Associate Professor
Cross-cultural management
Social Innovation
Business Ethics
Emerging-markets strategy
Globalization studies
Business history
Organizational nonsense and paradoxes
Globalization of cultures
Business history and cultural studies
Organizational ethnograpies
Sustainability, mobility, energy transition and socio-industrial design
History of racial relations and of inclusion
PhD
McGill University, Canada (2010)
MSc in Management
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000)
BSc in Naval Engineering and Hydrodynamics
Universidade Federal do Rio deJaneiro, Brazil (1996)
Academic Experience
Head of Major - Consulting
Audencia Business School, France,
2014 - 2017
Research fellow & external evaluator
University of Cape Town, South Africa,
2013 - 2018
Lecturer
McGill University, Canada,
2010
Lecturer
Insper, Brazil,
2003 - 2004
Lecturer
Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, Brazil,
2002 - 2004
Lecturer
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro,
1999 - 2003
Other professional experience
Marques de Azevedo Engenharia Ltda,Brazil,
Since 2006
Teaching
Visiting professor
MIT Sloan, United States of America, 2012
2020
AZEVEDO, G. (2020) . Does Organizational Nonsense Make Sense? Laughing and Learning From French Corporate Cultures, Journal of Management Inquiry, 29 (4), 385-403
AZEVEDO, G., CARNEIRO, J., RODRIGUEZ, C., GONZALEZ-PEREZ, M. (2020) . Rebalancing society: Learning from the experience of Latin American progressive leaders, Journal of Business Research, 119 (October 2020), 511-521
2019
AZEVEDO, G., GATES, A. (2019) . Wake Up! The World Is Out of Balance and If You Do Nothing You Are Part of the Problem: An Interview With Henry Mintzberg, Journal of Management Inquiry, 28 (2), 180-186
AZEVEDO, G. (2018). The Imaginary Empire: Portugal between two globalizations. Cambridge Institutes Press.
AZEVEDO, G., QUENTAL, C. (2019). Brazil is not for beginners: The complications of a semi-western case of racial inclusion.. Milton Keynes: 11th International Critical Management Studies Conference.
AZEVEDO, G., QUENTAL, C. (2019). Brazil is not for beginners: how to tell black from white when history produces entangled racial myths? (Best division paper award). Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.
AZEVEDO, G., QUENTAL, C. (2019). Brazil is not for beginners: The complications of a semi-Western case of racial inclusion. Edinburgh: European Group for Organizational Studies.
AZEVEDO, G. (2019). Cultural theorizations in business history: how histories shape cultures and vice versa. Academy of Management Conference.
AZEVEDO, G. (2019). National histories producing cultural symbolisms: the case of the Portuguese thalassocratic enterprise. Lisbon: European Academy of Management.
AZEVEDO, G. (2018). We don’t live in territories anymore, we live in times. How co-temporalities can help to unblock global socio-economic development gridlocks. Kyoto: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
AZEVEDO, G. (2018). Ethical limits of the circular economy: nature’s lessons for a community-centered model of socio-industrial design. Kyoto: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
AZEVEDO, G. (2018). We don’t live in territories anymore, we live in times. How co-temporalities can help solving complex environmental and social problems. (Awarded best conference paper.). Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Conference.
AZEVEDO, G. (2018). When histories produce enduring symbolisms: the case of the Portuguese thalassocratic enterprise. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.
AZEVEDO, G. (2017). Making sense of the nonsense of international cultures: laughing and learning from the case of French corporations. Glasgow: European Academy of Management.
AZEVEDO, G. (2017). On the historical construction and the present heritage of a Portuguese thalassocratic mythology. Lisbon: CHAM International conference.
AZEVEDO, G. (2017). Why is history ignored by those who study cultures? An essay on how histories shape cultures and vice versa. (Best division paper award). Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.
AZEVEDO, G. (2017). Beyond circular economy: nature’s lessons on a holistic socio-industrial design. Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Conference.
AZEVEDO, G. (2016). From a cultural narrative of co-territoriality to one of co-temporality: The construction of cooperation, preservation, and peace in the next millennium. Budapest: Degrowth International Conference.
AZEVEDO, G. (2015). The international spread of management cultures., 6th EURAM Early Career Colloquium.
AZEVEDO, G. (2015). Managing overflows by design: the path towards holism and some other ecosystem evolutionary coincidences., 31st EGOS (European Group of organizational studies) Colloquium.
AZEVEDO, G. (2015). Symbolic relocalizations: how cultural flows transform unbounded cultures., FROG (French Research on Organizations Group) Research Meeting.
AZEVEDO, G. (2015). The autopoiesis of spreading management cultures., at ASAC (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada) Annual Conference.
AZEVEDO, G. (2015). The cultural hybridization of organizations., 12th JIBS (Journal of International Business studies) Paper Development Workshop, AIB 2015 Annual Meeting.
AZEVEDO, G. (2015). Undesirable overflows and socio-industrial design., ASAC (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada) Annual Conference.
AZEVEDO, G. (2014). The cultural hybridization of organizations., 14th Annual Conference EURAM.
AZEVEDO, G. (2014). The international spread of management cultures., AIB 2014 Annual Meeting.
Articles
AZEVEDO, G. (2019). HR Management in times of Brexit. HR Director Magazine (Sept. 2019), pp. 44-45.
AZEVEDO, G. (2017). Are immigration concerns damaging the global economy? www.finance-monthly.com.
AZEVEDO, G. (2015). Por que as lições de Lemann e seus sócios são valiosas para sua empresa. Diario do Commercio (Brazil).
Thesis Jury Member
- 2019,
Laurie Ann Underwood : Giving voice: The influence of instant messaging apps on the contribution of Chinese and Japanese professionals to business meetings
Grenoble École de Management, France
C. LIU : Internationalization Strategy in Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: Evidence from Chinese Firms
Grenoble École de Management, France
Thesis Reviewer
- 2018,
Sinqobile Ndlovu : Circumstantial social entrepreneurship: Exploring inclusive, social innovation in the transition from shadow to mainstream economic spaces. A case study of informal sector recycling activities in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
University of Cape Town, South Africa