Shortbio - Suzana Braga Rodrigues - Professor of International
Suzana Braga Rodrigues is Professor of International Strategy at Universidade FUMEC, Brazil and, Emeritus Professor of International Business and Organization at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands.
Professor of International, Professor of International Strategy, Professor of International Business and Organization
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Suzana Braga Rodrigues

Suzana Braga Rodrigues is Professor of International Strategy at Universidade FUMEC, Brazil and, Emeritus Professor of International Business and Organization at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. She holds a PhD degree in Management Studies from Bradford Management School, University of Bradford, UK. In 1985, Suzana obtained a Fulbright Scholarship for post-doctoral studies in the USA. She also did post-doctoral research at the Judge School of Business, University of Cambridge, as a member of Lucy Cavendish College. Prior to joining Erasmus University, Suzana had held the post of Professor of International Management and Organization at both the University of Birmingham, UK and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil.

In her early career in Brazil, Suzana was for six years Coordinator of the Master Course in Management, and was Founder and Director of CTIT – Center for Technology Transfer and Innovation both at UFMG. Suzana was member of ANPAD (The Brazilian Academy of Management) board, first as its Administrative and Scientific Director and then as President. She was member of high committees for assessment of high education and research quality at the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology in Brazil and is Member of the Committee for Research Assessment of FAPEMIG – The State of Minas Gerais Foundation of Research Support.

In the UK at the University of Birmingham, she was Full Professor of International Business and Organization and Director of the Master Programme in International Business. She was also one of the founders and the Director of the Centre for International Business and Organization Research (CIBOR) at the Birmingham Business School. She was Full Professor of International Business at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, where she founded and was the Scientific Director of the Erasmus Centre for Emerging Markets.

She held visiting positions in many prestigious universities across the globe, including the Judge Business School in Cambridge, Aston University Business School, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China; the University of Hong Kong; INSEAD, France; Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal; the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and Queen’s University Business School, Belfast.  She is Beaufort Visiting Scholar, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge. Suzana teaching experience includes courses for undergraduate and post-graduate, executive courses in the areas of international business, corporate governance, organization studies and research methodology.

Suzana’s current research focuses on the international strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), from the co-evolutionary and institutional perspectives. Multinationals studies include case studies of Brazilian State-Owned enterprises and of automotive firms operating in Brazil. The second, involves a comparative analysis of SMES of different countries and their internationalization strategies to access high tech markets. Another research project includes an analysis on entrepreneurial firms’ strategies to access institutionally and economically underdeveloped countries. The latter research line has received the support of ERIM-Erasmus Research Institute of Management and CNPq – Brazilian National Research Council.

Suzana is Senior Research of the Brazilian National Research Council. During her term at Erasmus University she received an award as a high-performer member of Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). In September 2013, her work was recognized by a significant honour from Erasmus University: the Professor Suzana Rodrigues Erasmus University-Fulbright Scholarship. She has also won several awards for her contribution to management research and education in Brazil. In 2015, together with John Child, she received the Chinese Management Best Paper Award in Chinese Theory of Management from the International Association of Chinese Management Research. In 2009, her book Corporate Co-evolution: A Political Perspective (co-authored with John Child) won one of the most prestigious awards in the management field: the Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management. Her latest book, Coevolution Dynamics (Child, Tse and Rodrigues, 2013), presents an in-depth analysis of the market and non-market strategies of the Yantian Port in China.

Suzana is member of the editorial board of Organization Studies and is currently guest editor of JIBS special issue on International Business Responses to Institutional Voids. Her work on international business, corporate governance and organization studies has published in Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of World Business; Journal of International Management; International Journal of Management and Governance; Corporate Governance: An International Review; Management International Review; Management & Organization Review; Journal of Management Studies; Organization Studies; Human Relations.