Biography
Mauro F. Guillén 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. He 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.
He is a trustee of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and a member of the board of advisors of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, the Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (Grupo Analistas), and the Research Department of La Caixa, Europe�s largest savings bank.
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, and the President�s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. He 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.
His 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 The Rise of Spanish Multinationals (Cambridge University Press) and The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical (Princeton University Press). 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, he has published La Profesión de Economista (Ariel, 1989), and Análisis de Regresión Múltiple (CIS, 1992).
He is a trustee of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and a member of the board of advisors of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, the Escuela de Finanzas Aplicadas (Grupo Analistas), and the Research Department of La Caixa, Europe�s largest savings bank.
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, and the President�s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. He 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.
His 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 The Rise of Spanish Multinationals (Cambridge University Press) and The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical (Princeton University Press). 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, he has published La Profesión de Economista (Ariel, 1989), and Análisis de Regresión Múltiple (CIS, 1992).
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