Academic outputs and practice-oriented research reports.
How Paradox Management Unravels in Integrative Practice Implementation
Organizations often struggle to implement sustainability practices, even when such efforts are strategically prioritized. Through an ethnographic study of LatinCar, the Brazilian subsidiary of a multinational carmaker, we introduce the concept of “integrative practices,” patterns of activity marked by indivisibility, complexity, and non-codifiability, to explain why certain sustainability practices require extensive cross-functional coordination and generate persistent contradictions.
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.
Other recent research outputs
Navigating academia’s stressful waters: Discussing the power of horizontal linkages for early-career researchers.
Losing control: The uncertain management of concealable stigmas when work and social media collide.
When aspirational talk backfires: The role of moral judgements in employees’ hypocrisy interpretation.
Salazar-Morales D., Rodriguez P., Amaral L. (2024), Governing Schools in Times of Pandemic: A Set-Theoretical Analysis of the Role of Policy Capacities in School Closure, Governance, 37(4), pp. 1433-1463.
Lauriano L., (2020), Book Review: Labor Standards in International Supply Chains: Aligning Rights and Incentives, by Daniel Berliner, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Milli Lake, Margaret Levi, and Jennifer Noveck, ILR Review, 73(4), pp. 1024-1025.
Lauriano L., Spitzeck H., Bueno J. H. D., (2014), The State of Corporate Citizenship in Brazil, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 14(5), pp. 598-606.
Amaral, L. (2025), Individual Agency in Addressing Grand Challenges, in: Alice Erthal and Douglas Wegner (Eds), Strategy and Leadership for Grand Societal Challenges, p.18.
Lauriano L., (2023), The all-over-the-place academic: how to fit in an academic niche but also be free to pursue new and exciting research ideas, in: Alexandra Bristow, Olivier Ratle, Sarah Robinson (Eds.), Doing Academic Careers Differently - Portraits of Academic Life, Routledge, pp. 23-28.
Salazar-Morales D., Lauriano L., (2020), A Typology of the Latin American Civil Servant: Patronage Appointee, Technocrat, Loyalist, or Careerist., in: Helen Sullivan, Helen Dickinson, Hayley Henderson(Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant, 10.1007/978-3-030-03008-7_71-1, Palgrave-Macmillan, chapter 1, pp. 41-62.
Business Models and Labour Standards: Making the Connection - ETI
Reflections on the current sustainability stage of Brazilian corporations - FDC
Innovation, Industrialization and Sustainability: Precon Housing Solution - FDC
Em português:
Como anda o dialogo com stakeholders nas empresas brasileiras - FDC
Sumário Executivo - Estado da Gestão para Sustentabilidade 2014 - FDC
Estado da Gestão para Sustentabilidade nas Empresas Brasileiras-2014 - FDC
Estágio de sustentabilidade das empresas brasileiras 2012 - FDC
Rumo à integração da sustentabilidade no sistema de gestão empresarial - FDC
Os desafios dos stakeholders para as organizações - DOM FDC Magazine.
Integrando a sustentabilidade à gestão corporativa - Uma ferramenta para o desenvolvimento e integração de indicadores - DOM FDC Magazine.
Panorama da gestão para a sustentabilidade nas empresas brasileiras - DOM FDC Magazine
Estagio da sustenabilidade nas empresas brasileiras - DOM FDC Magazine
Academy of Management (AOM)
Stigmatized Employees’(Dis) Engagement with Organizational Destigmatization Initiatives - 2024.
When the Institutional Theory Lens Meets Sustainability: Bridging the Gaps - 2023.
I’m not racist, they’re just Facebook jokes: how organizations deal with viral racist incidents - 2022.
The stakeholder capitalism: Organizations’ capabilities promoting individuals’ freedom - 2022.
Sustainability, silos and means-ends decoupling - 2021 (AOM Latin America).
Concealable Stigmas When the Online and Offline Worlds Collide - 2020.
European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS)
Visual aesthetics and attentional engagement to environmental crises: A double juxtaposition of near/ far and stunning/horrifying - 2025
Qualitative research on personally relevant grand challenges: A strategy to synergize scholarly impact and practical impact - 2024.
Exploring the relational dynamics of destigmatization in the workplace: Evidence from LGBTQIA+ employees in Brazil - 2023.
I’m not racist, they’re just Facebook jokes: how organizations deal with viral racist incidents - 2022.
The stakeholder capitalism: Organizations’ capabilities promoting individuals’ freedom - 2021.
Hypocrisy as Ideology: the performative (re)construction of a flagship trainee programme - 2020.
Be Gay, But Not That Much: Identity Work; Organisational Expectations; Social Networks and Context Collapse - 2019.
Uncoordinated and Uncontrolled: How Isolated and independent Units Impact CSR - 2018.
Process Organization Studies (PROS)
Between targets and blockers: How backlash shapes destigmatization engagement in the workplace - 2025
Avada Kedavra: Death of the Author through social-symbolic work in the Harry Potter fandom. - 2023.
The trickle down and up effect of stigma: How stigmatization processes occur and change across levels - 2023.
I’m not racist, they’re just Facebook jokes: how organizations deal with viral racist incidents - 2022.
Other
The micro-foundations of decoupling in corporate sustainability: the politics of organizational silos - Strategic Management Society Conference 2022.
The state of corporate citizenship in Brazil. Annual Eabis Colloquium 2013.