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Department
Département
Organization Studies and Ethics
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Cross-cultural management
Social Innovation
Business Ethics
Emerging-markets strategy
Globalization studies
Business history
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
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
Skills
Culture
Organizational culture
Organizational stupidity
Rebalancing society
Business history
Cross-cultural management
Business ethics
Emerging markets
Globalization
Management
Social Commitment
Diplomas
PhD - Strategy & Organization
McGill University, Montréal
(2010)
MSc in Management
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
(2000)
BSc in Naval Engineering and Hydrodynamics
Universidade Federal do Rio deJaneiro, Rio de Janeiro
(1996)
Experiences
Head of Major - Consulting
Audencia Business School
2014 - 2017
Research fellow & external evaluator
University of Cape Town, Cape Town
2013 - 2018
Lecturer
McGill University, Montréal
2010 - 2010
Board Member
Marques de Azevedo Engenharia Ltda, Sao Paulo
Since 2006
Lecturer
Insper, São Paulo
2003 - 2004
Lecturer
Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro
2002 - 2004
Lecturer
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
1999 - 2003
Visiting out
2022 - 2023
McGill University, : Visiting professor (in sabbatical)
2012 - 2012
MIT Sloan, : Visiting professor
Publications
Forthcoming
QUENTAL C., AZEVEDO G., VERSHININA N., SHYMKO Y., DASKALAKI M., (2026). Sexism and Gender Washing in Academia and Beyond: Reclaiming Equity in Academia beyond Rhetoric.
Gender, Work and Organization
Published
AZEVEDO G., (2024). The Interpretation of Organizational Ontologies.
Journal of Management Inquiry, 33 (1), 46-61
SHYMKO Y., VERSHININA N., DASKALAKI M., AZEVEDO G., QUENTAL C., (2024). From the cocoon to la chape de plomb: The birth and persistence of silence around sexism in academia.
Gender, Work and Organization, 31 (5), 2113-2137
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
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. A., (2020). Rebalancing society: Learning from the experience of Latin American progressive leaders.
Journal of Business Research, 119 (October 2020), 511-521
AZEVEDO G., GATES Andrew, (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
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.
Press articles
Broadcast
Scientific activities
Reviewer for an academic journal
Recurrent Reviewer for the European Business Review
2025
Recurrent reviewer for Gender Work and Organization
2023
Recurrent Reviewer for the International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior
2023
Recurrent reviewer for Business Ethics Quarterly
2023
Recurrent reviewer for Management Learning
2023
Recurrent reviewer for Culture and Organization
2023
Recurrent reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences
2023
Recurrent reviewer for the Journal of World Business
2019
Reviewer for the Academy of Management Review
2014
Member of the board of directors of an academic association
SOBENA's (the Brazilian Society of Naval Engineering) Director for Europe
2024
Guest Editor of an academic journal
Gender Work & Organization (co-editor of an Special Issue on "Sexism and Gender-Washing in Academia and Beyond")
2023
Awards and honors
Honourable Mention - International Business Division, 2025
Top 10 most-cited papers published by the journal in 2023, 2023
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
(2025) I. DEVJAK : Fostering Collective Cultural Intelligence in Multicultural Teams: A Practice-Based Approach.
(2025) X. CHEN : The Impact Mechanism of Multicultural Paradox Thinking on Employees’ Multicultural Creativity: Based on the Social Cognitive Theory.
S. MOZZO : (Research Proposal) Understanding the Main Challenges of a Biosimilar Company with a Specific Focus on Manufacturing Costs and Impact on COGS: Expert Opinions for Future Sustainable Business.
(2025) M. H. WU : From Compliance to Competitiveness: ESG-Driven Business Model Innovation via a Process Approach — A Case Study of a Global Mid-Sized Manufacturing Enterprise.
(2025) H. CHOUGARI : Leading with Impact: How Transformational Leadership Shapes Employee Satisfaction in Saudi Family SMEs.
(2024) Y. JIANG : Research on the fundraising model of China's public fundraising foundations under the background of "internet + public welfare" - a case study of C Foundation.
(2024) Y. LIU : Research on the relation between corporate social responsibility and corporate performance in pharmaceutical business.
(2023) R. ZHOU : Study on the Impact of New Urbanization on Carbon Emission.
(2023) Y. HUANG : Research on Optimization of Carbon Peak Path in the Industrial Field of Zhejiang Province Based on LEAP Model.
(2019) Laurie Ann Underwood : Giving voice: The influence of instant messaging apps on the contribution of Chinese and Japanese professionals to business meetings.
(2019) C. LIU : Internationalization Strategy in Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: Evidence from Chinese Firms.
(2022) B. NGAKANE : Impact investing potential for micro-property developers in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa..
(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.