Staff profile

Roberta Aguzzoli is a Professor of International Business at Durham University Business School, Durham University (UK). She obtained her PhD in human resource management at UCD. Prior to joining Durham, she was a lecturer at the Industrial Relations and Human Resources Department of the University College Dublin (Ireland) and ISCTE Business School (Portugal).

Her research interests include international and comparative policies and practices in multinational companies, internationalisation, emerging countries, human resources management, expatriation, postcolonialism and methodology.

She is the VP for Webinars at the Academy of International Business Research Methods–Shared Interest Group (AIB RM-SIG) and an academic fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

She has published her research in leading academic journals in international business and management studies, such as Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, Tourism Management, British Journal of Management, Management International Review, Journal of International Management, among others.

She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Business Studies, International Business Review, Multinational Business Review, and AIB Insights.

Her research has won important prizes, such as the Danny van Den Bulcke Best Conference Paper Award at the EIBA conference 2021; That is interesting! Awards at the AIB conference in 2021 and TOSOK International Tourism Conference Best Paper in 2016.

Her paper 'An Emerging Challenge': Employment Practices of a Brazilian MNC in a Mature Developed Economy, published in Human Relations was awarded the Paper of the Month in March 2014 and was considered one of the five most influential papers of the year.

• International Business
• International and Comparative Employment Policies and Practices
• Human Resource Practices in Multinational Companies, mainly from Developing Economies

Authored book

• Aguzzoli, R., Jorge, S., & Silveira, V. (2008). Gestão de Pessoas: Categoria Acadêmica. Qualitymark

Chapter in book

• Aguzzoli, R., & Hunek, I. The relationship of RHQ and HQ. A case study about a Brazilian MNE in Switzerland. In A. Breinbauer, L. Brennan, J. Jäger, A. Nachbagauer, & A. Nölke (Eds.), Emerging Market Multinationals and Europe. Springer Verlag
• Aguzzoli, R. (in press). Reflections from a Postcolonial Experience in Developing Research. In H. Barnard (Ed.), Handbook for Qualitative Research in Emerging Markets: Methods and Applications. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035322329
• Aguzzoli, R., & Hunek, I. (2023). Wie regional sind regionale Zentralen? Die „Latinisierung“ der Kontrolle in europäischen Strukturen eines brasilianischen MNC. In Multinationale Unternehmen aus Schwellenländern und Europa Herausforderungen und Strategien (95-116). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28348-2_6

Journal Article

• Aguzzoli, R., Śliwa, M., Lengler, J., Brewster, C., & Quatrin, D. (in press). How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal. Journal of International Business Studies,
• Śliwa, M., Aguzzoli, R., Brewster, C., & Lengler, J. (2024). Workplace accentism as a postcolonial and intersectional phenomenon: The experiences of Brazilians in Portugal. Human Relations, 77(10), 1468-1501. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267231198965
• Quatrin, D. R., Aguzzoli, R., & Lengler, J. (2024). A conceptual model of individuals’ decision to engage in global mobility: integrating self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior. Journal of Global Mobility, 12(2), 313-332. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-10-2023-0074
• Aguzzoli, R., Lengler, J., Miller, S. R., & Chidlow, A. (2024). Paradigms in Qualitative IB Research: Trends, Analysis and Recommendations. Management International Review, 64(2), 165-198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-024-00529-5
• Aguzzoli, R., Lengler, J., Sousa, C., & Benito, G. (2020). Here We Go Again: A Case Study on Re-entering a Foreign Market. British Journal of Management, 32(2), 416-434. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12407
• Nielsen, B. B., Chidlow, A., Miller, S., Welch, C., Aguzzoli, R., Gardner, E., Karafyllia, M., & Pegoraro, D. (2020). Fifty years of methodological trends in JIBS: Why future IB research needs more triangulation. Journal of International Business Studies, 51(9), 1478-1499. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-020-00372-4
• Geary, J., Aguzzoli, R., & Lengler, J. (2016). The Transfer of ‘International Best Practice’ in a Brazilian MNC: A Consideration of the Convergence and Contingency Perspectives. Journal of International Management, 23(2), 194-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2016.09.003
• Geary, J., & Aguzzoli, R. (2016). Miners, politics and institutional caryatids: Accounting for the transfer of HRM practices in the Brazilian multinational enterprise. Journal of International Business Studies, 47(8), 968-996. https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2016.24
• Mohsin, A., Lengler, J., & Aguzzoli, R. (2015). Staff Turnover in Hotels: exploring the quadratic and linear relationships. Tourism Management, 51, 35-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2015.04.005
• Aguzzoli, R., & Geary, J. (2014). An ‘emerging challenge’: The employment practices of a Brazilian multinational company in Canada. Human Relations, 67(5), 587-609. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726713497523