Department of Strategy and Innovation

plesi

Department of Strategy and Innovation

Pablo
Leao
PhD fellow


Room: KIL/14.A-2.52
E-mail: ple.si@cbs.dk
Presentation

Pablo Leao is a PhD fellow at the Strategy and Innovation department at Copenhagen Business School. Before joining CBS in 2022, he completed a PhD in Business Administration at FGV EAESP. Pablo has also supervised and participated in applied and academic research projects at the Center for Studies in International Business, Center for Entrepreneurship and New Businesses, and Center for Teaching and Learning Development at FGV EAESP. His research interest is mainly in digital transformation and sustainability. However, Pablo is also interested in Teaching & Learning and Race & Diversity related research. His papers have been included as finalists in the best papers award at leading international conferences such as the AIB and AOM.

Primary research areas
  • Sustainability (e.g., MNEs tackling societal challenges)
  • Digital Transformation (e.g., Firms’ digital strategy and Capabilities)
  • Race (e.g., Black entrepreneurship and Diversity)
  • Teaching & Learning (e.g., Teaching methodologies and learning process)
     
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www.cbs.dk/en/staff/plesi
Selected publications

Casnici, C. V. C., Pacheco, L. M., Leão, P., & Santiago, A. J. D. (2022). Regenerative and Sustainable Futures for Brazil. In Regenerative and Sustainable Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Leao, P., Marchiori Pacheco, L., & Fleury, M. T. L. (2021). All but impossible? Sustainability in extractive industry located in unstable institutional context. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2021, No. 1, p. 13618). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management
 

Publications sorted by:
2025
Pablo Leão; Kristin Brandl; Elizabeth Marie Moore / FDI and Income Inequality : How MNEs Can Have Negative Impacts on Developing Countries.
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Valhalla, NY : Academy of Management 2025, 1 p. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
Conference abstract in proceedings > peer review
Luis Oliveira; Pablo Leão; Maria Tereza Fleury; Afonso Fleury / Planning Research on an Emerging Industry in an Emerging Market
In: Handbook for Qualitative Research in Emerging Markets: Methods and Applications. . ed. /Helena Barnard. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2025, p. 13–25 (Research Handbooks in Business and Management)
Book chapter > peer review
2024
Afonso Fleury ; Maria Tereza Leme Fleury; Luis Oliveira; Pablo Leão / Going Digital EMNEs : The Role of Digital Maturity Capability.
In: International Business Review, Vol. 33, No. 4, 8.2024
Journal article > peer review
2023
Pablo Leão; Marina Amado Bahia Gama; Maria Tereza Leme Fleury / Desenvolvendo capacidade dinâmica em estratégias sociais
In: RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas, Vol. 63, No. 5, 2023
Journal article > peer review
Pablo Leão; Gabriella Guinlle; Thomaz N. Rocha; Ligia Azevedo-Rezende; Maria Tereza Leme Fleury / The Digitalization Phenomenon and Digital Strategies in Emerging Countries : A Semi-systematic Review.
In: RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023
Review article > peer review