https://hdl.handle.net/10216/1876 2026-07-29T13:43:12Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/175093 Title: The role of fiscal and monetary policies on growth and wages 2026-07-10T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/173653 Title: Nomological Network of Turnover in the Portuguese Military Context 2026-03-06T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/174616 Title: Sustainable Business Practices in Business Relationships: a Study in the Portuguese Automotive Industrial Networks 2026-05-25T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/174640 Title: Inequality, Sorting, and Optimal Policy 2026-06-19T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/174615 Title: Corporate Social Responsibility and  Market Outcomes 2026-06-02T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/171629 Title: Essays on lntra-Family Moral Hazard. 2025-12-05T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/148555 Title: The Influence of Middle Managers on the Adoption of Gamification in Strategic Alignment 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/151081 Title: Blockchain and business value creation 2023-03-02T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/165143 Title: Accounting Standards Setting and Regulatory Capital Arbitrage 2025-01-30T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/148072 Title: Strategy performance relationship in Europe Abstract: The present dissertation is composed by three studies that connect the relationship between business strategy and performance of listed companies in Europe in the STOXX index in different ways. Supporting our research on the framework developed by Miles and Snow, which is based on the way companies solve three fundamental problems: entrepreneurial, engineering, and administrative, our investigation aims to verify whether or not this strategic orientation is independent of the national culture, the degree of uncertainty and dynamism and the digital/technological transformation. The first study investigates the importance of strategic orientation and national culture in the performance of listed companies in Europe. Analysing the strategic orientation of the listed companies for the period between 2012 and 2019, there is empirical evidence that strategy impacts significantly on firm performance. Moreover, our results show that national culture has a moderating influence in the strategy-performance linkage. In the second study, we explore the strategic behaviour of the listed companies for the period between 2015 and 2019, in the context of uncertainty and dynamism (national innovation capabilities). The analyses carried out enables a better understanding of the strategic behaviour that better fits to these contexts and at different levels performance. In order to access that different performance levels, we introduced an econometric model with a quantile regression approach, to complement our research with a better understanding strategy-performance linkage, analysing the effect of the explanatory variables at various quantiles of conditional performance distribution at low and high levels. Finally, the third study assess if the business strategy in the context of digital transformation, of high-technology companies listed on the STOXX600 index. Panel data results obtained for the period between 2015 and 2019, shows that prospector strategy impacts significantly on firm performance. Findings also suggest that the presence of digital officer´s (CDO) in the top management team, is significant and impact on market value performance. Since this top manager´s play an important role in the business transformation, acting as enabler´s of digital transformation and helping in exploring new opportunities in the future. Description: A presente tese é composta por três estudos que conectam a temática da relação entre a estratégia empresarial e a performance das empresas cotadas na Europa no índice STOXX. Tendo por base a tipologia estratégica desenvolvida por Miles & Snow, que assenta na forma como as empresas decidem resolver três problemas fundamentais: comerciais, de engenharia (ou operacionais), e administrativos, a nossa investigação pretende verificar se essa orientação estratégica é ou não independente da cultura nacional, do grau de incerteza e dinamismo nacional e da transformação digital/tecnológica. O primeiro estudo investiga a importância da orientação estratégica e da cultura nacional na performance das empresas cotadas na Europa, analisando a orientação estratégica dessas empresas no período entre 2012 e 2019. Os resultados empíricos demonstram que a estratégia influencia de forma significativa a performance das empresas. Além disso, os resultados mostram ainda que a cultura nacional tem uma influência moderadora na relação entre estratégia e performance. No segundo estudo, é investigado o comportamento estratégico das empresas cotadas na europa no período entre 2015 e 2019, num contexto de incerteza e dinamismo (capacidade de inovação nacional). As análises efetuadas permitem uma melhor compreensão do comportamento estratégico que melhor se adapta a estes contextos e a diferentes níveis de performance. Por forma a se aferir os diferentes níveis de performance, aplicou-se um modelo econométrico baseado na regressão por quantis, como complemento da investigação. Para uma melhor compreensão da relação entre a estratégia e performance, analisou-se o efeito das variáveis explicativas em vários quantis da distribuição condicional, em níveis mais baixos e mais elevados de performance. Por fim, no terceiro pretende-se assim avaliar se a estratégia das empresas ainda é válida no contexto da transformação digital, das empresas mais tecnológicas cotadas no índice STOXX600. Os resultados dos dados em painel obtidos no período entre 2015 e 2019 mostram que a estratégia prospectora (prospector) influencia significativamente a performance das empresas. Os resultados também sugerem, que a presença de digital officer´s (CDO) na equipa de gestão de topo, tem um impacto positivo e significativo na performance das empresas, uma vez que estes gestores de topo desempenham um papel importante na transformação do negócio, atuando como facilitadores da transformação digital e ajudando na exploração de novas oportunidades no futuro. 2023-01-05T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/156972 Title: Mudança organizacional como redefinição da relação entre centro e periferias: uma análise das relações de poder 2023-11-28T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/150675 Title: The impact of the ecb's asset purchase programme on european sovereign yields and equity markets 2023-07-03T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/147477 Title: Essays on Refugee Entrepreneurship 2023-01-15T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/76576 Title: Variações na publicidade em videojogos: Efeito ao nível das atitudes, memória e sentimentos de adolescentes e pré-adolescentes 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/148302 Title: The Determinants of Corporate Brand Avoidance 2023-02-15T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/76153 Title: Brand sensuality and consumer-based brand equity 2014-07-15T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/118972 Title: Trends of Rural Entrepreneurship - Essays Concerning the Theme. 2019-01-25T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/121083 Title: Teenagers Digital Content Activity: Antecedents and Measurement in Cusco-Peru Context. 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/71457 Title: Essays on the use of real options approach in construction projects and build-own-transfer projects 2013-12-20T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10216/78990 Title: Essays on Antitrust Issues for Horizontal and Vertical Mergers 2015-06-05T00:00:00Z