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Miguel Pina e Cunha Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies - Miguel Pina e Cunha is the Fundação Amélia de Mello Professor of Leadership at Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. His research deals, mostly, with the surprising (paradox, improvisation, serendipity, zemblanity, vicious circles) and the extreme (positive organizing, genocide). Miguel published more than 150 papers on these and related topics. He recently co-authored Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience (Elgar, 2018), co-edited Management, Organizations and Contemporary Social Theory (Routledge, 2019) and received the 2015 best paper award from the European Management Review.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Avelino Miguel da Mota de Pina e Cunha

Citation names

  • Cunha, Miguel Pina e

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BB1A-CC32-4880

Email addresses

  • mpc@novasbe.pt (Professional)
  • miguel.cunha@novasbe.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 213801600 Ext.: 1675 (Professional)
  • 213801675 (Professional)

Addresses

  • NOVA School of Business and Economics-Faculdade de Economia da UNL. Urbanização S. Gonçalo, Rua Holanda, 1, 2775-405, Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Business and Management

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2004
Concluded
 Agregação (Título de Agregado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
 Não tem
1998
Concluded
 Marketing (Doutoramento)
Major in Marketing
Tilburg University, Netherlands
1992
Concluded
 Comportamento Organizacional (Mestrado)
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
 Muito Bom
1988
Concluded
 Psicologia Social e das Organizações (Licenciatura)
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
 15 Valores
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/01 - Current Full Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2004 - 2008 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
1998 - 2004 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/02/07 - Current Organic Unit Sub-director Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019 - Current Diretor académico da Nova Executive Education Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2016 - Current Investigador Principal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2016 - Current Diretor do Curso Geral de Gestão Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019 - 2023 Coordemador da área de gestão Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2012 - 2023 Membro Conselho de Faculdade Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2012/03/01 - 2019/01/01 President of the Scientific Council Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013 - Current Curso Organizational Design and Change Management¿, MBA Mediterranean School of Business at South Mediterranean University, Tunisia
2014 - 2018 Curso : Positive Leadership and Organization Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2002 - Current Bolsa FCT POCTI/GES/48967/2002
Bolsa FCT POCTI/GES/48967/2002
Principal investigator

Contract

Designation Funders
2018 - Current Twinning EUFORPP: European Forum on paradox
TWINNING
Principal investigator
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 UIDB/00124/2020
UIDB/00124/2020
Researcher
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/01 UIDP/00124/2020
UIDP/00124/2020
Researcher
Ongoing
2018/09/01 - 2020/08/31 Revolucionando a Saúde: Capacitar os doentes através da valorização da inovação e a promoção do empreendedorismo Revolutionizing Healthcare: Empowering patients by valuing innovation and promoting entrepreneurship
PTDC/EGE-OGE/32573/2017
Researcher
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2019 - 2020 ERS Chairs | "HORIZON 2020 Programme" | European Union
WIDESPREAD-06-2020 - ERA Chairs
Researcher
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Gaim, M.,Clegg, S. Organizational paradoxes: Theory and practice. Londres: Sage. 2024.
  2. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Simpson, A.V., Cunha, M.P., Clegg, S., Rego, A. & Berti, M. . Corresponding author: Simpson, A.V., Cunha, M.P., Clegg, S., Rego, A. & Berti, M.. Organizational compassion: A relational approach.. Londres, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2024.
  3. Cunha, M.P., Vera, D., Abrantes, A.M.C. & Miner, A.S. ; Cunha, Miguel Pina e. Corresponding author: Cunha, M.P., Vera, D., Abrantes, A.M.C. & Miner, A.S.. The Routledge companion to improvisation in organizations.. Londres, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2024.
  4. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; António Abrantes; Anne Miner. Elgar introduction to organizational improvisation.. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2022.
    Published
  5. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Gaim, Medhanie; Clegg, Stewart; Marco Berti. Organizational paradox. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 2022.
    Accepted
  6. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Arménio Rego. Serpentes e pombas: Três casos de liderança política (Ardern, Mujica, Lincoln). Lisboa: Sílabo.. Lisboa, Portugal: Sílabo. 2021.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Arménio Rego. Putin. Lisboa, Portugal: Sílabo. 2022.
    Published
  2. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; REGO, Arménio. Ágil: A transformação organizacional para o digital. CASCAIS, Portugal: Principia. 2022.
    Published
  3. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Arménio Rego; André Seabra; Tomás Mota Rego. Capitães de equipa: O exemplo de liderança que vem do futebol. Lisboa, Portugal: Cultura. 2022.
    Published
  4. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Aníbal López; Dirk Van Direndonck; Jonathan Schad; Luca Justinian ; Medhanie Gaim; Paula Jarzabkowski; Sebastian Raisch. Paradoxes of management and organization: Short cases for pedagogical use. Lisboa: Sílabo. 2022.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Clegg, S., Cunha, M.P., López, A., Sirage, E. & Rego, A.; Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Tackling sustainable development goals through new space. Project Leadership and Society". (2024):
    Accepted
  2. Cunha, M.P., Clegg, S., Rego, A. & Simpson, A.V.. "Drawing in the dark triad to teach effective leadership is dangerous, irresponsible, and bad theory.". Academy of Management Learning and Education (2024):
    Submitted
  3. Hernández-Linares, R., López-Fernández, M.C., García-Piqueres, G., Cunha, M.P. & Rego, A.. "How knowledge-based dynamic capabilities relate to form performance: The mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation.". Review of Managerial Science (2024):
    Accepted
  4. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Understanding pragmatic paradoxes: When contradictions become paralyzing and what to do about it". Business Horizons 66 4 (2023): 453-462.
    Published
  5. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Paradox, dialectics or trade-offs? A double loop model of paradox.". Journal of Management Studies 60 4 (2023): 861-888.
  6. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "A figure is worth of a thousand words: The role of visualization in paradox theorizing.". Organization Studies 44 8 (2023): 1231-1257.
  7. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Looking at team-improvised adaptation through a paradoxical lens: The role of team plasticity". Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 59 1 (2023): 88-126.
  8. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Becoming a fraternal organization: Insights from the Encyclical Fratelli Tutti.". Journal of Business Ethics 183 2 (2023): 383-399.
  9. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Pandemic, power and paradox: Improvising as the new normal during the Covid-19 pandemic.". Management Learning 54 1 (2023): 3-13.
  10. Cunha, M. P., Berti. M., Canhão, H., Barros, P.P. & Fonseca, F.B.. "Both-and practice in medical practice: Paradox as an adjective not a noun". British Journal of Healthcare Managenment (2023):
  11. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "The rubber band effect: Managing the stability-change paradox in routines.". Scandinavian Journal of Management 38 2 (2022):
  12. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Risks and critical success factors in the internationalization of born global startups of industry 4.0: A social, environmental, economic, and institutional analysis.". Technological Forecasting and Social Change 175 (2022):
  13. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Research movements and theorizing dynamics in management and organization studies.". Academy of Management Review 47 3 (2022): 382-401.
  14. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "The academic as jester stimulating management learning". Management Learning 53 3 (2022): 547-565.
  15. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Embodying improvisational education for managers: Learning from theater.". Culture and Organization 28 3-4 (2022): 296-312.
  16. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Leader expressed humility predicting team psychological safety: A personality dynamics lens.". Journal of Business Ethics 174 3 (2022): 669-686.
  17. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Attitudes and HRM decisions toward older workers in Africa: Exploring contradictions through an empirical study.". International Journal of Human Resource Management 33 3 (2022): 594-621.
  18. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "‘Open purpose’: Embracing organizations as expressive systems.". Organization Theory 2 4 (2021):
  19. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Managing impressions rather than emissions: Volkswagen and the false mastery of paradox.". Organization Studies 42 6 (2021): 949-970.
  20. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "). Gritty leaders promoting employees’ thriving at work.". Journal of Management 47 5 (2021): 1155-1184.
  21. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Rethinking resistance as an act of improvisation: Lessons from the 1914 Christmas truce.". Organization Studies 42 4 (2021): 615-635.
  22. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Person-job fit across the life span: The case of classical ballet dancers.". Journal of Vocational Behavior 118 (2020):
  23. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Managing the unforeseen when the time is scarce: How temporal personality and team improvised adaptation foster team performance.". Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice 24 1 (2020): 42-58.
  24. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "A source of novelty and/or absurdity: The paradoxes of management.". International Journal of Business Environment 11 1 (2020): 69-79.
  25. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Paradoxes of knowledge, management, and knowledge management in Africa: An editorial introduction.". Journal of Knowledge Management 24 1 (2020): 1-7.
  26. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Speak! Paradoxical effects of a managerial culture of “speaking up”.". British Journal of Management 30 4 (2019): 829-846.
  27. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Heaven or Las Vegas: Competing institutional logics and individual experience.". European Management Review 16 3 (2019): 781-798.
  28. Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Dogs in organizations.". Human Relations 72 4 (2019): 778-800.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2017/10/24 Dilemas do empresariado numa economia dependente de importações. Luanda, 24-27 de Outubro, Luanda. XXI Jornadas Técnico-Científicas da FESA
FESA (Luanda, Angola)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/06/17 - 2022/06/18 Paradox & Systems Change (2022/06/17 - 2022/06/18)
Conference (Other)
2022/06/10 - 2022/06/13 BALAS Annual Conference: Embracing paradoxes: Organizational performance and societal progress (2022/06/10 - 2022/06/13)
Conference (Other)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2020 Agregação in Management
President of the jury
 Prof. Álvaro Ferreira da Silva (Aggregation)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2019 Agregação em Políticas de Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos
Thesis Member
 Prof. Miguel Pereira Lopes (Aggregation)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
2019 Agregação in Management
Thesis Member
 prof. Celine Abecassis Moedas (Aggregation)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2019 Agregação in Management
President of the jury
 Prof. Emanuel Gomes (Aggregation)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2019 "Defining the indefinite: Improvisation, tacit knowledge and perception"
Thesis Member
 Demetris Hadjimichael (PhD)
University of Warwick University House, United Kingdom

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022 - Current European Management Journal (22-00089); Elsevier
2022 - 2022 International Journal of Stress Management (2022-0631)
2021 - 2022 Organization Studies (21-0893; 22-0093)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2009 - Current Membro Fundador da EBEN Portugal (integrante da rede European Business Ethics Network) Membro Fundador
2001 - Current Membro Fundador da European Academy of management (EURAM) Membro
1998 - Current Membro do European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Correspondente para Portugal desde 1998.
1998 - Current membvro da European Association for Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP)
1995 - Current Membro da Academy of Management . Representante em Portugal da Technology and Innovation Management Division desde 1997

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2007 - Current Member of the Code of Ethics Comission of the Ordem dos Psicólogos
Member
 Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Portugal

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2004 - Current Colgate Palmolive - Facilitação de reunião da equipa de gestão sobre gestão de expectativas
2004 - Current Auchan - Facilitação de reunião da equipa de gestão sobre coaching
2002 - Current EMELES - professor facilitador/coach do program de e-learning "Managing People" (INSEAD) INSEAD, France
2003 - 2004 The Leadership Alliance - Program Director pelo Nova Forum.

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2019 - Current Swiss National Science Foundation (100 013 189025)
Evaluator
2012 - Current A3ES
Evaluator

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Membro do painel de avaliação de bolsas da FCT : Economia e Gestão
2011 - Current Membro do júri do concurso: " Valores culturais, desenvolvimento económico e qualidade da governação", fa Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Portugal
2004 - Current Evaluator of the Alban Program, European Comission
Distinctions

Award

2024 2024 SO! WHAT
2023 PREP Paradox Community Award
2022 EURAM Edith Penrose Award for the best book of the year: Paradoxes of Power and Leadership
2021 Best Professor International MBA (class of 2020)
2021 : Prof. Gisela Alves Best Conferece Paper Award, 14th Annual Conference of the Euromed Academy of Business for Rego, Simpson, Cunha & Oliveira “Compassionate love in leaders and team performance”
2020 Winner of the FAE case competition with “Spring and Port Wine” (with Salvador Cunha and Alexandre Dias da Cunha)
2020 EURAM 2020 Best conference paper award, for “From theory to theorizing: Framing and assessing the vitality of management and organization studies” (with Stewart Clegg and Marco Berti), December 6
2019 Melhor Livro do Ano - EURAM
2019 Emerald Literary Award
2018 "That's promising" - Award da conferência SMS Hyderabad
Asian School of Business Management - Hyderabad Campus, India
2013 Best Paper Award (EURAM) - Expatriate Management Track , para o artigo "Building your self: a sensemaking approach of expratiate adjustment to ethical challenges"
2007 RH 2007 / categoria investigação

Other distinction

2020 Fundação Amélia de Mello Professor of Leadership
2018 Award da conferência SMS Hyderabad para o artigo "It's just a nobby! (insn't it?): a case of digital entrepreneurship ad its paradoxes
2017 Caso José Mourinho
FAE, Brazil
2016 Best Paper Award 2015 - European Management Review
2014 Uma das 25 pessoas mais influentes na gestão de RH em Portugal
2010 Best professor of the Year - eleito pelos alunos the Lisbon MBA 2009-2011
2009 best Professor of the year award - eleito pelos alunos do The lisbon MBA 2008-2010
2008 Best Paper award, BAI 2008 International Conference on Business and Information
2007 Best paper award - BAI 2007 international conference on business and information
2007 Bolsa Nova Forum
2006 Bolsa Nova Forum
2004 Avaliador do Ano - Revista de Empresas
2003 melhor artigo do ano na Revista de Administração de Empresas (Fundação Getúlio Vargas)
2003 Bolsa Gulbenkian (curta duração) - Conferência IHRM Conference 2003
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2001 Honorary Mention Award
Iberoamerican Academy of Management, United States
2000 Bolsa FLAD - Conferência SAM
1999 Nomeaçãon de "minimal networks" - Strategic Management Society Conference