Teaching
- Organisational Behavior
- Organisation & Management Theories
- Managerial Skills
- Leadership
- Qualitative Research Methods
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Management at ESSEC Business School – Paris, France, (2009-2015)
- French Doctorate in Management at Université de Cergy-Pontoise – Cergy-Pontoise, France, (2011-2015)
- M. Phil. in Business Administration Research at ESSEC Business School – Paris, France, (2009-2001)
- MBA – Master in Business Administration at the Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation (EBAPE/FGV) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (2006-2009)
- Post-Graduate Certificate – Specialized Master in Management Control and Corporate Finance at Federal University – UFF – Niterói, Brazil – (2003-2004)
- Unfinished B. S. in Business Administration at Federal University – Porto Alegre (PoA), Brazil – (2001-2002)
- Certificate in Marketing & Management at University of California – Berkeley, USA (2000)
- B. S. in Accounting at Federal University – PoA, Brazil, (1994-1999)
- Infantry Lieutenant School (Brazilian Army’s higher education institution) – (1995-1996)
Research interests
- Managerial Work and Identity
- Discourse and Narrative Theories
- Micro-Sociology of Workplace
Work Experience
Professional Experiences (Academia and Industry)
- Associate Professor, Management and Organisation Academic Area, Rennes School of Business (September 2016-Present)
- Assistant Professor of Management and Organisation Studies, American University of Beirut – Lebanon (Since Aug/2015)
- Affiliate Professor and Research Fellow, Grenoble École de Management – France (2013-2015)
- PhD candidate and course instructor, ESSEC Business School – Paris, France (2009-2015)
- Finance and Administrative Manager (previous Start-up Manager), GÁSLOCAL – Oil & Gas Industry – Joint-venture between Praxair Inc. & PETROBRAS – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2005-2008)
- Business Manager of the Brazilian operation (previous Start-up Manager), HU-FRIEDY DO BRASIL – Dental Industry – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2002-2005)
- General Manager of the Rio de Janeiro Branch (previous Start-up Manager),UHY Brazil – Auditing and consulting – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2001-2002)
- Semi-senior (auditing), ARTHUR ANDERSEN – Auditing and consulting – PoA, Brazil (1998-2001)
- Assistant (consulting and auditing), CHARNESKI & ASSOCIADOS and PAES & BORBA – Auditing and consulting – Porto Alegre, Brazil (1997-1998)
Visiting Positions
- Hitotsubashi University (Japan) – November/2018 – Sponsor: Endo Takahiro
- Cardiff Business School – 7 months in 2012-13 – Sponsors: Hugh Willmott and Robyn Thomas
- University of London, Birkbeck College – June 2014 – Sponsor: William Fear
- Grenoble Ecole de Management – January of 2016 – Sponsor: Gazi Islam
Professional Memberships
- Member of the Cardiff Business School Organization Research Group (CORGIES)
- Member of the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS)
- Member of the Management Consultancy Education Support Group (CESG) – mostly UK-based scholars
Professional Honors, Prizes and Fellowships
- Best OB Paper Award – PhD Camp 2013 – HEC-Paris
- ESSEC PhD program merit scholarship (2009-2013)
- Cadet first placed in the 1995 cohort of the Infantry Lieutenant School
- First place in the 1993 cohort of the High School Cândido Godoy – PoA, Brazil
Boards / Advisory
- Ad-hoc Board Advisor – UHY Brazil Auditing & Consulting (since 2010)
- Ad-hoc Board Advisor – Serial N Brand Creation (since 2012)
- Ad-hoc Board Advisor – Condão Political Marketing (since 2013)
Refereeing for Journals
Active reviewer for the following journals:
- Journal of Business Ethics
- Organization
Intellectual contributions
Refereed Articles - Basic or Discovery Scholarship
From play to pay: A multifunctional approach to the role of culture in post-merger integration
Auteurs :Sales, Augusto, Roth, Steffen, Grothe-Hammer, Michael, Azambuja, Ricardo Publié dans :Management Decision 10.1108/MD-01-2021-0136 Date :2021
Contracting Sugarcane Farming in Global Agricultural Value Chains in Eastern Africa: Debates, Dynamics and Struggles
Auteurs :Martiniello, G., Azambuja, R. Publié dans :Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 8(1–2) 208–231, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277976019851955 Date :2019
Lost in Translation? Transferring Creativity Insights from Arts into Management
Auteurs :Bourguinon, A., Azambuja, R., Dorsett, C Publié dans :Organization, Vol. 27(5) pp.717 –741 Date :2020
Working at the Boundaries: Middle Managerial Work as a Source of Emancipation and Alienation
Auteurs :Azambuja, R., Islam, G Publié dans :Human Relations, 72 (3), pp. 534-564 Date :2019
Alternative Visions : Permaculture as imaginaries of anthropocene
Auteurs :Roux-Rosier, A., Azambuja, R., Islam, G. Publié dans :Organization , Vol 25 (4), pp. 550-572 Date : 2018
Artefacts and Texts: A Pseudo-Philosophical Musing
Auteurs :Fear, W., Azambuja, R Publié dans :Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin’ (The British Psychological Society), 19, Spring Date :2015
Publication in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Deliberative Narrative Instauration: The Process of Institution Building Using Texts as Artifacts
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo with William Fear Publié dans :Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 3(4), pg. 286-295. Date :2014
Others Relevant Publications
O que está em jogo na economia das plataformas?
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :Fundacao Dom Cabral weekly management knowledge review, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Date :2020
Flexibilité ou précarité ? L’essor du nombre d’autoentrepreneurs fait débat
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :Ouest-France 03/03/2020 Date :2020
La permaculture, une alternative aux modèles de sociétés humaines?
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :Grenoble École de Management Actualités, September Date :2019
La permaculture tire le meilleur parti des interactions naturelles entre les êtres vivants
Auteurs :Azambuja, R., Roux-Rosier, A., Islam, G. Publié dans :Le Monde 22/02/2019 Date :2019
Le management around the world
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :Le Monde des Grandes Ecoles et Universités, le Magazine, Number 86, September 2019 Date :2019
Middle Managers on a Knife-edge
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :Management Insights, Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France, September Date :2018
Food for Managerial Thought – When Agriculture Does Business Differently
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :Management Insights, Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France, September Date :2018
Parole d'expert. La permaculture n'est pas un mouvement agricole neutre.
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :Ouest-France 31/08/2018 Date :2018
La position délicate des cadres intermédiaires.
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :Le Monde 12/05/2018 Date :2018
Opinion essay entitled Questioning capitalism in (and within) academia
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :published in the Academy of Management CMS division newsletter Date :2012
Article entitled The Seduction of the French Advertising Communication through Urban Public Space
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo with Diana Freitas Publié dans :Publ.Cidades Date :2012
Poem entitled Indelével / indelible
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :Cadernos EBAPE Date :2012
Article entitled Where and How to Establish a Business in Brazil
Auteurs :Azambuja Ricardo Publié dans :the Polaris International newsletter Date :2000
Refereed proceedings - Discipline-Based Scholarship
- Azambuja, R., Lisa Baudot and Bertrand Malsch. The unstructured nature of managerial work: Service delivery amidst disturbance and improvisation within professional service firms. 13th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 7-9 July 2021
- Azambuja, R., Augusto Sales, Steffen Roth and Michael Grothe-Hammer. Game over! Decision premises recoding in the acquisition of a Brazilian technology start-up: A systems-theoretical analysis. 21st EURAM, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, virtual, 17-18 June 2021
- Azambuja, R., Lisa Baudot and Bertrand Malsch. Structuring managerial work: Service delivery amidst disturbance and improvisation within large accounting firms. Accounting and Accountability Research Group Research Seminar Queen Mary University of London, 24 March 2021
- Azambuja, R., Lisa Baudot and Bertrand Malsch. Structuring managerial work: Service delivery amidst disturbance and improvisation within large accounting firms. Alternative Accounts Europe Conference, Queen Mary University of London, 5 January 2021
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Augusto Sales. Middle-management, boundary work and competing interests in professional services. The case of a Brazilian auditing and management consulting firm. An ethnographic study. EURAM 2020, Dublin, Ireland, December 2020
- Azambuja, R., Anahid Roux-Rosier. Les champs de la liberté : l’autonomie permaculturelle. Seminar ‘Anthropocène, usage et mésusage du monde’, Esad TALM, Le Mans (France) – 29 octobre 2020
- Azambuja, R., Lisa Baudot and Bertrand Malsch. The unstructured nature of managerial work: Service delivery amidst disturbance and improvisation within professional service firms. 104th American Accounting Association Annual Meeting – Atlanta, USA, 10-13 August 2020
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Anahid Roux-Rosier. Permacultural relational autonomy as a response to climate change. EGOS, Hamburg, Germany, July 2020
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Anahid Roux-Rosier, Permaculture Relational Autonomy as a Post Growth Strategy of Resistance. Colloque « Humains, Animaux, Nature : Quelle Ethique des Vertus pour le Monde qui Vient ? », Cerisy, France. June 2019
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Gazi Islam, « Ambivalent Deviance as a Managerial Response to Structural Strain. In: 11th International Symposium on Process Organisation Studies PROS, Chania, Greece, June 2019
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Anahid Roux-Rosier, « Permanent Dreamers: Boundaries, Communities, and Permaculture. » 6th CR3+ Conference – The plural voices of corporate responsibility, Audencia, Nantes, France, June 2018
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Gazi Islam, « Middle Managers as Boundary Subjects. » 36th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Tokyo, Japan, August 2018
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Annick Bourguinon, « Middle-Managers and their Boundary Work: An Ethnographic Study. » Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, United States of America, August 2017
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Miguel Pina Cunha. Feeling like a boundary subject: middle managers’ paradoxical experience of work. In: 9th International Process Symposium PROS, Kos, Greece, June 2017
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Gazi Islam. Playing for Real: Middle Managers’ Simulations and the Construction of Organizational Simulacra. 8th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Corfu, Greece, June 2016
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Gazi Islam, « Experiencing Managerial Subjectivity and Identity Transitions in a Professional Services Firm. 7th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Kos, Greece, June 2015
- Azambuja, Ricardo and Gazi Islam. Simulating Organizational Reality: Middle-Managers, Virtual Power, and the Construction of Organizational Simulacra. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, August 2015
