Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management at
Esade
Director General de ESADE, General Management
Investigador, GRIE - Grupo de Investigación en Iniciativa Emprendedora
Investigador, EEI - ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute
Biography
Xavier Mendoza is Esade's Director General since September 2022.Xavier is an Associate
Professor in the Strategy and General Management department and the current director
of the Observatory of Spanish Multinational Companies OEME, a research unit jointly
promoted by ESADE and ICEX. He served as dean of ESADE Business School 2000-2008 and
as deputy director general of ESADE 2008-2011.Professor Mendoza's research studies
internationalization processes of firms, strategic management of multinational companies,
and management education. His work has been published in journals such as Corporate
Governance, Long Range Planning or Journal of Business Research and in books such
as the Handbook of Research on Family Business or the OEME Annual Reports. He received
the Outstanding Paper Award for the best article published in the journal Corporate
Governance in 2008.Professor Mendoza currently teaches Executive, MBA and MSc students
at ESADE in the areas of corporate strategy and international business. He has lectured
and presented conference papers at several academic institutions and professional
associations in Europe, North and South America, and Asia.Prior to his appointment
as Dean, he combined his academic activities with consultancy in business strategy.
In addition to working for Spanish and multinational companies in different industries,
he also advised several public administrations and NGOs in Spain. Professor Mendoza
has extensive international experience as accreditation reviewer and has participated
in more than 20 peer review visits to leading higher education institutions around
the world.Dr. Mendoza is currently member of the Executive Committee of the Business
Association of Latin American Studies BALAS and the Editorial Advisory Committee of
Corporate Governance. He was elected member of the Board of Directors of AACSB-International
2008-2011 after serving in its Initial Accreditation Committee for six years. He also
served in other committees of ACCSB, the most important international association
of business schools. As dean of ESADE Business School he was one of the founders of
the European Academy of Business in Society EABIS and served as member and Academic
Vice-Chair of its Supervisory Board 2002-2008. He also was a member of the ScienceBusiness
Innovation Board, the Executive Board of the Community of European Management Schools
CEMS, the Deans & Directors Committee of the European Foundation for Management
Development EFMD and the Governing Body of Ramon Llull University.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 2266
Fax: +34 932 048 105