Fulton Hall 424A
Telephone: 917-545-3285
Email: opazo@bc.edu
鈥淢anaging People & Organizations鈥, 鈥淣egotiations鈥
Organizational Studies; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Negotiations; Cultural and Economic Sociology; Communications and Qualitative methods.
Pilar Opazo is an Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Her聽research interests include organizational behavior,聽innovation and creativity, cultural sociology, negotiations, and qualitative methods. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Commission and by a grant from Telefonica R&D, Spain鈥檚 major telecommunications company.听
Prior to Boston College, Pilar was a聽Lecturer at the Graduate School of Columbia and a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
She is the聽author of聽Appetite for Innovation聽(Columbia University Press) and the co-author of two Spanish-language volumes,聽Communications in Organizations听补苍诲听Negotiation: Competing or Collaborating.听
Pilar's research has been published in聽the peer-reviewed academic journals聽Organization Studies, Sociological Theory, Poetics, Cultural Sociology, Food, Culture & Society, Research in Sociology of Organizations, and International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science.听
Her book聽Appetite for Innovation聽(Columbia University Press) uses ethnographic methods to examine the organization of creativity and the nature of radical innovation by examining the case of 鈥渆lBulli,鈥 the avant-garde restaurant directed by Chef Ferran Adria that has revolutionized the gastronomy industry.听
She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, New York, and a BA from the Catholic University of Chile, her home country.
鈥.鈥 Columbia University Press. 2016.
鈥淐ommunications in Organizations.鈥 (With Dar铆o Rodriguez.) Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile Editions (in Spanish). 2017.听
鈥淣egotiation: Competing or Collaborating? 2nd Edition.鈥澛 (With Cristian Saieh, Dar铆o Rodriguez.) Ediciones Universidad Cat贸lica. 2017.听
鈥.鈥 (With Christel Lane.) Cultural Sociology, 1-30. June, 2023.听
鈥 (With Christel Lane.) Food Culture and Society. July, 2023.听
鈥.鈥 (With聽 Ignasi Capdevila, Barbara Slavich.) In Dirk Deichmann, Gino Cattani and Simone Ferriani (eds.) Bingley: Emerald Publishing. January, 2022.听
鈥.鈥 (With Christel Lane.) Food Culture and Society, 25 (5), 847-874. 2022.听
鈥.鈥 (With Sonia Coman.) Poetics, 82. October, 2022.听
鈥.鈥 (With Barbara Slavich, Silviya Svejenova, and Gerardo Patriotta.) Organization Studies, 41 (2). February, 2020.听