About
Professorial Research Fellow (Research) at Southampton Business School.
Key responsibilities to undertake engaged scholarship, publish, mentor, supervise research students, disseminate, outreach, help the School realise its research potential and ambitions in every possible way.
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Research
Research interests
- Theory of human organisation and praxis, value creation, realization, and capture
- Strategic theory of firm and Multinational Enterprise, organisation, market and institutional co- creation and orchestration, born global digital platform firms
- Dynamic capabilities, institutional and international entrepreneurship
- Strategic organisation, open team production, power-efficiency theory, global strategy
- Public entrepreneurship and (antitrust, industrial, innovation, regional, renewable energy, competitiveness) policy, economic and business sustainability
Current research
Current research is on developing the human organisation and praxis theory of value, on the interface between dynamic capabilities, international entrepreneurship and global strategy, on a strategic, entrepreneurial internalisation and demand-side theory of the MNE, on the organisation, market, ecosystem and institution co-creation and orchestration theory, on the open team production theory, on the conceptual definition and testing of dynamic capabilities of managers and employees, and on public (such as antitrust, innovation renewable energy, industrial and competitiveness) policy and governance in the era of digital platform born global firms, the role of geopolitics in international business and public policy, the role of intra-organisational conflict in the theory of the firm and the MNE, and a power-efficiency theory of economic organisation. Also working on the nature of organisational economics, the collected papers of Edith Penrose and a book with his selected contributions. His work is conceptual and empirical, including case study, questionnaire and econometric.
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Supervision
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Teaching
Present role is research only. Previous teaching and executive education experience includes Advanced Strategy, International Business, Organization Economics and Theory, Political Economy of Technology Policy, Competitive Advantage of Firms, Regions and Nations.
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Biography
Christos Pitelis is a scholar of organizations, strategy, international business, political economy and governance. Major contributions include the behavioural resource-based theory of the firm, human organization and praxis theory of value, theory of (organization market and ecosystem) co-creation and orchestration, open team production, strategic and demand-side theory of the firm and multinational enterprise, global sustainable value co-creation and capture, public entrepreneurship and supply side (antitrust, industrial, innovation, regional, renewable energy, competitiveness) policy. He has published in these areas, in CABS 4 and 'elite' journals, such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies. Journal of World Business, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, The Leadership Quarterly, Organisation Studies, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Business History Review, Regional Studies. He is Life Fellow of Queens' College, University of Cambridge, Professor of Organisational Economics at the University of Athens, and Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He is a member of the Cambridge Political Economy Society, co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and literally executor of the works of Edith Penrose. He has served as Dean, Department Head, and President of public sector organization. He has worked, visited and taught in several Universities worldwide and consulted for businesses, governments, international organizations, NGOs, and accreditation bodies.
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