Florencio Portocarrero

Florencio is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining LSE, Florencio was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Management Division at Columbia Business School. He completed his PhD in Organization and Management at the University of California, Irvine. Florencio’s central goal as a researcher is to improve our understanding of how organisations can work toward the global imperative of human, social, and environmental sustainability. His research has direct applications in helping organisations and managers create sustainable and healthy workplaces and communities where all stakeholders can thrive. Moreover, he frequently collaborates with for-profit, non-profit, and public organisations in designing, implementing, and evaluating social and environmental impact initiatives, providing practical solutions to real-world challenges.

One of his streams of research examines how different types of corporate social responsibility (CSR) can foster the critical global imperative of social and environmental sustainability. For example, in one of his papers, he uses a field experiment in which he designed an alternative onboarding process for employees in a large bank to examine the specific emotional mechanisms linking employee participation in CSR interventions to subsequent engagement in corporate volunteering programs. Another stream of his work focuses on individual differences and emotions in work life. Within this stream, he seeks to contribute to a broader understanding of organisational actors as holistic human beings whose attitudes, behaviour, and well-being are shaped by and shape different affective and personality phenomena. For example, in one paper, Florencio and his colleagues expand on a well-established model of personality to meta-analytically examine whether different characteristics of organisational changes help explain the effect of personality on employees’ reactions to the change, their well-being, and other behaviours at work.