Dr. Dolores del Rio

Expertise

• Emotions and Organization theory
• Phenomenology
• Ethnography
• Qualitative methods
• Management Education

Background

Dolores del Rio has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Peter B. Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria since July 2022, where she is currently working with Dr. Roy Suddaby. Her primary research focuses on humanizing and dehumanizing processes in and around organizations. She is particularly interested in the symbolic, cultural, and emotional aspects of actors and organizational practices that can enable and disable new organizational models. Her research projects recently focused on three main themes: life and death issues in organizations and organizational research, emotional dynamics and rules in organizing, and vulnerability recognition and violence.

Dolores earned her doctorate at IAE Business School (Argentina) in Business Administration. Her thesis entitled "Embodying Compassion: An ethnography to unfold vulnerability and corporeality in organized compassion" focused on understanding the role of vulnerability, rooted in embodiment and sensibility, informing compassion on both sides of compassion-based relationships.

Before starting her Ph.D. and joining the Gustavson School of Business, Dolores taught at a private university for undergraduate degrees. She has experience as an educational manager and has held different field positions.

Conference Presentations and Publications

Book chapters and papers

del Rio, M. D. (2021). Enactive ethnography as self-work: understanding by performing the phenomena under study. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), 15741. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.26 (Abridged version)

Daura, F.; Adrogué, C.; del Rio, D.; Favarel, I. (2021) Influencia de las estrategias y aptitudes de aprendizaje en el desempeño académico. Revista Educación: Universidad de Costa Rica.

Daura, Florencia; Adrogué, Cecilia; del Rio, Dolores; Favarel, Ignacio (2019) El aprender a aprender y la proyección temporal de estudiantes de ciencias empresariales. Revista de orientación educacional: Universidad de Playa Ancha. vol.33 n°63. P1 - 22. ISSN 0716-5714.

Daura, Florencia; Adrogué, Cecilia; del Rio, Dolores; Favarel, Ignacio (2019). Estrategias motivacionales y cognitivas. Su incidencia en el desempeño académico de alumnos universitarios. Durand, J. C.; Daura, F.; Sánchez Agostini, C. La educación afectiva y emocional: el desafío de una formación ciudadana sólida. Buenos Aires: Teseo Press. (p. 17-31) ISBN 978-950-893-913-5.

del Rio, Dolores (2016). La escuela encarnada. En Durand, Julio César; Corengia, Ángela. Gestionar instituciones educativas socialmente responsables. Buenos Aires: Teseo Press. P. 41 - 58. ISBN 978-987-723-0659.

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

del Rio, M. Dolores. Existential ethnography: What I learned about life while studying death – a confessional tale. 2022. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, US, Aug 5-9.

del Rio, M. Dolores; Fernández, Pablo; Willi, Alberto; Martí Lanuza, Ignasi. Spaces of Compassion: Organizing Care at Good Samaritan Hospice. 2022. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, US, Aug 5-9.

del Rio, M. Dolores. Existential ethnography: What I learned about life while studying death – a confessional tale. 2022. 37th EGOS Colloquium. European Group of Organizational Studies, online, Jul 7- 9, 2021.

del Rio, M. Dolores. Enactive ethnography as self-work: understanding by performing the phenomena under study. 2021. 37th EGOS Colloquium. European Group of Organizational Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jul 8-10, 2021.

del Rio, M. Dolores. Bringing humanity back in. 2021. EURAM Doctoral Colloquium, June 14-15, 2021.

Adrogué, Cecilia; Daura, Florencia; del Rio, M. Dolores; Favarel, Ignacio. (2020) Incidencia de las variables cognitivas y emocionales en el desempeño académico. estudio de caso de alumnos en su primer año de universidad. Argentina. Buenos Aires. 2020. Sexto Encuentro Internacional de la Asociación Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento (AACC) Revista. Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento 12 (1), 55-56.

del Rio, M. Dolores. Organizing for compassion (2020) 36th European Group of Organizational Studies Colloquium, Hamburg, German, Jul 2-4, 2020.

del Rio, M. Dolores; Fernández, Pablo; Willi, Alberto; Martí Lanuza, Ignasi. (2019) Total care for total pain: organizing for compassion towards the other. 35th European Group of Organizational Studies Colloquium, Edinburgh, UK, Jul 4-6, 2019.

del Rio, M. Dolores (2019) Estudio cualitativo en curso Retención de voluntarios Hospice. Research Symposium: International Business, Strategy and Business History. Buenos Aires, March 15, 2019