Francisco Figueira de Lemos is a permanent professor at the Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo of Fundação Getúlio Vargas, coordinating the concentration area of studies in International Management & Global Business, and a visiting professor at Florida International University in Miami, USA. He is also an associate researcher at the Faculty of Economics of Porto, Portugal, and at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. in International Management from Uppsala University, Sweden, with part of his studies conducted at Harvard Business School, USA. He also has a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Management and an MBA, both from the Portuguese Catholic University. His foundational education is in Civil Engineering, which he completed at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His research and consulting work focuses on the comparative study of the institutional and political environment between countries, particularly the factors that explain differences in performance among multinational companies, industries and activity sectors, and national economies within the scope of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment. This work has received international recognition through publications in high-impact scientific journals and awards for excellence, such as the Best Doctoral Proposal of the European International Business Academy/COST (2012) and Wallander Prize from Handelsbanken of Sweden (2013). Specifically in the field of International Management, his work focuses on the transfer of innovation in multinational companies and the organizational redesign of international activities. His professional background includes roles as an entrepreneur, administrator, and member of company boards in the fields of engineering and internationalization. He was also a member of the office of the XVIII Constitutional Government of Portugal.

Articles: 

ALK, MARTIN; DE LEMOS, FRANCISCO FIGUEIRA. Complementarity of R&D and Productivity in SME Export Behavior. Journal of Business Research, v. 96, p. 157-168, 2019.

POPLI, MANISH; DE LEMOS, FRANCISCO FIGUEIRA. Reusing Uppsala Lens in Cross-border M&As of Emerging Markets. Strategic Change, v. 27, p. 35-42, 2018.

FIGUEIRA-DE-LEMOS, FRANCISCO; HADJIKHANI, AMJAD. Internationalization Processes in Stable and Unstable Market Conditions: towards a model of commitment decisions in dynamic environments. Journal of World Business, v. 49, p. 332-349, 2014.

FIGUEIRA-DE-LEMOS, FRANCISCO; JOHANSON, JAN; VAHLNE, JAN-ERIK. Risk Management in the Internationalization Process of the Firm: a note on the Uppsala model. Journal of World Business, v. 46, p. 143-153, 2011.

SOUSA, FERNANDO FREIRE DE; LEMOS, FRANCISCO FIGUEIRA E. Complexity and Interdependency in Firm's Internationalisation: when the state becomes the partner. International Journal of Business Environment, v. 2, p. 485, 2009.

Book chapters: 

DE LEMOS; TORRES, M. M. Alignment of Top-Down Pro-Internationalization Policies of Outward Foreign Direct Investment - Cap. 2. In: Marin Alexandrov Marinov; Svetla Trifonova Marinova. (Org.). Successes and Challenges of Emerging Economy Multinationals. 1ed.Basingstoke- Inglaterra: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013, v. 1, p. 12-24.

TORRES, M. M. ; DE LEMOS. Between Neighbours Heat and Colonial Ties Comfort: Does distance really matter? - Cap. 6. In: Amjad Hadjikhani; Ulf Elg ; Pervez Ghauri. (Org.). Business, Society and Politics: Multinationals in Emerging Markets. 1ed.: Emerald Group Publishing, 2012, v. 28, p. 105-130.