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Márcia Rafaela Cadete dos Santos
Assistant Professor
School of Economic and Organizational Sciences
Lusofona University
PURE
Márcia Santos is a researcher at INTREPID Lab – Research for Business and Society. She holds a PhD in Management and is also a researcher at the Business Research Unit (BRU) and Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR-IUL), both research centres at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal.
Her academic and professional background combines Management, Accounting, Taxation and Data Analytics with extensive experience in the social economy sector. For more than 10 years, she has conducted research on social economy organisations, focusing on the challenges faced by nonprofit and for-profit organisations and the development of approaches that support more informed management decisions.
Her research focuses on Management, Social Economy, Risk Management and Business Intelligence, with particular interest in data analytics, organisational performance, social impact and decision-making processes. Her work explores how organisations can address strategic and operational challenges through improved management practices, with a particular emphasis on risk assessment and sustainability in social projects.
Márcia Santos has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals and contributed to book chapters and academic publications related to social economy management, nonprofit organisations and organisational resilience. She received and managed a research grant from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) for a social economy research project and was awarded an Honourable Mention by CASES – Social Economy Cooperative for her doctoral thesis on social economy management. She also coordinated the national survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Portugal’s social economy, with results disseminated through national media.
Alongside her research activity, she has teaching experience at several higher education institutions, including Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal and Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, where she has taught management-related courses and supervised master’s students. She also has more than 10 years of professional experience at Deloitte, where she has worked as a manager in an international business environment, developing expertise in team leadership, communication and organisational management.
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Pardete, R., Santos, M. R. C., & Leote, F. (2024). Future VAT regime for financial services from a stakeholder perspective: Analysis of the European Commission 2020 public consultation’s position papers. EC Tax Review. 33(1), 33-46. https://doi.org/10.54648/ecta2024004
Carvalho, L., & Santos, M. R. C. (2024). The Role of the Energy Sector in Contributing to Sustainability Development Goals: A Text Mining Analysis of Literature. Energies, 17(1), 208. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17010208