Member - Thomaz Wood Jr.

I am a full professor at FGV-EAESP, a business school in Brazil, and a partner at Matrix/CDE, a management consulting firm. From 2001 to 2004, I served a mandate as director and editor for RAE-revista de administração de empresas, an academic journal (a challenging and “dangerous” experience).

As a consultant I coordinated several projects of strategy and business transformation in large firms. I wrote / edited 12 books and over 50 academic papers in the field of organization studies. My research work can be broadly located in the realm of organizational symbolism. Currently, my research interests include the emergence of symbol intensive organizations, the study of the “spectacularization” or “aesthetization” of organizational life, critical pedagogy and the use of (good) movies in the classroom. I am also an “accidental journalist” and publish regularly at CartaCapital, a weekly magazine.

Some papers of interest:

• Wood Jr., Thomaz. Spectacular Metaphors: from Theatre to Cinema. Journal of Organizational Change Management , 15(1): 11-20, 2002.
• Leikola, Virpi; and Wood Jr., Thomaz. Symbol Intensive Organizations: Management in the Age of Metaphor and Rhetoric. In Goodman, Richard (Editor.) Modern Organizations and Emerging Conundrums. Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999.
• Caldas; Miguel P.; and Wood Jr., Thomaz. What’s the laugh about? How consultants react to irony and jokes about their profession. In Johanson, U. and Woodilla, J. and The irony book, CBS Press, 2005.
• Caldas; Miguel P.; and Wood Jr., Thomaz. Identity and Organizations: Mapping Theoretical Diversity. In Pina e Cunha, Miguel; and Alves Marques, Carlos (editors), Readings in Organization Science. Lisbon, Portugal: ISPA, 1999.
• Wood Jr., Thomaz; and Caldas; Miguel P. Adopting Imported Managerial Expertise in Developing Countries: The Brazilian Experience, The Academy of Management Executive, 16(2): 18-32, 2002.
• Caldas; Miguel P.; and Wood Jr., Thomaz. “‘For the English to see’: the Importation of Managerial Technology in Late 20 th Century Brazil”, Organization, 4(4): 517-534, 1997.
• Wood Jr., Thomaz; and Paes de Paula, Ana Paula. Business Education in Brazil: Hybridism and Tensions. In Alon I.; & McIntyre, J. (editors) Business Education and Emerging Markets: Perspectives and Best Practices. New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 2004.