Adele Santana, Ph.D., MBA

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About

Adele Santana is an Associate Professor of Leadership, Strategy and Sustainability at Sonoma State and the Faculty Director of the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care. She holds a PhD. in Business Environment, Ethics, Strategy and Public Policy from the University of Pittsburgh. At Sonoma State she has taught undergrad, MBA, and
Executive MBA courses on Leadership, Strategy and Policy, Sustainability, and Business & Society. Dr. Santana’s research focuses on business strategy, design and leadership for the creation of shared value, and on social, economic and ecological sustainability in the wine industry. More recently, Dr. Santana has been investigating the organization of palliative care, and instructional designs and teaching techniques that support students' mental health and wellbeing. 

Prior to teaching, Dr. Santana worked as a consultant in organization development and talent management, and as a civil engineer.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh - Ph.D. in Business Administration
• Fundação Getúlio Vargas – EAESP (Brazil) - M.S. in Business Administration
• Fundação Getúlio Vargas – EAESP (Brazil) - MBA
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica de (Brazil) - B.E. in Civil Engineering

Selected Publications & Presentations

• Rink, K., Gilinsky, A., Santana, A., Bailey, C., Wallace, T., and Coget, J. F. (2023). Sustainable succession in the wine industry: Leadership skills the next generation will need. In Marco-Lajara, B., Gilinsky A., Martinez-Falcó, J. & Sánchez-Garcia, E. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Sustainability Challenges in the Wine Industry. Philadelphia, PA: IGI Global, pp. 121-142.
• Santana, A., Gilinsky, A. and Delves, J., 2019. Pacific Market: Invest, Sell, or Stay the Same? The CASE Journal. ISSN: 1544-9106.
• Santana, A. 2017. At the Interface Between Levels of Analysis: Motivations for Business-Community Involvement. Academy of Management Proceedings Volume 2017, Issue 1. Published Online: 30 Nov
  2017 https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2017.16965abstract  
• Grabner-Kräuter and Santana, A. 2017. Certification processes advancing the sustainability agenda in the wine industry: A comparative study. In Agle, B. and VanSandt, C. (Co-Editors), Proceedings of the Twenty Eighth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business and Society, Volume 28, pp. 95-104. (Note:  Although dated “2017”, the electronic proceedings were published in 2018)
• Santana, A. and Hultman, S. (2017) Aquamariner Project: A Path for Self-Reliance? in Miesing, P. and Aggestam, M. (Eds.) Educating Social Entrepreneurs: From Business Plan Formulation to Implementation, Volume II. BEP Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Collection. New York, NY: Business Expert Press, pp. 77-86.
• Princen, T. and Santana, A., 2015. Exit Strategies. In Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno and Pamela L. Martin (Eds.), Ending the Fossil Fuel Era. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 311-331.
• Santana, A., 2015. Disentangling the knot: Variable mixing of four motivations for firm’s use of social practices. Business and Society, v. 54(6), pp. 763-793.
• Santana, A., 2014. Firm size and ownership structure: Effects on motivations for use of business community involvement practices. Business and Society Review, v. 19 (2), pp. 277-296.
• Santana, A. 2012. Three elements of stakeholder legitimacy. Journal of Business Ethics, v.105 (2), pp. 257-265.