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Cultural intelligence as a strategic skill for responsible internationalisation
2026-05-12 - Maldonado, Isabel; Lobo, Carla Azevedo; Pinho, Carlos
Purpose
Assess how Cultural Intelligence (CI) supports sustainable internationalisation through a review of WoS and Scopus articles across international business, organisational behaviour and sustainability. For this purpose, we define Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) outcomes and theorize CI as a mediator between dynamic managerial capabilities and sustainable internationalisation.
Design/methodology/approach
The study uses a PRISMA-guided Systematic Literature Review (SLR) restricted to articles indexed in the WoS and Scopus databases, and conducts a guided screening with mapping of co-authorship, co-citation, and keywords; qualitative reading to framework linking CI, dynamic capabilities, and ESG performance.
Findings
From our analysis, five clusters emerged: innovation/small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), dynamic capabilities, institutional adaptation, leadership/emotion, and cultural intelligence/global competence. CI sits at the hub, mediating dynamic managerial capabilities to sustainable outcomes, strongest in SMEs facing institutional voids, via knowledge transfer, legitimacy, and ESG alignment.
Research limitations/implications
Dependence on indexed journals omits grey literature and some emerging-market views. Future empirical, longitudinal, and multilevel studies should test cultural intelligence mediation and explore circular-economy and crisis-resilience contexts.
Practical implications
Embedding CI in leader selection, talent metrics, alliance governance, and cross-cultural training reduces psychic distance and speeds foreign learning.
Originality/value
Combining bibliometric mapping and qualitative synthesis, this study presents CI as a multilevel dynamic capability driving responsible global growth agendas for scholars, managers, and policymakers. We propose a framework linking cultural intelligence to the ESG pillars via knowledge transfer, alliance governance, and ethical decision-making.
Feeling at Home as a Dimension of Resilience in Architecture for Extreme Environments [comunicação oral: poster]
2026-05-03 - Alcindor, Mónica; Salese, Francesco; Sangiorgio, Valentino; Araújo, Alexandra M.; Rodrigues, Pedro F. S.; Simão, Emília
As human exploration advances into increasingly hostile and isolated environments, such as extraterrestrial habitats on Mars, the Moon, or deep-sea stations, the concept of resilience must evolve beyond its traditional technical and physiological dimensions.
This need becomes particularly critical in contexts of long-duration habitation, where survival alone is insufficient to guarantee long-term operational stability and human wellbeing.
Central to this assertion is the recognition that resilience entails examining construction in relation to permanence, which may also be understood as a sense of feeling at home, shifting resilience from a purely performance-based concept to a relational and experiential condition.
This perspective requires redirecting science, technology, and design toward the conditions that enable habitation to become sustainable, meaningful, and socially durable.
This includes environmental adaptation, understood as the strategic use of local raw materials and regenerative systems, reducing dependency on external supply chains and increasing environmental compatibility, as well as the processes accompanying construction, which involve the complex relationships between these local materials, the tools, crafts, and other elements that make construction possible.
Sensorial Design as a Mediating Practice in Leisure Events: Atmospheres of Engagement at the Boom Festival in Portugal
2026-05-08 - Simão, Emília; Alcindor, Mónica
Leisure spaces, particularly transformational festivals, function as civic arenas where political and social discourse unfold through shared atmospheres. Recognizing these as multi-sensorial constructs integrating perceptions of space, culture, and philosophies of life, this article examines the Boom Festival as a case study to analyze how its intersubjective atmosphere fosters shared emotional experiences, enabling a distinct style of political engagement. Adopting an ethnohistorical and sensorial ethnographic approach, based on participant observation from 2010 to 2024, this study illuminates how bodily experiences and discourses interact to shape the festival’s ideological and experiential landscape. Findings reveal that Boom’s curated environment acts as a performative space where spatial and sensory strategies articulate forms of alterity.