Professor Sotirios Paroutis
Professor of Strategic Management
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 2017-2018
Distance Learning MBA
- IB8310: Mergers and Acquisitions
Executive MBA
- IB9T10: Strategy and Practice
Marketing & Strategy
- IB9EV0: Financial Aspects of Marketing and Strategy
- IB92U0: Strategy in Practice
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-elect at 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) 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 Association of Business School (ABS) Academic Journal Quality Guide. He also sits in the editorial board of the Journal of Management & Governance and Journal of Management. 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
- 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., 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
- 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. 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
- 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
- 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
- Nichols, C. and Paroutis, S. (2008) "Engaged strategy participation : going beyond buy-in", Critical Eye
- Angwin, D. and Paroutis, S. (2008) "The strategy director : front-line soldier or reserve general? ", Strategic Innovators, 31/07/2008, 1-3
- 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
