Mauro F. Guillén (born 1964) is a Spanish-American sociologist and political economist who is currently the William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management at the Wharton School.
He received a PhD in sociology from Yale in 1992,[6] writing his dissertation under the direction of sociologists Charles Perrow, Paul DiMaggio, and Juan J. Linz; it was later published as a book, titled Models of Management (University of Chicago Press, 1994).
Whilst at Yale, he also completed the requirements for a doctoral degree in political economy from University of Oviedo, which he received in 1991 after defending a thesis on health inequality in Spain.
He considers the cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz and the political economist Albert Hirschman to be his most important intellectual influences; he met both figures while a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
He was appointed the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professor in International Management that year, a chair established in honor of the chemist who founded the Fortune 500 semiconductor company Vishay Intertechnology.
[8] His professional activities include being, or having been, Vice-Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals at the World Economic Forum, trustee of the Madrid Institute of Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and member of the advisory boards of the research department of Caixabank, Conciban, and the Escuela de Finanzas Applicadas (Grupo Analistas).
In 2006 Princeton University Press published his book, The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical, which explored the connections between scientific management and modernist architecture between 1890 and 1940 in various parts of the world.
Mauro Guillén is best known for his comparative studies of companies and management practices in a variety of countries, especially in Western Europe, Latin America, and East Asia.