Τμήμα Διοίκησης Επιχειρήσεων και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης / Department of Business and Public Administration
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Entrepreneurship in Cyprus
(2019)Entrepreneurship is a core driver of economic growth and societal prosperity, as it fosters the innovation necessary for exploiting new opportunities, enhancing productivity, increasing employment opportunities and providing ...
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Integrated dynamic models for hedging international portfolio risks
(2020)We develop scenario-based stochastic programming models for hedging the risks of international portfolios using options. The models provide increasing level of integration in managing market and foreign exchange (FX) risks. ...
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Visuality as Greenwashing: The Case of BP and Deepwater Horizon
(2018)We use a visual semiotic approach to explore how BP utilized the power of the visual after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Through the careful construction and use of images on its corporate website, BP narrated a ...
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All Are Not Saints, Who Go to Church: Corporate Social Responsibility, Perceived Corporate Hypocrisy and the Impact on Customer Satisfaction
(Social Science Research Network, 2018)We adopt a customer point of view and investigate the impact of perceived corporate hypocrisy on customer satisfaction in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR). We argue that when customers perceive discrepancies ...
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Generating tensions: A multilevel, process analysis of organizational change
(2019)Working within a Bakhtinian perspective of relational dialectical tensions, this study seeks to elaborate on current organizational change theories through a rich set of qualitative data collected on an Internet start-up ...
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Environmental management systems and environmental product innovation: The role of stakeholder engagement
(2019)Environmental product innovation (EPI) is an imperative for contemporary business as it enhances firm competitiveness and provides significant societal benefits. Arguments that the use of environmental management systems—such ...
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In the eye of the beholder: Employee sexual orientation, perceived supervisory support for life beyond work and job satisfaction
(2018)We adopt congruence theory to compare perceptions of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) and heterosexual employees between perceived supervisory support on life beyond work (LBW) and job satisfaction and the effect of ...
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A Model of Product Design and Information Disclosure Investments
(2018)New technologies such as product simulators and virtual reality now allow firms to provide realistic product usage experiences and reduce buyer uncertainty about product quality. We argue that today’s firms should view ...
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Toward a Better Understanding of Tacit Knowledge in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
(2019)Tacit knowledge is the knowledge that we draw on in use, but is difficult to have consciousness of, or to express in language. The proliferation in the use of tacit knowledge in management research has generated a diversity ...
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Philosophical Organization Theory
(Oxford University Press, 2019)When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of 'wonder'
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Purpose, Meaning, Joy, and Fulfilment at Work
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)The pursuit for finding purpose, meaning, fulfilment, and joy at work has proved to be an important consideration for the employees, the organization, and the society at large. Certain theories have focused on how people ...
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Leadership, the American Academy of Management, and President Trump’s Travel Ban: A Case Study in Moral Imagination
(2020)In this essay, I focus on the initial reaction of the then leadership of the Academy of Management (AOM) to President Trump’s travel ban issued in January 2017. By viewing the travel ban in purely administrative terms, AOM ...
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When Fiction Trumps Truth: What ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’ mean for management studies:
(2018)In this essay, we explore the notions of ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’ for management studies. Adopting a pragmatist perspective, we argue that there is ...
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Strategy and virtue: Developing strategy-as-practice through virtue ethics
(2018)Strategy-as-practice research has usefully built on earlier strategy process research by taking into account the social embeddedness of strategy making. While such an approach has generated valuable insights, it has curiously ...
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Corporate Social Hypocrisy and Firm Sales
(2019)A particularly insidious form of deception occurs when organizations claim to engage in socially and environmentally responsible business practices, when in truth they do not. The present paper terms this phenomenon ...
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Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life
(Oxford University Press, 2018)Contradictions permeate and propel organizational life - including tensions between reaching globally while focusing locally
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Institutions and Organizations: A Process View
(Oxford University Press, 2019)Institutions—the taken-for-granted structures, practices, and meanings that define what people and organizations within their jurisdiction think, do, and aspire to—are all about process, even though this may not always ...
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The interplay between market intelligence activities and sales strategy as drivers of performance in foreign markets
(2019)Purpose Exporting is a popular foreign market entry mode, especially among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The success of SME exporters depends on their ability to establish and maintain profitable long-term ...
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A Comparison of Formative Versus Reflective Approaches for the Measurement of Electronic Service Quality
(2019)Drawing upon the extant literature, we examine the definition, conceptualization, and measurement of electronic service quality (e-SQ) and propose an alternative measurement approach. We posit that customers' perceptions ...