Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management at
Esade
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Directora Departamento Acádemico, Department of Strategy and General Management
Investigador, EEI - ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute
Investigador, GRIE - Grupo de Investigación en Iniciativa Emprendedora
Biography
Maria José is Associate Professor at the Strategy and General Management Department.
She is Academic Co-Director of the Global Business Family Initiative at ESADE. She
holds a PhD in Business Administration from Jönköping International Business School
JIBS, Sweden, and a PhD in Management Sciences from ESADE Business School. She did
her MBA at ESADE. Maria José has been Visiting Researcher of the INSEAD Global Leadership
Center, France, and Visiting Scholar at HEC, Paris. She participated at the Global
Colloquium: Participant Centered Learning Executive Education Course at Harvard Business
School. She currently teaches Family Business Management, and Strategy in different
programs. She is FFI Fellow and has the advanced family business advising certificate
from Family Firm Institute.Her research interests cover strategizing, governance,
professionalization, values, next gen development and entrepreneurship in family businesses,
as well as the emergence and development of family business groups. She has published
articles in various academic journals e.g. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Family
Business Review, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Family Business Management,
Journal of Family Business Strategy, Journal of Organizational Change Management,
Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, Harvard Deusto Business Review, and
Entrepreneurship Research Journal. Her work also appears in book chapters, and she
has co-edited two books: the second volume of the Edward Elgar Global STEP book series
about transgenerational entrepreneurship, and a book on Family Business Groups Palgrave
McMillan. Prior to her academic career she worked several years for a multinational
corporation in the telecom industry and in her family business in the tourism industry.
She has served as board member in the EU STEP Project council for 3 years and has
served as board member in her family-owned business.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 5894
Fax: +34 932 048 105