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Alexandra França holds a PhD in Economic Analysis and Business Strategy, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Vigo, Spain and holds a Master Degree in Management, Porto Accounting and Business School (ISCAP). She has published in scientific journals with peer review and indexed in the various international databases (Web of Science - Clarivate Analytics, Scopus, among others). Participation and presentations in various national and international congresses. She has more than 20 years experience in the financial area in multinational corporations. Her research falls within the climate change Grand Challenge and UN Sustainable Development Goal of Climate Action (13). It explores the moderator effect of decarbonization on (competitive, growth, stakeholder) strategy - financial performance nexus to question the feasibility of ¿business-as-usual¿ in climate crisis time and uncover organizational bennefits or constraints that may dampen a more fruitful climate action from corporate polluters.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alexandra França

Citation names

  • França, Alexandra

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5019-43CB-ADEC
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1683-1322

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Business and Management

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
German Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/05/30 - 2023/12/01
Concluded
 Economic Analysis and Business Strategy (Doktor (PhD))
Major in 5311 Organization and management of enterprises
Universidade de Vigo - Campus Lagoas Marcosende, Spain
"Adapting for sustainable success: navigating change in strategic management" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Sobresaliente Cum Laude
2015 - 2016
Concluded
 Marketing e Estratégia (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 17
2013 - 2015
Concluded
 Gestão das Organizações (Mestrado integrado)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
"Strategic Determinants of SME Export Performance" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/15 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão, Portugal
2019 - 2021 Trainee Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Vigo - Campus Lagoas Marcosende, Spain
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/05 - 2021/11 Strategic Management and Environmental Sustainability
PID2019-106677GB-I00
ED481A-2018/339
 Xunta de Galicia
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Alexandra França; Silja Frankenbach; Vanda Vereb; Alexandra Vilares; António Carrizo Moreira. "Much More Than Meets the Eye". In Unveiling the Challenges Behind Nascent Entrepreneurship, 61-91. {IGI, 2021.
    10.4018/978-1-7998-4826-4.ch003
  2. França, Alexandra; Rua, Orlando Lima. "Strategic Determinants of SME Export Performance: The Mediating Effect of Competitive Strategy". In Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics, 151-174. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-76400-9_9
  3. Alexandra Fran?a; Alexandra Vilares; Silja Frankenbach; Vanda Vereb; Ant?nio C. Moreira. "The Challenging Dynamics of Nascent Entrepreneurship". United States, 2017.
    10.4018/978-1-5225-2936-1.ch001
Conference paper
  1. França, Alexandra; Lucas López-Manuel; Antonio Sartal Rodríguez; Xosé H. Vázquez. "Varieties of Capitalism Matter: Unveiling the Institutional Layers Shaping the Financial Outcomes of Stakeholder Engagement". Paper presented in XXXIII International Conference of ACEDE, Valência, 2024.
  2. França, Alexandra; Antonio Sartal Rodríguez; Xosé H. Vázquez. "DOES CARBON MANAGEMENT MODIFY THE BUSINESS STRATEGY-PERFORMANCE NEXUS". Paper presented in EURAM 2021 Reshaping capitalism for a sustainable world, Montréal, 2021.
  3. Rua, Orlando Lima; França, Alexandra. "How does entrepreneural orientation influences exploitation of knowledge?". 2016.
  4. Rua, Orlando Lima; França, Alexandra. "Impactos das capacidades absorvidas no desempenho das exportações: estudo de caso das PME da indústria portuguesa do calçado". 2015.
  5. Lima Rua, Orlando; França, Alexandra. "Determinantes estratégicos do desempenho das exportações: o papel da vantagem competitiva". 2014.
Journal article
  1. Alexandra França; Lucas López-Manuel; Antonio Sartal; Xosé H. Vázquez. "Adapting corporations to climate change: How decarbonization impacts the business strategy–performance nexus". Business Strategy and the Environment (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bse.3439.
    10.1002/bse.3439
  2. Alexandra França. "How does decarbonization impact the business strategy-performance nexus?". Academy of Management Proceedings 2021 1 (2021): 13160-13160. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2021.13160abstract.
    10.5465/ambpp.2021.13160abstract
  3. Rua, Orlando; França, Alexandra; Fernández Ortiz, Rubén. "Key drivers of SMEs export performance: the mediating effect of competitive advantage". Journal of Knowledge Management 22 2 (2018): 257-279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jkm-07-2017-0267.
    10.1108/jkm-07-2017-0267
  4. França, Alexandra; Rua, Orlando Lima; School of Accounting and Administration of Porto, Polytechnic of Porto. "Relationship between intangible resources, absorptive capacities and export performance". (2018): https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/962.
  5. França,Alexandra; Rua,Orlando Lima. "Relationship between intangible resources, absorptive capacities and export performance". (2018): http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2182-84582018000100008.
  6. Rua, Orlando Lima; França, Alexandra. "The Linkage Between Intangible Resources and Export Performance: the Mediating Effect of Innovation". International Journal of Innovation 5 3 (2017): 399-410. http://dx.doi.org/10.5585/iji.v5i3.190.
    10.5585/iji.v5i3.190
  7. "The Linkage Between Intangible Resources and Export Performance: the Mediating Effect of Innovation". International Journal of Innovation (iji) (2017): http://www.journaliji.org/index.php/iji/article/view/190.
    10.5585/iji
  8. Rua, Orlando Lima; França, Alexandra. "Assessing the Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Orientation, Reputational Resources and Absorptive Capability: A Resource-Based Approach". Periodica Polytechnica Social and Management Sciences 26 1 (2017): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3311/ppso.10206.
    10.3311/ppso.10206
  9. França, Alexandra; Rua, Orlando Lima. "Contributions of Absorptive Capabilities to Export Performance". Periodica Polytechnica Social and Management Sciences 25 2 (2017): 150. http://dx.doi.org/10.3311/ppso.10281.
    10.3311/ppso.10281
  10. França, Alexandra; Rua, Orlando Lima. "Influência da proatividade no desempenho das exportações". (2017): http://u3isjournal.isvouga.pt/index.php/PJFMA/article/view/266.
  11. França, Alexandra; Ferreira, João. "Resources and capabilities through the lens of value (co-) creation: a literature review.". International Journal of Innovation Science (2016):
    doi:10.1108/IJIS-09-2016-023
  12. França, Alexandra Silva; Rua, Orlando Lima. "Influence of entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacities in export performance". Tourism and Management Studies 12 1 (2016): 196-202. http://dx.doi.org/10.18089/tms.2016.12121.
    10.18089/tms.2016.12121
  13. "Relacionando Acesso a Recursos Financeiros e Desempenho das Exportações". Portuguese Journal of Finance, Management and Accounting (2016): http://u3isjournal.isvouga.pt/index.php/PJFMA/article/view/140.
  14. "Linking Entrepreneurial Orientation to Export Performance". Journal of Entrepreneurship: Research & Practice (2016):
    10.5171/2016.169418
  15. Silva França, Alexandra; Lima Rua, Orlando. "RELACIONANDO ACESSO AOS RECURSOS FINANCEIROS E DESEMPENHO DAS EXPORTAÇÕES". (2016): http://u3isjournal.isvouga.pt/index.php/PJFMA/article/view/140.
  16. Rua,Orlando Lima; França,Alexandra. "Recursos intangíveis e desempenho das exportações". (2016): http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2182-84582016000200018.
  17. França,Alexandra Silva; Rua,Orlando Lima. "Influence of entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacities in export performance". (2016): http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2182-84582016000100020.
  18. Rua, Orlando Lima; França, Alexandra. "Relacionando Recursos Relacionais e Desempenho das Exportações". (2016): http://u3isjournal.isvouga.pt/index.php/PJFMA/article/view/149.
  19. "Recursos intangíveis e desempenho das exportações". Tourism & Management Studies (2016):
    doi:10.18089/tms.2016.12218
  20. "The Role of Competitive Advantage in Strategic Determinants of Export Performance: Theoretical Framework.". The international journal of management Science and information technology (IJMSIT) (2015): http://www.naisit.org/journal/paper/id/126.
  21. Rua, Orlando Lima; França, Alexandra Maria Santos Silva. "Influence of entrepreneurial orientation in export performance". (2015): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/7078.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Adapting for sustainable success: navigating change in strategic management". PhD, Universidade de Vigo - Campus Lagoas Marcosende, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/11093/5523.
  2. França, Alexandra Maria Santos Silva. "Determinantes estratégicos do desempenho das exportações na indústria portuguesa do calçado". Master, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/6664.
Activities

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/09 - Current Cálculo Financeiro Gestão de Empresas (Licenciatura) Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão, Portugal
2022/09 - Current Economia Industrial e Digital Management (Licenciatura) Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão, Portugal
2023 - 2024 Estratégia Empresarial Relações Empresariais (Licenciatura) Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão, Portugal
2019/09 - 2022/06 Gestión del conocimiento y la innovación tecnológica Gestión del conocimiento y la innovación tecnológica (Bachelor) Universidade de Vigo - Campus Lagoas Marcosende, Spain
2019/09 - 2020/06 Fundamentos de administración Administración e Dirección de Empresas Materias (Bachelor) Universidade de Vigo - Campus Lagoas Marcosende, Spain