Dr. Rodrigo Magalhaes

Profile

Rodrigo Magalhães holds a PhD (Management Information Systems) from The London School of Economics-University of London, an MBA from Sheffield University,

UK an MA (Information Science) from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and a BA (Psychology) from the University of Natal, South Africa.

He is currently Professor of Information Systems and Organization at the Kuwait-Maastricht Business School in Kuwait, where he previously also held the post of Academic Director. KMBS is a private graduate school associated to the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands. He was formerly with the School of Management and Economics at Catholic University of Portugal, where he was responsible for the launching of the Information Management stream of the MBA programme.

He holds visiting positions at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal and at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) also in Lisbon, where he lectures regularly in postgraduate programmes. He has also been active in management consulting in Mozambique and has held several managerial positions in Portugal.

Professor Magalhães has published extensively in the areas of information systems management, organizational change, knowledge management, organization learning, business process management, e-HRM and e-learning. Some of his latest publications include:

ALMUSALLAM, Bassam; MAGALHAES, Rodrigo - Organizational Evolution in Kuwait: A Comparative Study of the Evolution of Two Islamic Finance Companies. Journal of International Business and Entrepreneurship Development (forthcoming in 2010)

ZACARIAS, M.; PINTO, H. S.; MAGALHÃES, R.; TRIBOLET, J. – A Context-Aware and Agent-Centric Perspective for the Alignment between Individuals and Organizations. Information Systems (Elsevier), Vol 35, nº 4, June 2010, 441-466

MAGALHÃES, R.; SANCHEZ, R. (Editors). Autopoiesis in Organization Theory and Practice. Bingley, UK, Emerald Group, 2009

ALI, G. E.; MAGALHÃES, Rodrigo. - Barriers to Implementing E-Learning: A Kuwaiti Case Study. International Journal of Training and Development, vol 2, nº 1, March 2008, 36-53

MAGALHAES, R.; SOUSA, P.; TRIBOLET, J. - The Role of Business Processes and Enterprise Architectures in the Development of Organizational Self-Awareness. Tekhne: Revista de Estudos Politecnicos, vol 4, nº 9, 2008, 9-30

MAGALHÃES, Rodrigo - Organizational Knowledge and Technology: an action-oriented approach to organization and information systems. London, E. Elgar, 2004.

Contact

Email: Rodrigo@kmbs.edu.kw
Tel: 22517091/2/3 Ext 129

Courses

• Strategic Design within Organizations (SDwO)
• E-Commerce (E-Com)