Dissertation

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The student will be guided by a doctoral professor or specialist appointed by the technical-scientific council

The Dissertation is based on a work of a scientific nature on a theme or topic in the field of
Master’s knowledge in the area of business sciences.
It aims to promote the capacity for initiative, autonomy in research and the application of acquired knowledge, decision and work organization by the master’s student, and demonstrate that he has the ability to apply the knowledge acquired during the course of the curricular component and to analyze a specific topic of their training area, critically and independently

Under the Master’s in Business Management, the Dessertation must include the following parts:
1. Introduction (Brief reference to the theoretical framework topic of the work, brief presentation of the welcoming entity, relevance of the internship, questions/problems pre-defined by the organization, objectives of the work carried out, highlighted problems and structure of the written text);
2. Theoretical framework (Review of scientific and technical literature regarding the theoretical topic, definition of adopted concepts, conceptual models, applicable techniques, reference authors, discussion and problematization of applicable topics);
3. Methodology (methods and techniques used in collecting in-formation about the entity, procedures and processing of in-formation);
4. Applied study (narrative of the company’s history, organiza-tional reality, strategic, functional and inter-relational analysis with a focus on the predominant functions in the company’s ac-tivity. Presentation of the results obtained in the research ques-tions);
The general index, and eventual index of tables, figures and/or graphs will appear on page 4 and following;
6. Bibliographic references must be cited in the text, following the APA (American Psychological Association) Reference Sys-tem, that is, including in parentheses the author’s surname and year of publication, such as for example (Schalman, 1997), or if there are more than two authors by the first author’s surname and by the expression et al followed by the year of publication (Johannessen et al, 2001).
Note the following examples of citations to articles from tech-nical / scientific journals, books, chapters from edited books and the Internet: Technical / scientific journal:
Johannessen, J.-A., Olsen, B. & Lumpkin, G.T. (2001). Innovation as newness: what is new, how new and new to whom? Europe-an Journal of Innovation Management, 4(1), 20-31. Williams, A. Mc. & Siegel D.S., (2011).
Creating and Capturing Value: Strategic Corporate Social Re-sponsibility, Resource-Based Theory, and Sustainable Competi-tive Advantage, Journal of Management, 37(5), 1480-1495.
Books: Yin, Robert K. (2001). Case Study, planning and meth-ods. 2nd ed. São Paulo: Bookman.
Edited book chapters: Stake. R.E. (2000). Case studies. In: N.K., Denzin & Y.S., Lincoln (eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research (pp. 435-454). London: Sage. Internet: Walt Disney Company. (1999). Disney’s Investors Relations – FAOs. Available: http://disney.go.com/corporate/investors/shareholder/fag.brml. Accessed 15 June 1999.

7. All figures, graphs, tables, are included on the 50 pages and must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order they appear in the text. The caption must be included in the case of graphs and figures. Tables must have a title. All ta-bles, figures and graphs must indicate the bibliographic source;
8. At the end of the body of the work and before the attach-ments or appendices, the bibliographical references must be listed, in general alphabetical order of the first author’s sur-name, sorted regardless of whether it is an article, book, book chapter or website.

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