Teacher
João M. Lopes

Resume

João M. Lopes holds a Ph.D. in management. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at Lusófona University and the director of the commercial management degree. He is a Researcher at Intrepid Lab and NECE (Research Unit for Business Sciences). He has several publications in journals indexed to WOS and Scopus, and is an Associate Editor on the Board of the Journal of the Knowledge Economy. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Regional Science and Environmental Economics, Journal of Regional Economics, and Journal Platforms. He is also a Reviewer Board member in several journals: Social Sciences, Urban Science, Digital, Smart Cities, Tourism and Hospitality, and World. His main research interests include: regional innovation systems, RIS3, smart specialization, artificial intelligence, tourism, strategy, entrepreneurship, marketing, innovation, circular economy, circular entrepreneurship, digital technology in business, environmental and social sustainability and competitiveness.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Gestão Hoteleira (Gestão Hoteleira)
• Mestrado
  Gestão de Empresas (Business Management)
• Doutoramento
  Gestão (Management)

Publicações

Artigo em revista (magazine)

• 2024-09-15, Management of Consumers Embraces Drone Delivery

Artigo em revista

• 2026-12, From AI-enabled service quality to digital immersion state: effects on the Awe Experience in fashion e-retail, Future Business Journal
• 2026-04-21, AI-powered ventures: How digital competencies shape entrepreneurial success, Industry and Higher Education
• 2026-03-18, SME triumph in the European Union: Blending digital, green, hard, and soft skills, Journal of the International Council for Small Business
• 2026-03, When AI Meets Festivals: How eWOM Mediates the Route to Memorable Experiences and Well-Being, International Journal of Tourism Research
• 2026-03, Mapping the difficulties in implementing resource efficiency measures of European Companies, Resources Policy
• 2026-02-23, “Poisoned gift”? Effects of workplace practices on work-life balance of women working in logistics in Europe and the mediation role of work engagement, The International Journal of Logistics Management
• 2026-02-20, Empowering Digital Entrepreneurship Intention: Unveiling the Role of Education, Journal of the Knowledge Economy
• 2026-02-12, Exploring psychosocial predictors of AI use intention: the moderating role of organisational culture in diverse workplaces, Behaviour & Information Technology
• 2025-12-26, Do socially responsible companies foster more engaged employees?, Polish Journal of Management Studies
• 2025-12-12, AI’s invisible touch: how effortless browsing shapes customer perception, experience and engagement in online retail, Cogent Business & Management
• 2025-11-24, Charting Resource Efficiency Practices Across European Firms: A Multilevel Analysis, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
• 2025-10-30, Circular packaging under suspicion: the cat and mouse game with greenwashing, Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy
• 2025-10-27, What inspires young Europeans to be agents of change through social entrepreneurship? A youth social entrepreneurship model proposal, Social Enterprise Journal
• 2025-08-18, Customer experience in digital transformation, International Journal of Innovation Science
• 2025-06-01, The new era of Artificial Intelligence in consumption: theoretical framing, review and research agenda, Management Review Quarterly
• 2025-06, Delivering tomorrow today, Research in Transportation Business and Management
• 2025-05-29, The role of artificial intelligence in mobile banking: decoding portuguese consumers’ perceptions and intentions to engage, Future Business Journal
• 2025-05-04, Aerial pathways to resilience: the acceptance of drones in logistics transformation, Future Business Journal
• 2025-04-25, Capabilities Approach to Working From Home: Is It the Path to Work Engagement and Work-Life Balance?, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility
• 2025-02-21, Festivals in Age of AI: Smarter Crowds, Happier Fans, Tourism and Hospitality
• 2025-02-05, Pathways to Circularity: Engagement Patterns of European SMEs in the Circular Economy, Business Strategy and the Environment
• 2025-02-05, Educational insights into digital entrepreneurship: the influence of personality and innovation attitudes, Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• 2025-01-21, Unveiling triple bottom line's influence on business performance, Discover Sustainability
• 2025-01-15, Anthropomorphism in artificial intelligence: a game-changer for brand marketing, Future Business Journal
• 2025-01-14, Driving regional advancement: exploring the impact of science and technology parks in the outermost regions of Europe, European Journal of Innovation Management
• 2025-01-13, Workplace practices and work-life balance in Europe: the role of gender and home and family care, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society
• 2025-01, What Is the Impact of Digital Tools on Hospitality Business Performance? The Case of SME Accommodation Sector in Portugal, International Journal of Tourism Research
• 2025, The effect of psychosocial working conditions on work engagement and burnout in European communication industry, Corporate Communications: An International Journal (CCIJ)
• 2025, Personality alchemy: The influence of personality traits on the circular entrepreneurial intentions of higher education students, Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review
• 2025, Consumer Preferences and Barriers in the Adoption of Drone Delivery Services: A Comprehensive Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
• 2024-12-26, The hidden reasons behind generation Z's green choices, Discover Sustainability
• 2024-12-11, Running Towards a Better Brand Attitude: How Gamification in Nike Run Club Can Help?, Journal of the Knowledge Economy
• 2024-12, Nature's safecrackers: Decoding substitutability and protecting natural capital in innovation ecosystems SSA and MENA regions, Innovation and Green Development
• 2024-11-19, The green seed: The influence of pro-sustainable orientation on social entrepreneurship in higher education students, Industry and Higher Education
• 2024-11-07, Green Purchase Determinants in a Peripheral Region of Europe: How Can Green Marketing Influence Consumers’ Decisions? The Mediating Role of Green Awareness of Price, Administrative Sciences
• 2024-09-13, From Risk to Reward: Understanding the Influence of Generation Z and Personality Factors on Sustainable Entrepreneurial Behaviour, FIIB Business Review
• 2024-07-28, Financial Sustainability: Exploring the Influence of the Triple Bottom Line Economic Dimension on Firm Performance, Sustainability
• 2024-07-20, AI Meets the Shopper: Psychosocial Factors in Ease of Use and Their Effect on E-Commerce Purchase Intention, Behavioral Sciences
• 2024-04-17, The contribution of the labour practices to organizational performance: The mediating role of social sustainability, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility
• 2024-01-25, Navigating the green maze: insights for businesses on consumer decision-making and the mediating role of their environmental concerns, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal
• 2024, Management of Consumers Embraces Drone Delivery, Marketing and Management of Innovations
• 2023-12-10, Unlocking the potential of circular consumption: The influence of circular habits, environmental concerns and the search for pro-sustainable information on circular consumption, Business Strategy & Development
• 2023-11-07, From green hype to green habits: Understanding the factors that influence young consumers' green purchasing decisions, Business Strategy and the Environment
• 2023-11-02, From environmental sustainability practices to green innovations: Evidence from small and medium-sized manufacturing companies, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
• 2023-11, A meta-regression analysis of environmental sustainability practices and firm performance, Journal of Cleaner Production
• 2023-10-05, Green to gold: consumer circular choices may boost circular business models, Environment, Development and Sustainability
• 2023-08-23, How do gender attitudes influence the relationships between perceived desirability, perceived feasibility and social entrepreneurial intentions?, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
• 2023-06-30, Was There an Alteration on Consumers Pattern with COVID- 19 Pandemic? A Pre and Post-Pandemic Research on Consumers Behavior, International Journal of Marketing, Communication and New Media
• 2023-06-25, Strategic Organizational Sustainability in the Age of Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainability
• 2023-05-31, Insights for Pro-Sustainable Tourist Behavior: The Role of Sustainable Destination Information and Pro-Sustainable Tourist Habits, Sustainability
• 2023-04-15, Exploring the Role of Gamification in the Online Shopping Experience in Retail Stores: An Exploratory Study, Social Sciences
• 2023-03-29, Looking at the tourism industry through the lenses of industry 4.0: a bibliometric review of concerns and challenges, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights
• 2023-02-28, Entrepreneurial conditions and economic growth in entrepreneurial ecosystems: Evidence from OECD countries, The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• 2023-01-01, Online Food Shopping: Determinants and Profile of Portuguese Buyers in the Pandemic Context, Innovar
• 2023-01, Willingness to pay more for green products: A critical challenge for Gen Z, Journal of Cleaner Production
• 2023, Ticking time bombs: The MENA and SSA regions' geopolitical risks, Resources Policy
• 2023, Problems and solutions: the sustainable development goals in the age of green economy, International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
• 2023, Problems and solutions: the sustainable development goals in the age of green economy, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• 2023, Industry 4.0 implementation: Environmental and social sustainability in manufacturing multinational enterprises, Journal of Cleaner Production
• 2023, Assessing the societal impact of smart grids: outcomes of a collaborative research project
• 2022-12-30, The Epic Game of Creating a Successful Gamified Co-Creation Strategy, Administrative Sciences
• 2022-08-03, Modeling the predictors of students’ entrepreneurial intentions: The case of a peripheral European region, Industry and Higher Education
• 2022-07, Evolution of the Online Grocery Shopping Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empiric Study from Portugal, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
• 2022-04-09, The New Times of Social Media Marketing in the B2B Framework, Businesses
• 2022-03-09, Science and Technology Parks: Opening the Pandora’s Box of Regional Development, Journal of the Knowledge Economy
• 2022-03, Entrepreneurial intention among women: A case study in the Portuguese academy, Strategic Change
• 2022-01, Developing Knowledge of Supply Chain Resilience in Less-Developed Countries in the Pandemic Age, Logistics
• 2022, The Holy Grail of luxury tourism: A holistic bibliometric overview, Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism
• 2022, Playing the gamification and co-creation game: a bibliometric literature review, Management Review Quarterly
• 2021-10, An insight on B2B Firms in the Age of Digitalization and Paperless Processes, Sustainability
• 2021-09-16, Entrepreneurial marketing: a bibliometric analysis of the second decade of the 21st century and future agenda, Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship
• 2021-06-08, Education as a key to provide the growth of entrepreneurial intentions, Education + Training
• 2021-05-11, Do digital influencers successfully contribute to reducing the gap between customers and companies? , Brazilian Business Review
• 2021-05, Entrepreneurial Intention before and during COVID-19—A Case Study on Portuguese University Students, Education Sciences
• 2021-04, Entrepreneurship and the Resource_Based View: What is the linkage? A Bibliometric Approach, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing
• 2021, Valuation of the secretarial profession in the current organizational context, International Journal of Entrepreneurship
• 2021, Valuation of the secretarial profession in the current organizational context, International Journal of Entrepreneurship
• 2021, Strategic management and value creation in Non-Profit Organisations, Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences
• 2021, Social networks in the non-profit sector: Social support practices, International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing
• 2021, Networks, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in Tourism Industry: An Empirical Study of SMEs in Portugal, Social Sciences
• 2021, How to Overcome Barriers to Sharing Tacit Knowledge in Non-Profit Organizations?, Journal of the Knowledge Economy
• 2021, How do stakeholders evaluate smart specialization policies defined for their regions?, Competitiveness Review
• 2021, How Can Gamified Applications Drive Engagement and Brand Attitude? The Case of Nike Run Club Application, Administrative Sciences
• 2021, Entrepreneurial intention before and during COVID-19: A case study on portuguese university students
• 2021, Emotional intelligence profile of tourists and its impact on tourism, Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism
• 2021, Covid 19 impacts on digital marketing strategies: the case of catering SMEs in Portugal, Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal
• 2021, Covid 19 impacts on digital marketing strategies: the case of catering SMEs in Portugal
• 2021, Business Dynamism and Innovation Capacity, an Entrepreneurship Worldwide Perspective, Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
• 2021, Authentic leadership in small businesses: the importance of humility and resilience, Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal
• 2021, Authentic leadership as predictor of resilience, humility and compassion of subordinators, Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences
• 2021, Authentic leadership and its interactions with the compassion and humility of employees, Academy of Strategic Management Journal
• 2021, Alterations in consumer behavior on food purchases during covid-19 pandemic
• 2021, A citation and co-citation bibliometric analysis of omnichannel marketing research, Management Review Quarterly
• 2020-04-11, Barriers to University-Industry Cooperation in a Developing Region, Journal of the Knowledge Economy
• 2020-04-01, Regional Innovation Ecosystems and Smart Specialization: Opportunities and Challenges for Regions, Revista Brasileira de Gestão e Desenvolvimento Regional
• 2020-04-01, Entrepreneurial Marketing: Conceptual Systematization in English and Portuguese languages, International Journal of Marketing, Communication and New Media
• 2020-01-07, Social innovation and social entrepreneurship: discovering origins, exploring current and future trends, International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing
• 2020, University entrepreneurial intentions: mainland and insular regions – are they different?, Education and Training
• 2020, THE ROLE OF THE SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROFILE OF TOURISTS IN THE INTENTION TO RETURN TO A DESTINATION
• 2020, MODERNIZATION AND DYNAMISM IN THE ACTUAL BUSINESS PANORAMA ACROSS THE WORLD, PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF APPLIED BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (ICABM2020)
• 2020, Entrepreneurial dynamics and government policies to boost entrepreneurship performance, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
• 2020, CO-CREATION GAMING, A PLAUSIBLE TOOL FOR THE PORTUGUESE COMPANIES?
• 2019-08, Industrial symbiosis in a circular economy: towards firms' sustainable competitive advantage, International Journal of Mechatronics and Applied Mechanics
• 2019-05-01, Reflecting on the innovative performances of European regions in the age of smart specialisation, Global Business and Economics Review
• 2019-03, Review About Regional Development Networks: an Ecosystem Model Proposal, Journal of the Knowledge Economy
• 2019-03, Innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3): Past, present and future research, Growth and Change
• 2019, Exploring Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Recent Advancements in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility
• 2018-12, Does regional VRIO model help policy-makers to assess the resources of a region? A stakeholder perception approach, Land Use Policy
• 2018-11-02, Smart specialization policies: innovative performance models from European regions, European Planning Studies
• 2018-08-28, Comparative Entrepreneurship between Western Europe and Latin America, Entrepreneurship Research Journal
• 2018-07-03, Emerging Perspectives on Regional Academic Entrepreneurship, Higher Education Policy
• 2018-07-01, Value Creation and Commercialization in Insular Ecosystems, International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development
• 2018, Peeking beyond the wall: analysing university technology transfer and commercialisation processes, International Journal of Technology Management
• 2018, Measuring the Performance of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Networks, Journal of the Knowledge Economy
• 2018, MAPPING THE FIELD: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROJECT EVALUATION (ICOPEV)

Tese / Dissertação

• 2019, Smart specialization strategies as booster of regional entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystems
• 2019, Doutoramento, Smart specialization strategies as booster of regional entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystems

Livro

• 2018, How to reduce waste in health services through Lean thinking?, João M. Lopes

Capítulo de livro

• 2025, Unlocking circular potential: the influence of personality traits on university students’ circular entrepreneurial attitude and intention
• 2024, Diagnosing the Implementation of Digital Technologies by European Union Manufacturing Multinationals
• 2023, The Transformational Impact of Digital Venture Ecosystems on Entrepreneurship in Europe
• 2023, Landing the scientific helicopter to explore in-depth some best practices in smart city innovation ecosystems, Edward Elgar Publishing
• 2022, How Did COVID-19 Reshape Food Procurement Around the Globe? Effective Operation and Redesign of the Food Retail Industry in China, Portugal, Turkey, and the USA, Springer International Publishing
• 2020, The Importance of Financial Theories for SME Capital Structure Decisions
• 2020, Regional Innovation Ecosystems: Tuning the Regional Engine’s Helix Through Smart Specialization
• 2020, Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Tourism SMEs, Multilevel Approach to Competitiveness in the Global Tourism Industry, IGI Global
• 2020, Assessing Regional Advantage Based on Smart Specialisation Strategies
• 2020, Applying Regional VRIO Model to Island Regions: An Evaluation of RIS3

Artigo em conferência

• The impact of digital transformations on business leadership: A bibliometric approach
• Supply chain challenges in the Covid-19 pandemic world
• Strategic management in SMEs: Innovation and sustainability
• Family business strategies: Systematic literature review
• 2023-10-25, Digital skills and social media in the European agri-food sector, Interdisciplinary European Coference on Entrepreneurship Research
• 2023, TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE, SUSTAINABILITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THEORETICAL INSIGHTS AND THE RESEARCH AGENDA
• 2023, THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS ON BUSINESS LEADERSHIP: A Bibliometric Approach

Resumo em conferência

• 2022-07-14, The key to sustainable economic development: a triple bottom line approach, International Conference of Applied Business and Management (ICABM2022)
• 2022, Have consumer habits changed with the Covid-19 pandemic? An analysis of the Portuguese consumer profile, International Conference of Applied Business and Management (ICABM2022)