Ricardo Azambuja

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

• Azambuja, R., Baudot, L. and Malsch, B., 2023, Navigating multiple accountabilities through managers’ boundary work in professional service firms, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-08-2021-5407
• Azambuja, Ricardo, Gazi Islam, Annick Ancelin-Bourguignon, 2022, Walling In and Walling Out: Middle Managers’ Boundary Work, Journal of Management Studies 10.1111/joms.12844
• Azambuja, Ricardo, Gazi Islam, 2022, Middle-Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain: Rescoping, Reconfiguring and Replacing Norms, Journal of Management Studies https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12911
• Sales, Augusto, Roth, Steffen, Grothe-Hammer, Michael, Azambuja, Ricardo, 2021, From play to pay: A multifunctional approach to the role of culture in post-merger integration, Management Decision 10.1108/MD-01-2021-0136
• Martiniello, G., Azambuja, R., 2019, Contracting Sugarcane Farming in Global Agricultural Value Chains in Eastern Africa: Debates, Dynamics and Struggles, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 8(1–2) 208–231, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277976019851955
• Bourguinon, A., Azambuja, R., Dorsett, C, 2020, Lost in Translation? Transferring Creativity Insights from Arts into Management, Organization, Vol. 27(5) pp.717 –741
• Azambuja, R., Islam, G, 2019, Working at the Boundaries: Middle Managerial Work as a Source of Emancipation and Alienation, Human Relations, 72 (3), pp. 534-564
• Roux-Rosier, A., Azambuja, R., Islam, G., 2018, Alternative Visions : Permaculture as imaginaries of anthropocene, Organization , Vol 25 (4), pp. 550-572
• Fear, W., Azambuja, R, 2015, Artefacts and Texts: A Pseudo-Philosophical Musing, Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin’ (The British Psychological Society), 19, Spring

Refereed proceedings – Discipline-Based Scholarship

• Ricardo Azambuja, Lisa Baudot, Takahiro Endo, Saori Matsubara, Dana Wallace. ‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: Collective Memory in Retirement from Professional Service Firms in Japan and the US. Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Bogotá, Colombia 23-26 June 2023
• Ricardo Azambuja, Lisa Baudot, Takahiro Endo, Saori Matsubara, Dana Wallace. ‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: Collective Memory in Retirement from Professional Service Firms in Japan and the US. 14th International Symposium on Process Organization Studies. Chania, Greece, 18-21 June 2023
• Fabiola Artoni, Ricardo Azambuja, and Gazi Islam. Experiencing Meaning of Work: Evidence from a Multilevel Marketing Firm Selling Meaning of Work as Product. 13th International Process Symposium (PROS), Rhodes, Greece, 25-28 July 2022
• Anahid Roux-Rosier and Ricardo Azambuja. Fields of Freedom: The Crafting of Relational Autonomy through Permaculture. Second Colloquium on Philosophy and Organization Studies PHILOS, Rhodes, Greece, 23-25 July 2022
• 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

Publication in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Azambuja Ricardo with William Fear, 2014, Deliberative Narrative Instauration: The Process of Institution Building Using Texts as Artifacts, Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 3(4), pg. 286-295.

Others Relevant Publications

• Roux Rosier, Anahid, Azambuja, R., Sophie Raynaud, En forçant l’éco-anxiété, les séries éco-dystopiques obscurcissent notre capacité à penser la crise écologique globale., Monde des Grandes Ecoles et Universités, 24 July 2023
• Azambuja, Ricardo., La viande cultivée peut représenter un atout pour répondre aux défis environnementaux, Le Monde, 24 April 2023
• Azambuja, R., Sophie Raynaud, 2022, Eco-anxiété sur fond de crise écologique : et la pop-culture dans tout ça ?, Monde des Grandes Ecoles et Universités, 11 November 2022
• Ricardo Azambuja., 2022, The four types of managerial boundaries., People’s management, 21 October 2022
• Ricardo Azambuja, Gazi Islam, Annick Ancelin-Bourguignon., 2022, Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers’ Boundary Work., Management Insights blog of Journal of Management Studies, 12 September 2022
• Sophie Raynaud , Ricardo Azambuja, 2022, « Barbecue gate » : oui, les hommes sont moins écolos et il faut que ça change., Les Echos Start, Tribune, 12 September 2022
• Azambuja, R., 2022, Sécheresse : Nous devons adapter notre système alimentaire dès à présent, Le Monde, tribune, 7 September 2022
• Bry-Chevalier, T., Salliou, N., Azambuja, R., 2022, Les «viandes végétales» sont le meilleur investissement pour l’avenir du climat, Libération, 19 July 2022
• Hammami, Ramzi, Azambuja, Ricardo., 2022, A quand la transparence sur l’empreinte carbone des produits alimentaires?, Libération, tribune, 23 February 2022
• Azambuja, R., 2021, Il faut développer la recherche publique sur l’agriculture cellulaire, Le Monde, Tribune, 26 May 2021
• Azambuja, R., 2021, Pour un choix végétarien dans toute la restauration publique, change.org, March 2021
• Azambuja, R., Raynaud, S., 2021, Comment faire de l’alimentation végétale un nouvel art de vivre ?, Liberation, 12 February 2021
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2020, O que está em jogo na economia das plataformas?, Fundacao Dom Cabral weekly management knowledge review, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2020, Flexibilité ou précarité ? L’essor du nombre d’autoentrepreneurs fait débat, Ouest-France 03 March 2020
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2019, La permaculture, une alternative aux modèles de sociétés humaines?, Grenoble École de Management Actualités, September
• Azambuja, R., Roux-Rosier, A., Islam, G., 2019, La permaculture tire le meilleur parti des interactions naturelles entre les êtres vivants, Le Monde 22 February 2019
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2019, Le management around the world, Le Monde des Grandes Ecoles et Universités, le Magazine, Number 86, September 2019
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2018, Middle Managers on a Knife-edge, Management Insights, Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France, September
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2018, Food for Managerial Thought – When Agriculture Does Business Differently, Management Insights, Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France, September
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2018, Parole d’expert. La permaculture n’est pas un mouvement agricole neutre., Ouest-France 31 August 2018
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2018, La position délicate des cadres intermédiaires., Le Monde 12 May 2018
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2012, Opinion essay entitled Questioning capitalism in (and within) academia, published in the Academy of Management CMS division newsletter
• Azambuja Ricardo with Diana Freitas, 2012, Article entitled The Seduction of the French Advertising Communication through Urban Public Space, Publ.Cidades
• Azambuja Ricardo, 2012, Poem entitled Indelével / indelible, Cadernos EBAPE
• Azambuja Ricardon, 2000, Article entitled Where and How to Establish a Business in Brazil The Polaris International newsletter