Professor Sotirios Paroutis
Professor of Strategic Management
Research Interests
Strategy Practice and Process; Strategic Discourse; Strategy Tools; Chief Strategy Officers; Strategy Teams; Strategic Change; Paradox and Ambidexterity; Platform Ecosystems; Visual view on Strategy.
Teaching in 2020-2021
Distance Learning MBA
- IB819P: Strategy & Practice
Executive MBA
- IB9T10: Strategy and Practice
Marketing & 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 outgoing 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 is also Associate Editor of Long Range Planning (LRP), 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
- Heracleous, L. T., Wawarta, C., Gonzalez, S. and Paroutis, S. (2020) "How a group of NASA renegades transformed mission control", MIT Sloan Management Review
- Tavella, E., Papadopoulos, T. and Paroutis, S. (2020) "Artefact appropriation in facilitated modelling : an adaptive structuration theory approach", Journal of the Operational Research Society
- Knight, E., Daymond, J. and Paroutis, S. (2020) "Design-led strategy : how to bring design thinking into the art of strategic management", California Management Review, 62, 2, 30-52
- Khanagha, S., Ansari, S., Paroutis, S. and Oviedo, L. (2020) "Mutualism and the dynamics of new platform creation : a study of Cisco and Fog computing", Strategic Management Journal, 1-31
- Heracleous, L. T., Paroutis, S. and Lockett, A. (2020) "Rhetorical enthymeme : the forgotten trope and its methodological import", European Management Review, 17, 1, 311-326
- Knight, E. and Paroutis, S. (2019) "How visual methods can enhance our understanding of strategy and management", Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, 11, 77-90
- Appio, F. P., Lima, M. and Paroutis, S. (2019) "Understanding smart cities : innovation ecosystems, technological advancements, and societal challenges", Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142, 1-14
- Kassotaki, O., Paroutis, S. and Morrell, K. (2019) "Ambidexterity penetration across multiple organizational levels in an aerospace and defense organization", Long Range Planning, 52, 3, 366-385
- 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
- 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
- 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, 403-432
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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