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Teresa Da Silva Lopes
Professor of International Business and Business History

Biography

Teresa da Silva Lopes is a Professor of International Business and Business History at the School for Business and Society, University of York, and Director of the Centre for the Evolution of Global Business and Institutions (CEGBI).
 
She is former President of the European Business History Association (EBHA), former President of the Business History Conference (BHC), and former President of the Association of Business Historians (ABH).  She received her PhD from the University of Reading and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. She also has an MPhil, MBA and Licenciatura from Universidade Católica Portuguesa. In the past she has been a Thomas McCraw Fellow at Harvard Business School, a Catedra Corona Visiting Chair at the University of Los Andes in Bogota, and Intesa San Paolo Chair of Global Governance at the University of Rome - Tor Vergata. She was also visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, Columbia University, École Polytechnique in Paris, Keio University in Tokyo and Kyoto University in Japan. 
 
Professor da Silva Lopes taught previously at Queen Mary, University of London, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, and Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is on the editorial boards of the journals Business History, Enterprise & Society, and Journal of Historical Research in Marketing. She is currently a member of the Peer Review College of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is a former Peer Review Assessor for the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the Australian Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She has also been an Outer Board Member of the Irish Research Council, and an expert reviewer for the National Science Centre of Poland, and REPRISE/MIUR - The Italian Ministry for Education, Universities and Research.

She is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of CITCEM ( Centro Interdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço, Memória) of the University of Porto (Portugal); an associate Member of the John Dunning Centre for International Business, member of the International Network of Interdisciplinary Research in Family Firms (NIRFF), member of The Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR) at Queen Mary, University of London (UK), research associate of the Centre for International Business History and Centre for Institutional Performance at the University of Reading (UK), and an Associate of the Institute of Railway Studies and Transport History (UK).  She is a former Trustee, Chair of the investments committee, and Chair of the communications committee of the American Business History Conference; Treasurer and Webmaster of the Association of Business Historians; and reviews editor for the journal Business History.                                                                  
Professor da Silva Lopes has experience working as a consultant in international business strategy, branding strategy, and investment projects. She has been a member of several academic Review Panels, including the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark; Birkbeck College, University of London; Erasmus University in the Netherlands; and The Agency For Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) in Portugal.

Departmental roles

Director of the Centre for the Evolution of Global Business and Institutions (CEGBI)

Featured Work

Climate Change and Business Historical Perspectives

Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future. This book brings together experts to shed light on the historical impact of business on climate change and of climate change on business.

The book shows how corporate responses to climate change emerged out of earlier environmental concerns, regulatory frameworks, and in many cases already established business strategies. Contributors to the book analyse the evolution of business strategies to navigate environmental challenges even before climate crisis was widely recognised as an urgent concern. The historical insights presented by this book will be essential reading for business historians, as well as students, scholars, and reflective practitioners with an interest in the environment, political economy, business strategy, and risk management.

"This thoughtful, stimulating, collection of original papers, written by accomplished business historians, excels in exploring both the impact and responses of business over time to the evolving evidence and proliferating policies on climate change. Here there is a fresh perspective that includes but extends beyond the debates on environmental and fossil fuel programs to encompass agriculture (palm oil), industry (automobiles, alcoholic beverages), insurance, and tourism. The coverage is global, including special chapters on China and India. The result is a rich and ambitious set of contributions that reveals the complex, nuanced reciprocal historical influences of business and climate change."
Mira Wilkins, Professor of Economics Emeritus; Florida International University, USA

"As a scientist and business owner, I have found that for something real and game-changing to be implemented in the climate change sphere, we need businesses to incorporate climate thinking into every area, from production, to human resources, to sales and marketing. This book documents the trajectory of these initiatives in various industries and regions. It is an essential piece of reading for all of us today."
 Dr. Laura Catena, Managing Director of Bodega Catena Zapata and founder of the Catena Institute of Wine in Mendoza, Argentina 

"This edited volume, by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid, and Robert Fredona investigates the history of one of the biggest problems in the world today, climate change.  The collected essays provide a critical perspective on the complex evolution of the problem itself, from nineteenth century awareness of weather changes and pollution hazards to modern efforts to collect data and enact policy changes to curb dependence on fossil fuels.  These essays, many of which draw on archival sources, recast traditional histories of economic development by focusing on the consequences of industrial, agricultural, and technological change. They present a complex history of ways that firms have adapted to climate changes in the past and the ways that individual entrepreneurs have sought to abate environmental devastation in their industries. The essays also reveal how the effects of climate change have altered industries such as tourism and insurance and made other industries, such as winemaking, more vulnerable. Together the essays help to tell the multifaceted, non-linear, history that has led to this enormous global challenge." 
Walter Friedman, Director of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School and co-editor of the journal Business History Review

The Makers of Global Business

Cover of Makers of Global Business

The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business draws together a wide array of state-of-the-art research on multinational enterprises. The volume aims to deepen our historical understanding of how firms and entrepreneurs contributed to transformative processes of globalization.

This book explores how global business facilitated the mechanisms of cross-border interactions that affected individuals, organizations, industries, national economies, and international relations. The 37 chapters span the Middle Ages to the present day, analysing the emergence of institutions and actors alongside key contextual factors for global business development. Contributors examine business as a central actor in globalization, covering myriad entrepreneurs, organizational forms and key industrial sectors. Taking a historical view, the chapters highlight the intertwined and evolving nature of economic, political, social, technological and environmental patterns and relationships. They explore dynamic change as well as lasting continuities, both of which often only become visible—and can only be fully understood—when analysed in the long run.

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LSE Business Review

'Using third-party endorsements to build a brand's reputation: the case of British chocolate'

 

School for Business and Society
University of York
Church Lane Building
York Science Park
Heslington
York YO10 5ZF

Tel: +44 (0) 1904 325023
Email: teresa.lopes@york.ac.uk
Room: CL/A/016

Subject Group

People, Operations and Marketing

 

 

 

 

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