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


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

  1. "International Competitiveness of the Greek Food Processing Industries", Doctoral thesis, University of Montpellier, 1982.
  2. "Management Culture in Greek Organizations", Ministry of Technology and Research, Greece.
  3. "Determinants of the Export Performances of the Greek Manufacturing Firms", Center for Economic Research, Greece.
  4. The industry of jewellery in Greece, BEA, Athens, Greece.
  5. "Strategic Decision Making in Small Enterprises", Universite de Montpellier I - France.
  6. "The Women Managers in Greece: Attitudes and Stereotypes", Ministry of Technology and Research, Greece.
  7. "Determinants of Satisfaction Motivation and Organizational Commitment in Greek Public Sector", Ministry of Technology and Research, Greece.
  8. "Managerial and Personality Characteristics as Predictors of Business Strategy", Center for Economic Research, Greece.
  9. "Measurement of Organizational Culture". International Research Project (12 countries, coordinator: University of Louvain - Belgium).
  10. "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

  1. "Who speaks up at work? Dispositional influences on employees' voice behavior", Journal: Personnel Review (2008), Ioannis Nikolaou, Maria Vakola, Dimitris Bourantas
  2. "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
  3. "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
  4. "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)
  5. "Gaining Employee Trust after Acquisition: Implications for Managerial Action", Employee Relations, January 2000 (coll. with N. Papalexandri & I. Nikandrou)
  6. "Organizational culture: The FOCUS questionnaire", European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, (1999), 8, 551-568 (coll. with Van Muijen et al.)
  7. "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)
  8. "Personality Traits Discriminating Employees Between Public and Private Sector Organizations", International Journal of Human Resources Management (Vol.10, No2, 1999, (coll. With N. Papalexandri).
  9. "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)
  10. "Modeling post-acquisition employee behavior: typology and determining factors", Employee Relations, Vol. 20, No 1, 1998, pp. 73-91 (coll. with I.Nikandrou)
  11. "Greek Management: Diagnosis and prognosis", International Studies of Management and Organization, Vol. 26, No 3, 1996, pp. 13-32 (coll. With V. Papadakis)
  12. "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)
  13. "Factors affecting the State Owned Entreprises Autonomy", Organizat­ion Science, (Vol. 4, No 4, 1993, pp. 645-666, (coll. with S. Liouka & V. Papadaki)
  14. "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).
  15. "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)
  16. "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)
  17. "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)
  18. "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)
  19. "Culture gap in Greek Management", Organization Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 261-283, 1990, (coll. with G. Anagnostelis, G. Mante and A. Kefala).
  20. "Avoiding dependence on distributors and suppliers", Long Range Planning, Vol.22, No 3, 1989, pp.140-149.
  21. "Leadership styles, need satisfaction and the organizational commitment of Greek managers", Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol.4, No 4, 1988, pp.121-134.
  22. "The profile of the Greek managers", European Management Journal, Vol.5, No 1, 1987, pp.56-61 (coll. with G. Mante).
  23. "Does Market Share lead to Profitability?", Long Range Planning, Vol.20, No 5, 1987, pp.102-108 (coll. with G. Mante).
  24. "The foreign control dependence and competition of the Greek food sector". Food Policy, Vol.11, No 1, 1986, pp.12-16.
  25. "Industrie: Les bases de la competitivite internationale", Revue Francaise De Gestion, No 42, 1983, pp.31-43.
  26. "Structures financieres: Handicap concurrentiel des industries agro-alimentaires grecques", Spoudai, Vol.ΛΒ, Νο 4, 1982, pp.671-688.

CONFERENCES PROCEEDINGS

  1. "Strategic Leadership and Technological Innovation: An Empirical Investigation", Conference ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, 1997, USA (coll. with V. Papadaki)
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. "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).
  5. "Patterns of Export Competitive Strategy", PROCEEDINGS ­ EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF MARKETING, 1990.