Miguel P. Caldas, Ph.D.

The Gerald N. Gaston Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business and Associate Professor of International Business

Address: 6363 St. Charles Avenue, Box 15
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: (504)864-7966
Fax: (504)864-7970
Email: mpcaldas@loyno.edu
Office: Miller 308

Education
Academic/Industry Experience
Course Descriptions
Research Interests
Publications
Personal Information
Study Abroad in South America

Education

Ph.D. FGV/EAESP, São Paulo, Brazil (1998)

Major Field: Organization Change and Redesign
Minor Fields: Organization Theory and Human Resources
Dissertation: Determinants, Outcomes and Effect Mediators of Organizational Downsizing
Advisor: Fernando C. Prestes Motta

M.Sc. FGV/EAESP, São Paulo, Brazil (1992)

Dissertation: Empirical Study on the Outcomes of Dismissal on Executives’ Future Career and Mobility

B.A. UnB (Universidade de Brasília), Brasília, Brazil (1986)

Major: Business Administration

Academic/Industry Experience

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans, LA (2003-Present)

College of Business Administration
- Gerald N. Gaston Eminent Scholar Chair in International
  Business and Associate Professor of Management (2003-present)

FGV/EAESP - Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil (1997-present)

School of Business Administration, Department of Management (ADM), Assistant Professor (1997-2000)
School of Business Administration, Department of Management (ADM), Associate Professor [tenured] (2000-2003)

ESPM - Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, São Paulo, Brazil (1988-1998)

School of Communication and Marketing, Lecturer/Part-time faculty (1988-1990)
School of Business Administration, Lecturer/Part-time faculty (1990-1998)
School of Business Administration, Associate Dean (1995-1996)

PROFESSIONAL / NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Director Acting as Partner, September 2002 - August 2003
PricewaterhouseCoopers - São Paulo, Brazil.
Partner / Director Acting as Partner (since Tenure at FGV), October 1998 - August, 2002
Andersen Business Consulting - São Paulo, Brazil
Senior Consultant, Consulting Supervisor, Manager, Director, May, 1989 - October, 1998
Coopers & Lybrand Consulting - São Paulo, Brazil
(14-month leave of absence - 1994/1995 - Visiting at UT-Austin)
Organization & Methods Analyst, April-September 1987
COPAS - Companhia Paulista de Fertilizantes - São Paulo, Brazil
Human Resources Junior Analyst, February 1985 - February 1987
NOVADATA Sistemas e Computadores S.A. - Brasília, Brazil
Management and Internal Controls Intern, February 1984 - February 1985
GEIPOT - Empresa Brasileira de Planejamento de Transportes - Brasília, Brazil

Course Descriptions

TEACHING OVERVIEW

Extensive (18 years) teaching experience
Extensive and continued exposure to both academic (undergraduate, MBAs & Ph.D.) and executive education audiences
Proficiency to teach in all English, Spanish, and Portuguese
Teaching evaluations have typically ranged around the top 20% (in Brazil). In the US, evaluations have ranged from the top 10~20%.
Teaching areas:
- Multinational Strategy/Global Strategy
- International Management
- Latin American Organization/Management
- Organization and Management Theory

Executive Education

Brazilian Management and Culture (4 hour-module) – Northwestern's (Kellogg School of Management) MBA – Evanston , IL – Once a year, 2004-present
Organizational Culture and Change (16 hour-module) – Universidad ICESI's International MBA – Cali , Colombia – Once a year, 2004-present
Trends in Organization Configuration (4 hour-module) – Universidade de São Paulo Executive MBA – Twice a year, 2001-2003
Organizational Politics, Culture and Power (16 hour-module, 10 groups) – BankBoston – 2002-2003
Client-Consultant Relationships (4 hour-module) – Managerial Consultation Executive Course – GV-PEC –2003; 2002
Organization and Management in Latin America and in Brazil (4 to 8 hour-modules) – Doing Business in Brazil – GV-PEC – 1998 through 2003
Strategic Implementation and Organizational Change (12 hour-module) – Strategic Management Executive Course – GV-PEC – Once a year, 1997-2003
Trends in Organization Design (4 hour-module) – Business in the Digital Era Executive Course – GV-PEC – Twice a year, 1999-2003
Organizational Change (8 hour-module) – Several In-Company Executive Education Programs for dozens of MNEs (Daimler-Benz, Siemens, Volkswagen, Henkel, Nivea, Aventis, Kraft Foods/Nabisco, YPO (Young President's Organization), ABB (Asea Brown Boveri), Telefonica, and for several other local companies – 1997-2003

Research Interests

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Very active stream of research, at first within Latin America (until recently, primarily in Portuguese), and more recently, after moving to the U.S. , focus shifted to English-written outlets.
Publication thus far include:
- In English:
- In Portuguese and Spanish:
  - 8 Authored/Edited books;
  - 33 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters (including 19 in periodicals listed in Cabell's, with <10% acceptance rate); and
  - 21 refereed conference proceedings
- 7 awarded papers, including two divisional Best Paper Awards from the AoM.

3. Research agenda has been concentrated mostly on international and comparative management , as well as organization and national (Brazilian, Latin American) culture and the professional service firms (typically consulting) industry.

Publications, Proceedings, and Papers

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Books

Wood, T., & Caldas, M. (In press - 2007) Comportamento Organizacional: Uma Perspectiva Brasileira [Organizational Behavior: A Brazilian Perspective] . ISBN: (tba). São Paulo: Atlas.
Caldas, M. P. (2000) Demissão: Causas, efeitos e alternativas para empresa e indivíduo. [Downsizing: Causes, outcomes, and alternatives for organization and individuals] São Paulo: Atlas.
Caldas, M. P. & Wood Jr., T. (1999) Transformação e Realidade Organizacional: Uma perspectiva brasileira. [Organizational Reality and Transformation: A Brazilian perspective] São Paulo: Atlas.
Prestes Motta, F. & Caldas, M. (Eds.) (1997) Cultura Organizacional e Cultura Brasileira. [Organization Culture and Brazilian Culture] São Paulo: Atlas.

Edited/Co-edited

Bertero, C., Caldas, M., & Wood, T. (2005) Produção Científica em Administração no Brasil: O Estado-da-Arte [Academic Research in Business Administration in Brazil: The State-of-the-art] . ISBN: 8522441650. São Paulo: Atlas.
Clegg, S., Hardy, C., & Nord, W. (Original Eds) Caldas, M., Fachin, R., & Fischer, T. (Brazilian Eds.) (2004) Handbook de Estudos Organizacionais, Vol. 3 [Third volume, Brazilian edition of Sage's Handbook of Organization Studies] . ISBN: 8522430187. São Paulo: Atlas.
Clegg, S., Hardy, C., & Nord, W. (Original Eds) Caldas, M., Fachin, R., & Fischer, T. (Brazilian Eds.) (2001) Handbook de Estudos Organizacionais, Vol. 2 [Second volume, Brazilian edition of Sage's Handbook of Organization Studies] . ISBN: 8522429766. São Paulo: Atlas.
Clegg, S., Hardy, C., & Nord, W. (Original Eds) Caldas, M., Fachin, R., & Fischer, T. (Brazilian Eds.) (1999) Handbook de Estudos Organizacionais, Vol. 1 [First volume, Brazilian edition of Sage's Handbook of Organization Studies] . ISBN: 8522420815. São Paulo: Atlas.

Peer-Reviewed Papers & Book Chapters

Caldas, M. (2006). “Conceptualizing Brazilian multiple and fluid cultural profiles.” Management Research, vol. 4, no. 3 (Fall 2006), pp. 187–198.
Caldas, M. & Wood, T. (2005) “ What's all the laugh about? How consultants react to irony and jokes about their profession .” In : Johansson, U., & Woodilla, J. (Eds.) Irony and Organizations: Epistemological claims and supporting field stories. ISBN: 8763001314. Malmo: Liber/Copenhagen Business School Press.
Wood, T., Caldas, M. (2002) "Adopting imported managerial expertise in developing countries: the Brazilian experience. Academy Of Management Executive, 16(2), pg. 18-32.
Caldas, M. (2002) "President Fernando Henrique Cardoso on a decade of social and economic change in Brazil." Academy Of Management Executive, 16(2), p. 8-12.
Wood, T., Vasconcelos, F. & Caldas, M. (2002) "Ambev: The making of a Brazilian giant." In: Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel, James Brian Quinn & Sumantra Ghoshal (Eds.). The Strategy Process, 4. ed, p. 229-233. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002.
Wood, T. & Caldas, M. (2001) "Reductionism and Complex Thinking during ERP Implementations." Business Process Management Journal, 7(5): pg.387-393.
Wood, T. & Caldas, M. (2001) "Reductionism and Complex Thinking in ERP Systems Implementations." RAC - Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 5(2), mai./ago.: pg. 91-111.
Caldas, M. e Wood, T. (2000) "Fads and fashions in management: The case of ERP" RAE - Revista de Administração de Empresas da EAESP/FGV, 40(3), jul./set.: pg. 8-17.
Caldas, M. & Wood, T. (1999) "Identity and organizations: Mapping theoretical diversity." In: Miguel Pina e Cunha & Carlos A. Marques. (Eds.) Readings in Organization Science: Organizational Change in a Changing Context: p. 101-119. Lisbon: ISPA, 1999.
Caldas, M. & Wood, T. (1997) " ‘For the English to see’: The importation of managerial technology in late 20^th-century Brazil." Organization, 4(4): 517-534.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Wood, T. & Caldas, M. (2006) “ Legacy Identities during Organizational Change: The Case of an Enron Subsidiary in Brazil .” Proceedings of the 2006 ANPAD [ Brazilian Academy of Management] Meetings . Salvador , BA ( Brazil ), ANPAD, September 2006.
Caldas, M. & Alcadipani, R. “(North)Americanizing Latin America: A Post-colonialist account of the Americanization of Brazilian Management.” Proceedings of the 2005 Iberoamerican Academy of Management Conference . Lisbon, Portugal, Nova Lisboa University, December 2005.
Caldas, M., Onken, M. & Tinoco, T. (2005) “Is Business Ethics research ethnocentric ? An analysis of the extent of internationalization of the research published in top Business Ethics Journals from 1991-2002.” Proceedings of the 2005 ANPAD [Brazilian Academy of Management] Meetings . Brasília, DF (Brazil), ANPAD, September 2005.
Caldas, M. & Avrichir, I. (2005) “Brazil's Embraer and Porter's National Competitive Theory: A critical case test of the Diamond Model's validity in Latin America.” Proceedings of the 2005 BALAS Conference , Madrid, Spain, May 2005.
Caldas, M. & Alcadipani, R. (2003) “ Post-Colonialism in Latin American Management: The genesis and trail of North American Reference in Brazilian Culture and Management .” Proceedings of the 3rd International Critical Management Studies Conference (Postcolonial Track), Lancaster, U.K., July 2003.
Avrichir, I. & Caldas, M. P. (2002) "On Diamonds, Airplanes, and Beetle Bugs: Using Brazil’s Embraer to Test Porter’s National Competitive Theory." Proceedings of the 22^nd Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference, Paris, September 2002.
Caldas, M. P. & Vasconcelos, F. (2002) "Ceremonial behavior in organizational intervention: The case of ISO 9000 diffusion in Brazil." Proceedings of the 26^th ENANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management), Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), September 2002.
Caldas, M. P., Vasconcelos, F. & Wood, T. (2001) "Until Merging Due Us Part: Learning from post-merger acquisition integration in Brazil." Proceedings of the 25^th ENANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management), Campinas, São Paulo (Brazil), September 2001.
Wood, T., Vasconcelos, F. & Caldas, M. P. (2001) "Mergers & acquisitions in Brazil: an exploratory survey." Proceedings of the IV SIMPOI - Simpósio de Administração da Produção, Logística e Operações Industriais. Guarujá, São Paulo (Brazil), August 2001.
Wood, T. & Caldas, M. P. (2000) "The Part And The Whole: Reductionism And Complex Thinking In ERP Systems Implementations." Proceedings of the 24^th ENANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina (Brazil), September 2000.
Caldas, M. P. & Tonelli, M. J. (1999) "Chameleon Men and Managerial Fads: A social and psychoanalitical approach to the ‘fashionable mind’ in organizational settings." Proceedings of the 1999 BALAS (Business Association for Latin American Studies) Conference. New Orleans, April 1999.
Caldas, M. P. (1999) "Tasting one’s own medicine: Empirical study on the adoption of consulting services by consulting firms." Proceedings of the 1999 BALAS (Business Association for Latin American Studies) Conference. New Orleans (EUA), April 1999.
Wood, T. & Caldas, M. P. (1998) "Consulting in emerging countries: an anthropophagic method to avoid the ‘lost in space’ and ‘just business as usual’ syndromes." (Award-winning paper) Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (Management Consulting Division). San Diego, August 1998.
Wood, T. & Caldas, M. P. (1997) "Organizational Identity: A new framework to understand organizational intervention and change." Paper presented during the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Management Consulting Division). (Award-winning paper, not included in Best Papers Proceedings by AoM’s error) Boston (MA), August 1997.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers & Presentations

Wood, T. & Caldas, M. (2006) “ ‘Legacy Identities' and the Intertwine of Multiple Identities During Organizational Upheaval: The case of a Latin American Enron subsidiary. ” Presentation at the Organizational Identity Workshop in Lund , Sweden , May 2006.
Caldas, M. & Wood, T. (2006) “ Legacy Identities” During Organizational Turmoil: The Case Of A Latin American Enron Subsidiary .” Paper presented at the 2006 EGOS [European Group of Organization Studies] Conference , Bergen , Norway , July 2006.
Wood, T. & Caldas, M. (2006) “ Legacy Identities during Organizational Change: The Case of an Enron Subsidiary. ” Presentation at the Academy of Management Meeting in Atlanta , GA , August 2006: ODC Division, August, 2006.
Caldas, M., & Wood, T. (2006) “ Organizational Identity in the Third Millennium: Beyond ‘Central, Distinctive and Enduring'. ” Presentation at the Academy of Management Meeting in Atlanta , GA , August 2006: OMT Division, August, 2006.
Caldas, M. (2006) “Falling From Grace: The dynamics of identification and des-identification with disgraced organizations.” Presentation at the Organizational Des-Identification Workshop in Lund , Sweden , October 2006.
Caldas, M. & Avrichir, I. (2005) “ Brazil's Embraer and National Competitiveness – Global Links, not Diamonds: A critical case test of the Diamond Model's validity in Latin America . ” Paper presented at the 2005 Academy of International Business in Quebec City, Canada, July, 2005.
Caldas, M., Wood, T., & Steur, R. (2005) “ Identity in the midst of change: From central, distinctive and enduring, to multiple, deceiving and fluid .” Paper presented at the 2005 EGOS [European Group of Organization Studies] Conference , Berlin, Germany, June 2005.
Caldas, M. & Alcadipani, R. (2003) “Re-Colonizing Brazil: The Americanization of Brazilian culture and management in the 20 th Century.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Critical Management Division), Seattle, Washington, August 2003.
Azevedo, M. & Caldas, M. (2003) “Mechanization of Work Design in Call Centers: An exploratory empirical examination of the ‘Sweatshop' argument.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Critical Management Division), Seattle, Washington, August 2003.
Caldas, M. P. & Wood, T. (2002) "What’s All the Laugh about? Critique, Anecdotes, Irony, and the Consultant’s Job." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Management Consultation Division), Denver, Colorado, August 2002.
Vasconcelos, F. & Caldas, M. P. (2002) "Do Isomorphism and Ceremonial Behavior in Organizational Intervention Pay Off ? The case of ISO 9000." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Management Consultation Division), Denver, Colorado, August 2002.
Vasconcelos, F., Caldas, M. P. & Wood, T. (2001) "It’s Not About Who Does It, It’s About How It’s Done: What Management Consultants can Learn from Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions in Emerging Countries." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Management Consultation Division), Washington, D.C., August, 2001.
Tonelli, M.J., Caldas, M. P., Vasconcelos, F. & Wood, T. (2001) "Narratives of mystery, fear, sex, and power in mergers and acquisitions." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Critical Management Studies Division), Washington, D.C., August, 2001.
Vasconcelos, F., Vasconcelos, I. & Caldas, M.P. (2001) "The Requisite Stress: A study on fear management and intentional stress-inducing organizational strategies." Paper presented at the 17th EGOS Colloquium. Lyon, France, July 5-7, 2001.
Caldas, M. P. & Tonelli, M. J. (2000) "Marriage, rape or neither ? Interpreting images and representations from survivors of mergers and acquisitions." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Critical Management Studies Division), Toronto, August 2000.
Caldas, M. P. & Wood, T. (2000) "The Part and the Whole: Reductionism and Complex Thinking in ERP Systems Implementations." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Organization Development and Change Division), Toronto, August 2000.
Caldas, M. P. & Hernandez, J. M. (2000) "Resistance to Change: If we know so much, why does it still threaten effective consulting?" Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Management Consultation Division), Toronto, August 2000.
Hernandez, J. M. & Caldas, M. P. (2000) "Toward a Model of Individual Resistance to Change." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Organization Development and Change Division), Toronto, August 2000.
Caldas, M. P. & Wood, T. (1999) "How consultants can help organizations survive the ERP frenzy?" Paper presented during the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Management Consulting Division). Chicago, August 1999.
Wood, T. & Caldas, M. P. (1999) "Stripping the ‘Big Brother’: Unveiling the backstage of the ERP Fad." Paper presented during the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Critical Management Studies Division). Chicago, August 1999.
Caldas, M. P. & Wood, T. (1998). "Identity and Organizations: Searching for an interdisciplinary conceptual framework." Paper presented during the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Organization and Management Theory Division). San Diego, August 1998.
Caldas, M. P. (1998) "A taste of one’s own medicine: An empirical investigation on the adoption of consulting services by consulting firms." Paper presented during the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Management Consulting Division). San Diego, August 1998.
Caldas, M. P. (1996). "Towards a More Comprehensive Model of Managerial Innovation Diffusion: Why consultants are not the only ones to blame." Paper presented during the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Management Consulting Division). Cincinnati, August 1996.

Non-Refereed Publications, Papers & Presentations (Selected)

Wood, T. & Caldas, M. (2004) “Managing in Brazil: Hybridism and Change”. Presentation at Academy of Management Meeting in New Orleans, August 2004: IM & CMS Divisions' Symposium: Latin Management Between Tradition and Change .
Onken, M., Caldas, M., & Reed, K. (2004) “ Perception of corruption in Latin America among Western media. ” Presentation at the 2004 Academy of International Business in Stockholm, Sweden, July, 2004: Balas Symposium: Ethically-Questionable Practices and High-Risk Business Environment .
Caldas, M. P. e Wood, T. (2000) "Stripping the Big Brother: Snooping into the Enterprise Systems (ERP) Fad." Paper presented at the 18^th SCOS - Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Athens, July 2000.
Wood, T., & Caldas, M. (1995) "Who's Afraid of Electrofads? Change, identity and convulsive organization therapies." Paper presented at the 13th SCOS (Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism). Turku, Finland, June 1995.
Caldas, M. P. (1994) "The symbolic use of experience: Cases and organizational stories as fables for managerial grown-ups." 12^th SCOS - Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Electronic Procendings. Calgary (Canada), July 1994.

Personal

Research Awards and Honors

International Awards

1998 Academy of Management – Best Paper Award , Managerial Consultation Division – “Consulting in emerging countries: an anthropophagic method to avoid the ‘lost in space' and ‘just business as usual' syndromes” (co-authored by Thomaz Wood Jr.)
1997 Academy of Management – Best Paper Award , Managerial Consultation Division – “Organizational Identity: A new framework to understand organizational intervention and change” (co-authored by Thomaz Wood Jr.)

National Awards

2003 ANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management) Honored Paper , Organization and Management Theory Division – “O discurso evolucionista e a prática involutiva: Um estudo empírico exploratório sobre o impacto de mudanças tecnológicas sobre o desenho do trabalho em Call Centers.” [The evolutionist discourse and the retrogressive praxis: An empirical study on the impact of technological change in Call Center work design] (co-authored by M árcia Azevedo )
2002 ANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management) Best Paper Award , Organization and Management Theory Division – “Ceremonial behavior in organizational intervention: The case of ISO 9000 diffusion in Brazil . ” (co-authored by Flávio Vasconcelos)
2002 ANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management) Best Paper Award , Human Resource Management Division – “Espelho, espelho meu: meta-estudo da produção científica em Recursos Humanos nos ENANPADs na década de 90.” [ Human Resource academic research in Brazil through the 1990s ] (co-authored by Maria José Tonelli and Beatriz Lacombe)
2000 ANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management) Honored Paper , Information Systems Division – “ The part and the whole: reductionism and complex thinking in ERP systems implementations” (co-authored by Thomaz Wood Jr.)
1999 ANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management) Honored Paper , Operations Management Division – “ Modas e modismos em gestão: Pesquisa exploratória sobre adoção e implementação de ERP” [Fads and fashions in management: Exploratory research on the adoption and implementation of ERP systems] (co-authored by Thomaz Wood Jr.)

Grants and Funding

“ Louisiana 's Internationalization and Corruption in Latin America : Challenges, Costs, and Best Practices for Coping with Ethically Questionable Practices In International Business”, DOE, 2-year Teaching and Research Grant (US$ 200k), 2004-2006
Loyola University New Orleans Faculty Development Grant – “Bringing Ethics and International Business Education Together: The creation of "International Business Ethics" education at Loyola” – Grant proposed in August, 2003; awarded in November, 2003.
6 Competitive FGV Research Grants, 1997~2003
Full funding and research scholarship during Ph.D. Program, CAPES Scholarship (Brazilian Government Competitive Scholarship Program), FGV/EAESP, 1992-1998
Full funding and research scholarship during M.Sc. Program at FGV/EAESP, CAPES Scholarship (Brazilian Government Competitive Scholarship Program), 1987-1992

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