Countries are facing a pandemic crisis in the context of a new disease from the coronavirus family, referred to as COVID-19. This article aims to present the main facts related to the fight against the pandemic from the perspective of the Portuguese governance, aiming to contribute to the knowledge of crisis management by political leaders as well as the performance of public entities. The present research was conducted through a quantitative approach, using data publicly provided by the Portuguese Directorate General of Health. An explanatory and descriptive study is presented about the current panorama, and yet to be shared good practices of crisis management and the relevance of organizational values in crisis management and crisis coordination are also discussed. Based on the lessons from Portugal, the authors suggest the relevance of organizational values and stakeholders’ coordination as key factors in crisis situations, such as the current one.
The new coronavirus caught governments all over the world completely unaware, which led to a set of different and sometimes not quite articulated responses, leading to some undesirable results. The present investigation is based on three objectives: to assess the conditions “before” and “during” the combat and the expected consequences “after” the outbreak, by having as reference the Portuguese case; to offer a framework of the input factors to crisis management in the pandemic context; and to contribute to the crisis management literature, in the public sector from a perspective of collaborative and multi-level governance. This research is inductive and follows a quantitative approach, with the proposal and testing of a crisis management COVID-19 structural model. The Portuguese case presented in this paper suggests a robust and valid crisis management model. This model may be well translated for other countries with cultural proximity to the Portuguese culture, for instance, Portuguese speaking countries such as Brazil, or geographical proximity to Portugal such as, for instance, Spain. The authors, nevertheless, advise readers to exert some restraint on the extrapolation of the results, as governance systems and traditions can vary a good deal from country to country. Future studies should focus on the importance of coordination as one of the most important areas in crisis management, narrowing the scope of analysis from the broad, macro understanding of the research problem presented on this paper.
O presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar um diagnóstico do ecossistema empreendedor dos municípios portugueses com vista a compreender de que forma é que o ecossistema empreendedor local tem promovido o desenvolvimento de negócios. Metodologicamente, a investigação recorreu a uma abordagem qualitativa, através de entrevistas com os responsáveis pelo empreendedorismo de onze municípios portugueses. Com recurso à análise temática foi possível propor um modelo do Ecossistema Empreendedor dos Municípios Portugueses. Os resultados evidenciam que o Poder Local é fundamental para a criação de Ecossistemas Empreendedores, sendo os responsáveis pela Governance Local e pela prestação de Suporte aos agentes deste Ecossistema, bem como pela criação de redes de cooperação, especialmente entre o sector público, privado e as universidades que são basilares para o desenvolvimento deste tipo Ecossistemas.
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