Dimitris Bourantas
Professor of Human Resources Management
Director of the Executive MBA & Co-Director of Msc in Human Resources Management
THE ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
Athens, Greece
Tel. 2108203656
Curriculum Vitae
1977-1978: DESS (MBA degree) in Business Administration. Institute of Business Administration-University of Aix-Marseille III.
1978-1979: DEA (M.Sc. degree) in Business Administration. University of Montpellier I.
1979-1982: Doctorate in Business Administration. University of Montpellier I.
1978-1982: M.Sc. in Agrofood Economics. International Center of Mediterranean Studies-Institute of Montpellier.
1985-1987: Teaching Staff. National School of Public Administration.
1986-1989: Visiting Professor. Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration-University of Athens.
1987-1988: Visiting Professor. University of Montpellier-France.
2000-Today: Professor, Athens University of Economic and Business
1984-1986: President and Managing Director of Greek firm VEKO S.A. (Food processing industry).
1984-1986: Member of Board of Directors of Hellenic Brewery Industry (Carlsberg - Greece).
1986-1987: Associate consultant for the Economic and Social Commitee and for the Direction of Research and Development of CEE (FAST Programme).
1991-1992: Assosiate consultant for the Ministry to the Prime Minister (Greece) on such topics as Management Development, Performance Appraisal and Pay Systems in Public Administration.
1992-Today: Consultant and Trainer for many private and public firms (National Bank of Greece, Tasty Foods, PEPSICO, Nestle, Unilever, SAP, Diageo, Coca-Cola, Vodafone, Carrefour, Marks & Spencer, Citibank, BAT., Schneider Electric, Jansen, IKEA, L’ Oreal, Bayer, Henkel, etc)
Professor of Human Resources Management
Director of the Executive MBA & Co-Director of Msc in Human Resources Management
THE ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
Athens, Greece
Tel. 2108203656
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION - DIPLOMAS
1973-1977: Bsc. in Business Administration. The Athens School of Economics and Business Science.1977-1978: DESS (MBA degree) in Business Administration. Institute of Business Administration-University of Aix-Marseille III.
1978-1979: DEA (M.Sc. degree) in Business Administration. University of Montpellier I.
1979-1982: Doctorate in Business Administration. University of Montpellier I.
1978-1982: M.Sc. in Agrofood Economics. International Center of Mediterranean Studies-Institute of Montpellier.
TEACHING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE
1982-1985: Teaching Staff. National Academy of Policy (Greece)1985-1987: Teaching Staff. National School of Public Administration.
1986-1989: Visiting Professor. Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration-University of Athens.
1987-1988: Visiting Professor. University of Montpellier-France.
2000-Today: Professor, Athens University of Economic and Business
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Business strategy, Leadership, Organizational culture, and Human Resources Management.RESEARCH EXPERIENCE - PROJECTS
- "International Competitiveness of the Greek Food Processing Industries", Doctoral thesis, University of Montpellier, 1982.
- "Management Culture in Greek Organizations", Ministry of Technology and Research, Greece.
- "Determinants of the Export Performances of the Greek Manufacturing Firms", Center for Economic Research, Greece.
- The industry of jewellery in Greece, BEA, Athens, Greece.
- "Strategic Decision Making in Small Enterprises", Universite de Montpellier I - France.
- "The Women Managers in Greece: Attitudes and Stereotypes", Ministry of Technology and Research, Greece.
- "Determinants of Satisfaction Motivation and Organizational Commitment in Greek Public Sector", Ministry of Technology and Research, Greece.
- "Managerial and Personality Characteristics as Predictors of Business Strategy", Center for Economic Research, Greece.
- "Measurement of Organizational Culture". International Research Project (12 countries, coordinator: University of Louvain - Belgium).
- "International Study of Organizational Culture and Management Practices", Wharton Business School - University of Pennsylvania, USA.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1983-1984: Associate consultant for the Ministry of National Economy (Greece) on such topics as industrial policy, Management of public enterprises.1984-1986: President and Managing Director of Greek firm VEKO S.A. (Food processing industry).
1984-1986: Member of Board of Directors of Hellenic Brewery Industry (Carlsberg - Greece).
1986-1987: Associate consultant for the Economic and Social Commitee and for the Direction of Research and Development of CEE (FAST Programme).
1991-1992: Assosiate consultant for the Ministry to the Prime Minister (Greece) on such topics as Management Development, Performance Appraisal and Pay Systems in Public Administration.
1992-Today: Consultant and Trainer for many private and public firms (National Bank of Greece, Tasty Foods, PEPSICO, Nestle, Unilever, SAP, Diageo, Coca-Cola, Vodafone, Carrefour, Marks & Spencer, Citibank, BAT., Schneider Electric, Jansen, IKEA, L’ Oreal, Bayer, Henkel, etc)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS AND PROCEEDINGS
- "Who speaks up at work? Dispositional influences on employees' voice behavior", Journal: Personnel Review (2008), Ioannis Nikolaou, Maria Vakola, Dimitris Bourantas
- "A decision model for outsourcing training functions: distinguishing between generic and firm-job-specific training content", Personnel and Human Resource Management (2008), Eleanna Galanaki, Dimitris Bourantas, Nancy Papalexandris
- "Selecting Change Agents: Exploring Traits and Skills in a Simulated Environment Authors", Journal of Change Management (2007), Ioannis Nikolaou, Athanasios Gouras, Maria Vakola, Dimitris Bourantas
- "Strategic Human Resource Management and its effect on firm performance: An implementation of the competing values framework", Forthcoming International Journal of Human Resource Management (2002) (coll. with L. Panagiotopoulou &N. Papalexandris)
- "Gaining Employee Trust after Acquisition: Implications for Managerial Action", Employee Relations, January 2000 (coll. with N. Papalexandri & I. Nikandrou)
- "Organizational culture: The FOCUS questionnaire", European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, (1999), 8, 551-568 (coll. with Van Muijen et al.)
- "Culture specific and cross culturally generalizable implicit leadership theories: Are attributes of charismatic/ transformational leadership universally endorsed?" Leadership Quarterly (1999), 10 (2),219-256 (coll. with R. House et al.- Globe)
- "Personality Traits Discriminating Employees Between Public and Private Sector Organizations", International Journal of Human Resources Management (Vol.10, No2, 1999, (coll. With N. Papalexandri).
- "The CEO as corporate champion of technological innovation", Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Vol. 10, No 1, 1998, pp. 89-109 (coll. With V. Papadakis)
- "Modeling post-acquisition employee behavior: typology and determining factors", Employee Relations, Vol. 20, No 1, 1998, pp. 73-91 (coll. with I.Nikandrou)
- "Greek Management: Diagnosis and prognosis", International Studies of Management and Organization, Vol. 26, No 3, 1996, pp. 13-32 (coll. With V. Papadakis)
- "Differences in Leadership and influence between public and private organizations", International Journal of Human Resources Management, Vol.4, No.4, pp.859-871, 1993 (coll. With N. Papalexandri)
- "Factors affecting the State Owned Entreprises Autonomy", Organization Science, (Vol. 4, No 4, 1993, pp. 645-666, (coll. with S. Liouka & V. Papadaki)
- "Correlates to export involvement of manufacturing firms”, Journal of Applied Business Research, Vol. 8 No 2, pp. 48-55 (coll. with J. Halkia & P. Malliari).
- "Variables Affecting organizational commitment: Private versus public owned organizations in Greece", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 7, No 1, pp. 3-10, 1992, (coll. With N. Papalexandri)
- "Attitudes towards women as managers: The case of Greece", International Journal of Human Resources Management, Vol. 2, No 2, pp. 133-148, 1991, (coll. With N. Papalexandri)
- "Sex Differences in Leadership: Leadership styles and sub-ordinate satisfaction, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 5, No 5, pp. 7-10, 1991, (coll. With N. Papalexandri)
- "Discrimination variables between systematic and non-systematic exporting manufacturing firms in Greece", Journal of Global Marketing, Vol. 4, No 2, pp. 21-38, 1991, (coll with J. Halkia)
- "Culture gap in Greek Management", Organization Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 261-283, 1990, (coll. with G. Anagnostelis, G. Mante and A. Kefala).
- "Avoiding dependence on distributors and suppliers", Long Range Planning, Vol.22, No 3, 1989, pp.140-149.
- "Leadership styles, need satisfaction and the organizational commitment of Greek managers", Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol.4, No 4, 1988, pp.121-134.
- "The profile of the Greek managers", European Management Journal, Vol.5, No 1, 1987, pp.56-61 (coll. with G. Mante).
- "Does Market Share lead to Profitability?", Long Range Planning, Vol.20, No 5, 1987, pp.102-108 (coll. with G. Mante).
- "The foreign control dependence and competition of the Greek food sector". Food Policy, Vol.11, No 1, 1986, pp.12-16.
- "Industrie: Les bases de la competitivite internationale", Revue Francaise De Gestion, No 42, 1983, pp.31-43.
- "Structures financieres: Handicap concurrentiel des industries agro-alimentaires grecques", Spoudai, Vol.ΛΒ, Νο 4, 1982, pp.671-688.
CONFERENCES PROCEEDINGS
- "Strategic Leadership and Technological Innovation: An Empirical Investigation", Conference ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, 1997, USA (coll. with V. Papadaki)
- Applications of statistical and other management science methods in European organizations (Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, pp. 421-422, 48th Session, Cairo, 1991 (coll with Madsen, Krinstensen, Nishiwski, Jones, Halikias και Ostergaard).
- Use of Management Science techniques with special emphasis on the use of statistical methods in Marketing. Proceedings, EMAC, 1991 (coll with Madsen, Krinstensen, Nishinski, Jones & Halikias).
- "Discriminating variables between systematic and non-systematic exporting manufacturing firms in Greece". EUROPEAN MARKETING ACADEMY, Conference Proceeding 1989, pp.409-428 (coll with J.Halkia).
- "Patterns of Export Competitive Strategy", PROCEEDINGS EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF MARKETING, 1990.