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The international financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 and the
situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have had a great impact
on many firms' financial needs. Simultaneously, several emerging
countries have bet on boosting private initiatives as a way to
diversify their economies and create jobs and wealth for their
populations. New forms of financing have appeared that have
impacted the firm's capital structure, cost of capital, and access
to finance by underprivileged communities that are normally outside
the formal economy. The Handbook of Research on Acceleration
Programs for SMEs provides and shares knowledge on the financial
mix, alternative forms of finance, capital structure, and more. It
calls attention to relevant challenges, financial institutions, and
governments to guarantee funds and economic and social development
with new competencies, innovations, new ways of investing,
entrepreneurship, and business models with new public policies.
Covering topics such as earnings management, capital structure, and
foreign exchange, this major reference work is an essential
resource for government officials, business leaders and executives,
economists, sociologists, students and faculty of higher education,
librarians, researchers, and academicians.
Driven primarily by political concerns to secure democracy,
Portugal's accession to the EU in 1986 also served as a catalyst
for dynamic economic development following a complex process of
democratization and the decolonization of Europe's last empire.
This book analyses how the European Union has helped shape the
political process in Portugal on key institutions, elites, and its
citizen's attitudes.
In the last decades, the development of innovative practices has
gained considerable interest. New generations of students have
grown up in a very different environment from their predecessors,
one influenced by information and communications technology (ICT).
In a globalized world, ICT is changing the way businesses create
and capture value, how and where we work, and how we interact and
communicate. Thus, some of the traditional teaching methods are
rapidly becoming obsolete and unattractive to the new generation of
students. Despite the increase in the development of new teaching
approaches in recent years, relevant questions related to learning
objectives, suitable methodologies, and impact assessment remain
unanswered. Interdisciplinary and Practical Approaches to
Managerial Education and Training addresses the best practices,
laboratory methods, policies, protocols, and practical approaches
to managerial education and training. Covering a wide range of
topics such as training programs, teacher education, and online
learning, it is ideal for academics, university teachers,
researchers, students, public and private institutions, and
professionals in managerial training education.
In the last decades, the development of innovative practices have
gained considerable interest, but challenges are far from easy. New
generations of students grow up in a very different environment,
severally influenced by information and communications technologies
(ICT). In the 2018 United Nations conference on Trade and
Development, the Secretary-General of UNCTAD stated that "we live
at a time of technological change that is unprecedented in its
pace, scope and depth of impact". Furthermore, in a globalized
world, ICT are changing the way businesses create and capture
value, how and where we work, and how we interact and communicate.
These allegations were prior to the actual global pandemic, which
is an event that accentuated the use of ICT like never before.
Thus, some of the traditional teachings methods are rapidly
becoming obsolete, unattractive to the new generation of students
or needing the complementarity of additional methodologies. In the
last years higher education institutions as well as lectures
individually, invested in the introduction and development of new
teaching methods, including in activities of training. More active
methodologies are being incentivized, like problem based learning
(PBL), Co-creation, team based learning (TBL) or gamification.
Beside the methodologies, teaching in a more technological
environment is essential for promoting digital skills of lectures
and students. In the context of COVID-19, practices of e-learning
or b-learning increased the adoption of digital platforms,
influencing teaching practices. In addition, institutions are also
giving attention to the development of soft skills as a complement
of hard skills, which opens a field for different teaching contexts
and experiences. Despite the higher development of new teaching
approaches in the recent years, relevant questions related to
learning objectives, suitable methodologies and impact assessment,
remain unanswered. Thus, this book is open to receive research
inputs that allow the interested community to learn with
experiences as well as to access insights, discussion on new forms
of teaching and training methodologies and curricular programs, in
all the fields of management.
This authoritative reference source covers all higher education
themes in a comprehensive, accessible and comparative way. It maps
the field for the twenty first century reflecting the massive
changes that have occurred and the challenges ahead for future
research. It provides a rich diversity of scholarly perspectives
and covers the entire spectrum of higher education from a
geographical, a topical and disciplinary perspective. It is
unrivaled in its capacity to go beyond national boundaries and
provides indispensible comparative analyses. The major reference
works available about higher education have been published more
than two decades ago and since then higher education has undergone
major changes that have resulted in a much larger, diverse, global,
and multidimensional reality. One of the main trends has been
relentless expansion on a worldwide scale. This has led to mass
higher education becoming a reality across continents, substantial
growth in the number of countries with universal access to higher
education, and great diversification of the student body. The
tremendous increase in the international links in higher education,
through issues such as training, students' mobility, staff
mobility, research activities, is another major change. The
consequence is a global dimension that is strongly associated with
the intensification of international networks in which institutions
and researchers explore, create and share knowledge. As a result of
the changes and trends, higher education has increasingly become
part of debates that highlight its complexity as an institution
that combines relevant political, social, economic, and cultural
purposes and dimensions. Asked to play important and varied
economic and social roles, higher education has had to reshape its
priorities, and organizational and decision-making structures. The
growth and increased complexity of the field have both led to more
attention being paid to all aspects of higher education and to the
expansion of research.
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