I specialise in critical leadership studies (CLS), critical management studies (CMS), posthuman philosophies, and creative methods. Through my research, I am interested in unravelling the complexities of leadership by interrogating what it means to be a human in a world populated by nonhuman materialities. In doing so, my research focuses on exploring the “leaderful effects” emerging within affective relations that unfold when human and more-than-human materialities encounter at work. Furthermore, I am interested in questioning taken-for-granted and romantic assumptions surrounding several organisational domains, including leadership, creativity, and play, exploring issues of power, control and exploitation.
I obtained my PhD in Management in 2023 at the University of York, UK. Before joining Aalto, I worked at the School for Business and Society, University of York, and at Durham University Business School.
Journal articles:
Couloigner S, Perez Moraga VA, Jones I and Maraziotis F (2026) Drawing academic freedom: A field of tension between decent and precarious working conditions among fixed-term academics. Organization (Online First): 1–32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084261444675
Perez Moraga VA and Baxter LF (2025) The leaderful quality of resistance within human-nonhuman encounters at work. Leadership 21(3): 182–206. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150231217587
Book chapters:
Perez Moraga VA, Baxter LF (Forthcoming) Cartographies of power: Surfacing power relations with LEGO. In: Bell, E. and Horth D. (Eds.) Posthumanist Management Research and Education. UK: Edward Elgar.
Perez Moraga VA (2025). Materiality. In: Bozkurt, Ö. et al. (Eds). Encyclopaedia of Critical Management Studies. UK: Edward Elgar. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377721.00074
