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2023

003 – Engineering Students Education in Sustainability: The Moderating Role of Emotional Intelligence

Nogueira, Teresa; Castro, Rui; Magano, José
Sustainability, 15, 5389
Abstract

In the context of a lack of quantitative research approaching an engineering education in sustainability, this cross-sectional study aims to investigate whether efforts to promote sustainability education contribute to shaping the beliefs, attitudes, and intentions towards sustainability in a sample of Portuguese engineering schools students; in addition, this study investigates whether emotional intelligence impacts the students’ motivation to learn more about sustainability and whether it plays a role in moderating the relationships between those variables. A survey was carried out on a sample of 184 students from two major Portuguese engineering schools. A model was found showing that beliefs, attitudes, and gender are predictors of students’ intentions towards sustainability, explaining 62.6% of its variance. Furthermore, the findings reveal that women have stronger beliefs and intentions towards sustainability than men and that students with higher emotional intelligence are more motivated to learn more about sustainability. In addition, emotional intelligence has a negative and significant moderating impact on the relationship between attitudes and students’ intentions towards sustainability, being stronger for lower levels of emotional intelligence and having a similar, yet non-significant, effect on the relationship between beliefs and students’ intentions towards sustainability. The results suggest that emotional intelligence should be considered a competence and a tool in engineering education in order to enhance students’ inclination towards sustainable development.


002 – Dark tourism, the holocaust, and well-being: A systematic review

Magano, J., Fraiz-Brea, J.A., Leite, Â.
Heliyon, e13064
Abstract

Dark tourists experience negative and positive feelings in Holocaust places, suggesting emotional ambivalence. The research question of this study is, “is feeling well-being, as a consequence of dark tourism, a way of banalizing the horror?”. The purpose of this study is threefold: to provide an updated systematic literature review (SLR) of dark tourism associated with Holocaust sites and visitors’ well-being; to structure the findings into categories that provide a comprehensive overview of the topics; and to identify which topics are not well covered, thus suggesting knowledge gaps. Records to be included should be retrievable articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and book chapters, all focused on the SLR’s aims and the research question; other types of publications were outrightly excluded. The search was performed in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases with three keywords and combinations: “dark tourism”, “Holocaust”, and “well-being”. Methodological decisions were based on the Risk of Bias Assessment Tool for Nonrandomized Studies (RoBANS). This systematic review adheres to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. During the process, 144 documents were included, of which 126 were journal articles, 8 were books, and 10 were book chapters. The results point out a hierarchical structure with the main category (Dark tourism – Holocaust – Well-being) and three second-order categories (Dark tourism – Holocaust, Dark tourism – Well-being, and Holocaust – Well-being), from which different subcategories emerge: motivations for visiting places and guiding; ambivalent emotional experience that leads to the transformation of the self; and intergenerational trauma. The gaps identified were the trivialization of horror in Holocaust places; dark tourist profile; motivations and constraints behind visiting dark places; Holocaust survivors and their descendants’ well-being; how dark tourism associated with the Holocaust positively or negatively impacts well-being. Major limitations included: lack of randomized allocation; lack of standard outcome definitions; and suboptimal comparison groups. Positive and negative impacts on the well-being of the Holocaust dark tourist were sought, as they are associated with the marketing and management, promotion, digital communication, guiding, or storytelling design of such locations.


017 – Exploring Niche Tourism Business Models, Marketing, and Consumer Experience

Leitão, C. F., Gomes, J. V., Santos, D. C., & Maia, B. M. In M. Rodrigues & M. Carvalho (Eds.)
IGI Global (pp. 54-87)
Abstract

Leadership, innovation, and performance are essential factors to achieve the desired sustainable profitability of companies. The relationship between these variables is one of the keys to organizational success, although their study has proven to be complex. The purpose of this chapter is to analyse the impact of leadership on the relationship between innovation and performance in the Portuguese hotel sector. To answer this challenge, a survey was carried out to top and middle managers of four-star and five-star hotel units.

The existence of a positive correlation between innovation and performance was found; however, leadership has not been shown to have a moderating effect on the relationship. The work highlights several important contributions to the hotel industry and identifies aspects that, when well implemented and developed, can lead to superior performance in organizations.


016 – Exploring the Project Owner’s Behaviour of Addressing Sustainability in Project Assignment and Governance

Gilbert Silvius, Ronald Ursem and José Magano (2023)
Sustainability 15(19): 14294
Abstract

The instrumental role of projects in the transition of organisations and society towards sustainability requires that the concepts of sustainability are considered in projects and project management. Within a project’s organisation, the project manager and the project owner bear the most responsibility for integrating sustainability into the execution, management, and governance of the project. The project owner is expected to translate the organisation’s commitment to sustainability into the assignment and governance of the project. However, several factors influence the behaviour of project owners, of which the organisation’s strategy is only one.

Following the studies that explored the stimulus of project managers to consider or address sustainability, this study explored the factors that influence the project owner’s behaviour with regard to addressing sustainability in assigning and governing a project. A survey-based study with quantitative data analysis identified three factors that stimulate the project owners to address sustainability in assigning and governing projects: Organisational attitude, Private attitude, and Practical implementation. Of these factors, Practical implementation and Organisational attitude have the most influence.

The importance of the Practical implementation factor highlights the need for practical, applicable tools and instruments that support the implementation of sustainability into projects and project management. The strong orientation on the organisational context may be explained by the managerial responsibility that project owners often have. The study contributes to the further understanding of how organisations can realise their transition to a sustainable enterprise.


008 – Prediction of the Brazilian Paralympic Athletes’ Participation and Performance in the London 2012 and the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

Ferreira, A., Behr, A., Pedragosa, V. & Filho, A
European Review of Business Economics II(2): 101-117
Abstract

This study uses data from the 2009-2012 and 2013-2016 Brazilian Paralympic athletes’ participation in athletics, and swimming international and national competitions, to predict their participation and performance in the Paralympic Summer Games of 2012 and 2016. Logistic regressions were conducted to examine the impact of the number of competitions, domestic and international, in which Brazilian Paralympic athletes participated in preparation for the Paralympics and their effective participation and performance in the London 2012 and the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, and which year(s) of their participation in the cycles of the Paralympic competitions determine with more significance their participation in the Paralympic Games.

Results document that for the sports in focus, there is a statistically significant relationship between participation and performance in the Paralympic Games and participation in the events of other sport competitions during the years leading up to each Paralympic cycle. Athletes’ participation in international competitions exhibits a higher impact on their participation in the Paralympic Games. Participation in international competitions also shows a positive and statistically significant impact on obtaining a medal by an athlete in the London 2012 and the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Additionally, participation in international competitions, in year 1 and year 3 preceding the Paralympic Games, has a greater impact on participation in the Games. These findings can contribute to managing event schedules, training sessions, and even sport funding.

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