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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
Section CV
Education
PhD
McGill University, Montréal 2010MSc in Management
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 2000BSc in Naval Engineering and Hydrodynamics
Universidade Federal do Rio deJaneiro, Rio de Janeiro 1996Experience
Head of Major - Consulting
Audencia Business School, France 2014 - 2017Research fellow & external evaluator
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2013 - 2018Lecturer
McGill University, Montréal, Canada 2010 - 2010Board Member
Marques de Azevedo Engenharia Ltda, Sao Paulo, Brazil Since 2006Lecturer
Insper, São Paulo, Brazil 2003 - 2004Lecturer
Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2002 - 2004Lecturer
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro 1999 - 2003Publications
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
Published
AZEVEDO, G. (2024). The Interpretation of Organizational Ontologies. Journal of Management Inquiry, 33 (1), 46-61.
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
AZEVEDO, G., SHYMKO, Y., QUENTAL, C., LOUCHE, C., VÖGTLIN, C., AVETISYAN, E., GOODMAN, J., RUFFIN, N. (2021). The Seed(zine). Breaking boundaries, 284-310.
AZEVEDO, G., ZHAO, X. (2022). Huawei and the invisible hand of Mao Zedong. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
AZEVEDO, G., ZHAO, X. (2022). Huawei and the invisible hand of Mao Zedong. EURAM
AZEVEDO, G., LOUCHE, C., LITRICO, J.-B., NILSSON, W. (2022). Organizing human healing. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
AZEVEDO, G., QUENTAL, C. (2021). Racial injustices and attitudes towards affirmative action in different Americas. Academy of Management Conference (AoM)
AZEVEDO, G. (2020). Organizing the global refugee and migration movements: protecting the dispossessed and promoting solidarity. European Group for Organizational Studies
AZEVEDO, G. (2019). National histories producing cultural symbolisms: the case of the Portuguese thalassocratic enterprise. European Academy of Management
AZEVEDO, G. (2019). Cultural theorizations in business history: how histories shape cultures and vice versa. Academy of Management Conference (AoM)
QUENTAL, C., AZEVEDO, G. (2019). Brazil is not for beginners: The complications of a semi-Western case of racial inclusion. European Group for Organizational Studies
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
QUENTAL, C., AZEVEDO, G. (2019). Brazil is not for beginners: The complications of a semi-western case of racial inclusion.. 11th International Critical Management Studies Conference
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. (2018). Ethical limits of the circular economy: nature’s lessons for a community-centered model of socio-industrial design. 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. 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). 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). Making sense of the nonsense of international cultures: laughing and learning from the case of French corporations. European Academy of Management
AZEVEDO, G. (2017). On the historical construction and the present heritage of a Portuguese thalassocratic mythology. 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. Degrowth International Conference
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (2015). Undesirable overflows and socio-industrial design.
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (2015). The international spread of management cultures.
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (2015). The cultural hybridization of organizations.
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (2015). The autopoiesis of spreading management cultures.
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (2015). Symbolic relocalizations: how cultural flows transform unbounded cultures.
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (2015). Managing overflows by design: the path towards holism and some other ecosystem evolutionary coincidences.
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (2014). The international spread of management cultures.
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (2014). The cultural hybridization of organizations.
Press articles
AZEVEDO, G. (2023). We need to share the load. TRANSFORM, Opinion feature (Feb/Mar), 31.
AZEVEDO, G. (2023). Inequality: the root cause of global warming. IEMA Transforming the world to sustainability, Feburary / March.
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), 44-45.
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (2017). Are immigration concerns damaging the global economy?. www.finance-monthly.com
AZEVEDO, Guilherme (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,
2022
Reviewer for Culture and Organization,
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
Since 2018, 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
Since 2019, C. LIU : Internationalization Strategy in Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises: Evidence from Chinese Firms, Grenoble École de Management, France
Since 2017, 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
Since 2022, B. NGAKANE : Impact investing potential for micro-property developers in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa., ,