Sotirios Paroutis - Professor of Strategic Management | Staff Directory

Research Interests

Strategy Practice and Process; Strategic Discourse; Strategy Tools; Strategy Directors/Chief Strategy Officers; Strategy Teams; Strategic Change; Multi-business firms; Paradox; Visual view on strategy.

Teaching in 2018-2019

Distance Learning MBA

IB8170: Strategic Advantage
IB817P: Strategic Advantage

Executive MBA

IB9T10: Strategy and Practice

Full Time MBA

IB9BJ0: Strategic Thinking: Strategic Evaluation and Analysis

Marketing & Strategy

IB92N0: Global Business Strategy
IB92U0: Strategy in Practice

Postgraduate Research Business and Management

IB9GY0: Organization and Strategy

Organising Healthcare Research Network, Strategy & International Business

Email: Sotirios.Paroutis@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 75340 / Room: 2.125

Biography

Sotirios is Head of the Strategy and International (SIB) group and teaches in the Masters, MBA, and Executive programmes at the Warwick Business School (WBS). He is recipient of multiple annual WBS Outstanding MBA and Masters Teacher Awards and has been involved in training for a number of organizations including IBM, E.On, UBS, CapGemini and Transport for London. Previously he worked as Junior Associate at McKinsey & Company (London), Financial Analyst at Procter & Gamble (Athens) and Credit Analyst at Eurobank EFG Bank (Athens).

He is a recipient of the 2016 Emerald Citations of Excellence award, the 2013 Journal of Management Studies Best Paper Award, the 2014 SAP IG Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management, the 2008 SMS Best Conference Paper Prize for Practice Implications & the 2010 SMS Honorable Mention of the Best Conference Paper Prize (Finland Special Conference) at the Strategic Management Society; and the 2016 SAP Interest Group & 2008 BPS Division Outstanding Reviewer Awards at the Academy of Management.

He currently serves as Chair of the Strategizing Activities and Practices (SAP) Interest Group at the Academy of Management. He previously served as Chairperson for the Strategy Practice Interest Group, Chair of the judging committee for the Best Paper for Practice Implications award (BPPI), co-chair of the Executive Discoveries Series (EDS), all at the Strategic Management Society; and as PDW Chair and officer for the SAP Interest Group at the Academy of Management.

He also serves as an advisory panel member (Strategy) at the Chartered Association of Business School (CABS) Academic Journal Quality Guide. He also serves as Associate Editor of Long Range Planning, and sits in the editorial boards of the Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Organizational Research Methods. More details can be found at: www.paroutis.org and WarwickUniversity Site

Publications

Journal Articles

Knight, E., Paroutis, S. and Heracleous, L. T. (2018) "The power of PowerPoint : a visual perspective on meaning making in strategy", Strategic Management Journal, 39, 3, 894-921
Kassotaki, O., Paroutis, S. and Morrell, K. (2018) "Ambidexterity penetration across multiple organizational levels in an aerospace and defense organization", Long Range Planning
Appio, F. P., Lima, M. and Paroutis, S. (2018) "Understanding smart cities : innovation ecosystems, technological advancements, and societal challenges", Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Knight, E. and Paroutis, S. (2017) "Becoming salient : the TMT leader��s role in shaping the interpretive context of paradoxical tensions", Organization Studies, 38, 3-4, 408-432
Bednarek, R., Paroutis, S. and Sillince, J. (2017) "Transcendence through rhetorical practices : responding to paradox in the science sector", Organization Studies, 38, 1, 77-101
Papachroni, A., Heracleous, L. T. and Paroutis, S. (2016) "In pursuit of ambidexterity : managerial reactions to innovation-efficiency tensions", Human Relations, 69, 9, 1791-1822
Athanasiou, T., Patel, V., Garas, G., Ashrafian, H., Shetty, K., Sevdalis, N., Panzarasa, P., Darzi, A. and Paroutis, S. (2016) "Mentoring perception and academic performance : an Academic Health Science Centre survey", Postgraduate Medical Journal, 92, 1092, 597-602, 133542
Athanasiou, T., Patel, V., Garas, G., Ashrafian, H., Shetty, K., Sevdalis, N., Panzarasa, P., Darzi, A. and Paroutis, S. (2016) "Mentoring perception, scientific collaboration, and research performance : is there a ��gender gap�� in academic medicine? an academic health science centre perspective", Postgraduate Medical Journal, 92, 1092, 581-586
Papachroni, A., Heracleous, L. T. and Paroutis, S. (2015) "Organizational ambidexterity through the lens of paradox theory : building a novel research agenda", The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Volume 51, Number 1, 71-93
Paroutis, S., Franco, L. A. and Papadopoulos, T. (2015) "Visual interactions with strategy tools : producing strategic knowledge in workshops", British Journal of Management, 26, Supplement S1, S48-S66
Angwin, D. N., Paroutis, S. and Connell, R. (2015) "Why good things Don��t happen : the micro-foundations of routines in the M&A process", Journal of Business Research, 68, 6, 1367-1381
Doh, J. P., Lawton, T. C., Rajwani, T. and Paroutis, S. (2014) "Why your company may need a chief external officer : Upgrading external affairs can help align strategy and improve competitive advantage", Organizational Dynamics, Volume 43, Number 2, 96-104
Paroutis, S., Bennett, M. and Heracleous, L. T. (2014) "A strategic view on smart city technology : the case of IBM smarter cities during a recession", Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 89, 262-272
Bednarek, R., Paroutis, S. and Sillince, J. (2014) "Practicing transcendence : rhetorical strategies and constructing a response to paradox", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014, 1, 12199
Paroutis, S. and Heracleous, L. T. (2013) "Discourse revisited : dimensions and employment of first-order strategy discourse during institutional adoption ", Strategic Management Journal, 34, 8, 935-956
Wright, R. P., Paroutis, S. and Blettner, D. P. (2013) "How useful are the strategic tools we teach in Business Schools?", Journal of Management Studies, Volume 50, Number 1, 92-152
Paroutis, S., McKeown, M. and Collinson, S. (2013) "Building castles from sand : CEO mythopoetical behavior in Hewlett Packard from 1978 to 2005", Business History, Volume 55, Number 7, 1200-1227
Sammut-Bonnici, T. and Paroutis, S. (2013) "Developing a dominant logic of strategic innovation", Management Research Review, Volume 36, Number 10, 924 -938
Paroutis, S., Mckeown, M. and Collinson, S. (2013) "Building castles from sand : unlocking CEO mythopoetical behaviour in Hewlett Packard from 1978 to 2005", Business History, Volume 55, Number 7, 1200-1227
Angwin, D., Paroutis, S. and Mitson, S. (2009) "Connecting up strategy: are senior strategy directors a missing link? ", California Management Review, Vol.51, No.3
Paroutis, S. and Al Saleh, A. (2009) "Determinants of knowledge sharing using Web 2.0 technologies", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol.13, No.4, 52-63
Angwin, D. and Paroutis, S. (2008) "The strategy director : front-line soldier or reserve general? ", Strategic Innovators, 31/07/2008, 1-3
Nichols, C. and Paroutis, S. (2008) "Engaged strategy participation : going beyond buy-in", Critical Eye
Paroutis, S. and Pettigrew, A. (2007) "Strategizing in the multi-business firm : strategy teams at multiple levels and over time", Human Relations, Volume 60, Number 1, 99-135

Book Items

Sotirios Paroutis (2016) "Mixed methods designs", Sage Publications Ltd., London
Hodgkinson, G. P., Wright, R. P. and Paroutis, S. (2016) "Putting words to numbers in the discernment of meaning : applications of repertory grid in strategic management ", 201-226, Routledge, New York
Sotirios Paroutis (2014) "'Strategy process', 'Matrix structure', 'Structuring organizations', 'Learning organization'", 12 Strategic Management, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London
Sotirios Paroutis (2012) "Strategy process", Vol.12, 3rd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London, UK
Sotirios Paroutis (2012) "Learning organization", Vol.12, 3rd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., London, UK