Afonso Carlos Corrêa Fleury

Afonso Fleury is Professor at the University of Sao Paulo. He is (former) head of the Production Engineering Department, where he created the area of Work, Technology and Organisation. He was a research fellow at: Institute of Development Studies (UK), Tokyo Institute of Technology, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussés (France), Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University (UK) and prepared research projects for ILO, UNU, IDRC, UNDP, IDE, ECLAC as well as Brazilian institutions, covering different industries such as Aeronautics, Automobile, Capital Goods, Computing and Information, Machine-tools, Shoes, Software, Telecommunications, Textile/Apparel. He is currently engaged in research about International Manufacturing and Operations and coordinates a large project about the internationalisation of firms from Brazil, China, India, Russia and other emerging economies that is being developed at the Centre for Technology Policy and Management at USP. He has published several books and articles on work organization, global operations and technological and industrial policy. His latest book are ?Brazilian multinationals: competences for internationalization?, co-authored with Maria Tereza Leme Fleury Cambridge University Press, 2011, and ?the competitive advantage of emerging market multinationals?, co-edited with Peter Williamson, Maria Tereza Leme Fleury and Ravi Ramamurti, Cambridge University Press, 2013. He is associate editor of the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management and regional editor of Operations Management Research. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)