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2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
67
Citations
20222
World Ranking
359
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Miguel Pina e Cunha is affiliated with Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. Their research primarily spans fields within Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences, with notable contributions in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

The main topics of their work include Management and Organizational Studies, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Management Theory and Practice, Global and Cross-Cultural Management, Complex Systems and Decision Making, and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Academy of Management Learning and Education
  • Organizações & Sociedade
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Human Performance
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Miguel Pina e Cunha's recent papers cover various themes related to resilience, creativity, and organizational paradoxes. Some of these papers are:

  • "Improvising resilience: The unfolding of resilient leadership in COVID-19 times" (2021) published in the International Journal of Hospitality Management
  • "Everyday Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review" (2020) published in The Journal of Creative Behavior
  • "Resilient Leadership as Paradox Work: Notes from COVID-19" (2020) published in Management and Organization Review
  • "Paradox, Dialectics or Trade-Offs? A Double Loop Model of Paradox" (2022) published in Journal of Management Studies
  • "Risks and critical success factors in the internationalization of born global startups of industry 4.0: A social, environmental, economic, and institutional analysis" (2021) published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Collaborations have been an aspect of their scholarly activity, with frequent co-authors including Stewart Clegg, Arménio Rego, Ace Volkmann Simpson, Marco Berti, and Medhanie Gaim.

In terms of book publications, Miguel Pina e Cunha has contributed through multiple titles, some of which are associated with well-known academic publishers. These include:

  • Edward Elgar Publishing - titles such as "Elgar Introduction to Organizational Paradox Theory" (2021), "Overview of the Elgar Introduction to Organizational Improvisation Theory" (2022), and "Final reflections: patterns, principles and practices" (2022)
  • Emerald Publishing Limited - "Organizational Hybridity: Perspectives, Processes, Promises" (2020) and "Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox: Investigating Social Structures and Human Expression, Part B" (2021)
  • Cambridge University Press - "Organizational Paradox" (2022)

Their body of work reflects a focus on exploring complex organizational phenomena such as paradox theory, resilience in leadership, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding organizational hybridity and creativity.

Best Publications

  • Manual de comportamento organizacional e gestão

    Miguel Pina e Cunha;Arménio Rego;Rita Cunha;Carlos Cabral-Cardoso

  • Authentic leadership promoting employees' psychological capital and creativity

    Arménio Rego;Filipa Sousa;Carla Susana Marques;Miguel Pina e Cunha

  • Workplace spirituality and organizational commitment: an empirical study

    Arménio Rego;Miguel Pina e Cunha

  • Organizational improvisation: what, when, how, and why

    Miguel Pina e Cunha;João Vieira Da Cunha;Ken N. Kamoche

  • Management Paradoxes: A Relational View

    Stewart R. Clegg;João Vieira da Cunha;Miguel Pina e Cunha

  • Time and Organizational Improvisation

    Mary Crossan;Miguel Pina E Cunha;Dusya Vera;João Cunha

  • Minimal Structures: From Jazz Improvisation to Product Innovation:

    Ken Kamoche;Miguel Pina e Cunha

  • Perceptions of Organizational Virtuousness and Happiness as Predictors of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors.

    Arménio Rego;Neuza Ribeiro;Miguel Pina Cunha

  • Manual de gestão de pessoas e do capital humano

    Arménio Rego;Miguel Pina Cunha;Jorge F. S. Gomes;Rita Campos Cunha

  • Hope and positive affect mediating the authentic leadership and creativity relationship

    Arménio Rego;Arménio Rego;Filipa Sousa;Carla Marques;Miguel Pina e Cunha

  • Towards a Theory of Organizational Improvisation: Looking Beyond the Jazz Metaphor

    Ken Kamoche;Miguel Pina e Cunha;João Vieira da Cunha

  • Indústrias criativas: definição, limites e possibilidades

    Pedro F. Bendassolli;Thomaz Wood Jr.;Charles Kirschbaum;Miguel Pina e Cunha

  • Wild cards, weak signals and organisational improvisation

    Sandro Mendonça;Miguel Pina e Cunha;Jari Kaivo-oja;Frank Ruff

  • Authentizotic climates and employee happiness: Pathways to individual performance?

    Arménio Rego;Miguel Pina e Cunha

  • Leader Self-Reported Emotional Intelligence and Perceived Employee Creativity: An Exploratory Study

    Arménio Rego;Filipa Sousa;Miguel Pina e Cunha;Anabela Correia

  • How happiness mediates the organizational virtuousness and affective commitment relationship

    Arménio Rego;Neuza Ribeiro;Miguel Pina e Cunha;Jorge Correia Jesuino

  • Paradox theory and the paradox of success

    Miguel Pina e Cunha;Linda L Putnam

  • Product Innovation in Resource-Poor Environments: Three Research Streams†

    Miguel Pina e Cunha;Arménio Rego;Arménio Rego;Pedro Oliveira;Paulo Rosado

  • Are authentic leaders associated with more virtuous, committed and potent teams? ☆ ☆☆

    Arménio Rego;Andreia Vitória;Ana Magalhães;Neuza Ribeiro

  • Leader humility and team performance: exploring the mediating mechanisms of team PsyCap and task allocation effectiveness

    Arménio Rego;Bradley Owens;Kai Chi Yam;Dustin Bluhm

  • Improving knowledge management processes: a hybrid positive approach

    Isabel Pinho;Arménio Rego;Miguel Pina e Cunha

Frequent Co-Authors

Arménio Rego
Arménio Rego Catholic University of Portugal
Stewart Clegg
Stewart Clegg University of Sydney
Carla Susana Marques
Carla Susana Marques University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Emanuel Gomes
Emanuel Gomes Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Haridimos Tsoukas
Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus
Mary M. Crossan
Mary M. Crossan University of Western Ontario
Chris Brewster
Chris Brewster University of Reading
Eva S. Schernhammer
Eva S. Schernhammer Harvard Medical School
Robert Chia
Robert Chia University of Glasgow
Paul Jansen
Paul Jansen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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