Susana Bernardino

Susana Bernardino is an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Polytechnic of Porto - Institute of Accounting and Administration (ISCAP), S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal, and researcher at CEOS.PP/ISCAP. She completed her under-graduation degree in Management at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto, where also obtained the curricular part of the master's course in Finance. She got her PhD in Management in 2014 from the Portucalense University. Her research interests focus on social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, social and solidarity economy, smart cities, urban and regional development. and crowdfunding.

Publications

Integration Challenges of Immigrants in Smart Cities: A Human Approach Based on a Case Study
Integration Challenges of Immigrants in Smart Cities: A Human Approach Based on a Case Study
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos. © 2023. 20 pages.
The most recent interpretations of the concept of smart city (SC) highlight the need for adopting a more holistic vision of SC, which includes other relevant features for...
Social Entrepreneur's Networks and Institutional Environment: Ties That Bind?
Social Entrepreneur's Networks and Institutional Environment: Ties That Bind?
Susana Bernardino, José Freitas Santos, José Cadima Ribeiro. © 2023. 24 pages.
Institutional environments are widely regarded as a crucial advantage of regions to promote social entrepreneurship. However, there is scarce empirical support on the importance...
Assessing Social Entrepreneurs' Personal Network for Resource Acquisition: A Preliminary Study
Assessing Social Entrepreneurs' Personal Network for Resource Acquisition: A Preliminary Study
Susana Bernardino, José Freitas Santos. © 2023. 25 pages.
Social entrepreneurial activity is characterized by the innovative search for resource acquisition, combination, and management to pursue opportunities aiming at fulfilling the...
Authentic Leadership: Does Age Influence How Leadership Is Perceived? An Empirical Study
Authentic Leadership: Does Age Influence How Leadership Is Perceived? An Empirical Study
Susana Bernardino, Beatriz Teixeira. © 2023. 23 pages.
Leadership has been widely studied and recognized as important over time. This chapter has two main objectives. The first one is to analyse the perceptions that individuals have...
Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing in the Public Sector in Portugal: The Participatory Budget
Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing in the Public Sector in Portugal: The Participatory Budget
Susana Bernardino, Vera Rocha. © 2023. 44 pages.
Participatory budgeting is a recent mechanism that is related to open innovation and crowdsourcing in public entities and allows the participation of society in governmental...
Does Gender Really Matter in Crowdfunding Campaigns?: An Exploratory Study
Does Gender Really Matter in Crowdfunding Campaigns?: An Exploratory Study
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos, Rita Silva. © 2022. 21 pages.
The research aims to understand whether gender can or not influence the success of crowdfunding (CF) campaigns. To attain this objective, entrepreneurs that launch a CF campaign...
Brazilian Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Portugal and the Challenges of Crowdfunding
Brazilian Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Portugal and the Challenges of Crowdfunding
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos, Eliane Casarin. © 2022. 23 pages.
The objective of the study is to understand the degree of knowledge that immigrant entrepreneurs in Portugal have about crowdfunding and the predisposition they have for using...
Financing Nascent Entrepreneurs by Reward-Based Crowdfunding: Lessons From Indiegogo Campaigns
Financing Nascent Entrepreneurs by Reward-Based Crowdfunding: Lessons From Indiegogo Campaigns
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos, Silvie Oliveira. © 2021. 25 pages.
A problem faced by nascent entrepreneurs is to attract outside capital to finance a new venture. A new promising funding mechanism created outside the banking system is...
Lending Crowdfunding and Regional Development: An Empirical Study
Lending Crowdfunding and Regional Development: An Empirical Study
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos. © 2021. 29 pages.
By analysing the operations of a lending crowdfunding platform in Portugal, the investigation aims to study the potential contribution of CF for entrepreneurship and regional...
Gender Differences and Generation of Ideas on Civic Crowdsourcing
Gender Differences and Generation of Ideas on Civic Crowdsourcing
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos. © 2020. 26 pages.
Crowdsourcing platforms are being used to increase citizen engagement with the development and implementation of new projects that can improve the community's wellbeing. The...
Determinants of the Effective Use of UGC (User-Generated Content) on Hotel Room Bookings by Portuguese Travellers
Determinants of the Effective Use of UGC (User-Generated Content) on Hotel Room Bookings by Portuguese Travellers
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos, José Cadima Ribeiro, André Freitas. © 2020. 14 pages.
The presence of user generated content (UGC) on online platforms of hotel room booking operators is changing the way consumers book a hotel room. After a critical evaluation of...
Integration Challenges of Immigrants in Smart Cities: A Human Approach Based on a Case Study
Integration Challenges of Immigrants in Smart Cities: A Human Approach Based on a Case Study
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos. © 2020. 18 pages.
The most recent interpretations of the concept of smart city (SC) highlight the need for adopting a more holistic vision of SC, which includes other relevant features for...
Building Smarter Cities Through Social Entrepreneurship
Building Smarter Cities Through Social Entrepreneurship
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos. © 2019. 36 pages.
The objective of the present study is to examine the extent to which social ventures are able to increase the “smartness” of cities. To achieve this goal, we adopt a qualitative...
Assessing Social Entrepreneurs' Personal Network for Resource Acquisition: A Preliminary Study
Assessing Social Entrepreneurs' Personal Network for Resource Acquisition: A Preliminary Study
Susana Bernardino, José Freitas Santos. © 2019. 33 pages.
Social entrepreneurial activity is characterized by the innovative search for resource acquisition, combination, and management to pursue opportunities aiming at fulfilling the...
Social Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Empirical Examination
Social Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Empirical Examination
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos, J. Cadima Ribeiro. © 2019. 29 pages.
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and social entrepreneurship are receiving increasing attention for their ability to foster economic and social development. This study adopts the...
Social Entrepreneur's Networks and Institutional Environment: Ties That Bind?
Social Entrepreneur's Networks and Institutional Environment: Ties That Bind?
Susana Bernardino, José Freitas Santos, José Cadima Ribeiro. © 2019. 22 pages.
Institutional environments are widely regarded as a crucial advantage of regions to promote social entrepreneurship. However, there is scarce empirical support on the importance...
Social Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Empirical Examination
Social Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Empirical Examination
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos, J. Cadima Ribeiro. © 2018. 30 pages.
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and social entrepreneurship are receiving increasing attention for their ability to foster economic and social development. This study adopts the...
Building Smarter Cities Through Social Entrepreneurship
Building Smarter Cities Through Social Entrepreneurship
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos. © 2018. 36 pages.
The objective of the present study is to examine the extent to which social ventures are able to increase the “smartness” of cities. To achieve this goal, we adopt a qualitative...
Building Smarter Cities through Social Entrepreneurship
Building Smarter Cities through Social Entrepreneurship
Susana Bernardino, J. Freitas Santos. © 2017. 36 pages.
The objective of the present study is to examine the extent to which social ventures are able to increase the “smartness” of cities. To achieve this goal, we adopt a qualitative...
Social Entrepreneurship: Does Institutional Environment Make a Difference?
Social Entrepreneurship: Does Institutional Environment Make a Difference?
Susana Bernardino, José Freitas Santos, José Cadima Ribeiro. © 2016. 26 pages.
The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to a better understanding of the link between social entrepreneurship and institutional environment in Portugal. A quantitative...