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I am an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, a member of the Research Center of Applied Economic Studies of the Atlantic (CEEAplA), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Certified Management & Business Educator (CMBE) by the UK Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS). Furthermore, I am a recipient of the Outstanding Author Contribution Award at the Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence (2011) and an Outstanding Reviewer for the Strategic Management (STR) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting (2024). I have completed the Academy of Management Review (AMR) Bridge Reviewer Program and the Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning Higher Education Teaching Program. I have presented my research at several prestigious academic workshops and conferences in the Management field, including those organised by the Academy of Management (AOM), the Strategic Management Society (SMS), and the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS). As of April 2025, I have an h-index of 6 and 220 citations (Google Scholar), and a Research Interest Score of 240.1 and 28,509 publication reads (ResearchGate).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Filipe Sousa

Citation names

  • Sousa, Filipe
  • Sousa, F.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C01F-619E-A5E3
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6867-2020

Addresses

  • Department of Management and Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Madeira, Campus of Penteada, 9020-105 , Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Business and Management

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2008/07/16
Concluded
 Gestão (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Sousa, F.. Business Relationships and Corporate Nature and Scope: A Critical Realist Analysis. Saarbrucken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing. 2010.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Sousa, Filipe. "Henry Mintzberg". In Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice. Cheltenham:, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2025.
    Accepted
  2. Sousa, Filipe. "Beyond Competitive Strategies, Competitive Advantages and Zero-sum Games: The Case for the Cooperation-based View of Strategy". In Handbook of Critical Perspectives on Strategic Management. Cheltenham:, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2025.
    Accepted
  3. Sousa, F.. "Metatheories in research: Positivism, postmodernism, and critical realism". In Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing, 455-503. Emerald, 2010.
    10.1108/S1069-0964(2010)0000016012
  4. Sousa, F.; de Castro, L.M.. "Anatomy of relationship significance: a critical realist exploration". In Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing, 363-404. Emerald, 2010.
    10.1108/S1069-0964(2010)0000016010
  5. Sousa, F.. "Markets-as-networks theory: a review". In Advances in Business Marketing and Purchasing, 405-454. 2010.
    10.1108/S1069-0964(2010)0000016011
Conference paper
  1. Sousa, F.. "Bringing Interfirm Collaboration to the Foreground in the Strategy Field". Paper presented in 10th Business & Entrepreneurial Economics (BEE) Conference, 2025.
  2. Sousa, Filipe. "Rethinking Strategy: A Perspective on Collaboration and Value Co-Creation". Paper presented in 18th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB), 2025.
  3. Sousa, Filipe. "Redefining Strategy Through the Lens of Inter-organizational Collaboration". Paper presented in 2nd Global Advances in Management and Entrepreneurship (GAME) Conference, 2025.
  4. Sousa, Filipe. "Towards a Cooperation-Based View of Strategy". Paper presented in tional Conference on Organisational and Management Studies (ICOMS), 2025.
  5. Sousa, Filipe. "The Cooperation-based View of Strategy: Extending the Strategy Field Paradigm". Paper presented in Academy of Management Review (AMR) Idea Development Workshop (IDW), Lisboa, 2024.
    Published
  6. Sousa, Filipe. "Strategy and cooperation: irreconcilable or compatible constructs?". Paper presented in 49th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, Atenas, 2024.
    Submitted
  7. Sousa, F.. "Striving for collaborative advantages". Paper presented in Atlantic Business Summit, Porto, 2024.
    Submitted
  8. Sousa, F.. "Reconceptualizing strategy: the relational view". Paper presented in Atlantic Business Summit, Porto, 2023.
  9. Sousa, F.. "Strategy as fit and shape: a relational perspective". Paper presented in 8th World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) Conference, Catania, 2023.
  10. Sousa, F.. "Towards a relational view of strategy". Paper presented in 39th Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Conference, Manchester, 2023.
  11. Sousa, F.. "The missing perspective in strategic management". Paper presented in VII International Forum on Management (IFM), Funchal, 2023.
  12. Sousa, F.. "The strategy of the networked firm: environmental fit and contextual shape". Paper presented in 42nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, Lisbon, 2023.
  13. Sousa, F.. "The significance of vertical interfirm cooperation". Paper presented in European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium (Post-Doctoral and Early Career Workshop), Lisbon, 2010.
  14. Sousa, F.. "The (still missing) relational view of strategy". Paper presented in Strategic Management Society (SMS) Special Conference, Kittila, 2010.
  15. Sousa, F.; Castro, Luís M. de. "How is the relationship significance brought about? A critical realist approach". Paper presented in 24th Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Conference, Uppsala, 2008.
  16. Sousa, F.; Castro, Luís M. de. "Of the significance of business relationships". Paper presented in 22nd Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Conference, Milan, 2006.
  17. Sousa, F.; Castro, Luís M. de. "Relationship significance: is it sufficiently explained?". Paper presented in 21st Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Conference, Rotterdam, 2005.
  18. Sousa, F.; Castro, Luís M. de. "Inter-organizational relationships as firm ´s strategic resources: the case of Madeira ´s Business and Innovation Centre". Paper presented in 1st Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Doctoral Consortium, Odense, 2004.
Journal article
  1. Sousa, F.. ""Striving for collaborative advantages". Atlantic Business Journal 8 1 (2024): 75-98.
    Submitted
  2. Sousa, Filipe. "Reconceptualizing strategy: the relational view". Atlantic Business Journal 7 1 (2023): 97-113.
    Published
  3. Sousa, Filipe Jorge Moreira de. "Boundary decisions of the firm: make, buy, cooperate". IMP Journal 8 1 (2014): 13-21. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/820.
    Published
  4. Sousa, F.. "SSM: socially aware methodology". Information Systems 16 (2002): 77-82.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Sousa, Filipe. "The Anatomy of Relationship Significance: a Critical Realist Exploration". PhD, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/10769.
  2. Sousa, Filipe. "Estratégia e tecnologias de informação : um estudo de caso". Master, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/410.
Activities

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2008 - Current Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting
2025 - 2025 British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference
2025 - 2025 European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference
2024 - 2024 British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference
2023 - 2023 Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP) Conference
2017 - 2017 Biennial International Conference on Business Market Management (BMM-EMAC)
2005 - 2009 Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP) Conference

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Academy of Management Review (AMR) Academy of Management Review (AMR)
2019 - 2019 Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (JBIM) Emerald
2006 - 2007 Industrial Marketing Management (IMM) Elsevier
Distinctions

Award

2011 Outstanding Author Contribution Award Winner (Emerald Literati Network Awards)
2004 Best paper award, 1st Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Doctoral Consortium, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

Other distinction

2024 Outstanding Reviewer for the Strategic Management (STR) Division at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting
Academy of Management, United States
2024 Fellowship
Higher Education Academy (FHEA) , United Kingdom
2024 Bridge Reviewer Program Certificate
Academy of Management Review (AMR), United States
2023 Harvard BOK Higher Education Teaching Certificate
Harvard University, United States
2023 Certified Management & Business Educator (CMBE)
Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), United Kingdom