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Christiane Molina
Strategy and Management
Professor at the Department of Strategy and Leadership
BIOGRAPHY
"A strategic perspective is an essential tool to transcend the organization".

Christiane Molina is Associate Professor and Researcher of the Strategy and Leadership Department at EGADE Business School. Since 2019 she has represented EGADE before PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education), an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact. She served as a member of the Global Chapter Council (GCC), and the PRME Principles Taskforce of that institution and, in 2024, she was confirmed to serve for another term as a member of the steering committee of PRME Chapter of Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Dr. Molina teaches Strategy and Sustainability courses in different programs of graduate level at EGADE. Her recent research focuses on sustainability and conscious capitalism practices in organizations. Derived from this work she currently leads a project on Mexico’s dignified living standard and its implications for compensation and benefits systems and public policy. She has collaborated with various editorials projects that include Design for Vulnerable Communities from Springer, Routledge’s, Business with Conscience; Teaching and Learning Practices That Promote Sustainable Development and Active Citizenship, Increase it! Dignified Wage, 200 Mexican Entrepreneurs, the Construction of a Nation, Mexico, 10 Social Entrepreneurs, and Mexican Enterprises: The Journey to Conscious Capitalism. Other work has been published at Business & Society and Advances of International Management.

She was Academic and Research Director of the Conscious Enterprise Center between 2019 and 2023. Since 2015 she had been a coach of the Best Mexican Enterprises Program from Deloitte, Banamex and Tecnologico de Monterrey. She is certified as Independent Board Member by the Mexican Institute of Best Practices and as a B Multiplier by B System in Mexico. She collaborated in the Global Compact Mexico Network task groups focused on SD4, Quality Education. Before pursuing her MBA she worked in the Telecommunications’ sector in Nicaragua and Mexico where she worked as a consultant for Detecon Inc., subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.

She holds an MBA and a Ph.D. both from EGADE Business School, Tecnologico de Monterrey and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Thomas More University, Managua Nicaragua.

EDUCATION
    • Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences
      EGADE Business School, Monterrey office
    • Master in Administration
      EGADE Business School, Monterrey office
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  1. Davila, A., & Molina, C. (2015). From silent to salient stakeholders. A study of a coffee cooperative and the dynamic of social relationships. Business & Society, DOI: 10.1177/0007650315619626.
  2. Molina, C. (2012). Understanding institutional plurality in multinational enterprises: The roles of institutional logic and social identification (pp. 399–423). In T. Devinney, T. Pedersen and L. Tihanyi (Eds.). Advances in International Management: Vol. 25. Institutional Theory in International Business and Management. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  3. Molina, C. (2011). Semblanza: Andrés Marcelo Sada Zambrano [Unauthorized biography: Andrés Marcelo Sada Zambrano]. In L. Ludlow (Ed.), 200 emprendedores Mexicanos, la construcción de una nación [200 Mexican entrepreneurs, the construction of a nation]. Mexico: LID Spain.
  4. Molina, C., Martínez, R., & González, J. (Eds). (2009). Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies, APROS 13th Proceedings. Mexico: ITESM, APROS. 
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