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Marlon ALVES

Assistant Professor

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Marlon ALVES

Academy

Innovation

Research center

Knowledge, Technology and Organization

Location

Paris

Discipline

Management & Organization
Education
2020
Ph.D. in Business Administration, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2015
M.Sc. in Business Administration, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2013
B.Sc. (Hons) in Administration, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Experience
Other academic affiliations and appointments
2021 - 2022
Associate Professor, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Brazil
Other professional experiences
2023 - 2026
Lecturer, Technology & Innovation Strategy, CDM-EPFL, Switzerland
2022 - 2025
Research Fellow, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil
2019 - 2025
Volunteer Lecturer, PhD Course, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2017 - 2020
Assistant Professor, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Brazil
2009 - 2015
Product Manager, Brazil
2008 - 2009
Supply Chain Analyst, Brazil
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2022
Best Paper Proceedings, Organization Studies, Management Seminars (SemeAd)
2021
Top Reviewers of Year, Journal of Management & Organization
2021
Best Paper Proceedings, STR Division, Academy of Management (AOM)
2020
Best PhD dissertation, Universidade de São Paulo
2020
Best Ph.D. dissertation, Universidade de São Paulo
2020
Most cited paper, Innovation & Management Review
2019
Best paper in Strategy, Management Seminars (SemeAd)
2019
Best paper in Strategy, Brazilian Academy of Management
2018
Literati Awards - Highly Commended, Emerald Publishing
2017
Top 1% academic performance in the 25 years of the school, Universidade de São Paulo
2013
Best student, Universidade de São Paulo
Research Grants
2022
Research fellowship, Sao Paulo's State Science Foundation
2017
Research fellowship - Bocconi University, CAPES - Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education
2015
Graduate fellowship, CAPES - Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education
Other research activities
Organization of a conference or a research seminar
Since 2026
Communications Coordinator, Carnegie School of Organizational Learning (CSOL)
2026
AOM Symposium "Language, Metaknowledge, Time, Signaling, and Ambiguity: Scaffolding Online Knowledge Exchange"
2021
AOM Symposium "Computational Approaches to Studying Organizations and Markets New Methodological Frontiers"
Affiliations
Since 2019
Chapter coordinator, Brazil, GOLDEN Foundation
PhD Supervision
2026
L. RODRIGUES, Universidade de São Paulo, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2024
F. EUGÊNIO FERNANDES FILHO, Universidade de São Paulo, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2023
R. CRUZ GOMES, Universidade de São Paulo, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
2023
A. FIORANI PENNABEL, Universidade de São Paulo, PhD thesis, Thesis jury member
Other academic activities
Since 2022
Grant Reviewer, FAPESP
Since 2021
Track leader, Strategy and Corporate Sustainability, Management Seminars (SemeAd), Brazil

Peer-reviewed journal articles

CHAVES, R.E.A.D.M.C., GALINA, S.V.R. and ALVES, M. (2026). How Alliances Build Innovation Capabilities but Narrow Their Redeployment in Amazonian Community-Based Enterprises. R & D Management.
CHAMBERS, C., ALVES, M. and ACEVES, P. (2025). Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback. Organization Science, 36(4), pp. 1221-1642, iii-iv.
ALVES, M., MARCHIORI PACHECO, L. and VASCONCELOS RIBEIRO GALINA, S. (2025). Balancing exploration and exploitation across boundaries: Evidence from new product development. BRQ Business Research Quarterly, 28(1), pp. 164-179.
KRÜGER, C., ALVES, M., MENDES PINTO GOMES FERREIRA, C., GUILHERME DÁCAR DA SILVA SCORZAFAVE, L., SOUZA PASSADOR, C. and CRISTINA FERREIRA CALDANA, A. (2024). Impact evaluation of the Brazilian Integrated Border Health System. Public Money and Management, 44(5), pp. 407-417.
ALVES, M., VASTOLA, V., VASCONCELOS RIBEIRO GALINA, S. and ZOLLO, M. (2023). When Reflection Hurts: The Effect of Cognitive Processing Types on Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Change. Organization Science, 34(6), pp. 1997-2525, C2-C3.
BARTOCCI LIBONI, L., ALVES, M., CEZARINO, L.O., CHIAPPETTA JABBOUR, C.J. and VENKATESH, V.G. (2023). Translating the environmental orientation of firms into sustainable outcomes: the role of sustainable dynamic capability. Review of Managerial Science, 17, pp. 1125–1146.
ALVES, M. and VASCONCELOS RIBEIRO GALINA, S. (2022). Not all roads lead to Rome: non-equifinality in dynamic capabilities and process configuration. International Studies of Management and Organization, 52(2), pp. 121-137.
CRISTINA FERREIRA CALDANA, A., MARCHIORI PACHECO, L., ALVES, M., HENRIQUE PAULINO PIRES EUSTACHIO, J. and BASTOS FERNANDES DOS SANTOS, N.M. (2022). Strategy implementation for the 2030 agenda: Insights from Brazilian companies. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 31(2), pp. 296-306.
MACINI, N., ALVES, M., ORANGES CEZARINO, L., BARTOCCI LIBONI, L. and CRISTINA FERREIRA CALDANA, A. (2022). Beyond money and reputation: sustainable HRM in Brazilian banks. Employee Relations, 44(3), pp. 702-728.
VICENTIN, F.O.D.P., VASCONCELOS RIBEIRO GALINA, S., ALVES, M. and BACKX NORONHA VIANA, A. (2021). Asymmetric effects of alliance intensity on absorptive capacity: the differences between potential and realized capacities. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 28(5), pp. 788-804.
ALVES, M. and GALINA, S.V.R. (2020). Measuring dynamic absorptive capacity in national innovation surveys. Management Decision, 59(2), pp. 463-477.
ALVES, M., REZENDE, L.A., BANSI, A.C. and VASCONCELOS RIBEIRO GALINA, S. (2019). Take Your Time: Examining When Green Innovation Affects Financial Performance in Multinationals. Journal of Cleaner Production, 233(1), pp. 993-1003.
ALVES, M., LINARES, I.M.P., TRISTAO, R.L. and AMARAL, D.C. (2019). Adherence between project management practices and environmental critical factors in biotechnology companies. Independent Journal of Management & Production, 26(2), pp. 1-17.
ALVES, M., ORANGES CEZARINO, L., FERREIRA CALDANA, A.C. and BARTOCCI LIBONI, L. (2019). Dynamic capabilities for sustainability: revealing the systemic key factors. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 32, pp. 93-112.
PACHECO, L.M., ALVES, M. and LIBONI, L.B. (2018). Green absorptive capacity: A mediation-moderation model of knowledge for innovation. Business Strategy and the Environment, 27(8), pp. 1502-1513.
PACHECO, L.M., ALVES, M., KRÜGER, C., LOURENÇÃO, M.T.D.A. and CALDANA, A.C.F. (2018). Are we all green? Understanding the microfoundations of corporate citizenship. Journal of Cleaner Production, 195, pp. 552-561.
ALVES, M., VASCONCELOS RIBEIRO GALINA, S. and DOBELIN, S. (2018). Literature on organizational innovation: past and future. Innovation & Management Review, 15(1), pp. 2-19.
FERREIRA QUILICE, T., ORANGES CEZARINO, L., ALVES, M., BARTOCCI LIBONI, L. and FERREIRA CALDANA, A.C. (2018). Positive and negative aspects of GRI reporting as perceived by Brazilian organizations. Environmental Quality Management, 27(3), pp. 19-30.
ALVES, M., GALINA, S.V.R., MACINI, N., CAGICA CARVALHO, L. and COSTA, T. (2017). Internationalization and innovation in nascent companies: does gender matter? Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 24(4), pp. 887-905.
SOUZA, A.A.A., ALVES, M., MACINI, N., CEZARINO, L.O. and LIBONI, L.B. (2017). Resilience for sustainability as an eco-capability. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 9(5), pp. 581-599.
ALVES, M., SALVINI, J.T.S., BANSI, A.C., NETO, E.G. and GALINA, S.V.R. (2016). Does the Size Matter for Dynamics Capabilities?: A Study on Absorptive Capacity. Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, 11(3), pp. 84-93.

Keynote speaker

ALVES, M. (2022). Reaching the academic international market from South America. In: STR PDW South America. Online.

Conference presentations

ALVES, M. (2025). Examining when crowds are insufficient yet instrumental for individual problem-solving. In: SMS Conference. San Francisco.
ALVES, M. (2025). Examining when crowds are insufficient yet instrumental for individual problem-solving. In: Fourth Bocconi Assembly for Innovation and Cooperation. Milan.
ALVES, M. (2024). Learning from Ambiguous Performance Feedback. In: Crossing Bridges: New Horizons for Behavioral Strategy. Paris.
ALVES, M. (2023). Middle-Status Myopia: Large Scale Evidence across 150 Knowledge Domains. In: DRUID23 Conference. Lisbon.
ALVES, M. (2023). Investigating the Differential Effects of Cognitive Types on Informal Knowledge Sharing. In: DRUID23 Conference. Lisbon.
ALVES, M. (2022). A Word to the Wise: Investigating the Differential Effects of Cognitive Types on Informal Knowledge Sharing. In: SEI Consortium – Rotterdam School of Management. Rotterdam.

Faculty research seminar presentations

ALVES, M. (2024). Examining when crowds are insufficient yet instrumental for individual problem-solving. In: KTO Internal Research Seminar Series. Paris.
ALVES, M. (2023). Learning from Ambiguous Performance Feedback. In: Johns Hopkins Faculty Seminar. Baltimore.