Guilherme AZEVEDO

Associate Professor

  • Organization Studies & Ethics Department

Teaching Domains

Cross-cultural management
Social Innovation
Business Ethics
Emerging-markets strategy
Globalization studies
Business history

Research Domains

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

Curriculum vitae

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)

Publications

Forthcoming

SHYMKO, Y., VERSHININA, N., DASKALAKI, M., AZEVEDO, G., QUENTAL, C. (2023) . From the cocoon to la chape de plomb: The birth and persistence of silence around sexism in academia, Gender, Work and Organization

2024

AZEVEDO, G. (2024) . The Interpretation of Organizational Ontologies, Journal of Management Inquiry, 33 (1), 46-61

2023

AZEVEDO, G. (2023) . Into the realm of organizational folly: A poem, a review, and a typology of organizational stupidity, Management Learning, 54 (2), 267-281

2020

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

AZEVEDO, G. (2020) . Does Organizational Nonsense Make Sense? Laughing and Learning From French Corporate Cultures, Journal of Management Inquiry, 29 (4), 385-403

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., SHYMKO, Y., QUENTAL, C., LOUCHE, C., VÖGTLIN, C., AVETISYAN, E., ... RUFFIN, N. (2021). The Seed(zine). In Arjaliès, D-L., Casa Nova, S. P. C., Gendron Y., Lehman C., Navarro Pérez P.A., Resende de Lima J.P., Stoner G., Vera-Colina M.A. (Eds.), Breaking Boundaries: (Counter) Accounts during the Pandemic: Letters for Future Generations (pp. 284-310). Breaking boundaries.

AZEVEDO, G., LOUCHE, C., LITRICO, J.-B., NILSSON, W. (2022). Organizing human healing. Tales of liminality, subversion, and conflicting temporalities. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

AZEVEDO, G., ZHAO, X. (2022). Huawei and the invisible hand of Mao Zedong. Can a defunct national leader shape the corporate culture of a contemporary MNC?. EURAM.

AZEVEDO, G., ZHAO, X. (2022). Huawei and the invisible hand of Mao Zedong. Can a defunct national leader shape the strategy of a contemporary global company?. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

AZEVEDO, G., QUENTAL, C. (2021). Racial injustices and attitudes towards affirmative action in different Americas. a historical, comparative analysis of the United States and Brazil. Academy of Management Conference (AoM).

AZEVEDO, G. (2020). Organizing the global refugee and migration movements: protecting the dispossessed and promoting solidarity. 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., 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). National histories producing cultural symbolisms: the case of the Portuguese thalassocratic enterprise. Lisbon: European Academy of Management.

AZEVEDO, G. (2018). When histories produce enduring symbolisms: the case of the Portuguese thalassocratic enterprise. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

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). 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 to unblock global socio-economic development gridlocks. Kyoto: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.

AZEVEDO, G. (2017). Beyond circular economy: nature’s lessons on a holistic socio-industrial design. Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Conference.

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). 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). On the historical construction and the present heritage of a Portuguese thalassocratic mythology. Lisbon: CHAM International 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.

AVETISYAN, E., AZEVEDO, G., DEBUCQUET, G., GOODMAN, J., LOUCHE, C. (2022). Grand sustainability challenge: reinforcing the social and environmental resilience of cities. PRME Champions Project.

Articles

AZEVEDO, G. (2023). We need to share the load. TRANSFORM, Opinion feature (Feb/Mar), pp. 31. Cambridgeshire.

AZEVEDO, G. (2023). Inequality: the root cause of global warming. IEMA Transforming the world to sustainability, Feburary / March. Cambridgeshire.

AZEVEDO, G., WATINE, C. (2020). Le management interculturel en questions. Monde des Grandes Ecoles et Universités.

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).

Scientific activities

Reviewer for an academic journal

Reviewer for Management Learning Since 2022

Reviewer for Culture and Organization Since 2022

Awards and Honors

  • Best paper awarded at the Gender & Diversity in Organizations division of the 47th ASAC Annual Conference , 2019
  • Best conference paper awarded at the 7th SEE Conference , 2018
  • Best paper awarded at the Business History division of the 45th ASAC Annual Conference , 2017
  • Awarded the "Prix de l'innovation pedagogique 2016" at Audencia , 2016

Doctoral supervision

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

B. NGAKANE : Impact investing potential for micro-property developers in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa.
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