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PhD Dissertations Economic and Organizational Sociology

2023

Guilherme Silva Fracarolli
"Institutions in the agri-food markets: A collection of essays on Geographical Indication of Mercosur and the European Union"
05/06/2023
Supervisor: Dr. Manuel Francisco Pacheco Coelho

Cristina Piedade Silva
"Hospitals in Crisis: An Ethnography of General Surgeons in Portugal"
02/05/2023
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Seabra Lopes

Angélica Margarida Matos Martins Figueira
"Leadership and Governance in Private Social Solidarity Institutions in Portugal"
26/01/2023
Supervisor: Dr. Cristina Clara Ribeiro Parente (Faculty of Letters - University of Porto)
Co-supervisor: Dr. Marta Varanda

Maria de Fátima Domingos Silvério
"Sustainable Territorial Development. Governance Models for the National Wine Sector"
23/01/2023
Supervisor: Dr. Maria João Nicolau dos Santos

2022

Helena Quoniam Vicente Pereira Gata
"The Working Poor in Portugal: Profiles, Factors Conditioning Socio-Labor Insertion and Strategies for Breaking Poverty Cycles"
20/12/2022
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Alberto Farinha Rodrigues
Co-advisor: Dr. Sara Cristina Falcão Gonçalves Casaca

Rosa Maria Matos Ferreira
"Social Impact Orientation. Development Dynamics in Third Sector Organizations"
07/07/2022
Advisor: Dr. Marta Varanda
Co-advisor: Dr. Ana Margarida Madureira Simaens

Teresa Maria Cordeiro Burguete
"Corporate Social Responsibility Communication And Interaction Processes Within Stakeholders Relationships"
09/06/2022
Advisor: Dr. Idalina Maria Dias Sardinha
Co-advisor: Dr. Maria Cristina de Assis Sales Pinto Baptista

Sandra Faustino Coelho
"Selected Tales From Decentralized Finance"
19/01/2022
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Seabra Lopes

2021

João Ambrósio Masquete
"Leadership, Organizational Culture and Organizational Social Responsibility as Conditions for Strategic Planning in Mozambican Companies and Public Institutes"
07/07/2021
Supervisor: Dr. António Carlos de Oliveira Samagaio
Co-advisor: Dr. Idalina Maria Dias Sardinha

2020

Nuno Miguel Cardoso Machado
"The way of the Scrip, or a portrait of capital as a social form of fetish - rethinking capitalist modernity in the light of Marx's theories and the new critique of value"
11/12/2020
Supervisor: Dr. João Carlos de Andrade Marques Graça

José Amilton Joaquim
"Financing higher education in Mozambique: A comparison of students/families in the provinces of Gaza"
17/11/2020
Supervisor: Dr. Maria Luísa Machado Cerdeira (Institute of Education, University of Lisbon)

Constancio Augusto Machanguana
"The Governance of Urban Public Transport in Mozambique: Case Study of the Maputo Municipal Road Transport Company, EMTPM, EP. in the Maputo Metropolitan Area"
21/07/2020
Supervisor: Dr. Pedro Luís Verga Matos

Domitília D'Assunção Batista Diogo Pires Soares
"Laughing with Taxes: Towards a Fiscal Humorology"
18/02/2020
Advisor: Dr. Rafael Jorge Duarte Marques

2019

Mário Paulo Bettencourt de Oliveira
"Gazelle Companies: Growth, Entrepreneurship and Performativity"
27/09/2019
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Seabra Lopes

António José Mira Marques Mendes
Corporate social responsibility (CSR): Integration and maturity of strategic CSR in PSI-20″ companies
30/01/2019
Supervisor: Dr. Maria João Nicolau dos Santos

2018

José Maria Franco Teixeira Neto
"Social Asymmetries and Access to Higher Education - ProUni and FIES in Maranhão"
20/12/2018
Supervisor: Dr. Luís Manuel Mota de Castro

Daniel Alexandre da Silva Seabra Lopes 
"BANKING, CREDIT AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION - Contributions to the Sociology of Financial Markets"
28/05/2018
Advisor: N/A

2017

Rui Manuel Pereira Marques
"Complex Social Problems and Integrated Governance - Contributions to an Integrated Governance model based on case studies of the National Immigrant Support Center and the Child and Youth Protection Commission of Amadora"
08/05/2017
Advisor: Dr. Ilona Zsusanna Kovács

Luciana Holanda Nepomuceno 
"Meanings Attributed to Work by Automobile Industry Workers in the Context of Flexible Production: A Comparative Study between Brazil and Portugal"
30/03/2017
Advisor: Dr. Ilona Zsusanna Kovács

Susana Maria Ramalho Marques
"Welfare State and Gender Equality: The Development of Work-Family Linkage Policies in Portugal in the Period 1976-2009"
12/01/2017
Supervisor: Dr. Sara Cristina Falcão Gonçalves Casaca

2016

Anderson Sasaki Vasques Pacheco 
"Social Innovation in Solidarity Economy Organizations: The Experiences of Brazil and Portugal."
17/11/2016

Karin Vieira da Silva 
"Distance Education and Sustainable Local Development: The Experiences of Brazil and Portugal"
18/11/2016

2015

António Silva Magalhães Ribeiro
"From Authoritarianism to Democracy: Continuities and Changes in Political Corruption in Brazil After Redemocratization"
17/12/2015

Francisco Domingos Cambanda
"Ethnic Integration in Angola as a Factor in the Stability of the Political Process and Socioeconomic Development: A Case Study of Huila Province"
24/11/2015 

Maria João Pagarim Ribeiro Kaizeler
"The Demand for Lottery Products in Portugal: A Socioeconomic Analysis"
27/07/2015

2014

Daniele Dos Santos Fontoura  
"Aging And The Labor Market In The Brazilian And Portuguese Hotel Sector: A Gender Perspective"
10/02/2014

Bernardete de Lourdes Bittencourt
"Sustainable Local Development Policies and the Third Sector: A Case Study in the Aveiro Region"
06/05/2014

Rodolfo Miguel Dinis dos Santos Bacelar Begonha
"Socio-Organizational Aspects of the Use of Edi"
02/06/2014

Carolina Valéria de Moura Leão
"Popular Education: Absences and Emergences of the New Knowledge and Political Subjects of Solidarity Economy"
18/06/2014

Manuel António da Silva Abrantes
"Out Of The Penumbra: Dispute And Alliance In Domestic Service Employment Relationships"
22/07/2014

2013

João Da Mata Rosa Cesse Neto
"Group Dynamics from a Self-management Perspective: A Case Study on Somatherapy"
05/11/2013

2012

Manoel Justiniano Melo da Fonseca
Portuguese Investment in Brazil: an Analysis of Portugal Telecom's Internationalization Process, Organizational Structure and Financial Results
27/02/2012

João Ribeiro Butiam Có
The International Mobility of African Staff: Skilled Diaspora, Health Professionals and Transnational Development Networks in Guinea-Bissau
10/05/2012

Eugénio Óscar Garcia da Rosa
Economic Groups and Development in Portugal in the Context of Globalization
19/07/2012

Ubiratã António Moreira de Araújo
Graduates of Hotel Management Courses Working in Hotel Organizations in Greater São Paulo
20/07/2012

Maria Teresa Gonçalves Neves de Sousa
The Contours of Employment and Work in the Social Economy - Case Studies in the Districts of Viseu and Guarda
23/07/2012

António Óscar Santos Góes
The Entrepreneurial Landscape in the City of Itabuna-Bahia - Cocoa Region: Risks, Limits and Challenges
26/09/2012

Rogério Rodrigues da Silva
The Relationship Between Social Capital and Sustainable Development. An Application to Local Productive Arrangements in Brazil
20/12/2012

2011

Maria Manuela Barros Maia
What is Design? The Cognitive Dimension of Design Activity: Designers in Portuguese Industrial Design Organizations
15/11/2011

Igor Vinicus Lima Valentim
Solidarity Economy in Brazil and Portugal: approaches and differences from the perspective of trust
16/12/2011

2010

Miguel Justiniano Baião dos Santos 
Modeling Professional Insertion in a Qualifying Training Context. Constraints and Devices. Case study
2010/05/10

Maria Margarida Croca Piteira 
The Social Construction of Innovation: Case Studies of Portuguese Technology-Based Organizations
2010/05/17

Elvira Sofia Leite de Freitas Pereira 
Poverty and Rurality - A Spatial Analysis in Mainland Portugal
2010/06/21

Ana Teresa Moreira Verdasca
Moral Harassment at Work - An Application to the Portuguese Banking Sector
2010/06/28

Maria Amélia André Marques 
Organizational Models and Human Resource Management Practices - A Multi-Case Study
2010/07/29

Isabel Castro do Nascimento 
From the Social Capital to the Economic Capital of Large Construction and Public Works Companies in Portugal
2010/11/23

Paulo Manuel de Almeida Lima 
Conceptions and Perceptions of Working Conditions: A Comparative Study with Occupational Accidents in Portuguese Companies
2010/12/16

2009

António Henrique Fontes Pereira da Silva
Management and Planning of Information and Communication Technologies in an Organization in Cape Verde
2009/02/09

Cátia Sofia Faria Duarte
Consequences of Flexible Employment on the Trade Union Movement in Portugal
2009/04/14

Maria Manuel Renga Capelão Serrano 
Human Resources Management and Development Strategies and Practices. Case studies in a network of companies
2009/05/04

2008

Ricardo Fabrício Rodrigues
Change: Representation of Business Actors in the Madeira Region
2008/04/18

Ângela Maria Patrício Lisboa
Poverty, a Free Pass for Juvenile Delinquency?
2008/12/19

2007

Mercêdes Moreira Berenger
The Management Component of Network Organizations at the Local Level of the SUS in Brazil
2007/06/06

2006

Sofia Isabel Coelho Bento
La Difficile Existence Du Barrage D'Alqueva: Une Ethnographie des Demonstrations Sociotechniques
2006/09/27

José João Martins Sampaio
Operational Decision-Making in Complex Work Systems and the Emergence of New Professional Skills. The Case of Air Traffic Control Services
2006/12/13

2005

Paula Cristina Gonçalves Dias Urze
Industrial Networks. Relationship Mechanisms between Companies in the Águeda Industrial Zone
2005/02/25

Sara Cristina Falcão Gonçalves Casaca Ferreira
Job Flexibility, New Temporalities and Gender Relations - The Reconfiguration of Inequality in the New Service Sectors
2005/03/30

2004

Helena Maria Rocha Serra
"The Social Construction of Medical Technocracies: Sociology's Look at the World of Liver Transplantation"
2004/02/16

Maria da Conceição Santos Cerdeira
"Labour Relations, Collective Bargaining and Professional Classifications in the Context of Technical-Organizational Change"
2004/03/22

Armando de Melo Lisboa
"Solidarity Economy, Baroque Economy. The Emergence of Solidarity Socioeconomics in Iberian America"
2004/04/26

Ivo Antunes Dias
Flexibility and Functional Polyvalence: Myths and Realities in Portugal in the 1990s (to better understand the strategies of social actors)
2004/11/25

2003

Paulo Guedes
Local Development and the Active Community Program in Bahia
2003/02/12

Ivone Freire Costa
Police and Society in Brazil: The Case of Salvador
2003/07/25

2002

Maria da Glória Carvalho Rebelo Alves de Almeida
Employment and Forms of Precarious Labor Activity: The Case of Portugal in the Context of the EU, 2002/02/04

Rafael Jorge Soares Duarte Marques
The Gifts of Medea: Towards a Theory of Forms of Reciprocity, 2002/05/20

Maria Rita Duarte Raposo
New Landscapes: The Social Production of Closed Condominiums in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, 2002/07/01

Manuel Ribeiro Nunes
Decision Process in Organizations with Public and Private Capital. The Case of the National Oil Sector
2002/07/16

2001

Márcia Mello Costa de Liberal
Changes in the World of Work and the Role of Vocational Training
2001/01/22

Maria João Ferreira Nicolau dos Santos Camilo
Business Strategies and Modernization Processes (the Case of the Footwear Production Complex)
2001/06/05

2000

Maria da Guia Diniz
Quality of Life at Work and Changing Qualifications in the Urban Road Transport Sector: Case Studies of Campina Grande (Brazil) and Lisbon (Portugal)
2000/04/10

Anabela Maria Soriano Carvalho
Islamic Business in Mozambique in the Post-Colonial Period: 1974-1994
2000/10/30

1998

João Alfredo dos Reis Peixoto
Migration of Highly Qualified Managers in Portugal - Inter-Regional and International Migratory Flows and Intra-Organizational Mobility
1998/10/27