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- Describing the process of creating an intellectual capital management framework: An interventionist case studyPublication . Costa, Ricardo V.; Santos, Ana
- Product Innovation and Relational Capital: Evidence From PortugalPublication . Dorrego, Pedro Figueiroa; Costa, Ricardo V.; Fernández, Carlos Fernández-JardonAt a time when intellectual capital and product innovation management are both considered to be critical for companies to gain a competitive edge (and even survive) in today’s unstable business environment, this paper discusses the influence of relational capital on product innovation performance at innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Building upon the intellectual capital and new product development perspectives, an empirical research was conducted, using a questionnaire administered to a network of Portuguese innovative SMEs. The findings suggest that relational capital does have a positive effect on product innovation performance. In particular, “Vertical relationships” emerges as the main relational capital element significantly affecting product innovation at the innovative SMEs level. The existence and proactive management of relationships with customers and suppliers emerge as critical factors to product innovation success. We find our results to be useful for both researchers and practitioners: we contribute to the ongoing understanding of relational capital’s impact on critical business phenomena, while also identifying additional critical factors for new product development success.
- Resource‐based view of city quality: Scales development and validationPublication . Carvalho, João M.S.; Costa, Ricardo V.; Marnoto, Sandra; Vieira, José Carvalho; Sousa, Célio A.A.As the urban world population grows steadily, cities have become the main habitat for human beings. Against this backdrop, city quality or the level of development of the city's habitat that ensures the satisfaction of objective and subjective human needs become a matter of growing inter est and concern for academics, policy makers, and citizens. Building on a resource‐based view of city quality, the aim of this paper is twofold. First, it proposes and validates scales for six city sub‐habitats: political, economic, social, natural, artificial, and technological. Second, it tests a model and the underlying hypothesis about the ranking of those sub‐ habitats and of the perceived controversy regarding deci sion making upon them. For those purposes, a survey of 768 city inhabitants was conducted in Portugal to measure city quality and their sub‐habitats. Both the predicted ranking of importance of the sub‐habitats and the perceived ranking of controversy were empirically validated. The results consti tute a novel and important contribution to understand city quality and its sub‐habitats, whose conceptual power relies on hierarchized factors linked to citizens’ happiness and to the level of controversy of the solutions.
- Resource‐based view of city quality: Scales development and validationPublication . Carvalho, João M. S.; Costa, Ricardo V.; Marnoto, Sandra; Vieira, José Carvalho; Sousa, Célio A. A.
- Resource‐based view of city quality: Scales development and validationPublication . Carvalho, João M. S.; Costa, Ricardo V.; Marnoto, Sandra; Vieira, José Carvalho; Sousa, Célio A. A.
- The impact of structural capital on product innovation performance: an empirical analysisPublication . Jardón, Carlos Fernández; Costa, Ricardo V.; Dorrego, Pedro Figueroa
- Toward a Resource-Based View of City Quality: A New FrameworkPublication . Carvalho, João M. S.; Costa, Ricardo V.; Marnoto, Sandra; Sousa, Célio A. A.; Vieira, José CarvalhoBased on an extensive literature review on intelligent cities, smart cities, and happy cities, and on their conceptual connections with citizens’ well-being, quality of life, and happiness, we developed a resource-based view on City Quality: the PESNAT (political, economic, social, natural, artificial, and technological) framework. The concept of City Quality rests on the idea of cities interconnected sub-habitats—PESNAT—which are powerful analytical categories needed for understanding cities as complex and intricate loci. This framework eventually aims at assessing the cities’ power to attract businesses and people, to contribute to a sustainable development of the city and an increased quality of life. Furthermore, two hypotheses are outlined regarding the level of importance of each sub-habitat in relation to happi ness, and the level of controversy of each one for citizens, city planners, and decision makers.
- Toward a Resource-Based View of City Quality: A New FrameworkPublication . Carvalho, João M. S.; Costa, Ricardo V.; Marnoto, Sandra; Sousa, Célio A. A.; Vieira, José Carvalho