Associate Professor at IESEG School of Management. My work explores how organizations navigate social and environmental issues, from sustainability implementation to workplace stigma, and how these dynamics shape the way employees, managers, and society evaluate organizational actions.

I publish under the names of Lucas Amaral or Lucas Amaral Lauriano, and have been working in the field of sustainability management for the past 16 years. I am also a joint professor at Dom Cabral Foundation (Brazil), where I research, supervise and teach Master and PhD students.

I publish in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Business Ethics, as well as in technical and policy reports that inform practitioners and policymakers.

Research focus

My qualitative research is at the intersection between the strategy implementation of social and environmental initiatives and employees’ evaluations.

Main topics:

Implementation of sustainability/CSR practices
Stigmatized employees, stigmatization processes.
Social media audiences

Education

PhD - Management - King's Business School - King's College London.

MA's - Development Practice, organized by Columbia's Earth Institute, and locally implemented by UFRRJ (Brazil).

BA's - International Relations - PUC Minas (Brazil)

Previous experience

Several years of experience in the automotive sector at Volkswagen do Brasil.

I also worked as a researcher and consultant in diverse sustainability projects at Dom Cabral Foundation, one of the most prestigious Brazilian business schools.

Latest news

Siloed Sustainability: How Paradox Management Unravels in Integrative Practice Implementation.

Why do sustainability efforts fail even when organizations are committed to implementing it?

That's what we investigate in our new Academy of Management Journal article.

We show how sustainability practices have specific characteristics that make their implementation prone to tensions.

In organizations with silos, these characteristics become even more difficult to handle, and addressing tensions might create new ones, leading to vicious cycles.

The study was approved for publication and will soon be available online.

Bridging Institutional Theory and Social and Environmental Efforts in Management: A Review and Research Agenda

We synthesized and integrated 720 studies from 1997 to 2023 so you don’t have to! Our framework (below) captures the structure-agency bidirectionality and serves as a tool to guide future research on social and environmental efforts in management.

Private copy of the article available here

FNEGE Special CSR Award 2023

We won this award from the French National Foundation of Management Research for our research on concelable stigmas and social media.

The awarding body recognized the quality of the piece, as well as the relevance and transferability of academic knowledge to organizational practices.

More information about the award.

Pre-print version of our article.

Social media does not impact all employees equally!

Check out this short video from my study on how gay male employees manage social media, spaces where peers, friends and family co-habit.

The paper is at the AMJ February 2023 issue.

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