Dr Jose Bento da Silva
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Jose researches the historical development of organisations, with a special interest on how governance mechanisms and organisational social structures have evolved historically. Jose's research speaks to how nowadays multinational organisations structure their activities and manage their operations across nations.
Jose's research falls within organisation theory and international business, with a special emphasis on organisational social structure, culture and change, and his preferred methods of research are qualitative/historical.
Teaching in 2021-2022
Distance Learning MBA
- IB822P: Leading and Managing Change
- IB802P: Organisational Behaviour
Executive MBA
- IB9PT0: Organisation Design
- IB7000: Organisational Behaviour
Full Time MBA
- IB9070: Organisational Behaviour
Organisation & HRM
Email: Jose.Bento-Da-Silva@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 24513 / Room: 2.127
Biography
Jose Bento da Silva holds a Phd from Warwick Business School, together with an MBA and a Masters on Management from the Catholic University of Portugal. Jose also completed two degrees: Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (University of Aveiro) and Philosophy (University of Porto).
Before joining academia Jose worked for 13 years in the corporate sector as an engineer, an HR director and an International Business director. Before starting his career, Jose worked as a volunteer in a NGO during 3 years.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Arciniegas-Pradilla, C., Bento da Silva, J. and Reinecke, J. (2022) "Wicked problems and new ways of organising : how Fe y Alegria confronted changing manifestations of poverty", Research in the Sociology of Organizations
- Wiedner, R., Nigam, A. and Bento da Silva, J. (2020) "General Practitioners are from Mars, administrators are from Venus : the role of misaligned occupational dispositions in inhibiting mandated role change", Work and Occupations
- Balsas, Á. and Silva, J. B. d. (2018) "Presentation – Philosophy of management", Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 74, 2-3, 363-366
- Bento da Silva, J., Llewellyn, N. and Anderson-Gough, F. (2017) "Oral-aural accounting and the management of the Jesuit corpus", Accounting, Organizations and Society, 59, 44-57
Book Items
- Jose Bento da Silva (2020) "Institutional leadership—the historical case study of a religious organisation", 81-95, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
- Arciniegas-Pradilla, C. and Bento da Silva, J. (2020) "Educating for poverty relief : the case of Fe y Alegria", Lexington Books ; Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham (Maryland)
- Bento da Silva, J. and Quattrone, Q. (2020) "Mystery-driven institutionalism : the Jesuit spiritual exercises as a book of practices leading nowhere", 71, 145-164, Emerald Publishing Limited,
- Silva, J. B. d. and Iordanou, I. (2018) "The origins of organizing in the sixteenth century", Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham
- Jose Bento da Silva (2018) "Liderança e Instituições Educativas da Companhia de Jesus", 1, 485-522, Aletheia, Braga
- Bento da Silva, J. and Quattrone, P. (2017) "Government at a distance : the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola", Taylor and Francis, Florence
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