Luiz Guerrazzi

Luiz Guerrazzi is the academic dean and professor in the Department of Business Sciences at ISMAT, Lusofona Group in Portimao, Portugal. He holds a doctorate (2018) in Management from Nove de Julho University (Brazil), focusing on business strategy, and is pursuing a second doctorate in quantitative methods applied to Management at the University of the Algarve. His expertise includes entrepreneurship, organizational decline, and small firm performance. He has taught at Brazilian universities like Fundação Getulio Vargas and conducted workshops on quantitative methods.

Research Interests:

• Strategy and entrepreneurship
• Resource exploitation and organizational decline
• Impact of business incubators and acceleration programs
• Quantitative methods in management research

Current Projects: Leading a CNPq-funded study comparing Brazilian and Portuguese tech-based business incubators (2019–present). Collaborates on interdisciplinary projects like Douro SocioEcoLL and Data4LowDensity.

Professional Contributions: Peer reviewer for journals like Management Research and conferences (Enanpad, Euram). Active in research groups such as Innovation & Market Ecosystems (IMEKO).