Luiz Mequita is an associate professor of management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He joined ASU in 2003. His prior academic appointments include positions with Austral University and Purdue University. He has also served as project director for International Business Development, Deere & Company, was a commercial coordinator for Valmet, Inc., and a consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton and the Inter Amercian Development Bank.
Professor Mequita's research interests are in the area of competitive and cooperative coordination among firms. Under this broad umbrella, he has examined the performance implications related to how parties (either dyadic as in alliances, or multi-party as in geographical clusters) leverage governance mechanisms to coordinate the investments in as well as the use of shared resources.
He serves on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal; Strategic Management Journal; Academy of Management Learning and Education; Journal of Management; and Journal of Management Studies.
Lazzarini, S.G.; Islam, G. & Mesquita, L. F. (2011). Managerial attitudes, managerial behavior, and organizational performance: an empirical examination with US and Brazilian managers. The Journal of the IberoAmerican Academy of Management (forthcoming).
Kale, P.; Anand, J. & Mesquita, L.F. "Resource Dependence Dynamics in International Joint Ventures: Interacting Resource Complementarity, Regulatory Liberalization, and Organizational Learning." Under review,Journal of International Business Studies.
Mesquita, L.F. Hoskisson, R.E & Nguyen, V.D. "Clusters of Innovation in Emerging Economies." Working paper.
Publications
Representive Publications
Lazzarini, S.G.; Islam, G. & Mesquita, L.F. (2012). Bad for practice? Reconciling alternative views on managerial attitudes and their impact on organizational performance. Management Research ? The Journal of the IberoAmerican Academy of Management. 10(3): 208-225.
Weisz, N.; Vassolo, R.S.; Mesquita, L.F.; Cooper, A. (2010) "Diversity and Internal Social Capital in Nascent Entrepreneurial Teams." The Journal of the Ibero/American Academy of Management. 8(1): 39-63.
Anand, J.; Mesquita, L.F., & Vassolo, R.S. (2009). "The Dynamics of Multimarket Competition in Exploration and Exploitation Activities." Academy of Management Journal. 52(4):802-821.
Mesquita, L.F. and Lazzarini, S. G. (2008). "Horizontal and Vertical Relationships in Developing Economies: Implications for SMEs' Access to Global Markets." Academy of Management Journal 51(2): 359-380.
Mesquita, L.F. and Brush, T.H. (2008). "Untangling Safeguard and Coordination Effects in Long Term Buyer Supplier Relationships." Academy of ManagementJournal. 51(4): 785-807.
Lazzarini, S. Claro, D. & Mesquita, L.F. (2008). "Buyer-Supplier and Supplier-Supplier Alliances: Do they Reinforce or Undermine one Another?" Journal of Management Studies. 45(3): 561-584.
Mesquita, L.F. (2007). Starting Over when the Bickering Never Ends: Rebuilding Aggregate Trust among Clustered Firms Through Trust Facilitators. Academy of Management Review. 32(1): 72-91.
