Fonseca-Paredes, María Francisca

Dr. Maria Fonseca is currently the Dean of the Business School, at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico Campus, where she has also been directing the EGADE for 5 years (2005-2009). Fonseca's commitment to the highest standards in management education has led to international recognition for the school's programs. Fonseca's research interests are in the areas of organizational learning and theory, strategic management, entrepreneurial family enterprising, and the contribution of workplace innovations to organizational effectiveness and performance. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Toronto. She conducted her doctoral research in learning dynamics and social capital as key factors in the development of knowledge-based region; a comparative study between Canada and México. Dr. Fonseca is a member of the STEP (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) Project for Family Enterprising. Fonseca is a co-founder of the Roundtables for Practising Managers, an event where executive MBA students from top international business schools meet to share management experience, reflect upon their own managerial practices and create room for effective action. She is a regular instructor in this program, lead by guru Henry Mintzberg and Jonathan Gosling. Over the last fifteen years, Fonseca has presented her research work in several international conferences including: the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA) Annual Conference; the International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation; Conferences on Researching Work and Learning; the AACSB Annual Meetings 2007 and 2008; and the 2008 Academy of Management Annual Conference. She continues to teach in the areas of management science, strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and family enterprising. Dr. Fonseca sits on several Editorial Boards. She has published in international journals and magazines. She has written several teaching and research cases. She is a coauthor and editor of the book in family business: Understanding Entrepreneurial Family Businesses in Uncertain Environment (2012). As a business woman, she was a general manager of a family business in her home town, Culiacán, Sinaloa. This was a broom's factory founded by her grand father in 1943. Dr. Fonseca, third generation, took the small business and managed for almost four years; increased not only sales, but the number of products and it was ready to export the total production to the USA.