Business Research Unit

Research Seminar BRU-Iscte - Maria Tomprou
2024-06-03 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Paris)

Research Seminar BRU-Iscte - Mariella Miraglia
2024-06-17 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris) | Room B226, Building 4 (CVTT), Floor 2
Abstract: Health and health-related behaviors at work have become more salient in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic (Kniffin et al., 2021), highlighting the significance of workplace attendance behaviors, particularly presenteeism (i.e., the behavior of working in the state of ill-health, Ruhle et al., 2020), and sparking renewed interest in understating the determinants and processes underpinning these behaviors. The pandemic has also highlighted the influence of organizational practices and policies guiding employee attendance on public health, revealing the dangers of working while ill (e.g., Probst et al., 2021). The presentation will offer a brief overview of workplace attendance behaviors, with a specific emphasis on the concept of presenteeism. It will then focus on two empirical studies, aimed at investigating the effect of performance-enhancing practices on workplace attendance and exploring the formation of distinct profiles of individuals based on their levels of absenteeism and presenteeism. The design and analytical techniques of the two studies will be presented, specifically a two-way mediational design and a latent profile analysis. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of some of the main challenges and related future directions for research in the field.

Research Seminar BRU-Iscte - Ian Thomson
2024-10-03 12:30 - 14:30 (Europe/Paris) | Room B226, Building 4 (CVTT), Floor 2

Research Seminar BRU-Iscte - Pedro Freitas
2024-11-06 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris) | Room B226, Building 4 (CVTT), Floor 2

Research Seminar BRU-Iscte - Greg Saxton
2025-03-20 14:30 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)

BRU-Iscte Research Seminar: Renee Flasher
2025-07-09 14:30 (Europe/Lisbon) | Room A323, Building 4 (CVTT), 3rd floor

BRU Research Seminar: Travis Maynard
2026-05-05 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/Lisbon) | Room A104, Building 4 (CVTT), Floor 1
Guest Speaker: Travis Maynard (Colorado State University)
Time: 12:30
Title: My Journey of Studying Teams in Organisations and Current Work on Teams in Complex Environments
Abstract:Travis Maynard is a professor in the Management Department at the College of Business at Colorado State University. Travis’ research centers on organizational team effectiveness. In his session on May 5, Travis will share a bit about his research journey which has included studies in a variety of contexts including military, professional sports, healthcare. His work in several extreme contexts has shaped his interest in team resilience and adaptation and he will share work that he and his colleagues are doing in this area.

Session Chair: Patrícia Costa
Building 4
Room A104

BRU Research Seminar: Jano Jiménez-Barreto
2026-05-26 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Lisbon) | Room B226, Building 4 (CVTT), Floor 2
Guest Speaker: Jano Jiménez-Barreto (Universidad de La Laguna / Oxford Brookes University)
Time: 14:00
Title: How Time and Place Adverbs Influence Shared Control in Consumer–AI Chatbot Interactions
Abstract:AI chatbots have become standard interfaces, but companies still lack clear guidance on how to set up chatbot language to benefit consumers and brands alike. Prior research shows that language concreteness shapes persuasion and service perceptions in consumer-AI chatbot interactions. Yet there is no clear path to design specific linguistic structures that ensure these outcomes or to understand how brand characteristics can modulate AI chatbots’ linguistic performance. Building on an interaction-centric approach, we investigate whether—and under what brand conditions—chatbots that intensively use time and place adverbs produce more efficient interactions by shaping a mechanism we term shared control.

Session Chair: Sandra Loureiro
Building 4
Room B226
