Julio César Zuluaga Jiménez holds a PhD in Management from Universidad de los Andes and a PhD from Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT). He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organizational Management at Universidad Icesi (Cali, Colombia). His expertise spans business strategy, innovation, and technological change. His research combines strategy and organization theory, with a particular interest in family business. He has advised firms, business associations, and public agencies on corporate strategy, strategic planning, organizational transformation, technological innovation, productive development, and capability building, as well as on the design and evaluation of science, technology, and innovation policy.
He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organizational Management at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and Marketing at Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT, Uzbekistan). He has been a visiting researcher at the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal (Germany), and at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona (Spain). Since 2018 he has been a visiting professor in the Master in International Business at IAE Pau-Bayonne, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (France).
He has authored journal articles, book chapters, and teaching cases on strategy, business innovation, organizational management, business associations, innovation intermediaries, and family firms. His work has appeared in journals such as *Science and Public Policy*, *Innovation and Development*, *Journal of Management History*, and *Cuadernos de Administración*, among others. His current research examines the strategic configuration of business ecosystems for regional development and several strategic aspects of family firms, including the use of legacy, social responsibility, and the provision of public goods.
He is Secretary General of the Colombian Association of Economic and Business History (Asociación Colombiana de Historia Económica y Empresarial, ACHEE) and has served on its board of directors. He is Vice President of the Colombian Academy of Management, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Management History, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Palgrave Debates in Business History series (Palgrave Macmillan).
