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To Nova SBE, positive impact shall have a relationship to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Our community is committed to foster dialogue and action, by disseminating knowledge, launching innovative projects, supporting organizations' transformation, and leading by example, as responsible citizens. This is the space that will provide the know-how so that the best and most innovative talent, such as yours, can play its role. If you want to lead the future and be at the forefront of change, this is your way in.
Dealing with temporariness: generational effects on temporary agency workers’ employment relationships
A major trend in the changing nature of work is the increasing use of temporary workers. Although common among students, older employees have joined the ranks of temporary workers as they extend their work lives. This study explores how different generations of temporary workers respond to human resource practices (HRP), which in turn influences their affective commitment and work performance.
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Wellbeing among hospital nurses: a cross-sectional study of the contributions of relational job characteristics
This study examines the relationships between job characteristics and nurses’ work-related wellbeing.
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Exploring a faith-led open-systems perspective of stewardship in family businesses
How do faith-led practices in family firms affect organizational stewardship? This study addresses the question.
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Perceived success of hybrid microorganizations in a contested category
There is scarce research focusing on legitimacy-challenged hybrid and microorganizations and on perceived success under exigent conditions. This study, conducted among complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) microorganizations, explores success as a subjective measure originating from managers’ perceptions.
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How hybrid HR systems affect performance in call centers
What is the relationship between hybrid HR systems in call centers and their effect on workers' performance? This paper tackles the question.
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Strategic agility through improvisational capabilities: implications for a paradox-sensitive HRM
Organizations, especially, multinationals, inevitably confront contradictory challenges. One crucial challenge is the value of strategic consistency versus the value of rapid change related to unexpected problems, opportunities and fast moving trends. This article advances a vision in which firms nourish improvisational capabilities in order to enhance strategic agility.
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Does leader humor style matter and to whom?
The interest on leader humor styles is recent. This paper examines how leader humor styles contribute to performance and deviance via trust in the supervisor and who benefits/suffers the most from different leader humor styles.
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Managing the unforeseen when time is scarce: how temporal personality and team improvised adaptation can foster team performance
Turbulent business environments require responsive teams able to rapidly react to an unpredictable change. This study investigates the role played by team temporal personality in a team's ability to perform well when a disruption occurs, and time is so scarce that planning and execution need to be concurrent.
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Effects of self-employment on hospitalizations: instrumental variables analysis of social security data
The importance of self-employment and small businesses raises questions about their health effects and public policy implications. This study explores the relationship between self-employment and health.
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Measuring state medicaid home care participation and intensity using latent variables
Population aging and policies to redirect long-term care toward home- and community-based services have led to increases in Medicaid home care spending in most states. This study measures state Medicaid home care Participation and Intensity comprehensively using latent variables, and uses those latent variables to describe changes in Medicaid home care policy generosity over time and across states.
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Entry and price competition in the over-the-counter drug market after deregulation: evidence from Portugal
In the last two decades, many European countries allowed the sale of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs outside pharmacies. This was expected to lower retail prices through increased competition, though evidence of such price reductions is scarce. This study assesses the impact of supermarket and outlet entry in the OTC drug market on OTC prices charged by incumbent pharmacies.
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Competition and cooperation in mutual fund families
How do competitive and cooperative fund manager incentives affect fund and family strategies and outcomes? The research article addresses this question.
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Dataset from 55 experts engaged in nature conservation in Mozambique
This is a dataset from an online and self-administrated survey with 55 experts aware of conservation policies and incentives under implementation in the Niassa National Reserve (NNR), the largest protected area in the country and third-largest in Africa. Data are provided for public use and can serve as a benchmark for collaboration in order to conduct more comprehensive research or for applications in other fields such as mathematics, statistics, and computation.
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Student selection and performance in higher education: admission exams vs. high school scores
In many countries, students are selected into higher education institutions based on their achievement at high school, measured by scores given by their teachers and obtained on final national exams. This paper compares these two measures in terms of their ability to predict students' success in higher education.
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The effect of a specialized versus a general upper-secondary school curriculum on students’ performance and inequality
Countries differ in their academic upper-secondary school systems whereby some require their students to choose a specialization track from a set of areas – typically natural sciences, economic sciences, or humanities – and follow that specialization for the course of their upper secondary education years whereas, by contrast, others follow a general curriculum in which students are not required to follow a single specialization and thus, may receive a more general education. This research estimates the possible effects on students’ achievement of these institutional differences.
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Public funding of higher education: who gains, who loses?
How does public funding of higher education affect individuals' welfare? Ana Balcão Reis, Associate Professor at Nova SBE, conducted research on this topic.
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Who seeks reelection: local fiscal restraints and political selection
Which political incumbents are more likely to seek reelection? This paper analyzes the consequences of local fiscal autonomy with respect to political selection.
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Extreme temperature and extreme violence: Evidence from Russia
How do extreme temperatures affect violent mortality? This research looks at regional panel data from Russia to address this question.
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Fiscal discipline and exchange rates: does politics matter?
This article explores the effect of exchange rate regimes on fiscal discipline, taking into account the effect of underlying political conditions.
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Fiscal consolidation programs and income inequality
Following the Great Recession, many European countries implemented fiscal consolidation policies aimed at reducing government debt. This article explores the relationship between income inequality and the impact of fiscal consolidation programs.
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Algorithmic long-term unemployment risk assessment in use: counselors’ perceptions and use and practices
How can we improve administrative decision-making in the public sector? This study discusses the use of a decision support system that employs an algorithm to assess individual risk of becoming long-term unemployed and that informs counselors to assign interventions accordingly.
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Data Science at the Service of Society
Lénia Mestrinho, executive director of the Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center, addresses how schools and universities are increasing their teaching offer in Data Science to keep up with the demand for this type of skills and the potential benefit of this convergence to society.
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A tour of health care: emergency room, hospital and home
In his PhD thesis, Luís Coelho Filipe takes us on a small tour of the health care system (emergency room, hospital and home), with special emphasis on providers.
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Three essays on banks’ operational risk disclosures in the European Union: the role of informal institutions, and the association with performance
In her PhD thesis, Florence Basto explores the relationship between both, informal institutions and performance, and operational risk disclosures in the European Union banking industry.
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