Luísa Cagica Carvalho

Luísa Cagica Carvalho holds a PhD in Management in University of Évora – Portugal. Professor of Management on Department of Economics and Management, Institute Polytecnic of Setubal– Portugal. Guest professor in international universities teaches in courses of master and PhDs programs. Researcher at CEFAGE (Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics) University of Evora – Portugal. Author of several publications in national and international journals, books, and book chapters.

Publications

Sources of Funding for MSMEs in Developing Countries: Success Cases in Africa

Access to financing for micro, small, and medium entrepreneurs continues to face obstacles and difficulties. This scenario becomes even more evident when we refer to the...

Internet of Behaviors Implementation in Organizational Contexts

Internet of behaviors (IoB), also known as the internet of behavior, emerged as a natural consequence of the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). IoB is an...

Entrepreneurship and Local Government: A Study of the Information Available on Web Pages and Its Evolution Over Time

Entrepreneurship is one of the main drivers of social development, innovation, global competitiveness, and the economy growth. Because of that, local governments around the...

An Outlook on the Facilitators' Perspectives of a Cocreation Project at a Higher Education Institution

Innovative pedagogical methodologies are becoming increasingly applicable in the context of higher education. In this cocreation project, multidisciplinary teams of students...

ReSOLVE Framework: When Circular Business Models Become Digital

With the increasing focus of literature and research consolidating a positive relationship between circular business models and digital technologies, this chapter proposes a...

Interdisciplinary and Practical Approaches to Managerial Education and Training

In the last decades, the development of innovative practices has gained considerable interest. New generations of students have grown up in a very different environment from...

Digitalization as a Driver for Smart Economy in the Post-COVID-19 Era

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the implementation of digital transformation strategies, and there has been an exponential increase in the demand for intelligent and...

Digitalization as a Key Issue of the Circular Economy to Promote Sustainability: Prototyping Design for Homeless People

Digitalization is a topic of circular economy in the context of the ReSolve framework. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of social...

Emphasizing the Digital Shift of Hospitality Towards Hyper-Personalization: Application of Machine Learning Clustering Algorithms to Analyze Travelers

Nuno Gustavo, Elliot Mbunge, Miguel Belo, Stephen Gbenga Fashoto, João Miguel Pronto, Andile Simphiwe Metfula, Luísa Cagica Carvalho, Boluwaji Ade Akinnuwesi, Tonderai Robson Chiremba. © 2022. 19 pages.

This chapter aims to review the tech evolution in hospitality, from services to eServices, that will provide hyper-personalization in the hospitality field. In the past, the...

Financial Literacy for Families: Perspectives in Portugal and Brazil as a Driver to Promote the Smart Economy in the Post-COVID Era

Balanced development requires the involvement of all stakeholders. In this context, the smart economy will also create innovative mechanisms, especially digital mechanisms that...

Digital Innovation With Social Impact: The Case of ColorAdd

This chapter aims to discuss the concepts of digital innovation that bring social impacts. In order to develop this approach, this chapter presents a literature review with the...

Insights Into Preparing Training Courses on Financial Services for Entrepreneurs in Africa

Access to financing for micro, small, and medium entrepreneurs continues to face obstacles and difficulties. This scenario becomes even more evident when we refer to the...

Distance Education in Higher Education: Modern Applications and Management Courses

Distance education became a reality, increasingly based on higher education. The pandemic context (COVID-19) that devastated many countries and the whole world in general proved...

Key Factors for Entrepreneurial Success: A Synthesis of Earlier Research and an Agenda Proposal to Support Entrepreneurial Training

Studies about success and unsuccess factors for startups are still relevant due to the dispersion of the literature about it. Additionally, it remains important to understand how...

Handbook of Research on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and ICTs

Currently, most organizations are dependent on IS/ICT in order to support their business strategies. IS/ICT can promote the implementation of strategies and enhancers of...

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainability, and ICTs in the Post-COVID-19 Era

ICT has had a huge impact on businesses and organizations in general, with new business models, new marketing channels, and new markets being reached using these technologies....

Business Models for Digital Economy: Good Practices and Success Stories

This chapter aims to provide a better understanding about how digitalization affects the business models and business strategies. To answer this question, this chapter presents a...

Integrated Management Platform for Homeless People

Some social phenomena affect sustainable development in the long term, and in this panorama, some solutions provided by organizations are labeled as social innovations and use...

Students' Perceptions About E-Learning Within the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study in Brazil and Portugal

The current COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a rapid and abrupt transition from presential to online learning in higher education institutions (HEI) around the world. However, the...

Foreign Exchange Market Shocks in the Context of the Global Pandemic (COVID-19)

This chapter analyzes the efficiency, in its weak form, in the international exchange markets from January 1st, 2019 to July 21st, 2020. The results show that the foreign...

The Relationship Between Gold and Stock Markets During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Econophysical Approach

This chapter aims to analyze portfolio diversification in the US, Europe, UK, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and the gold market (XAU) from January 2019 to July 2020. The results...

Implementing Acceleration Programs: Reflections for Academic Business Incubators Through a Portuguese Case Study

In a complex business world, startups need to quickly test their value propositions and go to business development as soon as possible with the best strategic fit to the market....

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Governance in Cognitive Cities (IJEGCC)

Luisa Cagica Carvalho. Est. 2020.

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Governance in Cognitive Cities (IJEGCC) provides comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social, cultural...

Strategic Business Models to Support Demand, Supply, and Destination Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry

The international tourism industry has seen increased growth in the past few years as millions of individuals continue to travel worldwide. As one of the world’s largest economic...

Tourism on the Azores and the Liberalization of the Air Space: An Analysis of the São Miguel-Based Stakeholders

Until 2015, air transportation in the Autonomous Region of the Azores faced a strong situation of monopoly as only two airlines where operating on domestic routes between the...

Sustainability Reporting in Hospitality Sector

Students seldom contemplate the importance of sustainability in family businesses. Indeed, the economic dimension of sustainability using performance statements remains a...

Implementing Academic Business Incubators: Reflections and Best Practices of a Portuguese Case Study

Academic business incubators (ABI) are an important tool to support entrepreneurship awareness among higher education institutions communities, as well as to promote new and...

Which Local Governments Provide Suitable Promotion of Entrepreneurship?

The main objective of this final degree project is to analyze the information that the city councils of the 50 capitals of Spanish provinces offer to entrepreneurs through their...

Best Practices to Become a Sustainable Smart City: The Case of Singapore

The world´s population is growing, day by day, and the latest trends in pertinent magazines show people preferring cities more and more than the countryside. This brings us to...

An Outlook About the Application of Digital Storytelling in Higher Education

Digitalization is more than a trend. It is a reality that influences firms, citizens, and organizations in general. Concerning education, digitalization becomes a key issue....

Youth Start: Entrepreneurial Challenges Project Programme – An Innovative Way of Teaching

The Youth Start – Entrepreneurial Challenges Project (USTART), is a project co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, that promotes practical experiential learning...

Digitalization as a Key Issue of the Circular Economy to Promote Sustainability: Prototyping Design for Homeless People

Digitalization is a topic of circular economy in the context of the ReSolve framework. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of social...

Circular Economy Principles and Their Influence on Attitudes to Consume Green Products in the Fashion Industry: A Study About Perceptions of Portuguese Students

Designing circular economy (CE) implies the adoption of a set of circular principles that support a society for the future. Understanding how CE principles influence attitudes to...

Global Campaigning Initiatives for Socio-Economic Development

Socio economic development is shaped by social pressures and behavioral interactions of individuals and groups through social capital and social markets. Global campaigns led by...

Social Innovation as a Promoter of the Welfare: The Case of One Dollar Glasses in Brazil

Although there is already much literature on innovation, the term social innovation is still relatively recent and underexplored. Social innovation refers to ideas, actions, and...

Management Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Economic and Social Potential

The concept of management innovation, the characteristics of the services, as well as the multiple ways in which innovation can occur in services make it difficult to measure the...

Recommendations to Enhance Communication With Users Through Prototypes and to Assist Open Innovation: A Case Study in a Developing Country

Innovation has been increasingly becoming a major competitive differential for companies. However, innovation alone is not enough. Innovations encompass new products to new...