Ricardo Alexandre Morais

Assistant Professor

Ricardo Alexandre Morais

Assistant Professor

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Ricardo Morais, married and father of three daughters, is Assistant Professor of Management at Católica Porto Business School and Director of Idea Puzzle.

Since 2013, he coordinates the seminar 'How to design your PhD' at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) in Brussels.

He holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, having graduated in Management from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto. He is also an alumnus of HPI School of Design Thinking in Germany.

His research interests are interdisciplinary, including Philosophy of Science, Strategic Management, Design Thinking, and Spirituality in Management.

Since 2002, he has published more than 30 academic articles, chapters, and papers about these topics and lectured in 99 universities from 26 countries.

He is a member of the Philosophy of Science Association, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of Management.

Since 1996, he has co‑founded John Crane Safematic in Brazil, Revenio Group in Finland, and Idea Puzzle in Portugal.

Since 2000, he was a consultant in projects for the European Commission, Sonae Industria, Portuguese Government, CCDR‑N, Deloitte, Fundação Belmiro de Azevedo, Azores Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Associação Missão Crescimento, and Fundação Amélia de Mello (www.ricardomorais.com).

Areas of Research:

Marketing & Strategy

Publications

Other

A critical realist interpretation of managerial contacts in industrial markets.

Ricardo Alexandre Morais (with Ricardo Morais). 2003. Proceedings of the 19th Annual IMP Conference, 4 - 6 September, Lugano, Switzerland.

Božidar Vlačić was a speaker at the Strategic Management Society Conference in Serbia

Essential government support for decarbonisation

CEGE4ALL: The Impact of Nutrition Claims on Purchase Behavior for Food Products

Ricardo Alexandre Morais

Ricardo Alexandre Morais

Generic Bio

A critical realist interpretation of managerial contacts in industrial markets.

A critical realist interpretation of network dynamics.

A CUF, o azeite e as oleaginosas

A influência do modelo de negócios nos serviços online unicanal.

Analysis of research ideas

Critical realism and case studies in international business research.

Critical realism and case studies in international business.

Critical realist case studies of foreign subsidiary development

Design versus organic views of subsidiary coordination in less-hierarchical MNCs: An empirical examination.

Design-thinking in brand management

Developing enterprise sponsored virtual communities

Entrepreneurship, SMEs and regional constructed advantage.

Exploring the effect of trust on the performance of international joint ventures.

High performance collaborative networks: a realistic innovation or just an academic desire?

Iberian diaspora and internationalization processes

Idea Puzzle software for doctoral research design (www.ideapuzzle.com)

Knowledge visualisation for research design: The case of the Idea Puzzle software at the University of Auckland.

Knowledge visualization for research design

Late Starter: A Situation or a Process?

Philosophy of science and doctoral research design

Scientific method.

Social networks of foreign subsidiary managers as “glocal” coordination.

The curriculum question in doctoral education.

The influence of creative industry definitions on subsector typologies

The influence of critical realism on managerial prediction

The influence of tourism seasonality on family business in peripheral regions.

The internationalisation of Sonae Indústria. Case 316-0003-1.

The internationalisation of Sonae Indústria. Teaching note 316-0003-8.

The interpersonal role of foreign subsidiary managers revisited.

The role of business schools in the doctoral paradox.

The role of managerial dependence and uncertainty in foreign subsidiary coordination

The role of multinationals in the "doctoral paradox".

The role of personal contacts of foreign subsidiary managers in the coordination of industrial multinationals.

The role of personal contacts of foreign subsidiary managers in the coordination of industrial multinationals: The case of Finnish subsidiaries in Portugal.