Miguel Morillas
Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Migration and Integration Research
Miguel Morillas is Assistant Professor of Management at ICADE School of Economics and Business Administration in Madrid, Spain. He holds a PhD in Management and Organization from the Stockholm School of Economics (2023).
His research bridges the areas of organization studies and sociology, and focuses on two broad questions: (1) How do organizations construct and negotiate inclusion through everyday practices? (2) How is international migration reshaping organizational life? His research is grounded in qualitative and interpretive approaches, with ethnography as a primary research strategy.
His doctoral dissertation The terms of inclusion: How migrant professionals negotiate inclusion in organizations was awarded second prize by the 2024 European Doctoral Programmes Association (EDAMBA). He has been visiting researcher at Copenhagen Business School and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, where he conducted research on highly skilled migrants at work.
Miguel was born and raised in Peru and has spent most of the past two decades working across Europe.
Selection of publications
Morillas, M. (2026) Inclusive leadership in Latin America: Insights from DEI professionals. In Bourke, J. and Özbilgin, M.F., De Gruyter Handbook of inclusive leadership, Chapter 20. De Gruyter Brill. ISBN: 9783111659015 (forthcoming)
Morillas, M. and Hansen, N. W. (2025). Beyond formal skills: The tacit contributions of highly skilled migrants to organizational processes. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 36(15), 2717-2742. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2025.2561056
Schäfer, G. and Morillas, M. (2025). Strangers in paradise? The wellbeing of migrant professionals across professional and personal environments. Comparative Migration Studies,13(24) https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00447-x
Morillas, M. and Romani, L. (2022). Ideology, doxa and critical reflexive learning: The possibilities and limits of thinking that ‘diversity is good’. Management Learning, 54(4), 511–530. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076221074632.