Faculty & Research

Rodrigues, Suzana

Personal

Name:	Suzana B. Rodrigues
Function:	Full Professor
Office:	T7-56
Phone:	+31 10 408 1986/ + 31 10 4082984
Fax:	+31 10 408 9013
E-mail:	srodrigues@rsm.nl

Qualifications

BA Psychology, UFMG, Brazil
Chartered Psychology, UFMG, Brazil
MSc in Business Management, UFMG, Brazil
PhD University of Bradford School of Management, UK

Research interests

Suzana's work has developed in the interface between three areas of research - international business, corporate governance and corporate strategy evolution. Her current research focuses on the international strategy of multinationals and small firms. Suzana`s most recent project concerns internationalization and social innovation.

Short Biography

Suzana B. Rodrigues is Professor of International Business and Organization at the Department of Strategic Management and Business Environment, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. She is a member of ERIM.

Prior to joining Erasmus University, Suzana was Professor of International Management and Organization at Birmingham University, UK and at UFMG, Brazil. At Birmingham, Suzana was one of the founders and Director of the MSc International Business. She was also a founder and Director of CIBOR – Centre for International Business and Organization Research at the University of Birmingham. She was elected a Visiting Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge and in 2002 was invited to become a visiting fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Suzana received her PhD from the University of Bradford Management Centre, UK for a study of strategic decision making in British companies. After returning to Brazil, she chaired the MBA Programme at UFMG, raising its rating to one of the best in the country. Suzana was Director and President of the Brazilian Academy of Management for a six year period. Suzana was member of Cnpq [Brazilian National Research Council], Social and Economic Sciences Committee, being elected for two terms. She was a member of CAPES – a committee for evaluation of master and doctoral programmes in Brazil. In Brazil Suzana was appointed as Professor of International Business in 1990 at UFMG. There she created the created the Centre for International Business Studies at the Department of Management and also UFMG`s Centre for Technology Transfer.

Suzana has received several awards for her contributions to the development of management knowledge and education in Brazil. More recently, she received the Terry Book Award from the AOM for an outstanding contribution to management knowledge. This book, which she co-authored with John Child, focuses on corporate co-evolution and organization transformation. This study is unique in various respects. First, because of its longitudinal scope: it relies on massive and diversified sources of data collected throughout more than 20 years research on the evolution of a major Brazilian telecommunications company over its 27 year history. Second, and in contrast to previous studies, it examines the co-evolution through a political perspective.

Suzana has published several books and articles in peer reviewed journals in international business, corporate governance and organization studies. Her work has appeared in Human Relations, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Studies, Management and Organization Review, Management International Review, and Organization Studies.

Suzana is a co-editor of the Organization and Strategy Series published by Edward Elgar. She is member of the editorial board for Organization Studies and several peer reviewed journals in Brazil.

Selected Publications in International Journals

Rodrigues S. and J. Child (2010). Private equity, organization and the quality of employment contract. Human Relations (forthcoming)
Hiesh L., Rodrigues S. J. Child (2009) Risk Perception and Post-formation Governance in International Joint Ventures in Taiwan: The Perspective of the Foreign Partner. Journal of International Management (forthcoming).
Child J. Rodrigues S. B. and G. Frynas (2009). Psychic distance, its impact and coping modes: interpretations of SMEs decision-makers. Management International Review, 49:199-224
Child, J. Elbanna S. and S. Rodrigues (2009) The political aspects of strategic decision making. In Paul C. Nutt and David Wilson (eds.) The Handbook of Decision Making, Chichester: Wiley.
Rodrigues, S. B. and J.Child (2008). The development of corporate identity: A political perspective. Journal of Management Studies, 45, 5: 885-911
Child J. and Rodrigues S.B (2008) The Process of SMEs Internationalization: British Firms Entering Brazil. Economia e Gestão, 17, 3 :31-55
Rodrigues S. and J. Child (2008). Corporate Co-evolution: A Political Perspective. Oxford: Wiley (Nominated as runner up for the Terry Award at the Academy of Management 2009)
Rodrigues, S.B. (2006).The Political Dynamics of Organizational Culture in an Institutionalized Environment. Organization Studies, 27 (4): 537-557
Child, J. and Rodrigues, S.B. (2005). The Internationalization of Chinese Firms: A Case for Theoretical Extension? Management and Organization Review, 1 (3): 381-410
Child, J. and Rodrigues, S. B. (2004). Repairing the Breach of Trust in Corporate Governance. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 12 (2): 143-151.
Child, J. and Rodrigues, S. B. (2004). ´Corporate Governance in International Joint Ventures: Toward a Theory of Partner Preferences`. In Anna Grandori (ed). Corporate Governance and Firm Organization, Oxford University Press: 89-102 Rodrigues, Suzana B., Child J.and Talita Luz (2004). Contested Learning under Radical Change. Revista de Administração de Empresas, 44 (1): 27-43
Child, J.and Rodrigues, S.B.(2003). Social Identity and Organizational Learning. In M. Easterby-Smith and M. A. Lyles (eds). Handbook of Organizational Learning. Oxford: Blackwell: 535-556.
Rodrigues, S.B. and J. Child (2003) . Co-evolution in an Institutionalized Environment. Journal of Management Studies, 40 (8): 2137-2162.
Child, J. and Rodrigues, S. B. (2003). Social Identity and Organizational Learning. In M. Easterby-Smith and M. A. Lyles (eds). Handbook of Organizational Learning. Oxford: Blackwell: 535-556.
Child, J. and Rodrigues, S. B. (2003). The International Crisis of Confidence in Corporations. Journal of Management and Governance. 7 (3): 233-240.
Child, J. and Rodrigues, S. B. (2003). Corporate Governance and New Organization Forms: Issues of Double and Multiple Agency. Journal of Management and Governance. 7 (4): 337-360.
Rodrigues, S. B. and Barros B. (2002). ´Management in Brazil`. In Malcolm Warner (ed) 2nd ed, The International Encyclopaedia of Business and Management. London: Thompson Learning, 528-540
Rodrigues, S.B. (2002) ´Management in Latin America`. In Malcolm Warner (ed) 2nd ed. Management in the Americas. London: Thompson Learning, 3750-3764
Rodrigues S. B. and David Collinson (1995) ‘Having Fun? Humour as Resistance in Brazil’. Organization Studies, 15 (6): 739-768.
Rodrigues, S. B. and D. Hickson (1995) ‘Success in Decision Making: Different Organisations, Differing Reasons for Success’. Journal of Management Studies. 32 (5): 655-678.