Álvaro
San Martín

Professor of Managing People in Organizations

Chair of Family-Owned Business

• Ph.D. in Management (Organizational Behaviour), INSEAD
• M.Sc. in Business Administration, INSEAD
• B.A. in Economics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Álvaro San Martín is Professor in the Managing People in Organizations Department and Chair of Family-Owned Business. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Management with a specialization in Organizational Behavior from INSEAD. Professor San Martín had previously majored in Economics as class valedictorian at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

His research interests lie in cultural psychology and team dynamics. Álvaro has published his work in premier scientific journals, such as American Psychologist, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Professor San Martín teaches leadership, organizational behavior, and self-management courses in the MiM, Executive MBA, Open Programs, and Custom Programs offered at IESE Business School. He is currently the Academic Director of the Executive MBA in Madrid.

Areas of interest.

• Socioecological psychology
• Cross-cultural psychology
• Team dynamics

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

SALVADOR, C., IDROVO CARLIER, S., ISHII, K., TORRES CASTILLLO, C., NANAKDEWA, K., CANALE SEGOVIA, F., SAN MARTÍN, Á., SAVANI, K., ... KITAYAMA, S. (2025). Self-enhancement in Latin America: is it linked to interdependence? PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN. doi:10.1177/01461672241309387. SALVADOR, C., IDROVO CARLIER, S., ISHII, K., TORRES CASTILLO, C., NANAKDEWA, K., SAN MARTÍN, Á., SAVANI, K., ... KITAYAMA, S. (2024). Emotionally expressive interdependence in Latin America. Triangulating through a comparison of three cultural zones. EMOTION, 24 (3), 820–835. doi:10.1037/emo0001302. ANDERSSON, P. A., VARTANOVA, I., VÄSTFJÄLL, D., TINGHÖG, G., STRIMLING, P., WU, J., HAZIN, I., AKOTIA, C. S., ALDASHEV, A., ANDRIGHETTO, G., ANUM, A., ARIKAN, G., BAGHERIAN, F., BARRERA, D., BASNIGHT-BROWN, D., BATKEYEV, B., BEREZINA, E., BJÖRNSTJERNA, M., BOSKI, P., BOVINA, I., HUYEN, B. T. T., ČEKRLIJA, Đ., CHOI, H.-S., CONTRERAS-IBÁÑEZ, C. C., COSTA-LOPES, R., DE BARRA, M., DE ZOYSA, P., DORROUGH, A. R., DVORYANCHIKOV, N., ENGELMANN, J. B., EUH, H., FANG, X., FIEDLER, S., FOSTER-GIMBEL, O. A., FÜLÖP, M., GARDARSDOTTIR, R. B., GILL, C. M. H. D., GLÖCKNER, A., GRAF, S., GRIGORYAN, A., GRITSKOV, V., GROWIEC, K., HALAMA, P., HARTANTO, A., HOPTHROW, T., HŘEBÍČKOVÁ, M., ILIŠKO, D., IMADA, H., KAPOOR, H., KAWAKAMI, K., KHACHATRYAN, N., KHARCHENKO, N., KIYONARI, T., KOHÚT, M., LESLIE, L. M., LI, Y., LI, N. P., LI, Z., LIIK, K., MAITNER, A. T., MANHIQUE, B., MANLEY, H., MEDHIOUB, I., MENTSER, S., NEJAT, P., NIPASSA, O., NUSSINSON, R., ONYEDIRE, N. G., ONYISHI, I. E., PANAGIOTOPOULOU, P., PEREZ-FLORIANO, L. R., PERSSON, M., PIRTTILÄ-BACKMAN, A.-M., POGOSYAN, M., RAVER, J., RODRIGUES, R. B., ROMANÒ, S., ROMERO, P. P., SAKKI, I., SAN MARTÍN, Á., SHERBAJI, S., SHIMIZU, H., SIMPSON, B., SZABO, E., TAKEMURA, K., TEIXEIRA, M. L. M., THANOMKUL, N., TILIOUINE, H., TRAVAGLINO, G. A., TSIRBAS, Y., WIDODO, S., ZEIN, R., ZIRGANOU-KAZOLEA, L., ... ERIKSSON, K. (2024). Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), Article 5591. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-55815-x.

Proceedings

SAN MARTÍN, Á., HAFENBRACK, A. C., HAJO, A. (2021). Social ecology at work. Relational mobility buffers employees from job burnout. Annual Meeting Proceedings: Virtual 2021. Academy of Management Proceedings. CAO, J., SAN MARTÍN, Á., HAJO, A. (2020). Job mobility decreases work desirability by reducing cognitive trust and affective trust. Annual Meeting Proceedings: Virtual 2020. Academy of Management Proceedings. SAN MARTÍN, Á., VASILJEVIC, D., SWAAB, R., SINACEUR, M. (2013). Effects of expected repeated interactions on minority influence in small groups. Academy of Management Proceedings 2013. Academy of Management Proceedings.

Book Chapters

SAN MARTÍN, Á. (2023). Hiring a chef. Decision making simulation. In Reiche, S.B; Stahl, G.K.; Mendenhall, M.E. & Oddou, G.R. (Eds.), Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management (7th edition). Routledge.

Non-refereed articles

SAN MARTÍN, Á. (2024). Finding our shared roots when managing across cultures. IESE Business School Insight (166), pp. 60-68. SAN MARTÍN, Á. (2024). Busca las raíces comunes para liderar equipos multiculturales. IESE Business School Insight (166), pp. 60-66.

Studies

STEIN, G., SAN MARTÍN, Á. (2009). La sucesión del CEO. SAN MARTÍN, Á., STEIN, G. (2008). Convertirse en CEO: Internal labour market. Fases de un proceso.

Cases

CHINCHILLA, N., SAN MARTÍN, Á. (2022). Tessile Milana, SpA (B). IESE, DPO-796-E. CHINCHILLA, N., SAN MARTÍN, Á. (2022). Tessile Milana, SpA (B). IESE, DPO-796. CHINCHILLA, N., SAN MARTÍN, Á. (2022). Tessile Milana, SpA (A). IESE, DPO-795.