Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Prosocial rule-breaking and public value in public procurement: informal practices in pre-tender design and post-contract continuity

Purpose This paper aims to examine how three informal practices in Portuguese public procurement – informal suggestion of invitees, supplier input to specifications and indirect continuity of incumbent resources – emerge and become justified in a highly regulated procurement envi...

Data governance, business strategy, and sustainability practices: exploratory employee-perception evidence from a single pulp and paper corporate group

Purpose This study examines how data governance (DG) contributes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration by strengthening data accountability, the reliability of ESG-related information, and strategic alignment. Grounded in the resource-based view (RBV), it inv...

Ecological and Quality Conditions for Children’s Participation as a Right in Early Childhood Education and Care

Abstract Providing space for children’s voices to be heard, listening to their ideas and giving due weight to their propositions, on all matters that affect them, describes the concept of participation rights according to the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child....

Constructing Resistance: Socially Engaged Architecture and Civic Activism in Croatia

Abstract This article traces the emergence of socially engaged architectural practices in Croatia within wider civic mobilizations against investor-driven urbanism and contested spatial governance. It examines how architects, acting as civic experts, navigated post-socialist urba...

Digitalized transitions: becoming an early career stage researcher in Portugal

Starting a career can be challenging, representing the potential end of full-time education and arrival at a position of relative economic and emotional stability. In this article, we look at this process, focusing on early career stage researchers in Portugal. Discussion is info...

A&M based fractional delay and Doppler channel estimation in OTFS

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is a candidate for low-density high-mobility communication (LDHMC) use case in sixth generation (6G) due to its robustness against Doppler effects. This paper presents a low-complexity channel estimation method based on the A&M fr...