Professor at the Fundação Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB)/Brazil, in the Department of Economics and in the Postgraduate Program in Administration. Professor at the Universidade do Vale de Itajaí (UNIVALI) in the School of Commerce and Professional Masters in Management and Doctorate in Management. Visiting professor at the University of Halmstad (Sweden) from 2007 to 2015, and researcher at the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn (Germany).