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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.
On the Mechanics of the Natural Resource Curse: Information and Local Elite Behavior in Mozambique
How can the interests of local communities be protected when valuable natural resources are discovered where they live? This project reports evidence from Mozambique on the importance of information campaigns to all citizens to ensure transparency.
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Agricultural intervention: the impact on livelihoods and social capital of subsistence farmers in Guinea-Bissau
Evaluate the impact of an agricultural intervention program for farmers implemented by the ONG VIDA is the goal of this project in Guinea Bissau.
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Entrepreneurship Training in Mozambique: The Role of Business Skills vs. Aspirations
A Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center project with the aim to provide experimental evidence on the mechanisms and possible solutions to increase the productivity of entrepreneurship and transforming micro-enterprises into SMEs.
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ProFuturo: Evaluating the impact of the technology-based program Aula Digital in primary schools
A Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center project evaluating the impact of the technology-based program Aula Digital in primary schools of Luanda, Angol. We measured increased student performance, mediating outcomes, and students’ non-cognitive skills.
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Integrating Immigrants as a Tool for Broad Development
The integration of Immigrants can contribute to sustainable economic growth! The goal of NOVAFRICA’s first project in Portugal: “Integrating Immigrants as a Tool for Broad Development: Experimental Evidence for Portugal and Cape Verde.”
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Information Gaps and Irregular Migration to Europe
60% of young people in Gambia prefer to risk their lives and come to Europe even though they know that 1 in 2 dies during the crossing. A risk leveraged by the very high expectations they have for Europe.These are some of the conclusions of a Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center’s research project.
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Preventing Islamic Radicalization in Mozambique: Through Faith or Employment?
At a time when Northern Mozambique faces an escalating Islamist insurgency Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center developed a project implemented locally where religious sensitization decreased anti-social behavior.
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Belief Systems and Health Behaviors in Guinea Bissau
This project: How much of low demand for preventive health care can be explained by lack of awareness or knowledge and the extent to which knowledge and beliefs on health are shifted.
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Beliefs and Behaviours towards COVID-19 in Mozambique
There is considerable uncertainty around the current state and future developments of the COVID-19 crisis in Mozambique, both for health outcomes as well as economic and social outcomes.
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Changing corporate governance in response to negative media reports
We study how organizations change their corporate governance in response to negative publicity in the media.
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Do general managerial skills spur innovation?
We show that firms with chief executive officers (CEOs) who gain general managerial skills over their lifetime of work experience produce more patents.
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Leader humility and team performance
Although there is a growing interest toward the topic of leader humility, extant research has largely failed to consider the underlying mechanisms through which leader humility influences team outcomes.
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Technical Assistance in Behavioral Economics to Combat and Prevent Corruption in International Trade
In a recent project conducted in Guinea-Bissau the NOVAFRICA investigators provided technical assistance in behavioral economics to combat and prevent corruption in international trade.
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Conveyed Leader PsyCap Predicting Leader Effectiveness Through Positive Energizing
Whereas past research on psychological capital (PsyCap) has tended to focus on how one’s self-attributed PsyCap affects one’s work behaviors, we extend this literature by examining the concept of conveyed PsyCap and its downstream consequences, above and beyond the influence of self-attributed PsyCap.
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Government debt and corporate leverage: international evidence
We empirically investigate the impact of government debt on corporate financing decisions in an international setting. Published in Journal of Financial Economics.
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Technostress
The more useful the technology is, the more addictive it can become, with the greatest impact for those suffering from "technostress," the study reveals. But companies can help promote the healthy use of technology.
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Identifying demand shocks from production data
Standard productivity estimates contain a mixture of cost efficiency and demand conditions. I propose a method to identify the distribution of the demand shock using production data.
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Legacy of the state: prior shared experience and survival of spin-offs from restructured state enterprises
Many organizations, especially in emerging economies, trace their origins to restructured state enterprises, and this study explores the implications of such origins for organizational adaptation to changing environmental conditions.
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Person-job fit across the work lifespan: the case of classical ballet dancers
This study examines how employees assess demands-abilities and needs-supplies across their work lifespan, and how they better adjust to their work.
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Ideological differences between teams: evidence of investment funds in the USA
A study that aims to foster a culture that respects different perspectives, accounted by a barrier for better investment decisions.
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Segregation of Students in Schools - The Case of the Portuguese Public School System
Do regular school students enrolled in public schools in Continental Portugal are distributed unevenly by schools and classes?
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Early identification of students at risk of school success/failure in the 1st cycle of Basic Education
The educational institutions aim to define specific strategic plans and interventions that intend to promote success and prevent failure, requiring the necessary information to identify the students in need of these types of interventions.
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Public Procurement
Nova SBE Economics for Policy Knowledge Center explores the current situation of cross-border activity in public procurement in the European Union (EU), updating and expanding previous efforts in assessing participation in cross-border public procurement, with a view to the period 2016-2019.
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Digital Acceleration Index @ Scale Portugal
BCG, Google and Nova SBE defined the objective of measuring the digitization of the economy in Portugal, using the DAI survey - Digital Acceleration Index, a benchmark tool developed by BCG and adapted to the Portuguese context by Nova SBE, which has already has been used in more than 5,000 organizations.
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Here, you can choose to participate in ongoing initiatives or propose new ones to the community. At the end of each academic year, you will get your Global Commitment CV, with your measured contribution to the UN SDG. If you do not have an @novasbe.pt email and you would like to get access to this platform, please email us at roletoplay@novasbe.pt and we will help you.
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