Miguel Pina E Cunha
Biographic Data
| ID | 390990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miguel Pina E Cunha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miguel Pina E |
| FAMILY NAME | Cunha |
| SIGNATURE | CUNHA M P E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6724-2440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The role of strategic and contextual ambidexterity in enhancing team performance: The moderating effect of cross-training
Englishization Beyond the Global North: Dependency, Struggle, and Resistance in Brazilian Management Research
This paper advances understanding of Englishization in management research by addressing a key limitation in the existing literature: its predominant focus on the Global North, especially Europe. Drawing on dependency theory and postcolonial theory, we examine how management academics experience and navigate Englishization in Brazil. Based on qualitative research, we found that Brazilian academics, like their European counterparts, faced growing …
Saudade: How complex emotions shape the experience of paradox
Emotions and paradoxes permeate organizational life. The former shape how individuals interpret, respond to, and cope with the tensions that arise from the latter. While paradox theory has extensively explored the handling of these tensions through cognitive and structural mechanisms, the emotional dimensions remain largely underexplored. We discuss saudade, a paradoxical, culturally grounded emotion in Portuguese, an evocative state of being cha…
Paradoxes of Authenticity in Liminal Consumption: The Case of Casablanca’s Rick’s Café
What makes a “ fake ” seemingly “ authentic ”? The case of Rick’s Café, known worldwide for the movie Casablanca , situates that question. Rick’s was a set constructed on a Hollywood sound stage. Another Rick’s was created materially in Casablanca decades later. Consumers are aware of this liminal condition. It is the reflexivity inherent in this awareness of performative inauthenticity that makes the case both appropriate and nuanced as an oppor…
Paradox(a): Arts and Artists, Power, Paradox and Organized Resistance
Organising through time: Paradox and history
This special issue represents the first effort to bridge paradox theory and historical analysis further. Its goal is to create a fertile environment for advancing the historical study of organisations by contributing to discussions on various research topics where organisations, paradoxes, and temporality intersect. Defining organisational paradoxes as interdependent contradictions that persist over time contains an immediate plea for applying hi…
Overcoming Strong–Weak Dualisms in Process Organization Studies via Three Theory-Methodology Hybrids
In processual approaches to the sociology of organizations, there are prevalent assumptions differentiating ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ process research. In this paper, we challenge this assumption and suggest a novel, non-dualistic hybrid approach that is methodologically strong-weak. This approach integrates both flux (becoming) and its temporary material instantiations (being), addressing tensions between slow-moving and mid-range elements of process.…
Becoming a Fraternal Organization: Insights from the Encyclical Fratelli Tutti
How Crisis May Generate and Sustain Creative Cycles: The Role of Problem Persistence
We performed an inductive study to advance theory on how a crisis can inspire individuals to be persistently creative in successive cycles. We draw from rich data of 17 volunteer projects in the Tech4Covid movement, a Portuguese organization of entrepreneurs who gathered online to develop digital solutions to help society during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This empirical context is uniquely suited to study how interactions with intended beneficiaries …
Romancing leadership: Temporality and the myths of Vlad Dracula
Leadership studies focus on processes of leader romanticization to explain the attribution of charisma and account for leaders' personal power. Such research focuses on antecedents to leadership, stressing factors such as personal projections of dispositions, the specificity of context and situation or the leaders' capacity for image management. These processes, important as they are, do not fully identify and articulate the inner workings of the…
Are Relationally Transparent Leaders More Receptive to the Relational Transparency of Others? An Authentic Dialog Perspective
Leading university internationalisation: The future of Euro‐Chinese academic cooperation
Under the pressure of globalisation, both China and Europe have active strategies to internationalise their higher education systems. This paper explores the cultural and institutional constraints of these strategies in both territories, analysing their impact on the cooperation and competition among higher education institutions. The article focuses on the historical and current practices of internationalisation in Europe and China, the strategi…
Team ground rules: Their nature and functions
Teams are complex relational systems. Effective team functioning depends on members willingness to coordinate and work together. Ground rules play a fundamental but frequently ignored role in this process. We define ground rules as the mutual agreements informally established by members to regulate team functioning. These agreements may subsequently be rendered formal or explicit. The nature and functions of ground rules (including as social-norm…
Risks and critical success factors in the internationalization of born global startups of industry 4.0: A social, environmental, economic, and institutional analysis
In a Kafkaesque catacomb: The killing of Ihor Homenyuk by the Portuguese customs and immigration bureaucracy
Bureaucracies, especially state bureaucracies, are typified as rational-legal organizations. We study how one such bureaucracy acted as neither rational nor legal but proved to be a space of exclusion. Ihor Homenuyk, a Ukrainian citizen, was ‘retained’ and then killed by the Portuguese foreigners and borders service. Police abuse has been much in the news in recent times, as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement. The issues are wider than t…
Leader-Expressed Humility Predicting Team Psychological Safety: A Personality Dynamics Lens
Everyday Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review
We systematically review the concept and main characteristics of everyday creativity. First, we highlight the fact that a comprehensive definition of everyday creativity is still missing. The evidence reveals that the lack of a single approach for assessing everyday creative outcomes has led to an ambiguous understanding of this concept. Therefore, we propose a complementary perspective to define everyday creativity moving toward a broader compre…
Theorizing compassionate leadership from the case of Jacinda Ardern: Legitimacy, paradox and resource conservation
During times of suffering such as that inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, compassion expressed by leaders helps to ease distress. Doing so, those in a position to provide resources that might facilitate coping and recovery are attentive to the situations of distress. Despite an abundance of leadership theorizing and models, there still is little academic literature on compassionate leadership. To address this limitation, we present an explorator…
Embodying improvisational education for managers: Learning from theater
Organizational improvisation is a key skill for managers, but we lack knowledge on how to educate them on improvisational skills and what the role of the body is in this process. We assume that embodiment matters because improvisation relies on the visceral and instinctive reactions of the body when faced with urgent situations. This study explores how theatrical improvisation embodies organizational improvisation education. The empirical researc…
Person-job fit across the work lifespan – The case of classical ballet dancers
Fast Response to Superspreading: Uncertainty and Complexity in the Context of Covid-19
Although the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) wave has peaked with the second wave underway, the world is still struggling to manage potential systemic risks and unpredictability of the pandemic. A particular challenge is the "superspreading" of the virus, which starts abruptly, is difficult to predict, and can quickly escalate into medical and socio-economic emergencies that contribute to long-lasting crises challenging our current ways…
Crisis management in high-reliability organizations: Lessons from Brazilian air disasters
Purpose The focus of this study was to analyze crisis management in a context of high-reliability organizations (HRO) evidenced in two cases of Brazilian air disasters. Aspects of human and technological natures were examined, addressing the complex sociotechnical system. Design/methodology/approach This in-depth case study addressed the two most serious air disasters on Brazilian territory. The first case involved a midair collision between Gol …
Garra dos líderes e capital psicológico dos liderados: Uma exploração concetual de condições moderadoras
A garra (termo aqui traduzido de grit) tem sido encarada como crucial para o sucesso dos indivíduos e a eficácia dos líderes, embora alguns autores não sustentem essa tese. A investigação empírica é escassa e pouco conclusiva. Um possível caminho para melhor compreender este construto passa por considerar condições moderadoras. Aqui discutimos três dessas condições: (1) garra veiculada pelo líder versus garra autoatribuída; (2) humildade expressa…
Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory
Dogs in organizations
What roles do dogs play in organizational life and formal organizations? Dogs are mostly ignored by organization theory despite the existence of a rich literature on human–animal studies that helps theoretical extension in the direction of organization studies. We discuss why and to what extent dogs are important actors in the lives of organizations and discuss reasons that explain such relevance in functional and symbolic terms. Overall, we sugg…
Management paradoxes: A relational view
Paradox is gaining more and more pervasiveness in and around organizations, thus increasing the need for an approach to management that allows both researchers and practitioners to address these paradoxes. We attempt to contribute to this project by suggesting a relational approach to paradoxes. To this aim, we first present the state of the art of research on management paradoxes and then explain four regularities surfaced in the literature on t…
Wild cards, weak signals and organisational improvisation
Manna from heaven: The exuberance of food as a topic for research in management and organization
Organizations have, in the past, often been discussed as if they were Cartesian mentalities, planning agendas, learning from doing, processing information, reducing equivocality, mimicking and copying, floating disembodiedly apart from the actors who work in these organizations. We are offered representations of organizations as organically grounded metaphors that minimize the biological facticity of employees: namely, their need for food. While …
Fear of foresight: Knowledge and ignorance in organizational foresight
Kafkaesque power and bureaucracy
The metaphor of Kafkaesque bureaucracy has attracted the imagination of organization theorists for decades. While the critical and metaphorical approach offers vibrant insights about organizing, it has not been complemented by systematic empirical analysis. We take a step in that direction and conduct an inductive study of how people experience and deal with the Kafkaesque bureaucracy. We focus on the Kafkaesque organization as constructed in pro…
Dogs in organizations
What roles do dogs play in organizational life and formal organizations? Dogs are mostly ignored by organization theory despite the existence of a rich literature on human–animal studies that helps theoretical extension in the direction of organization studies. We discuss why and to what extent dogs are important actors in the lives of organizations and discuss reasons that explain such relevance in functional and symbolic terms. Overall, we sugg…
Lessons for leaders: Positive organization studies meets Niccolò Machiavelli
Machiavelli should be a central and canonical text for management education, even in the age of positive organizational literatures. We give it this role by considering the case of the virtuous leader. Our proposition is simple: virtuous leaders live and act, like anybody else, in the power circuits that are constitutive of reality. Therefore, they participate in power dynamics that sometimes make them face the need to decide in ways that do not …
The organization ( Ângkar ) as a state of exception: The case of the S-21 extermination camp, Phnom Penh
Organization theory, Clegg pointed out, has failed to address the role of organizations in some of the crimes of/against humanity, suggesting that more attention should be given to the case of total institutions. With this paper we respond to Clegg’s invitation and study the S-21 extermination camp, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We do so by engaging with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, with the aim of investigating the organizatio…
Improvisation as “real time foresight”
Tolerance is Not Enough: The Moderating Role of Optimism on Perceptions of Regional Economic Performance
The ethical speaking of objects: Ethics and the ‘object-ive’ world of Khmer Rouge young comrades
Discussions of the ethics of organization are often based on crucial but mostly abstract categories. The role of these categories is not contested here but, in line with a sociomaterial view of organizations, we suggest that objects also participate in ethical processes and that they fulfil a number of important roles in the social construction of ethics. We study this possibility via the extreme case of young Khmer Rouge combatants participating…
Pol Pot, alias Brother Number One: Leaders as instruments of history
Pol Pot is one twentieth century leader with a specific place in history as the orchestrator of one of that century's many significant genocides. As the commander of the deadly Khmer Rouge, he orchestrated the genocide perpetrated in Cambodia between 1974 and 1979, in which 1.7 million people, or 21% of the country's population, died (UN figure). Explanations of how the genocide occurred often stress it as an unanticipated consequence of implemen…
Smells like team spirit: Opening a paradoxical black box
Despite the common usage of the term, researchers and practitioners have not been able properly to explain what team spirit is and what benefits and drawbacks it might bring to teams. Several definitions have been proposed, but not in a consistent manner. Using a qualitative approach, we worked with one football team to shed light on how individuals experience and characterize team spirit. Our results suggest that team spirit is built around four…
Exploring the Role of Leader—Subordinate Interactions in the Construction of Organizational Positivity
In this article we discuss individual implicit theories of how positive and negative organizing unfold. The discussion is grounded in data collected from 89 individuals working in different organizational contexts. An inductive logic was followed, based on critical incidents of positive and negative processes and outcomes presented by participants, according to how they viewed their professional situation. Through a dialectical process of analysi…
Overcoming Strong–Weak Dualisms in Process Organization Studies via Three Theory-Methodology Hybrids
In processual approaches to the sociology of organizations, there are prevalent assumptions differentiating ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ process research. In this paper, we challenge this assumption and suggest a novel, non-dualistic hybrid approach that is methodologically strong-weak. This approach integrates both flux (becoming) and its temporary material instantiations (being), addressing tensions between slow-moving and mid-range elements of process.…
Theorizing compassionate leadership from the case of Jacinda Ardern: Legitimacy, paradox and resource conservation
During times of suffering such as that inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, compassion expressed by leaders helps to ease distress. Doing so, those in a position to provide resources that might facilitate coping and recovery are attentive to the situations of distress. Despite an abundance of leadership theorizing and models, there still is little academic literature on compassionate leadership. To address this limitation, we present an explorator…
Organizational Improvisation: A Contextual Approach
(2003). Organizational Improvisation: a Contextual Approach. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 567-589
Romancing leadership: Temporality and the myths of Vlad Dracula
Leadership studies focus on processes of leader romanticization to explain the attribution of charisma and account for leaders' personal power. Such research focuses on antecedents to leadership, stressing factors such as personal projections of dispositions, the specificity of context and situation or the leaders' capacity for image management. These processes, important as they are, do not fully identify and articulate the inner workings of the…
An institutional palimpsest? The case of Cambodia’s political order, 1970 and beyond
How do continuity and change coexist and coevolve? How does continuity enable change and change reinforce continuity? These are central questions in organizational and political research, as organizational and institutional systems benefit from the presence of both reproduction and transformation. However, the relation between the processes of change and continuity still raises significant questions. To contribute to this discussion, we analyse t…
The revolution will not be televised’: The institutional work of radical change in China’s Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong sought both to destabilize existing institutional categories for ordering meaning, and impose new ones, initially through the Great Leap Forward and subsequently during the Cultural Revolution. The paper explores the institutional work that made this process of radical change possible. At its core was the construction and deployment of a set of binary categorization devices. These are explored in the paper to argue that persistent and …
Doing compassion or doing discipline? Power relations and the Magdalene Laundries
We address the Magdalene Laundries. On the one hand this institution was constituted as a compassionate response to managing troubled young women; on the other hand it was seen as a disciplinary apparatus imposing total institutional life on its inmates. The antinomy of views about the institution is evident in the analysis we make of 116 comments by 66 commenters on an online newspaper article about the Magdalene Laundries. We analyse these comm…
Eupsychia Revisited: The Role of Spiritual Leaders
This study builds on the workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership literatures to revisit the Maslowian notion of eupsychian management, showing that leaders' behavior has an impact on how people perceive the organization at the higher levels of self-actualization: the spiritual ones. A total of 105 employees reported 175 critical incidents, 120 antieupsychian events, and 55 eupsychian ones. The most frequent antieupsychian behaviors were p…
Managing Improvisation in Cross Cultural Virtual Teams
Drawing on grounded theory research, we present a grounded model of improvisation in cross cultural contexts, the major contribution of which lies in advancing the concept of the dialectical team, where a minimal structure and a compatible perception of reality foster improvisational action, with diverse members responding to a turbulent environment using simple resources. This arrangement creates the conditions that allow a team to improvise suc…
Reading between the lines: Unveiling masculinity in feminine management practices
The authors draw on an article by Fondas published in 1997 to expose a masculine ethos underlying “feminine” management practices, diffused through management texts. This is based on the findings that: management theories are of a masculine nature; companies seldom implement “feminine” practices; and those that do use those practices to maintain their underlying masculinity. This challenges academics and practitioners to recognize that management…
Management paradoxes: A relational view
Paradox is gaining more and more pervasiveness in and around organizations, thus increasing the need for an approach to management that allows both researchers and practitioners to address these paradoxes. We attempt to contribute to this project by suggesting a relational approach to paradoxes. To this aim, we first present the state of the art of research on management paradoxes and then explain four regularities surfaced in the literature on t…
Organizational Improvisation: A Contextual Approach
(2003). Organizational Improvisation: a Contextual Approach. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 567-589
Organizational Time: A Dialectical View
I develop 12 propositions, constituting a contribution to a dialectical view of time in organizations that synthesizes apparently opposite perspectives. To articulate them, the ‘planning’, ‘action’ and ‘improvisation’ strategic orientations to the ‘dependent’, ‘independent’ and ‘interdependent’ perspectives of the environment are related. Then these strategic orientations are related to approaches to the problems of scheduling, synchronization an…
Wild cards, weak signals and organisational improvisation
Os motivos de sucesso, afiliação e poder: Perfis Motivacionais De Estudantes De Graduação E Pós-Graduação E Sua Relação Com Níveis Remuneratórios
Esta pesquisa expõe evidência empírica relativa aos motivos de sucesso, afiliação e poder, prosseguindo 3 objetivos: 1) relacionar esses motivos com as remunerações; 2) testar se os mestrandos denotam perfil motivacional distinto do que caracteriza os estudantes de graduação; 3) aferir se esse perfil é similar ao extraído de estudos anteriores, realizados com amostras portuguesas, e nos quais prepondera a motivação afiliativa. Recrutou-se uma amo…
Fear of foresight: Knowledge and ignorance in organizational foresight
Weblog-Technology as a Trigger to Elicit Passion for Knowledge
The practice of Weblogging as a new social and technological phenomenon in society and business is gaining a growing number of supporters. In short, a Weblog is a website where individual thoughts are publicly displayed in the form of a diary. In this paper, we seek to illustrate the impact of Weblog technology on people's passion for knowledge. We start from the assumption that successful knowledge management requires the engagement of people in…
Eupsychia Revisited: The Role of Spiritual Leaders
This study builds on the workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership literatures to revisit the Maslowian notion of eupsychian management, showing that leaders' behavior has an impact on how people perceive the organization at the higher levels of self-actualization: the spiritual ones. A total of 105 employees reported 175 critical incidents, 120 antieupsychian events, and 55 eupsychian ones. The most frequent antieupsychian behaviors were p…
Management Improvisation
Management improvisation can be defined as the conception of action as it unfolds in an organizational context, drawing on the available material, cognitive, affective, and social resources. It is an individual practice which takes place in light of concrete circumstances. People improvise to solve practical problems which emerge as a result of specific and unplanned circumstances. In this sense, improvisation can be neither managed nor controlle…
The role of mediatory myths in sustaining ideology: The case of Cuba after the ‘special period’
After the collapse of the Soviet bloc, management researchers devoted considerable energy to investigating ways to operate the transition to market economies. However, one country of the former Soviet bloc, Cuba, resisted transition and reaffirmed loyalty to the values of La Revolucion. Little is known about management in Cuba. This study seeks to approach one particular aspect of management in this country: the relationship between national ideo…
Manna from heaven: The exuberance of food as a topic for research in management and organization
Organizations have, in the past, often been discussed as if they were Cartesian mentalities, planning agendas, learning from doing, processing information, reducing equivocality, mimicking and copying, floating disembodiedly apart from the actors who work in these organizations. We are offered representations of organizations as organically grounded metaphors that minimize the biological facticity of employees: namely, their need for food. While …
Indústrias criativas: Definição, limites e possibilidades
O termo "indústrias criativas" surgiu nos anos 1990, para designar setores nos quais a criatividade é uma dimensão essencial do negócio. As indústrias criativas compreendem, entre outras, as atividades relacionadas ao cinema, ao teatro, à música e às artes plásticas. Neste artigo introdutório, mostramos o surgimento do termo no âmbito de políticas públicas de desenvolvimento econômico, analisamos a literatura científica sobre as indústrias criati…
Exploring the Role of Leader—Subordinate Interactions in the Construction of Organizational Positivity
In this article we discuss individual implicit theories of how positive and negative organizing unfold. The discussion is grounded in data collected from 89 individuals working in different organizational contexts. An inductive logic was followed, based on critical incidents of positive and negative processes and outcomes presented by participants, according to how they viewed their professional situation. Through a dialectical process of analysi…
Poetry in motion: Protest songwriting as strategic resource (Portugal, circa 1974)
In this article, we use protest songs written in Portugal in the periods surrounding the Carnations Revolution to suggest that artists have the capacity to use their artistic discourses as strategic resources, attempting to shape socio‐political reality. We identify three periods in the Portuguese revolution wherein this instrumental use of art becomes patent. We further suggest that organisational managers should take into account the subjective…
Creating Balance: International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals
Pol Pot, alias Brother Number One: Leaders as instruments of history
Pol Pot is one twentieth century leader with a specific place in history as the orchestrator of one of that century's many significant genocides. As the commander of the deadly Khmer Rouge, he orchestrated the genocide perpetrated in Cambodia between 1974 and 1979, in which 1.7 million people, or 21% of the country's population, died (UN figure). Explanations of how the genocide occurred often stress it as an unanticipated consequence of implemen…
Tolerance is Not Enough: The Moderating Role of Optimism on Perceptions of Regional Economic Performance
Authentic leadership promoting employees' psychological capital and creativity
Um compêndio de medidas (frequentes e recentes) usadas em comportamento organizacional
Um dos obstáculos frequentes à actividade de investigação decorre da dificuldade de identificar medidas estáveis e testadas para operacionalizar as variáveis em estudo. Este artigo identifica um conjunto de instrumentos de medida, usados recente e/ou frequentemente pelos investigadores do comportamento organizacional. Não sendo um guia exaustivo, este compêndio pretende facultar um acesso mais rápido e direccionado àqueles que produzem investigaç…
Sistemas de recompensa: Uma analise empírica de antecedentes e consequências
O objectivo principal deste estudo consistiu em analisar os antecedentes e consequências da configuração do sistema de recompensas. O trabalho avaliou a influência da cultura dominante de uma organização nas características do sistema de recompensas, bem como os efeitos deste no desempenho dos sujeitos. A questão de partida era: qual o contributo da configuração do sistema de recompensas de uma organização para a explicação do nível do desempenho…
Processos de controlo nas organizagões: Do controlo da flexibilidade & flexibilidade do controlo
Este artigo apresenta uma visão geral do problema do controlo organizacional. O argumento central do trabalho é o de que as organizações têm procurado alterar o exercício do controlo, no sentido do aumento da flexibilidade. Para esse efeito, as formas tradicionais de controlo intrusivo têm vindo a ser substituídas por formas de controlo menos intrusivas. Para ilustrar esta mudança de foco na gestão do controlo, o texto começa por apresentar as di…
Implicação com o sindicato: O papel das percepções de suporte e de instrumentalidade
Este trabalho teve como objectivo estudar a implicação com o sindicato e os possíveis factores de influência nessa implicação. Gordon et al. (1980) definiram implicação com o sindicato como o desejo de continuar membro de um sindicato, de trabalhar para ele e como uma aceitação e crença nos objectivos desse sindicato. Com o presente estudo, foi possível verificar que, para que esta relação de troca entre um membro e um sindicato conduza ao desenv…
The organization ( Ângkar ) as a state of exception: The case of the S-21 extermination camp, Phnom Penh
Organization theory, Clegg pointed out, has failed to address the role of organizations in some of the crimes of/against humanity, suggesting that more attention should be given to the case of total institutions. With this paper we respond to Clegg’s invitation and study the S-21 extermination camp, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We do so by engaging with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, with the aim of investigating the organizatio…
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