Dr Christoforos Bouzanis

Lecturer in People and Organisations, Business

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Third Floor
School of Management
Bay Campus

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About

Christoforos holds a BSc in International and European Economic Studies from Athens University of Economics and Business and a Master of Arts in Social and Political Thought from the University of Warwick. He has also been awarded a PhD in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining the Centre for People and Organisation, he worked as a Research Associate at Adam Smith Business School, The University of Glasgow, and as a Teaching Assistant in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh.

His main research interests lie in the interrelations between philosophy, sociological theory, social psychology and organisation studies. More specifically, Christoforos has explored the ideas of: a) key authors in critical realism, such as Roy Bhaskar, Margaret Archer, Douglas Porpora, Tony Lawson, Dave Elder-Vass and Andrew Sayer, b) Pierre Bourdieu, as well as other authors working on the concepts of routine action and habitual practices, c) Cornelius Castoriadis and other theorists who have analysed the notion of social imaginary and reflective imagination and, d) key authors in the traditions of social constructionism and interpretivism.

Areas Of Expertise

Social Theory
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Sociology of Knowledge
Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Organisation Studies
The Micro-Macro Distinction in the Social Sciences

Career Highlights

Research

Research

Christoforos is currently conducting research on a personal project of re-defining anti-realism – a well-known anti-objectivist branch of metaphysics – in socio-theoretical terms. This project aspires to constitute an alternative, “middle path” in the ongoing debates between critical realists and social constructionists, in relation to the analysis of the ontological status of social structures, institutions, organisations, cultural backgrounds and the human agency.

Publications

Research Highlights

Bouzanis, C. (2021). On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity. History of the Human Sciences, 0, 095269512110328
https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211032895, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57244
Bouzanis, C. & Panos, G. (2017). Book review: Greece, Financialization and the EU: The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction
https://doi.org/10.1177/0306307017703001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306307017703001
Panos, G., Gkrimmotsis, K., Bouzanis, C., Katmada, A., Satsiou, A., Gasparini, G., Prospero, A., Praggidis, I., & Karapistoli, E. (2016). What Do People Expect from a Financial Awareness Platform? Insights from an Online Survey. Collective Online Platforms for Financial and Environmental Awareness (pp. 9-56). Springer International Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50237-3_1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50237-3_1
Bouzanis, C. & Kemp, S. (2020). The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity: A meta‐theoretical reappraisal. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 50(1), 64-83.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12225, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51325
Bouzanis, C. & Kemp, S. (2019). Residuality and inconsistency in the interpretation of socio-theoretical systems. Sociological Theory, 37(3), 282-292.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0735275119869973, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51326
Bouzanis, C. (2017). For reflexivity as an epistemic criterion of ontological coherence and virtuous social theorizing. History of the Human Sciences, 30(5), 125-146.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695117724660, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51327
Bouzanis, C. (2016). Ontogenesis versus Morphogenesis towards an Anti-realist Model of the Constitution of Society. Human Studies, 39(4), 569-599.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-015-9376-y, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51328

All Research

Journal Articles

Bouzanis, C. (2021). On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity. History of the Human Sciences, 0, 095269512110328
https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211032895, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57244
Bouzanis, C. & Kemp, S. (2020). The two stories of the habitus/structure relation and the riddle of reflexivity: A meta‐theoretical reappraisal. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 50(1), 64-83.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12225, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51325
Bouzanis, C. & Kemp, S. (2019). Residuality and inconsistency in the interpretation of socio-theoretical systems. Sociological Theory, 37(3), 282-292.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0735275119869973, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51326
Bouzanis, C. (2017). For reflexivity as an epistemic criterion of ontological coherence and virtuous social theorizing. History of the Human Sciences, 30(5), 125-146.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695117724660, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51327
Bouzanis, C. (2016). Ontogenesis versus Morphogenesis towards an Anti-realist Model of the Constitution of Society. Human Studies, 39(4), 569-599.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-015-9376-y, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51328

Book Chapters

Panos, G., Gkrimmotsis, K., Bouzanis, C., Katmada, A., Satsiou, A., Gasparini, G., Prospero, A., Praggidis, I., & Karapistoli, E. (2016). What Do People Expect from a Financial Awareness Platform? Insights from an Online Survey. Collective Online Platforms for Financial and Environmental Awareness (pp. 9-56). Springer International Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50237-3_1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50237-3_1

Other Research Outputs

Bouzanis, C. & Panos, G. (2017). Book review: Greece, Financialization and the EU: The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction
https://doi.org/10.1177/0306307017703001, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306307017703001

Taught Modules

MN-1520 The Global Context of Organisation

This module introduces students to key issues within the global context for organisation. Developing an understanding of how organisation is shaped by global contexts and how organisation shapes global contexts enables students to better understand external forces upon organisations and organising.
MN-3015 Power and Organisation

Organisations are imbued with power. Power is integral to interacting and organising; it defines, constitutes and shapes both people and activities in organisations. As competition, power is intrinsic to our economic system. In the relationships between organisations and the wider society, power takes the forms of regulation of, influence on and ordering of human activities. Understanding the nature and dynamics of power is crucial for future managers. This module investigates the ways in which power takes form, functions and has effects in and through organisations. Students will be asked to identify, analyse and question power and power relations both in terms of theory and in organisational practice. Discussions on, for example, how power and rationality, power and knowledge or power and organisational routines are related inform our examination of power in the organisational context. We will explore a number of attempts to systematically conceptualise and analyse power to understand its heterogeneous nature. This module brings together developments on analysis of power from across the social sciences to management and organisations, and will appeal to students who want to critically explore power as a vehicle for improving their organisational and management skills.
MN-M012 Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management (HRM) has become the dominant concept in the field of employment relations in recent times. This course critically evaluates the claim that the firm can achieve a sustained competitive advantage through its human resource with the implementation of HRM. It introduces the key functions of HRM and looks at the implications of HRM of companies operating within diverse contexts.

Teaching Interests

Social and organisational theory is an exciting area of research and study. Important social theorists have strongly contributed to the formation of central ontological and epistemological tenets that lie beneath methodological programmes that are prevalent in the majority of the fields and sub-fields of the broader realm of the social sciences. In this sense, prospective researchers can only benefit from discussing and thinking on key socio-theoretical ideas and debates, and Christoforos is always happy to discuss about key authors in theory with postgraduate students. He would also be happy to supervise postgraduate research in any of the following areas: “Power Relations, Agency and Institutional Change”, “Discourse Analysis in Organisation Studies”, “Social Constructionism Vs Critical Realism in Organisation Studies”, “Reflective Imagination and Creativity Vs Organisational Routines” and “The Micro-Macro divide in the Social Sciences”.