Repositório Colecção: Comunicações em encontros internacionaisComunicações em encontros internacionaishttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/31042024-03-29T07:05:24Z2024-03-29T07:05:24ZIntergenerational management succession: Specificities of the portuguese family businessMarques, Ana Paulahttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/860082023-08-07T22:11:42Z2023-08-07T22:10:21ZTítulo: Intergenerational management succession: Specificities of the portuguese family business
Autor: Marques, Ana Paula
Resumo: Family firms are considered the world’s most predominant form of business organisation. Notwithstanding the fact that there is a lack of consensus with regards to their definition, on recognise that family firms are different from non-family businesses due to their specific relations at three levels, namely ownership, business and family. It would appear that the family influences, shapes and conditions both the firm and its continuity, mainly through the intergenerational management succession, its planning and effectiveness. According to a recent research focused on the entrepreneurial succession in Portugal (AEP, 2011), 50% of family businesses are not passed on to the second generation, and only 20% reach the third generation. Also, taking into account the main results from the project “Roadmap for Portuguese Family Businesses” (NORTE2020/FEDER), the empirical findings have proved that the business succession planning has been identified as one of the most challenging steps in the life of the family firm, which demands for appropriate analysis. In fact, resistance to succession, relationship founder/ successor, planning of succession, type of organisational culture, among others, explain how executive succession is one of the most important and hardest tasks in organisational life. In this article, we aim to discuss the main management challenges of a family business, particularly the importance of succession preparation and the role of the family in the socialisation of the second (third or subsequent) generation. Based on an online survey (N 1148) and on in-depth interviews conducted to founder/ manager/ owner (N 23), we will seek to point out major challenges faced by the Portuguese family business, as far as this matter is concerned.
<b>Tipo</b>: conferencePaper2023-08-07T22:10:21ZThe legal investigation of biological paternity in Portugal: gendered roles and representationsBrandão, Ana MariaFaria, AlessandraMachado, Helenahttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/234892017-12-29T19:39:33Z2013-03-21T16:51:51ZTítulo: The legal investigation of biological paternity in Portugal: gendered roles and representations
Autor: Brandão, Ana Maria; Faria, Alessandra; Machado, Helena
Resumo: Almost all European societies support legal efforts to establish parentage when the paternity of children born out of wedlock has not been established. In this context, courts frequently ask for DNA tests as part of public policies to ensure that children are cared for not only financially, but also regarding education, upbringing and psychological development. Underlying such action, there is a biological conception of paternity that has been discussed against the emergence of new family forms dissociated from the trilogy ‘heterosexual couple-marriage-procreation’. Feminist studies have shown that state institutions, when actively engaging in civil action to identify a child’s father tend to reveal patriarchal gender relations grounded on the evaluation of the mothers’ sexual activity and fidelity and of the fathers’ income and employment status. This paper explores the ways in which the legal investigation of paternity of children born out of wedlock reveals cultural models that reinforce the naturalisation of gender differences. We contend that: by allowing for the “biological true” of paternity, biotechnology has effects on the configuration of parental roles and identities by reproducing gender inequalities, which may question both the rights of children and of biological mothers and fathers. We intend to show how women and men evaluate legal interventions in this domain; reconfigure their private rights in ways that tend to reproduce and at the same time challenge prevailing patriarchal structures.
Descrição: Comunicação inserida no projecto “Mães e pais depois da “verdade biológica”? Género, desigualdades e papéis parentais” (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-008483), coordenado pela Doutora Helena Machado, desenvolvido em parceria pelo Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra e pelo Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais.
<b>Tipo</b>: conferencePaper2013-03-21T16:51:51ZBrave new world? Political participation and new mediaSimões, Maria JoãoBarriga, Antónia do CarmoJerónimo, Nuno Amaralhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/211542018-07-05T14:11:37Z2012-12-04T17:28:31ZTítulo: Brave new world? Political participation and new media
Autor: Simões, Maria João; Barriga, Antónia do Carmo; Jerónimo, Nuno Amaral
Resumo: This paper intends to highlight the role played by
new social media upon citizens’ political participation, their
challenges and inequalities, like what has been thoroughly
studied for traditional media. New media, also called social
networks, like Twitter or Facebook, have been glorified as the
universal public sphere, a promising new "café". This paper
intends to discuss, in a more realistic and reflexive way, the use
of some internet platforms, contradicting the excessive
optimism that always arises whenever a new ICT (information
and communication technology) emerges. We intend to
reposition the social conditions that impact on digital political
participations, namely the historical context, the social
inequalities and the role of traditional media on political
participation. Acknowledging the theoretical proposition
stating that political participation (both in real or digital
worlds) is stratified, this paper states that there is also a
stratification of social media, regarding different levels of uses
and goals, and that participation skills needed before social
media ever existed are still necessary to participate via new
media, an undervalued issue in new media studies. Similarly to
other tools, Facebook and Twitter do not change the political
situation by themselves. Although this transformation can be
enabled by those tools, it all depends on the social, political and
historical contexts. Finally, it is recognized that traditional
media are also important to make political participation
through social networks relevant in the real world.
<b>Tipo</b>: conferencePaper2012-12-04T17:28:31ZSociological reflections on E-governmentSimões, Maria Joãohttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/211522018-08-02T08:58:06Z2012-12-04T17:24:27ZTítulo: Sociological reflections on E-government
Autor: Simões, Maria João
Resumo: The objective of this paper is to present dimensions of sociological analysis that allow a more comprehensive and interpretative analysis of e-government. This effort will contribute to a more critical analysis of its implementation, chosen devices and assessment. The analytical dimensions presented are: (i) citizenship models; (ii) metatheoretical frameworks on society and technology; (iii) the concept of e-government and its articulated domains. It intends to demonstrate that the choice between options of each dimension contributes for different kinds of e-government and results. The e-government is not a neutral issue. The citizenship model adopted, in a very incisive way, makes all the difference in the conception, design, working and results of e-government. The theoretical framework that is underlying to e-government shapes also its design, working and results. But the devices chosen per se are insufficient to characterize an e-government, as their potentialities can be used in a completely different way by people and rulers. Research and projects on e-government are principally focused in e-administration, underestimate e-democracy and e-society that have been analysed in a separate way, which makes difficult a more comprehensive and all-encompassing analysis and assessment of e-government.
<b>Tipo</b>: conferencePaper2012-12-04T17:24:27ZSurveillance: a (potential) threat to political participation?Simões, Maria Joãohttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/211512019-11-26T12:24:40Z2012-12-04T17:22:43ZTítulo: Surveillance: a (potential) threat to political participation?
Autor: Simões, Maria João
Resumo: Despite efforts of several authors, surveillance is nowadays yet sparsely understood, although surveillance has increasing impacts in our lives. The purpose of this paper is to point out, from a theoretical point of view, the threats that surveillance presents to political participation (and by consequence, to democracy) in digital societies. Current researches present the threats of surveillance to democracy focusing mainly in democracy-privacy trade-offs. Such debate, on the one hand, circumscribes the issue to a great extent to choosing the rulers and the kind of political regime, which does not allow a broader analysis of citizen participation in all spheres of public life in their daily life. On the other hand, the current debates seem put a little aside from the main issue: it is not the loss of privacy, but the loss of autonomy that challenges participation (and by consequence, democracy); although nowadays the threats to autonomy proceed mainly from the loss of privacy.
<b>Tipo</b>: conferencePaper2012-12-04T17:22:43Z