Pedro
Monteiro

Pedro Monteiro is an Assistant Professor of Organization Theory at Copenhagen Business School. At Bologna Business School, he teaches Organizational Structure and Design in the Master’s in Human Resources and Organization (since 2025).

His research examines how organizations develop, recognize, and integrate expertise and the ​social (dys)functions of bureaucracy via ​qualitative methods. He has published in leading journals, including the Journal of Management Studies, the Academy of Management Annals, MIT Sloan Management Review, the Journal of Management Inquiry, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

Pedro has held visiting positions at Stanford University, NYU, and Gothenburg University and has conducted research and teaching across Brazil, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Denmark. His research, teaching, and service have been recognized with several awards, including the Best Article Award from the Academy of Management Annals and the Grigor McClelland Award. In 2024, he was selected as one of Poets & Quants’ Best Undergraduate Business Professors.

He is also an active member of international academic networks and has held several leadership roles in major management associations. He was the first social media officer for the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) and is currently the Communications Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly. He also co-led an EGOS Standing Working Group on organizing expertise and serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science and Organization Studies. He was an elected Representative-at-Large for the Academy of Management’s OMT Division 2022-2025. He is the co-founder of the Talking About Organizations podcast.

Pedro holds a PhD in Business & Management from the University of Warwick, an MA in Management and Organizational Analysis, and a BA in Sociology from the University of Urbino.