Arturo E. Osorio
Ph.D. student in Strategy
Telephone: (413) 545-5589
Email: arturo@resgs.umass.edu
Office: SOM 231
Curriculum Vita (PDF)
Bio
Arturo E. Osorio is a Ph.D. student in Management with a concentration in Strategic Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Born in Puebla, Mexico, he received a Bachelor in Accounting from Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) and a Professional Masters in Business Administration (PMBA) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMass).
At the University of Massachusetts, he is currently Instructor at the Isenberg School of Management for the classes of SOM 497A “Business Policy & Strategy” (online and traditional) and MGMT 301 “Principles of Management” (online). Also he has been from 2002 to 2003, Teaching Assistant for the class on “International Management”. Additionally, while in Mexico, he was Teaching Assistant in the area of “Finance & Economics” at UPAEP.
Before entering the Ph.D. program at UMass, he was for almost 9 years the Purchasing and Finance Manager for the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Project Binational Office. The LMT is a federally funded R&D project between the US and Mexican Governments to build a 50-meter (164-ft) diameter radio telescope at the top of a mountain in a rural area in central Mexico (http://www.lmtgtm.org/). It is from his experiences in this large (+USD$100-million) project involving the reach and coordination of suppliers, contractors and consultants from US, Mexico and the European Union that he decided to enter the Ph.D. Management program to study Strategic Management with a focus on Social Networks, Regional Development & International Management. He is especially interested in alternative non-traditional approaches to Regional Development and the understanding of regional development in terms of its economic and non-economic possibilities and realizations.
Dissertation Project
Currently, he is working, with Professors Marta Cálas as a chair, on his dissertation entitle “History, Networks and Environment: A (Co)Constructive Look at Cluster(ing) and The Creative Class Collectives”. This project intersects the fields of Strategic Management, Organization Studies and Economic Geography through an analytical framework that positions organizations and their environment as mutually and ongoing (co)constructing processes, embedded in the same geographical space and sharing the same socioeconomic history. Specifically, this project explores a particular case of clustering known as “Creative Class”. This project uses a multi-method (quantitative & qualitative) approach including participative ethnography, social network analyses, and a case study to explore how people and organizations network while simultaneously creating and adapting to their environment. This methodology presents data in a complementary way using as a unifying focus the project’s research question: How do creative class collectives happen and are sustained?
Additional Information
Selected Publications:
Osorio, A. (2008). A Tale of a Town: Artists Crafting "The Creative Class". “The Questions we Ask”. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, CMS Division. Anaheim CA. August 8-13 2008
Osorio, A. (2006). A New Business Approach: A Call for Business Strategies Alignment with Regional Sustainability & Development Goals. Virtual Presentation at the Academy of Management and United Nations Conference; Business as an Agent of World Benefit, Cleveland, OH 22-25 October 2006
Wooldridge, W., Calás, M. & Osorio, A. (2005). Growing On Lifestyle: Toward An Emergent Process Model Of Regional Cluster Development. “A New Vision of Management in the 21st Century”. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, OMT Division. Honolulu, HI. August 9, 2005.
Mangalizo, M., Alves, J. & Osorio, A. (2004). The Impact of Uncertainty and Decentralization on Information Usefulness: An International Comparison. Eastern Academy of Management, National Conference, Springfield, MA, May 11 – 15 2005.
Osorio, A. & Mangalizo, M. (2003). From Strategic Thinking to Strategic Implementation: How Companies Shape an Industry. –Managing in a Global Economy. Eastern Academy of Management, International Conference, Porto, Portugal, June.
Osorio, A. (1992). Mercados Emergentes; Efectos de Economias Nacionales. –Emergent Markets; Effects on National Economies – Journal of School of Economics, UPAEP; 1(1).
