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Impacts of shared mobility services on urban mobility: a comparative approach between Lisbon and São Paulo
(2019-12-17)
The emergence of shared mobility services in cities around the globe, such as shared bicycles, cars, scooters, and ridesharing, caused impacts on urban mobility, requiring actions from local authorities, altering people’s ...
Legal outsourcing in the shipping industry
(2019-12-16)
The issue that this thesis addresses is the rationale behind the outsourcing decision of legal activities. To address this problem, the purpose of this study has explored what strategy Multinational Enterprises from the ...
Toward agriculture 4.0: opportunities and threats of the agribusiness sector: an analysis of the risk management strategies developed by Brazilian SMEs to cope with commodity price risk
(2019-12-13)
This paper aims at demonstrating the importance of the adoption of risk management strategies by companies operating in the agribusiness sector. The future evolution of the sector requires the change of operations and the ...
A debt crisis rooted in colonialism: a historical analysis of how the U.S.- Puerto Rico relationship contributed to Puerto Rico’s debt crisis
(2019-12-10)
This research will explore how the colonial administration built by the United States in Puerto Rico contributed to the root causes of the debt which, I argue are a colonial- capitalist economy that developed under U.S. ...
Digital platforms and sustainable business models: a study about food waste recovery
(2019-12-05)
The United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that one third of all the food produced for human consumption is wasted each year (FAO, 2017). In that respect, increasing attention has been paid to the ...
Is money buying better results at PISA and INVALSI tests? The Italian case
(2019-12-04)
“More effort of the South is needed. You need to work hard. This is needed.” So spoke the Italian Minister of Education in the province of Naples. He did so when asked whether Southern Italy would receive more funds to ...
The clean meat narrative: a case study
(2019-12)
Histórias sempre foram a linguagem da experiência humana, mas adquiriram importância sem precedentes na atualidade, dessa vez na forma de narrativas. À medida que o mundo se torna cada vez mais tecnológico, digital e ...
Are African low-cost operators on the trail of Ryanair? How is their business model structured with regards to costs, connectivity, and fleet structure?
(2019-11-22)
This paper examines the business models of Sub-Saharan African low cost carriers with regards to costs, connectivity and fleet structure in an effort to find out to what extent they exhibit the peculiarities of a classic-case ...
Compensation effects in a Socially Responsible Investment context
(2019-11-22)
A central idea of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is that investors accept a loss in financial returns if they are compensated by non-financial utility that they derive from their sustainable investment. This study ...
The impact of private equity and venture capital investments on industry performance: evidence from Latin America
(2019-11-19)
The growth of the private equity industry over the last decades has risen the importance of understanding how private equity investments impact the overall economy. While the existing research has mainly focused on the ...
