environments is developed over time through the firm’s experiences and built into its routines and strategies. We suggest that adaptation incorporates the elements of a planned strategy and of random variation in the search for local peaks given bounded rationality, imperfect information and the current pool of resources and capabilities. The ability to adapt to the environment may be conceptualised as a knowledge-based capability and a potential source of competitive advantage for the multinational corporation.
- Institutions and Firms’ Performance: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Research AvenuesPublication . Oliveira, Alexandre; Carvalho, Fernando; Reis, Nuno RosaInternational business scholars have recognized the importance of the contextual embed- dedness of firms. However, how they matter remains a contested question. Although recent efforts have been made to review the field, it remains unclear how institutions affect firms’ performance. We aim at answering the following research question: How is the intellectual and the conceptual structure of the institutions and firms’ performance field defined? We searched in the WoS and Scopus databases with pre-determined keywords, and we obtained a sample of 1063 articles that we analyzed by conducting the citation and co-citation analyses, keyword co-occurrence analysis, and thematic map analysis. Our bibliometric results portrayed how the intellectual and conceptual structure of the field has evolved. We contribute to the international business literature by providing a one-stop overview of the field, thus identifying current accomplishments and future research avenues on the relationship between institutions and firms’ performance. By analyzing the articles included on the Emerging and Niche clusters, we discuss future research avenues on the topics of sustainability, entrepreneurship, political ties, and institutional quality.
- Pesquisa em empreendedorismo no principal periódico internacional: Um estudo bibliométrico das publicações no Journal Of Business Venturing entre 1987 E 2010Publication . Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Miranda, Rui; Reis, Nuno; Pinto, Cláudia Frias; Serra, Fernando RibeiroEste artigo visa entender o estoque de conhecimento acumulado na pesquisa em empreendedorismo. Um estudo bibliométrico dos artigos publicados entre 1987 e 2010 no Journal of Business Venturing. As análises, sobre uma amostra de 413 artigos, incide nos autores mais prolíficos, nacionalidade, frequência de citações, redes de cocitações e dos temas pesquisados no período. Observa-se que a pesquisa tem sido liderada por norte-americanos e confirma-se a multidisciplinaridade da pesquisa em empreendedorismo que em absorvido da maioria das teorias de Administração, da teoria da agência aos custos de transação, e da visão baseada nos recursos ao ambiente social em que os empreendedores e a criação de novas empresas estão imersos. No entanto, notamos que embora o campo de empreendedorismo seja vasto, a pesquisa se concentra mais em torno de temas como os recursos para o empreendedorismo, criação de valor e desempenho, ambiente externo e determinantes do empreendedorismo, o processo empreendedor, características psicológicas e individuais do empreendedor e aspetos metodológicos.
- Mergers & acquisitions research: a bibliometric study of top strategy journals, 2000 - 2009Publication . Santos, João Carvalho; Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Reis, Nuno; Serra, FernandoMergers and acquisitions (M&As) are important modes through which firms undertake their domestic and international strategies. This bibliometric review examines the extant research on M&As in the top five strategic management journals during a ten years period – from 2000 to 2009. The 90 articles identified in these top journals denote an eclectic theoretical focus with the prevalence of four theories – resource-based view, transaction costs, agency theory and institutional theory. We present a brief analysis of the key issues in M&A research, as well as the samples and theories more commonly used. We conclude by presenting a broad discussion comprising the methods used, the research questions investigated, the type of articles, as well as limitations and avenues for future enquiry.
- A Bibliometric Study on Academic Dishonesty ResearchPublication . Marques, Tânia; Reis, Nuno; Gomes, Jorge