Assistant Professor
Faculty of Economics, Social and Business Sciences
Lusofona University
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Gina Santos holds a PhD in Management from the University of Beira Interior, where her research focused on entrepreneurship and strategy in women-led businesses. She also holds a Master's degree in Management from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, where she studied the profiles, motivations, and professional and family challenges experienced by women entrepreneurs, and a Bachelor's degree in Portuguese-English.
Her professional career began as a trainer in a project supported by the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) focused on promoting the educational use of the Internet in primary schools. She subsequently served as Vice-Coordinator of projects related to digital education and community development in the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro region and held advisory and coordination roles at UTAD, including the coordination of the Student Centre.
Since 2022, she has been an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona – University Centre of Porto, where she teaches in the field of management and serves as Director of the Master's Degree in Management. She is a researcher at INTREPID Lab, a research centre integrated into CETRAD – Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies.
Her scientific output includes articles published in indexed management journals.
Her main research topics include entrepreneurship, women's entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial orientation, effectuation, corporate entrepreneurship, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), migrant entrepreneurship, self-employment, ethnic businesses, and management.
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Articles:
Rodrigues, D., Marques, C. S., & Santos, G. (2024). Artisan entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review of this emerging field of research and new trends. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 52(2), 256-282. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2024.138279
Book Chapter:
Justino, E. & Santos, G. (2024). Social Responsibility, Organisational Support, and Identification: An Approach to Non-Profit Organisations. In: Social Work - Perceptions for a New Era. Rocha, H. (Org.) IntechOpen ISBN: 978-0-85466-226-5.
Projects
Programme: Erasmus+
Action Type: KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education
Funding: 400 000,00€
Participating Organisations: Veleučilište Aspira
Partner Organisations: UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA, STICHTING HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM, UNIVERSITE LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD, NATSIONALNA SPORTNA AKADEMIYA VASSIL LEVSKI, COFAC COOPERATIVA DE FORMACAO E ANIMACAO CULTURAL CRL.
Key Team Members from Lusofona University:
Professora Doutora Diana Silva Dias, Profª Doutora Teresa Ribeiro Candeias, Profª Doutora Gina Maria Marques de Carvalho Santos.
Objectives: The project aims to develop and improve competences and skills in higher education students in the field the digital and green transition faced by the European economies, focusing on the sports domain. The project looks to develop a challenge- based approach that connects the education activities in participant HEIs with the needs and challenges of the stakeholders, fostering engagement, doing so in a multidisciplinary and multicultural way, strengthening the students’ knowledge and abilities
