Mauro F. Guillén

Mauro F. Guillén, ICAS Fellow, is the Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute at Penn, a research-and-teaching program on management and international relations. He holds the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professorship in International Management at the Wharton School and a secondary appointment as Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology of the University of Pennsylvania. Mauro previously taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He received a PhD in sociology from Yale University and a Doctorate in political economy from the University of Oviedo in his native Spain.

Mauro is a trustee of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and a member of the board of the Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (Grupo Analistas), the Research Department of La Caixa, Europe's largest savings bank, and Washington-based Concibank.

He has received a Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award, a Wharton Graduate Association Teaching Award, the Gulf Publishing Company Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management, the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award of the American Sociological Association, the Gustavus Myers Center Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights, and the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association. Mauro is an Elected Fellow of the Macro Organizational Behavior Society, a former Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow and a Member in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2005 he won the IV Fundación Banco Herrero Prize, awarded annually to the best Spanish social scientist under the age of 40.

Mauro's current research deals with the internationalization of the firm, and with the impact of globalization on patterns of organization and on the diffusion of innovations. His most recent books are Building a Global Banker: The Transformation of Banco Santand (Princeton University Press, 2008; Santander, el banco, Madrid: LID Editorial, 2007), The Rise of Spanish Multinationals (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical (Princeton University Press, 2006). He is also the author of The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain (Princeton University Press, 2001), Models of Management (The University of Chicago Press, 1994), and, with Charles Perrow, The AIDS Disaster (Yale University Press, 1990). In Spanish, Mauro has published La Profesión de Economista (Ariel, 1989), and Análisis de Regresión Múltiple (CIS, 1992).

His research has appeared in a variety of academic journals in four separate fields: Management: Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Advances in International Comparative Management, Industrial & Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Financial Services Research, Organization, Trends in Organizational Behavior, Business Horizons, and Sloan Management Review. Sociology: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, and Social Forces. Area Studies: East Asian Economic Perspectives, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Latin American Research Review. Applied Policy: Telecommunications Policy and Transnational Corporations.

Mauro is an Associate Editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly, and serves or has served on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies.

His media appearances include: Bank Mergers & Acquisitions, bloomberg.com, BBC, Bloomberg TV, Boston Globe, Business Mexico, Chicago Tribune, CNBC (TV), Daily Express, e-Commerce Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Financial Times, Forbes, Foreign Policy, Hispanic Business, Los Angeles Times, The Manufacturer, New York Newsday, New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, International Herald Tribune, Journal of Commerce, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Europe, Wall Street Journal Americas, Washington Times, World Trade.
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Emerging No More?
2012 Spring Symposium
Bulletin: January 16, 2012


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