Jose Bento da Silva - Assistant Professor | Staff Directory

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 2019-2020

Distance Learning MBA

IB822P: Management of Change
IB802P: Organisational Behaviour

Full Time MBA

IB9070: Organisational Behaviour

Postgraduate Research Business and Management

IB9DV0: Collecting and Analysing Qualitative Data

Undergraduate

IB2480: Governance, Politics and Corporate Accountability

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

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