Konstantinos Pitsakis

Biography

"I obtained my PhD in Management from Cass Business School, City University London and I am Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management. My specialization is technology transfer and institutional & diffusion theories. I was previously Asst. Professor of organization studies and Fellow at the Center for Innovation Research (CiR) at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, where I taught strategy and organization theory. I am a regular reviewer in 3* and 4* scientific journals and I was Course Director for MSc International Business Management between 2014-2016. Prior to academia, I worked as Research Manager at the Financial Times Group and as Business Intelligence Manager at Winmark Ltd, both in London"

Research Interest

I am a disciplinary scholar who builds theory in the sociology of organizations. My research lies at the intersection of academic entrepreneurship and organization theory. I investigate the role of institutions on the diffusion of innovations by looking at the historical emergence of the UK spinoff industry. I also look at the social construction of markets, that is how legitimacy, reputation and status are constructed and how organizations benefit from these properties. I am also interested in how organizations compete and cooperate (coopete) at the same time under conditions of uncertainty.