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Prof. António Abreu
Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon

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Conference paper
Published: 30 June 2021 in Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World
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It is often argued that efficient collaboration is the key for successful organizations. However, achieving efficient collaboration still represents a challenge for most organizations. Often, hidden involuntary behaviors (also known as behavioral risks), threat efficient collaboration in a blink of an eye. Either by the lack of supportive models to manage sscollaboration or due to misunderstandings of what the different dimensions of collaboration are and represent, most organizations fear the engagement in collaborative approaches due the high chances of failure. In this work is proposed a heuristic model to identify organizational collaborative risks by applying social network analysis . This work aims to illustrate how organizations can benefit from the application of social network analysis in the efficient identification and management of collaborative risks. A case study illustrates the application of the proposed model in this work.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu. The Benefits of Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Collaborative Risks. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World 2021, 16 -23.

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Marco Nunes, António Abreu. The Benefits of Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Collaborative Risks. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World. 2021; ():16-23.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu. 2021. "The Benefits of Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Collaborative Risks." Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World , no. : 16-23.

Journal article
Published: 23 June 2021 in Sustainability
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The main objective of this research is to investigate the nexus between entrepreneurial leadership and product innovation performance. In addition, the mediating mechanism of absorptive capacity, intra-firm networks, and design thinking through which entrepreneurial leaders influence product innovation performanceis also studied. The researcher contacted three hundred (300) plus firms; 157 firms showed a willingness to participate, and 96 firms provided the data with a response rate of 61.15%. Out of those 96 firms, the data from 71 firms were used for the final analysis, yielding an effective response rate of 45.22%. Only middle and top-level employees from the marketing and research & development departments from Pakistani firms were selected as respondents because these two departments are directly related to product innovation performance. To test the hypothesis, the Smart PLS-SEM technique wasused. The empirical analysis revealed that entrepreneurial leadership impacted product innovation performance through the mediating mechanism of design thinking, intra-firm networks, and absorptive capacity. The current research contributes to entrepreneurial leadership theory by proposing and empirically testing how entrepreneurial leaders affect product innovation performance.

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Khaliq Rehman; Farhan Aslam; Mário Mata; José Martins; António Abreu; António Morão Lourenço; Sabita Mariam. Impact of Entrepreneurial Leadership on Product Innovation Performance: Intervening Effect of Absorptive Capacity, Intra-Firm Networks, and Design Thinking. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7054 .

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Khaliq Rehman, Farhan Aslam, Mário Mata, José Martins, António Abreu, António Morão Lourenço, Sabita Mariam. Impact of Entrepreneurial Leadership on Product Innovation Performance: Intervening Effect of Absorptive Capacity, Intra-Firm Networks, and Design Thinking. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7054.

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Khaliq Rehman; Farhan Aslam; Mário Mata; José Martins; António Abreu; António Morão Lourenço; Sabita Mariam. 2021. "Impact of Entrepreneurial Leadership on Product Innovation Performance: Intervening Effect of Absorptive Capacity, Intra-Firm Networks, and Design Thinking." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7054.

Journal article
Published: 03 June 2021 in Sustainability
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Projects are considered crucial building blocks whereby organizations execute and implement their short-, mid-, and long-term strategic visions. Projects are thought, developed, and implemented to solve problems, drive change, satisfy unique needs, add value, and exploit opportunities, just to name a few objectives. Although existing project management tools and techniques aim to deliver projects with success, according to the latest reviewed literature, projects still keep failing at an impressive pace. Among the extensive list of factors that may threaten project success, several articles from the research literature place particular importance on a still underexplored factor that may strongly lead to unsuccessful project delivery. This factor—usually known as corporate behavioral risks—usually emerges and evolves as organizations work together to deliver projects across a bounded period of time, and is characterized by the mix of formal and informal dynamic interactions between the different stakeholders that constitute the different organizations. Furthermore, several articles from the research literature also point out the lack of proper models to efficiently manage corporate behavioral risks as one of the major factors that may lead to projects failing. To efficiently identify and measure how such corporate behaviors may contribute to a project’s outcomes (success or failure), a heuristic model is proposed in this work, developed based on four fundamental fields ((1) project management, (2) risk management, (3) corporate behavior, and (4) social network analysis), to quantitatively analyze four critical project social networks ((1) communication, (2) problem-solving, (3) advice, and (4) trust), by applying the theory of social network analysis (SNA). The proposed model in this work is supported with a case study to illustrate its implementation and application across a project lifecycle, and how organizations can benefit from its application.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu; Célia Saraiva. Identifying Project Corporate Behavioral Risks to Support Long-Term Sustainable Cooperative Partnerships. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6347 .

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Marco Nunes, António Abreu, Célia Saraiva. Identifying Project Corporate Behavioral Risks to Support Long-Term Sustainable Cooperative Partnerships. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6347.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu; Célia Saraiva. 2021. "Identifying Project Corporate Behavioral Risks to Support Long-Term Sustainable Cooperative Partnerships." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6347.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2021 in International Journal of Innovation Studies
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It is often argued that the core of organizational success is efficient collaboration. Some authors even posit that efficient collaboration is more important to organizational innovation and performance than individual skills or expertise. However, the lack of efficient models to manage collaboration properly is a major constraint for organizations to profit from internal and external collaborative initiatives. Currently, much of the collaboration in organizations occurs through virtual network channels, such as e-mail, Yammer, Jabber, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and Zoom. These are even more important in situations where different time zones and even threats of a pandemic constrain face-to-face human interactions. This work introduces a multidisciplinary heuristic model developed based on project risk management and social network analysis centrality metrics graph-theory to quantitatively measure dynamic organizational collaboration in the project environment. A case study illustrates the proposed model's implementation and application in a real virtual project organizational context. The major benefit of applying this proposed model is that it enables organizations to quantitatively measure different collaborative, organizational, and dynamic behavioral patterns, which can later correlate with organizational outcomes. The model analyzes three collaborative project dimensions: network collaboration cohesion evolution, network collaboration degree evolution, and network team set variability evolution. This provides organizations an innovative approach to understand and manage possible collaborative project risks that may emerge as projects are delivered. Organizations can use the proposed model to identify projects' critical success factors by comparing successful and unsuccessful delivered projects' dynamic behaviors if a substantial number of both project types are analyzed. The proposed model also enables organizations to make decisions with more information regarding the support for changes in observed collaborative patterns as demonstrated by statistical models in general, and linear regressions in particular. Further, the proposed model provides organizations with a completely bias-free data-collection process that eliminates organizational downtime. Finally, applying the proposed model in organizations will reduce or eliminate the risks associated with virtual collaborative dynamics, leading to the optimized use of resources; this will transform organizations to become more lean-oriented and significantly contribute to economic, social, and environmental global sustainability.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu; Jelena Bagnjuk; Jörn Tiedtke. Measuring project performance by applying social network analyses. International Journal of Innovation Studies 2021, 5, 35 -55.

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Marco Nunes, António Abreu, Jelena Bagnjuk, Jörn Tiedtke. Measuring project performance by applying social network analyses. International Journal of Innovation Studies. 2021; 5 (2):35-55.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu; Jelena Bagnjuk; Jörn Tiedtke. 2021. "Measuring project performance by applying social network analyses." International Journal of Innovation Studies 5, no. 2: 35-55.

Journal article
Published: 21 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Efficient cooperation between organizations across all the phases of a project lifecycle is a critical factor to increase the chances of project success and drive sustainable business. However, and according to research, despite the large benefits that efficient organizational cooperation provides to organizations, they are still often reluctant to engage in cooperative partnerships. The reviewed literature argues that the major reason for such a trend is due to the lack of efficient and actionable supportive models to manage organizational cooperative risks. In this work we propose a model to efficiently support the management of organizational cooperative risks in project environments. The model, MCPx (management of cooperative projects), was developed based on four critical scientific pillars, (1) project risk management, (2) cooperative networks, (3) social network analysis, and (4) business intelligence architecture, and will analyze in a quantitative way how project cooperative behaviors evolve across a bounded time period, and to which extent they can turn into a cooperative project risk (essentially potential threats). For this matter, the MCPx model will quantitatively analyze five key project cooperative behavioral dimensions, (1) communication, (2) information sharing, (3) trust, (4) problem solving and (5) decision making, which show how dynamic interactions between project stakeholders evolve across time. The implementation and functioning principles of the MCPx model are illustrated with a case study.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu; Célia Saraiva. A Model to Manage Cooperative Project Risks to Create Knowledge and Drive Sustainable Business. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5798 .

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Marco Nunes, António Abreu, Célia Saraiva. A Model to Manage Cooperative Project Risks to Create Knowledge and Drive Sustainable Business. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):5798.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu; Célia Saraiva. 2021. "A Model to Manage Cooperative Project Risks to Create Knowledge and Drive Sustainable Business." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 5798.

Journal article
Published: 19 April 2021 in Sustainability
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The success of a construction project is a widely discussed topic, even today, and there exists a difference of opinion. The impact of communication and conflict on project success is an important, but least addressed, issue in literature, especially in the case of underdeveloped countries. Miscommunication and conflict not only hinder the success of a project but also may lead to conflicts. The focus of this paper was to examine the impact of communication on project success with the mediating role of conflict. By using SPSS, demographics, descriptive statistics and correlation were determined. Smart PLS version 3.0 was used for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), internal accuracy and validity estimates, hypothesis checking and mediation testing. The results showed that formal communication has a negative impact on the success of a construction project, resulting in conflicts among project team members, whereas informal communication and communication willingness have a positive impact on project success because people tend to know each other, and trust is developed. Task, process and relationship conflicts were used as mediating variables. It was found that task conflict effects the relations positively because project team members suggest different ways to do a certain task, and, hence, project success is achieved. On the contrary, process conflict and relationship conflict have a negative impact on communication and project success. Both of these conflicts lead to miscommunication, and project success is compromised. Hence, it is the responsibility of the project manager to enhance communication among project team members and to reduce the detrimental effects of process and relationship conflict on project success.

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Summaira Malik; Muhammad Taqi; José Martins; Mário Mata; João Pereira; António Abreu. Exploring the Relationship between Communication and Success of Construction Projects: The Mediating Role of Conflict. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4513 .

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Summaira Malik, Muhammad Taqi, José Martins, Mário Mata, João Pereira, António Abreu. Exploring the Relationship between Communication and Success of Construction Projects: The Mediating Role of Conflict. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4513.

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Summaira Malik; Muhammad Taqi; José Martins; Mário Mata; João Pereira; António Abreu. 2021. "Exploring the Relationship between Communication and Success of Construction Projects: The Mediating Role of Conflict." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4513.

Journal article
Published: 14 April 2021 in Sustainability
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Entrepreneurial orientation has become an enormously significant construct in the innovation studies literature. Predominantly for SMEs, its role has been widely recognized in almost all regional contexts across the globe. The present study is aimed at investigating the effects of entrepreneurial orientation, transformational leadership and organizational commitment on innovation performance. The data for the present study were collected from 1095 employees working at various levels in SMEs. The present study used partial least square structural equation modeling to examine the constructed hypotheses. The findings suggested the significantly positive direct relationships among entrepreneurial orientations, organizational commitment and innovation performance. Besides, organizational commitment positively mediated the relationships between entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance. Additionally, this study also found the significant moderation of transformational leadership among entrepreneurship orientation and organizational commitment. Leaders of small and medium-sized enterprises should practice entrepreneurial orientation (innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking) and transformation leadership (articulating a compelling vision, focus on goal achievement, and creative problem solving) to enhance the innovation performance of their firms. Moreover, this study provides a robust mechanism for leaders at SMEs to develop strategies for enhancing the willingness of the firms to bring innovation and offer new products and services. The policymakers should enhance the emotional attachment of employees with their firms, sense of moral obligation to remain with the firm which will, in turn, increase the organizational commitment of employees for innovation performance. The study provides empirical evidence to the resource-based view in the context of SMEs. The study delivers solid theoretical and practical implications to experts, leaders and policymakers.

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Shuja Iqbal; José Moleiro Martins; Mário Nuno Mata; Shumaila Naz; Shamim Akhtar; António Abreu. Linking Entrepreneurial Orientation with Innovation Performance in SMEs; the Role of Organizational Commitment and Transformational Leadership Using Smart PLS-SEM. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4361 .

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Shuja Iqbal, José Moleiro Martins, Mário Nuno Mata, Shumaila Naz, Shamim Akhtar, António Abreu. Linking Entrepreneurial Orientation with Innovation Performance in SMEs; the Role of Organizational Commitment and Transformational Leadership Using Smart PLS-SEM. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4361.

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Shuja Iqbal; José Moleiro Martins; Mário Nuno Mata; Shumaila Naz; Shamim Akhtar; António Abreu. 2021. "Linking Entrepreneurial Orientation with Innovation Performance in SMEs; the Role of Organizational Commitment and Transformational Leadership Using Smart PLS-SEM." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4361.

Editorial
Published: 06 February 2021 in Sustainability
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In the last decade, the increasing globalization of markets and revolution 4

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António Abreu. Innovation Ecosystems: A Sustainability Perspective. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1675 .

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António Abreu. Innovation Ecosystems: A Sustainability Perspective. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):1675.

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António Abreu. 2021. "Innovation Ecosystems: A Sustainability Perspective." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 1675.

Conference paper
Published: 16 November 2020 in Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0
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Across the literature, is often claimed that the shortage of models to support projects in the collaborative dimension, creates distrust and pushes way organizations from those collaborative initiatives, such as the open innovation (OI). In the present work, a model based on three different scientific fields (Risk Management, Open Innovation, and Social Network Analysis), is introduces, aiming to support the management of OI projects. The model identifies project critical success factors (CSFs) by analysing three distinct collaborative dimensions (3-CD) that usually take place in OI projects - (1) Participation Degree, (2) Communication Degree, and (3) Response Agility Degree – of accomplished projects. Such CSFs can then be used to guide and estimate an outcome likelihood of upcoming or ongoing OI projects.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu. A Model to Support OI Collaborative Risks Applying Social Network Analysis. Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0 2020, 324 -335.

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Marco Nunes, António Abreu. A Model to Support OI Collaborative Risks Applying Social Network Analysis. Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0. 2020; ():324-335.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu. 2020. "A Model to Support OI Collaborative Risks Applying Social Network Analysis." Boosting Collaborative Networks 4.0 , no. : 324-335.

Conference paper
Published: 09 September 2020 in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
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Nowadays, the competitiveness on industry, requires a good preparation from the organizations, considering all events that may occur, which brings new challenges for the corporation’s management. To address such challenges, risk management’s models have been used to give a sense of threat prevention, by assessing each project’s risk and the risk from the corporation itself as well. However, such models are normally based on human perception, which brings some subjectivity around the risks involved, making their definition less accurate. Additionally, there is a lack of models that allows to better define the corporation’s risk, by exploring the influence from the risk’s project. To address these issues, this paper presents an approach, supported by fuzzy logic, to analyze the risk’s level in an organization, by considering the influence of their projects. A case study will be used to assess the model robustness and to discuss the benefits and challenges found.

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Ricardo Santos; Antonio Abreu; João M. F. Calado; José Miguel Soares; José Duarte Moleiro Martins; Vitor Anes. A Fuzzy Based Model to Assess the Influence of Project Risk on Corporate Behavior. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2020, 383 -393.

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Ricardo Santos, Antonio Abreu, João M. F. Calado, José Miguel Soares, José Duarte Moleiro Martins, Vitor Anes. A Fuzzy Based Model to Assess the Influence of Project Risk on Corporate Behavior. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. 2020; ():383-393.

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Ricardo Santos; Antonio Abreu; João M. F. Calado; José Miguel Soares; José Duarte Moleiro Martins; Vitor Anes. 2020. "A Fuzzy Based Model to Assess the Influence of Project Risk on Corporate Behavior." Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering , no. : 383-393.

Journal article
Published: 02 August 2020 in Sustainability
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Nowadays—and due to an increasingly competitive world—organizations need to collaborate in an open innovation context to be efficient and effective by achieving high levels of innovation with their products and services. However, the existing resources—as well as the innovation achieved from the diversity of partners involved—brings challenges to the management; in particularly with risk management. To fulfill such needs, risk management frameworks have been created to support managers, on preventing threats with systems development, although without properly account the influence of each system component, on the entire system, as well as the subjectivity within human perception. To account for these issues, a framework supported by fuzzy logic is presented in this work, to evaluate the risk level on system development in open innovation environment. The approach robustness is assessed by using a case study, where the challenges and benefits found are discussed.

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Ricardo Santos; António Abreu; Ana Dias; João Calado; Vitor Anes; José Soares. A Framework for Risk Assessment in Collaborative Networks to Promote Sustainable Systems in Innovation Ecosystems. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6218 .

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Ricardo Santos, António Abreu, Ana Dias, João Calado, Vitor Anes, José Soares. A Framework for Risk Assessment in Collaborative Networks to Promote Sustainable Systems in Innovation Ecosystems. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (15):6218.

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Ricardo Santos; António Abreu; Ana Dias; João Calado; Vitor Anes; José Soares. 2020. "A Framework for Risk Assessment in Collaborative Networks to Promote Sustainable Systems in Innovation Ecosystems." Sustainability 12, no. 15: 6218.

Journal article
Published: 04 May 2020 in Applied Sciences
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Currently, sustainability is considered a priority by society, with the household appliances being one of the economic sectors involved in achieving sustainability. However, the existence of several issues (e.g., energy and water consumption, reliability, initial cost, and illuminance, among others) together with the diversity of brands and models on the market, make the consumer’s decisions regarding sustainable options difficult, according to their concerns and related to each sustainability dimension (economic, environmental, and social). By combining evolutionary algorithms (EA) with multicriteria techniques, it is possible to achieve sustainable solutions for the consumer based on their requirements. In this paper, a method is presented to support the consumer by obtaining a set of sustainable household appliances on the market that suit their preferences, concerns, and needs. By using a case study to apply the approach developed here, a set of sustainable appliances from the market is obtained, where several benefits are achieved (e.g., energy and water consumption savings, avoidance of CO2 emissions) during the lifecycle of each appliance, chosen from the appliance’s industry.

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Ricardo Santos; António Abreu; José Soares; Fernanda Maria Almeida Santos Mendes; João M.F. Calado. A Soft Computing Framework to Support Consumers in Obtaining Sustainable Appliances from the Market. Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 3206 .

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Ricardo Santos, António Abreu, José Soares, Fernanda Maria Almeida Santos Mendes, João M.F. Calado. A Soft Computing Framework to Support Consumers in Obtaining Sustainable Appliances from the Market. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10 (9):3206.

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Ricardo Santos; António Abreu; José Soares; Fernanda Maria Almeida Santos Mendes; João M.F. Calado. 2020. "A Soft Computing Framework to Support Consumers in Obtaining Sustainable Appliances from the Market." Applied Sciences 10, no. 9: 3206.

Conference paper
Published: 29 April 2020 in Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World
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Recent studies on innovation show a marked trend towards an increasing complexity of innovation management. As a result, innovative project managers are normally confronted with ever-increasing complexities and ever-increasing degrees of uncertainty in decision making. In this paper, a new qualitative risk assessment model is proposed in order to overcome the limitations found in practice, providing new insights regarding the suitability of qualitative risk assessment models to support decision making activities in innovation projects.

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Vitor Anes; Luis Reis; Elsa Henriques; António Abreu. A Risk Assessment Model for Decision Making in Innovation Projects. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World 2020, 79 -90.

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Vitor Anes, Luis Reis, Elsa Henriques, António Abreu. A Risk Assessment Model for Decision Making in Innovation Projects. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World. 2020; ():79-90.

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Vitor Anes; Luis Reis; Elsa Henriques; António Abreu. 2020. "A Risk Assessment Model for Decision Making in Innovation Projects." Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World , no. : 79-90.

Conference paper
Published: 29 April 2020 in Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World
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According to some existed studies, one of the economic sectors to achieve sustainability, is the household appliance sector. However, given the different issues (e.g. energy and water consumption, reliability, initial cost, design, noise, illuminance, etc.) to be considered, together with the existence of several brands and models from the market, brings some difficulties to a consumer, who wants to reach a good compromise between them, given its concerns, regarding each dimension of sustainability, namely; economic, social and environmental. By using multi-attribute value theory, combined with Evolutionary Algorithms (EA), it’s possible to achieve sustainable solutions from the market. In this work, it’s presented an approach to support a consumer, by achieving a set of sustainable household appliances from the market, based on its preferences and needs. A case study shall be used, to give an example of a global solution, where several benefits are achieved, including environment and economic ones.

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Ricardo Santos; J. C. O. Matias; António Abreu. A Decision-Making Tool to Provide Sustainable Solutions to a Consumer. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World 2020, 63 -78.

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Ricardo Santos, J. C. O. Matias, António Abreu. A Decision-Making Tool to Provide Sustainable Solutions to a Consumer. Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World. 2020; ():63-78.

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Ricardo Santos; J. C. O. Matias; António Abreu. 2020. "A Decision-Making Tool to Provide Sustainable Solutions to a Consumer." Collaboration in a Hyperconnected World , no. : 63-78.

Journal article
Published: 23 April 2020 in Sustainability
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The survival of companies in globalized and highly competitive markets, heavily depends on their ability to innovate through the creation of new products and/or services, supported by sustainable processes to prevent business failure. There are many factors regarding the interface company/stakeholders/market at all hierarchical levels, which have a major contribution to sustain innovation in processes regarding the creation of new products and services. A holistic approach of all these factors, as a whole, has not been a subject of scientific research conducting to the necessity of creating a proposal of a framework that can be integrated and systemic. Thus, this paper aims to propose a functional holistic model, which integrates the strategic, organizational and operational levels regarding market business and company interaction, as well as the set of factors to take into account to guarantee assurance that innovative processes are sustained, when new products and/or services are created or improved. Conducted through an investigation of the state of the art, by literature review, a comprehensive and integrated conceptual model was built in a deductive-inductive way. Then, the conceptual model was validated through four case studies. Finally, it was found that the conceptual framework became functional, because its applicability has been successfully tested in a business environment. As a result, the tool developed here, can be useful to measure and evaluate projects dedicated to companies that innovate in a sustainable way.

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Ana S. M. E. Dias; António Abreu; Helena V. G. Navas; Ricardo Santos. Proposal of a Holistic Framework to Support Sustainability of New Product Innovation Processes. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3450 .

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Ana S. M. E. Dias, António Abreu, Helena V. G. Navas, Ricardo Santos. Proposal of a Holistic Framework to Support Sustainability of New Product Innovation Processes. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3450.

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Ana S. M. E. Dias; António Abreu; Helena V. G. Navas; Ricardo Santos. 2020. "Proposal of a Holistic Framework to Support Sustainability of New Product Innovation Processes." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3450.

Journal article
Published: 13 April 2020 in Sustainability
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In today’s business environment, it is often argued, that if organizations want to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage, they must be able to innovate, so that they can meet complex market demands as they deliver products, solutions, or services. However, organizations alone do not always have the necessary resources (brilliant minds, technologies, know-how, and so on) to match those market demands. To overcome this constraint, organizations usually engage in collaborative network models—such as the open innovation model—with other business partners, public institutions, universities, and development centers. Nonetheless, it is frequently argued that the lack of models that support such collaborative models is still perceived as a major constraint for organizations to more frequently engage in it. In this work, a heuristic model is proposed, to provide support in managing open innovation projects, by, first, identifying project collaborative critical success factors (CSFs) analyzing four interactive collaborative dimensions (4-ICD) that usually occur in such projects—(1) key project organization communication and insight degree, (2) organizational control degree, (3) project information dependency degree, (3) and (4) feedback readiness degree—and, second, using those identified CSFs to estimate the outcome likelihood (success, or failure) of ongoing open innovation projects.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu. Managing Open Innovation Project Risks Based on a Social Network Analysis Perspective. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3132 .

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Marco Nunes, António Abreu. Managing Open Innovation Project Risks Based on a Social Network Analysis Perspective. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3132.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu. 2020. "Managing Open Innovation Project Risks Based on a Social Network Analysis Perspective." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3132.

Journal article
Published: 18 February 2020 in Sustainability
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A key challenge in project management is to understand to which extent the dynamic interactions between the different project people—through formal and informal networks of collaboration that temporarily emerge across a project´s lifecycle—throughout all the phases of a project lifecycle, influence a project’s outcome. This challenge has been a growing concern to organizations that deliver projects, due their huge impact in economic, environmental, and social sustainability. In this work, a heuristic two-part model, supported with three scientific fields—project management, risk management, and social network analysis—is proposed, to uncover and measure the extent to which the dynamic interactions of project people—as they work through networks of collaboration—across all the phases of a project lifecycle, influence a project‘s outcome, by first identifying critical success factors regarding five general project collaboration types ((1) communication and insight, (2) internal and cross collaboration, (3) know-how and power sharing, (4) clustering, and (5) teamwork efficiency) by analyzing delivered projects, and second, using those identified critical success factors to provide guidance in upcoming projects regarding the five project collaboration types.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu. Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Project Critical Success Factors. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1503 .

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Marco Nunes, António Abreu. Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Project Critical Success Factors. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (4):1503.

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Marco Nunes; António Abreu. 2020. "Applying Social Network Analysis to Identify Project Critical Success Factors." Sustainability 12, no. 4: 1503.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal
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Ricardo Simões Santos; António Abreu; Joaquim José Rodrigues Monteiro. Using Metaheuristics-Based Methods to Provide Sustainable Market Solutions, Suitable to Consumer Needs. Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal 2020, 5, 399 -410.

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Ricardo Simões Santos, António Abreu, Joaquim José Rodrigues Monteiro. Using Metaheuristics-Based Methods to Provide Sustainable Market Solutions, Suitable to Consumer Needs. Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal. 2020; 5 (2):399-410.

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Ricardo Simões Santos; António Abreu; Joaquim José Rodrigues Monteiro. 2020. "Using Metaheuristics-Based Methods to Provide Sustainable Market Solutions, Suitable to Consumer Needs." Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal 5, no. 2: 399-410.

Conference paper
Published: 15 August 2019 in Security Education and Critical Infrastructures
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In order to respond to new market challenges, companies have attempted to develop open innovation processes with other organizations such as research centers and higher-education institutions. However, it is also frequently mentioned by several companies that the lack of models that support open innovation in a sustainable way, involving higher-education institutions or research centers and companies in the context of a collaborative environment, is an obstacle for a wider acceptance of this way of promoting innovation processes. Starting with some discussion about innovation models in a collaborative context, this paper discusses the developed of an electric vehicle based on an open-innovation approach among several companies and a Portuguese university.

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Ricardo Santos; Antonio Abreu; Vitor Anes. Developing a Green Product-Based in an Open Innovation Environment. Case Study: Electrical Vehicle. Security Education and Critical Infrastructures 2019, 115 -127.

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Ricardo Santos, Antonio Abreu, Vitor Anes. Developing a Green Product-Based in an Open Innovation Environment. Case Study: Electrical Vehicle. Security Education and Critical Infrastructures. 2019; ():115-127.

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Ricardo Santos; Antonio Abreu; Vitor Anes. 2019. "Developing a Green Product-Based in an Open Innovation Environment. Case Study: Electrical Vehicle." Security Education and Critical Infrastructures , no. : 115-127.

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Published: 26 July 2019 in Open Engineering
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The energy consumption in buildings, can be reduced through a rational choice of the household appliances to be acquired. This choice can be based, on a specific criteria, settled according to the consumer needs. However, such choice, still needs to be optimized, since in general, an efficient equipment has a high investment, although a low energy consumption. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are used therefore, as an optimization technique, to get efficient and several solutions, based on those pre-selected from the market, and according to a set of criteria. However, there is a need to assess its robustness as well as its consistence in terms of convergence results. The quality of its solutions is also assessed, by comparing GAs results with those, obtained from Simplex method. The problem formulation, and its influence on GAs results, is also considered on this work, where it’s chosen the best one, among four proposed. In this paper it is presented a methodology that allows to promote energy efficiency in buildings, by achieving savings in terms of initial investment, energy consumption and CO2 emissions for the consumer. It is shown that GAs, can provide several and optimal solutions, through formulation and parameters suitable.

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Ricardo Santos; Matias João; António Abreu. Getting efficient choices in buildings by using Genetic Algorithms: Assessment & validation. Open Engineering 2019, 9, 229 -245.

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Ricardo Santos, Matias João, António Abreu. Getting efficient choices in buildings by using Genetic Algorithms: Assessment & validation. Open Engineering. 2019; 9 (1):229-245.

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Ricardo Santos; Matias João; António Abreu. 2019. "Getting efficient choices in buildings by using Genetic Algorithms: Assessment & validation." Open Engineering 9, no. 1: 229-245.