Dr. Jose Alcaraz is a faculty member ("Enseignant-Chercheur", equivalent to Associate Professor) of ESDES Lyon Business School in France. With a PhD on the Digitalization of Human Capital Management, Professor Alcaraz has served as the Director of several global MBAs. His academic career has taken him from his home city of Barcelona (where he collaborated with the International Research Center on Organizations of IESE Business School), to Raffles Design Institute (Shanghai), to University of Dubai and to Leicester University (Dubai), to Barna Management School (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), to Murdoch University (Perth, Australia), and Munich Business School.
Dr. Alcaraz has published widely in diverse media outlets and peer-reviewed journals, including the Academy of Management Learning & Education, the German Journal of Human Resource Management, Information and Organization, Organization, Business & Society, Competitiveness Review, etc.
Before moving to academia, Dr. Alcaraz had several leadership roles in the software industry, and collaborated closely in Spain and Latin America with The RBL Group (a consultancy firm, co-founded by Dave Ulrich, at the forefront of strategic HR transformation, leadership capability development, and strategy implementation).
His research has focused on several management, sustainability, and pedagogical innovation fields. Recently, Dr. Alcaraz is captivated by the power of imagination, specifically science fiction, and its capacity to help us to envision trends and future complex socio-technical scenarios. In his latest research project, he is collaborating with SciFutures (“the coolest company in the world”, according to Fast Company magazine) to explore the power of Sci-Fi to nurture storytelling, and drive scenario-building and innovation.
Research Fellow
Bachelor International Business, Master International Business, Master Sports Business and Communication, MBA General Management
Management (HR/OB), Business Ethics, Sustainability
Barrero, F., Marroquín, A., Alcaraz, J., Jarp, P., Clifft, S., & Wong, R. (2025). Industrias San Miguel: How to proceed in view of significant, new rules of the game? Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1108/EEMCS-01-2024-0031
Hollander, R., Alcaraz, J., Argüello, J., & Wong, R. (2025). Puntacana Resort and Club: Garbage, zero waste and the challenges of enrolling other (environmental) allies. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1108/EEMCS-01-2024-0033
Alcaraz, J., Perdomo, I., Barrero, F., Weilage, C., Carrillo, V., & Hollander, R. (2024). Miss Rizos: Changing the world, one (Black) curl at a time? The Case Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/TCJ-04-2024-0086
Arevalo, J. A., Alcaraz, J. M., & Shandler, K. (2024). Digital stories on the Anthropocene: Transforming student experiential learning and creativity. Journal of Management Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/10525629241300142
Vo, L.-C., Lavissière, M. C., Lavissière, A., & Alcaraz, J. M. (2024). 'Commit professional suicide or take up my pilgrim's staff again?': A cultural examination of how female managers resolve shock events in developing regions. Human Relations, 77(3), 360–397. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267231170170
Alcaraz, J. M., Shandler, K., Edwards, M., & Arevalo, J. A. (2024). Film-making and management learning as (multimodal) design. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 23(1), 61–87. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2021.0426
Alcaraz, J., Tirado, F., & Galvez, A. (2021). Dark Times for Cosmopolitanism? An Ethical Framework to Address Private Agri-Food Governance and Planetary Stewardship. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12362
Heikkurinen, P., Clegg, S., Pinnington, A., Nicolopoulou, K., & Alcaraz, J. (2021). Managing the Anthropocene: Relational Agency and Power to Respect Planetary Boundaries. Organization & Environment, 34(2), 267-286. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026619881145
Gálvez, A., Tirado, F., & Alcaraz, J. M. (2021). Resisting Patriarchal Cultures: The Case of Female Spanish Home-Based Teleworkers. Work, Employment & Society, 35(2), 369–385. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020987390
Gálvaz, A., Tirado, F., & Alcaraz, A. (2019). "Oh! Teleworking!" Regimes of Engagement and the Lived Experience of Female Spanisch Teleworkers. Business Ethics: A European Review, 29(1), 180–192. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12240
Alcaraz, J. M., Hollander, R., & Navarra, A. (2019). The business initiative for technical education (BITE): Creating shared value, boosting a country. Competitiveness Review, 29(1), 8–25. https://doi.org/10.1108/CR-06-2016-0033
Edwards, M., Alcaraz, J., & Cornell, S. (2018). Management Education and Earth System Science: Transformation as if Planetary Boundaries Mattered. Business and Society, 60(1), 26-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650318816513
Gálvez, A., Tirado, F., & Alcaraz, J. (2018). Resisting Long Working Hours: The Case of Spanish Female Teleworkers. Zeitschrift für Personalforschung: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(3-4), 195-216. https://doi.org/10.1177/2397002218782174
Alcaraz, J. M., & Thiruvattal, E. (2017). An Interview With Manuel Escudero: The United Nations' Principles for Responsible Management Education: A Global Call for Sustainability. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 9(3), 583-590. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.9.3.zqr542
Alcaraz, J. M., Susaeta, L., Suarez, E., Colón, C., Gutiérrez-Martínez, I., Cunha, R., Leguizamón, F., Idrovo, S., Weisz, N., Faia Correia, M., & Pin, J. R. (2017). The Human Resources Management Contribution to Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability: Explorations from Ibero-America. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(22), 3166-3189. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1350732
Pérez-Pineda, F., Alcaraz, J., & Colón, C. (2017). Creating sustainable value in the hospitality industry: a (critical) multi-stakeholder study in the Dominican Republic. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 25(11), 1633-1649. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2017.1297451
Alcaraz, J. M., Sugars, K., Nicolopoulou, K., & Tirado, F. (2016). Cosmopolitanism or globalization: the Anthropocene turn. Society and Business Review, 11 (3), 313-332. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-10-2015-0061
Nicolopoulou, K., Kakabadse, N. K., Nikolopoulos, K. P., Alcaraz, J. M., & Sakellariou, K. (2016). Cosmopolitanism and transnational elite entrepreneurial practices: Manifesting the cosmopolitan disposition in a cosmopolitan city. Society and Business Review, 11 (3), 257-275. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-01-2016-0001
Alcaraz, J. M., Kausel, E., Colón, C., Escotto, M., Gutiérrez, I., Morales, D., … Vicencio, F. (2012). Putting Organizational Culture at the Heart of Industrial-Organizational Psychology´s Research Agenda on Sustainability: Insights from Iberoamerica. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 5(4), 494-497. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9434.2012.01486.x
Alcaraz, J. M., Domènech, M., & Tirado, F. (2012). eHR software, multinational corporations and emerging China: Exploring the role of information through a postcolonial lens. Information and Organization, 22(2), 106-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2012.01.004
Alcaraz, J. M., Marcinkowska, W., & Thiruvattal, E. (2011). The UN-Principles for Responsible Management Education: Sharing (and evaluating) information on progress. Journal of Global Responsibility, 2(2), 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/20412561111166021
Tirado, F. J., Alcaraz, J. M., & DomèNech, M. (1999). A Change of Episteme for Organizations: A Lesson from Solaris. Organization, 6(4), 673-690. https://doi.org/10.1177/135050849964006
Alcaraz, J. M., & Fotaki, M. (2018). Teaching Sustainability and Management Critically: ‘Expectation Failures’ as a Powerful Pedagogical Tool. In M. Brueckner, R. Spencer, & M. Paull (Eds.), Disciplining the Undisciplined?: perspectives on responsible citizenship, corporate social responsibility and sustainability (pp. 225-242). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71449-3_14
Arevalo, J. A., Alcaraz, J. M., Edwards, M., & Schandler, K. (2023). Digital stories on [for] the Anthropocene: Transforming student experential learning and creativity. Academy of Management Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.181bp
Alcaraz, J. M. M., Shandler, K., & Edwards, M. (2021) Digital Storytelling as a Pedagogical Tool for Global Sustainability. 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.10919abstract
Gálvez, A., & Tirado, F., & Alcaraz, J. M. (2018). Resisting Long Working Hours: The Case of Spanish Female Tele-Workers. In G. Atinc (Ed.), Proceedings 78th Annual Meeting of The Academy of Management (August 10-14, 2018), Chicago, USA.
Gálvez, A., & Tirado, F., & Alcaraz, J. M. (2018). Micro-Resistance in Teleworking. Tactics and Subjectivity in Female Teleworkers. In G. Atinc (Ed.), Proceedings 78th Annual Meeting of The Academy of Management (August 10-14, 2018), Chicago, USA.
Edwards, M., & Alcaraz, J. M. (2017, August 30). Transforming Business Schools and Management Education to Address Global Sustainability. Transformations 2017: Transformations in Practice, Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
Alcaraz, J. (2018, May 3). Frankenstein, Sci-Fi, Cli-Fi, and Business. Commemorative Sessions 200 Years “Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus”. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Alcaraz, J. M., Shandler, K., & Edwards, M. (2017, August 20-23). Connectivity and Cross-Scale Dynamics: MBA Learning Experiences Across Three Regions. Resilience 2017 – Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability, Stockholm, Sweden.
Nicolopoulou, K., & Alcaraz, J. M. (2017, May 18-20). Agri-Food and Global Sustainability: Towards a Cosmopolitan Global Framework to Address The Planetary Boundaries. 12th Organization Studies Workshop Food Organizing Matters: Paradoxes, Problems and Potentialities, Chania, Crete, Greece.
Alcaraz, J., Tirado, F., & Nicolopoulou, K. (2015). Cosmopolitanism and planetary boundaries: addressing corporate responsibility in the anthropocene. 2015 Canberra Conference on earth System Governance: Democracy & Resilience in the Anthropocene, 14-16 December 2015, Canberra, Australia.
Alcaraz, J. M. et al. (2015, August 7 - 11). The Antropocene: Organizations and the Environment in New Geological Epoch. Academy of Management Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Alcaraz, J. et al. (2015, August 7 - 11). Co-Chair of Professional Development Workshop Cosmopolitanism: Nurturing (International) Management "Above and Beyond" Globalization. Academy of Management Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Kakabadse, N., Nicolopoulou, K., & Alcaraz, J. M. (2015, June 17-19). Proponents Workshop Cosmopolitanism, Innovation, and Society. EURAM 15, European Academy of Management, Warsaw, Poland.
Alcaraz, J. M., Susaeta, L., Suárez, E., Colon, C., Gutiérrez, I., Cunha, R., … Pin. J. R. (2015). The Human Resources Contribution to Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainabitlity: Explorations from Ibero-America. Working Paper WP-1114-E. IESE Business School, International Research Center on Organizations.
Gutiérrez, I., Alcaraz, J. M., Susaeta, L., Suárez, E., & Pin. J. R. (2015). Managing Sustainabilty for Competitive Advantage: Evidence from the Hospitality Industry. Working Paper WP-1115-E. IESE Business School, International Research Center on Organizations.
Shandler, K., & Alcaraz, J. M. (2019). Storytelling for Social Innovation. In The Universal Sea: The Art and Innovation Guide Against The Plastic Epidemic (pp. 386-390). Foundation For Entrepreneurship.
Alcaraz, J. (2020, June 16). Your network is your net-worth. MBS Online Luncheon.
Alcaraz, J. M. (2020, May 26). Your Network is Your Net-Worth. Webinar IEDC Bled School of Management.
Alcaraz, J. (2017, April 24). Public understanding of the planetary boundaries. Experiences and challenges for communicators and educators. Making the Planetary Boundaries Concept Work: International Conference on the Practical Implications for Society, Economy and Politics, April 24-25, 2017, Berlin, Germany.
Hollander, R., Alcaraz, J., & Alves, P. (2022). CODEVI: Translating cross-border challenges into value creation? Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 12(4), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1108/EEMCS-08-2022-0285
Alcaraz, J. (2019, May 13). The EU Parliament, Global Sustainability (Beyond Climate Change), and Smart Business. MBS Business Blog. https://www.munich-business-school.de/insights/en/2019/the-eu-parliament-global-sustainability-beyond-climate-change-and-smart-business/
Alcaraz, J. B. (2023, May 26). Academic writing and your life ahead: Why you are not condemned to loneliness, horrible distractions and the usually boring scholarly style that (almost) everybody blindly follows. Xchange@Lunch, Munich Business School.
Alcaraz, J. (2018, July 17). The Sustainable Development Goals and the Planetary Boundaries. Presentation at Barna Management School, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Alcaraz, J. (2017, April 6). Parochialism or Cosmopolitanism? Rethinking Responsibility - and MBS three Promises. MBS Brown Bag Seminar, Munich Business School.
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