Lobo, Carla Azevedo

Profile Picture

Email Address

Birth Date

Job Title

Last Name

Lobo

First Name

Carla Azevedo

Name

Carla Azevedo Lobo

Biography

Carla Azevedo Lobo é doutorada em Gestão pela Universidade Portucalense. É Professora Auxiliar da Universidade Portucalense e leciona em cursos de Licenciatura, Mestrado e Doutoramento, na área das Ciências Empresariais. É também Coordenadora do Curso de Licenciatura em Gestão, desde 2010. É investigadora do REMIT (Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies). Foi a Investigadora Responsável do Projeto de Investigação ("IEcPBI”) na área dos Negócios Internacionais, financiado pelo COMPETE 2020, FEDER e FCT, entre 2018 - 2022. Afiliação: Investigadora do REMIT - Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies (departamento: DEG)

Identifiers

0000-0002-6721-376X
2E1D-CA98-5832
57210261298
G-9840-2016

Research Projects

Organizational Units

OrgUnit Logo
Organizational Unit
REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies
Centro de investigação que que tem como objetivo principal produzir e disseminar conhecimento teórico e aplicado que possibilite uma maior compreensão das dinâmicas e tendências económicas, empresariais, territoriais e tecnológicas do mundo contemporâneo e dos seus efeitos socioeconómicos. O REMIT adota uma perspetiva multidisciplinar que integra vários domínios científicos: Economia e Gestão; Ciências e Tecnologia; Turismo, Património e Cultura. Founded in 2017, REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies is a research unit of Portucalense University. Based on a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective it aims at responding to social challenges through a holistic approach involving a wide range of scientific fields such as Economics, Management, Science, Technology, Tourism, Heritage and Culture. Grounded on the production of advanced scientific knowledge, REMIT has a special focus on its application to the resolution of real issues and challenges, having as strategic orientations: - the understanding of local, national and international environment; - the development of activities oriented to professional practice, namely in the business world.
Author: Lobo, Carla AzevedoAccess Right: restricted access

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 10 of 15
  • Thumbnail Image
    PublicationOpen Access
    Fatores indutores da internacionalização empresarial: a importância das redes relacionais e do conhecimento.
    2014-06 - Lobo, Carla Azevedo
    Hoje em dia é exigido às empresas um contínuo processo de inovação e de reestruturação das suas operações para que lhes seja possível responder aos requisitos da concorrência nacional mas também, cada vez mais, da internacional. A internacionalização passou a ser mais do que uma questão de opção, uma questão de sobrevivência. O desenvolvimento do mundo dos negócios tem vindo a romper todas as fronteiras, sendo a crescente internacionalização das empresas um dado adquirido independentemente da sua dimensão, idade, experiência internacional ou doméstica, contrariando um pouco as tradicionais teorias da Internacionalização. As empresas têm agora de encontrar novas formas para desenvolver vantagens competitivas que passam por procurar e adquirir novas competências, recursos e capacidades. A crescente importância da cooperação na internacionalização das empresas implica a necessidade de uma nova abordagem – baseada nas redes industriais – que parte do princípio que o processo de internacionalização de uma empresa não pode ser controlado por um único ator. Integrar uma rede pode facilitar o acesso a recursos específicos de mercado, nomeadamente ao conhecimento, que uma empresa isolada não poderia ter de outra forma. Evidência empírica recente oferece pontos de vista importantes sobre a internacionalização de novos negócios, mostrando que as empresas mais jovens são capazes de compensar sua limitada aprendizagem experiencial ao nível da empresa com a aprendizagem através de experiências individuais anteriores da equipa de gestão de topo (aprendizagem congénita) e através de relações inter-organizacionais (aprendizagem vicária), sugerindo também que a idade e a dimensão da empresa devem ser analisadas, mas não como uma condicionante restritiva para o início da internacionalização. Também outros autores consideram que os incentivos governamentais e associativos têm para a maioria das empresas um efeito positivo no início da internacionalização. Baseando o nosso trabalho na revisão da literatura efetuada pretende-se avaliar as opiniões dos empresários inquiridos, no sentido de determinar quais as variáveis que estes consideram como potenciadoras da internacionalização das suas empresas, confirmando se os fatores de maior importância se enquadram no modelo teórico escolhido nesta investigação, derivado das investigações mais atuais. Por exemplo, averiguar se fatores como “uma rede relacional”, as “características empreendedoras pessoais e de competências adquiridas dos empresários”; a “experiência internacional dos colaboradores, ou ainda outras variáveis como “a idade da empresa”, a sua “dimensão”, os “incentivos/apoios à internacionalização”, a “distância física e psicológica” podem funcionar como agentes potenciadores ou indutores do processo de internacionalização da empresa. Pretendemos ainda averiguar se existem diferenças na importância atribuída a estes fatores por parte das empresas que se internacionalizam cedo no seu ciclo de vida. Foi efetuado um estudo empírico com 320 empresas portuguesas internacionalizadas e dada a natureza da base de dados recolhidos e os objetivos da pesquisa, utilizamos metodologias de Análise Exploratória dos dados (medidas de estatística descritiva); metodologias de Inferência Estatística Univariada e também análises de dados Multivariados. Nestas últimas utilizou-se a Análise Fatorial Exploratória (AFE) para medir as Variâncias e Covariâncias entre as variáveis e recorremos ao Escalonamento Multidimensional para a avaliar as perceções dos entrevistados. Finalmente procedemos a uma Análise Fatorial Confirmatória, para confirmar os padrões estruturais encontrados na AFE e para avaliar a qualidade de ajustamento do modelo de medida teórico à estrutura correlacional observada entre as variáveis manifestas. Encontramos evidências da importância que têm as “Redes Relacionais” para os empresários portugueses, bem como as Competências Específicas dos Colaboradores, a Experiência Internacional dos Colaboradores e a “Propensão Empreendedora e para Assumir riscos dos Colaboradores e Direção”, em consonância com a Teoria das Redes, a Teoria do Capital Humano, a Teoria das International New Ventures (INV), a Population Ecology Approach e com a Attention Based View.
  • Thumbnail Image
    PublicationRestricted Access
    Dolce far niente and innovation [comunicação oral]
    2024-07-02 - Oliveira, Susana; Lobo, Carla Azevedo; Azevedo, Mónica
    Balancing stability with change is a daily challenge to both firms and individuals. Juggling the know with the unknown, the ability to promote innovation from business as usual, new knowledge from the creative power of wisdom is something that requires time and space to reflect. [...]
  • Thumbnail Image
    PublicationRestricted Access
    Exploring the relationship between innovation, entry modes and destination countries
    2024-01-03 - Lobo, Carla Azevedo; Santos-Pereira, Carla; Durão, Natércia; Azevedo, Mónica
    In a world characterized by globalization, where the internationalization of businesses is pivotal for their prosperity, innovation is emerging as a pivotal strategic choice influencing their growth and competitive edge. Despite the broad consensus on the growing importance of internationalization and innovation, some questions arise about the relationship of innovation with entry modes with less commitment to the market and with destination markets with less risks. In order to determine whether there is a pattern of relationship between internationalization modes, destination markets, and innovation for Portuguese firms, the objective is to study this possibility. To achieve this goal, we carried out an online questionnaire survey to collect data. The questionnaire was carefully designed based on a literature review and included various variables related to the internationalization of firms. It was sent to all 8183 firms listed in the AICEP database of Portuguese internationalized firms through Google Forms tool. The data was collected over an 8-month period, starting in May 2019. To analyze the data, we used IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0 software, applying a quantitative approach. We employed Quantitative Analysis Methodologies: Univariate and Multivariate Exploratory Factorial Analysis (EFA), Correlation analysis and the nonparametric tests Chi-square and Mann-Whitney. Based on the findings, the empirical evidence clearly demonstrates that firms employing internationalization modes demanding higher commitment, along with those targeting geographically and psychologically distant markets, place significantly greater emphasis on innovation as a pivotal factor driving their international expansion.
  • Thumbnail Image
    PublicationOpen Access
    The impact of entrepreneurial ecosystems on digital transformation: A meso level analysis
    2023-08-19 - Guimarães, J.; Fernandes, C.; Veiga, P.; Lobo, Carla Azevedo
    This work aims to study the impact of meso-level variables of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) on digital transformation. Statistical analysis was used to evaluate the research hypotheses, based on multiple linear regression, with a sample of 172 organisations. The results show that actors from the meso dimension of EEs positively impact digital transformation through knowledge, discoveries, guidance, co-opetition, co-creation and stimulation of technological search. The contributions of this study are in bringing a more refined perspective of the incentives of society actors to digital transformation, besides awakening to their importance in organisational processes and showing that associations for the satisfaction of own interests can culminate in common benefits.
  • PublicationRestricted Access
    Forecasting the yield curve with macroeconomic information: evidence from European markets
    2021 - Pinho, Carlos; Rodríguez de Prado, Francisco; Maldonado, Isabel; Lobo, Carla Azevedo
    In this paper we analyse the predictive content of the introduction of macroeconomic variables in term structure dynamic models. We tested the dynamic models using data from the public debt, inflation rate and annual variation of the industrial production index for four European countries: Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany. Results obtained for the period from January 1990 to December 2012 indicate that considering macroeconomic factors makes a positive contribution to the improvement of forecasts for different countries and maturities. However, the paper presents evidence of time-varying forecast accuracy, not only across yield maturities and forecast horizons, but also over data subperiods.
  • PublicationRestricted Access
    Go international with digital transformation
    2024-07-01 - Lobo, Carla Azevedo; Moreira, Fernando
    Sem resumo disponível.
  • PublicationRestricted Access
    International new ventures and early internationalization: Networks and skills as enhancing agents
    2019-01-28 - Pinho, Carlos; Maldonado, Isabel; Lobo, Carla Azevedo
    The skills of the employees, and for the International Experience of employees, in line with the chosen Theoretical Model. current research on international new ventures has been trying to understand the processes that support companies in their decision to early enter foreign markets. The role of learning and knowledge as become one of the arising topics in the literature. Recent empirical evidences provide important insights on the internationalization of new business. Younger firms are able to compensate their limited experiential learning at company level, through learning based on previous experiences of the management team, and through inter-organizational relationships (vicarious learning). The most common type of vicarious learning discussed in conceptual and empirical works involves learning with a network: depending on the position of a company in the network, this will define its range of opportunities and constraints and these relationships have a strong impact on market selection as well as on entry mode because they make it easier to identify and exploit new opportunities. Based on the opinions of different entrepreneurs, this study seeks to determine the importance of several factors as inducers of the internationalization process by companies that have internationalized early in their life cycle. Factors such as the relational networks, entrepreneurs’ specific skills and international experience of employees are considered. The empirical study was conducted on a sample of 320 Portuguese companies. Data Exploratory Analysis methodologies and Univariate Statistical Inference methodologies were used. Evidence was found for the importance of Relational Networks, for Specific.
  • Thumbnail Image
    PublicationOpen Access
    Global talent management during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Gods must be crazy!
    2022-01 - Fernandes, Cristina; Veiga, Pedro Mota; Raposo, Mário; Lobo, Carla Azevedo
    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought terrifying effects for labor markets all around the world. Just as we witness rapid changes in terms of the ways of working (working from home), we are also observing an increase in unemployment. The ways in which major corporations with international operations process their global talent management (GTM) already represents a challenge in relatively stable times and clearly, in a period of such great and sustained turbulence as current experienced, this task becomes still more difficult. Hence, our research aims to study the impact of GTM on the international performance of major companies during the COVID-19 pandemic period. To this end, we surveyed a sample of 59 large companies that act in external markets. Through recourse to multiple linear regressions, we conclude that GTM practices return positive impacts on levels of international performance. Our research returns theoretical implications in terms of the application of integrated GTM models and with the results of significant relevance to corporations operating internationally, and thus enabling them to better understand which strategic human resource management policies will return the best GTM results.
  • PublicationRestricted Access
    Eurozone's macroprudential policy and financial stability
    2023-08 - Pacheco, Luís Miguel; Lobo, Carla Azevedo
    Macroprudential policy gained attention after the 2010 European sovereign debt crisis. The increasingly globalized world poses systemic risk to economic activity and, in the European context, tailoring policies to diverse economies while achieving stability is a challenging task. The literature lacks conclusive evidence on the stability and impact of macroprudential policy, especially in light of recent events like the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine conflict. Additionally, the rise of shadow banking underscores the importance of such policies in the Euro Zone. Current regulations do not guarantee financial system stability, but increased regulation following the debt crisis, and stable financial stress indicators indicate macroeconomic stability.
  • PublicationRestricted Access
    Internationalize? Why? - Motivations of Portuguese firms
    2020-04 - Durão, Natércia; Lobo, Carla Azevedo; Santos-Pereira, Carla; Maldonado, Isabel; Pacheco, Luís Miguel
    Business internationalization has become in recent decades, more than a requirement, a strategy of many firms, regardless their size or age. Besides trying to reach new markets and new clients, internationalization has turned into a strategy of the organization itself, far beyond its need to survive. Several authors highlight the company's growth strategies, in which facing the difficulty of growing in the national market given the increased competition, the public policies restricting business expansion, among others, the company chooses to go international and take advantage of the opportunities created in a new market. The Dunning model (1992) was based on four motivational factors: resource-seeking, market-seeking, efficiency-seeking and strategic asset-seeking. Although this typology was an important reference to explain the motivations for international expansion of multinationals from developed countries, empirical evidence has shown that the motivations of smaller companies can be quite different. Accordingly, some studies make a more extensive and complementary proposal. They suggest that there are two types of factors: the reactive and the mixed factos, that can influence the strategic management of internationalization. Reactive motivations include internationalization by drag and the imperatives of the business itself. At mixed motivations, authors consider, for example, geographical proximity and cultural affinities, the advantage of economies of scale, the use of the country's image and also government support. The reasons underlying the decision of firms' internationalization may therefore have different segmentations, and may well differ when it comes to SMEs or large firms. This work aims to identify the determinants that motivated the internationalization decision of portuguese firms, namely to understand whether they adopt a reactive or more proactive approach, that we can naturally associate with a strategy of reaction to, for instance, the retraction of internal demand, or a more active strategy that is part of the new mission or vision of the company. It will also be tried to ascertain whether there are any diferences in the most frequent motivations between the smallest and the largest companies. To achieve this goal we will use Quantitative Analysis Methodologies, through Descriptive and Inferential Analysis. Data were collected from 238 valid responses questionnaire and were treated by IBM SPSS Statistics 24.0 software. Our preliminar results show that the most important determinants for internationalization are in line with those defined by the Dunning model, despite the size or age of the firm.