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- O universo da supervisão: uma abordagem inclusiva no domínio da inserção profissionalPublication . Morgado, Elsa Maria Gabriel; Silva, Levi Leonido Fernandes da; Rodrigues, João BartolomeuA presente pesquisa tem como principal objetivo questionar e repensar profundamente a forma e o conteúdo da abordagem inclusiva no universo da supervisão afeta aos Estágios da Inserção Profissional (EIP). Com recurso à Metodologia Quantitativa e a um inquérito por questionário (207 inquiridos) aplicado a estagiários e a professores (supervisores ou cooperantes) da região de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - Portugal, pode-se perceber, a partir dos resultados obtidos, que as instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) devem reestruturar os seus curricula e promover ações de formação e sensibilização extracurriculares sobre a inclusão de pessoas com deficiência nesse contexto. Torna-se ainda evidente que os professores (supervisores ou cooperantes) que observam, acompanham e avaliam os EIP deveriam ter formação específica na área da Inclusão e/ou Educação Especial ou, em alternativa, a constituição dessas equipas deveria contar com um profissional especializado nessas áreas.
- Catch me if you can: effectiveness and consequences of online copyright enforcementPublication . Aguiar, Luis; Claussen, Jörg; Peukert, ChristianWe evaluate the unexpected shutdown of kino.to, a major platform for unlicensed video streaming in the German market. Using highly disaggregated clickstream data in a difference-in-differences setting, we compare the web behavior of 20,000 consumers in Germany and three control countries. We find that this intervention was not very effective in reducing unlicensed consumption or encouraging licensed consumption, mainly because users quickly switch to alternative unlicensed sites. We highlight that the shutdown additionally had important unintended externalities. Individuals who never visited kino.to and who additionally clicked on news articles that covered the shutdown increased their visits to piracy websites substantially. We show that this effect largely comes from articles that explicitly mention alternative websites or suggest that users do not have to fear legal consequences from unlicensed streaming. Finally, we document that the unlicensed video streaming market is much more fragmented after the shutdown, potentially affecting future interventions, at least in the short run.We argue that our results can be helpful to understand why online piracy rates are still high, despite a plethora of enforcement efforts.
- What should be the EU’s approach to global trade?Publication . Bongardt, Annette; Torres, FranciscoFor a global player like the EU, it must adequately respond to US unilateral actions and not give in to threats in order to preserve its credibility. However, it is not in its interest to let trade conflicts escalate and be drawn into trade wars. It is worth noting that through the bilateral rules established in the context of a comprehensive trade agreement, the EU not only influences global norms and standards but that those in turn feed back into the EU’s economic order in a way that traditional trade agreements have not. They can therefore either reinforce the European model or weaken it.
- Sobre a representação das pessoas coletivas constituídas arguidas no processo criminalPublication . Silva, Germano Marques da
- Target the ego or target the group: evidence from a randomized experiment in proactive churn managementPublication . Matos, Miguel Godinho de; Ferreira, Pedro; Belo, RodrigoWe propose a new strategy for proactive churn management that actively uses social network information to help retain consumers. We collaborate with a major telecommunications provider to design, deploy, and analyze the outcomes of a randomized control trial at the household level to evaluate the effectiveness of this strategy. A random subset of likely churners were selected to be called by the firm. We also randomly selected whether their friends would be called. We find that listing likely churners to be called reduced their propensity to churn by 1.9 percentage points from a baseline of 17.2%. When their friends were also listed to be called, their likelihood of churn reduced an additional 1.3 percentage points. The client lifetime value of likely churners increased 2.1% with traditional proactive churn management, and this statistic becomes 6.4% when their friends were also listed to be called by the firm. We show that, in our setting, likely churners receive a signal from their friends that reduces churn among the former. We also discuss how this signal may trigger mechanisms akin to both financial comparisons and conformity that may explain our findings.
- Language ability and entrepreneurship education: necessary skills for Europe’s start-ups?Publication . Johnstone, Leanne; Monteiro, Mariana Pio; Ferreira, Inês; Westerlund, Johanna; Aalto, Roosa; Marttinen, JenniLanguage ability and entrepreneurial education are seen as essential resources for start-ups operating in intensified landscapes of internationalisation and globalisation. Deemed as the necessary skills for corporate effectiveness vis-à-vis rivals, this paper responds to calls for increased understandings of cultural components as vital to entrepreneurship and the product of institutional forces. Thus, it explores (a) the impact language ability has on start-up expansion; (b) the perceptions of international relations as based on language ability as a tool for cross-cultural communication; and (c) the role of educational context from the entrepreneurs’ perspective. Based on interviews from European online start-ups across three discrete contexts—Finland, Portugal and Sweden—it concludes that contextual trends regarding language and education are founded upon the cultural-cognitive and normative pillars of institutionalisation. Further, by combining actor-context perspectives, it poses that language ability and education are resources borne from the domestic environment which positively moderate the start-up’s international success. Nevertheless, the notion of learnt entrepreneurship remains contested. Taken together, this study contributes by offering deeper insight into the role of context on entrepreneurial tendencies by combining resource and institutional perspectives.
- Keeping in touch with context: non-verbal behavior as a manifestation of communality and dominancePublication . Sekerdej, Maciej; Simão, Cláudia; Waldzus, Sven; Brito, RodrigoThis research investigated the influence of observed touch on the perceptions of communality and dominance in dyadic interactions. We manipulated four key situational features of haptic behavior in two experiments: the initiation, reciprocity, the degree of formality of touch (Studies 1 and 2), and the context of the interaction (Study 2). The results showed that the default perception of touch, irrespective of whether it is initiated or reciprocated, is the communal intention of the toucher. Furthermore, the initiation of touch was seen as an act of dominance, particularly, when the contact between the actors was primed as being hierarchical. Reciprocation neutralized the perceived asymmetry in dominance, but such inferences seemed to hinge on the fit of the touch with the context: reciprocation of formal touch reduced the asymmetry in the hierarchical context, whereas reciprocation of informal touch reduced the asymmetry in the non-hierarchical context.