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 Graduate School of Business (EGADE). 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 human resource 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 and the Latin American Chapter of The Babson College Global STEP Project. The Global STEP Project is an international research study on corporate entrepreneurship in family businesses. Dr. Fonseca is co-author of three chapters in a book for which she is also an editor, Understanding Entrepreneurial Family Businesses in Uncertain Environments; Opportunities and Research in Latin America; Edward Elgar Publishing L. (2011). She is also the technical reviewer for the Spanish translation of the book Strategic Management; an integrated approach; Hill and Jones, Cengage Learning, 9th edition (2010). Dr. Fonseca is a co-founder of the Roundtables for Practising Managers 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. Over the last nine years, Fonseca has presented her research work in several international conferences including: the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA) Annual Conference in 2001 and 2003; the 7th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, 2003, the 3rd and 4th Conferences on Researching Work and Learning in 2003 and 2005; 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, strategy and family enterprising.
Dr. Fonseca sits on several Editorial Boards. She has published in international journals and magazines. She has written two teaching cases as well as four research cases.
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 three years; increased not only sales, but the number of products and it was ready to export the total production to the USA.
Fonseca’s research interests are in the areas of organizational learning and theory, strategic human resource 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 and the Latin American Chapter of The Babson College Global STEP Project. The Global STEP Project is an international research study on corporate entrepreneurship in family businesses. Dr. Fonseca is co-author of three chapters in a book for which she is also an editor, Understanding Entrepreneurial Family Businesses in Uncertain Environments; Opportunities and Research in Latin America; Edward Elgar Publishing L. (2011). She is also the technical reviewer for the Spanish translation of the book Strategic Management; an integrated approach; Hill and Jones, Cengage Learning, 9th edition (2010). Dr. Fonseca is a co-founder of the Roundtables for Practising Managers 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. Over the last nine years, Fonseca has presented her research work in several international conferences including: the Canadian Industrial Relations Association (CIRA) Annual Conference in 2001 and 2003; the 7th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, 2003, the 3rd and 4th Conferences on Researching Work and Learning in 2003 and 2005; 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, strategy and family enterprising.
Dr. Fonseca sits on several Editorial Boards. She has published in international journals and magazines. She has written two teaching cases as well as four research cases.
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 three years; increased not only sales, but the number of products and it was ready to export the total production to the USA.