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Does it smell like team spirit? (People and Society) - <p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The idea of &ldquo;team spirit&rdquo; is commonly used and taken to be an ingredient of great teams. But what exactly is this process called &ldquo;team spirit&rdquo;?</span><br style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /> &nbsp;</p>
Organizing deadly utopias (People and Society) - ...
Is Vote Buying Effective? (Development and Macroeconomics) - <p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Exchanging cash for votes happens frequently in many parts of the world. But what about its consequences? A field experiment in West Africa sheds some light on the subject.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /> &nbsp;</p>
To lend securities or not to lend: that is the question! (Finance and Accounting) - <p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Lending equities is an important source of income for investment advisors. What influences the decision to lend? How does it affect the performance of funds?</span><br style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /> &nbsp;</p>
Calling Circles and Network Competition (Microeconomics) - <p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The impact of calling patterns and their implications for network&nbsp;competition and market outcomes.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /> &nbsp;</p>
The Real Effects of Sovereign Credit Rating Downgrades (Finance and Accounting) - <p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Findings suggest that poor public debt management leads to large&nbsp;adverse effects for the private sector.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /> &nbsp;</p>
The development of the capital market during the XXth century in Portugal (People and Society) - <p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">An important contribution from a group of researchers from Nova who estimated the cost of capital in Portugal.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /> &nbsp;</p>
How to promote employee risk taking? (People and Society) - <p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">How risk taking should be actively pursued by organizations,&nbsp;changing the attitudes of their employees.</span><br style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family: opensans--regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /> &nbsp;</p>
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Research . 18 January 2022 Nova SBE launches Report “Portugal, Social Balance 2021”

Fundação “la Caixa”, BPI and Nova SBE launch the report “Portugal, Social Balance 2021”, authored by Bruno P. Carvalho, Mariana Esteves and Susana Peralta, from Nova SBE...

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