Dr Christoforos Bouzanis

Research Highlights

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://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51325 doi: 10.1111/jtsb.12225
2. Bouzanis, C., Kemp, S. 2019 Residuality and inconsistency in the interpretation of socio-theoretical systems Sociological Theory 37 3 282 292

   https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51326 doi: 10.1177/0735275119869973
3. 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://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51327 doi: 10.1177/0952695117724660
4. Bouzanis, C. 2016 Ontogenesis versus Morphogenesis towards an Anti-realist Model of the Constitution of Society Human Studies 39 4 569 599

   https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa51328 doi: 10.1007/s10746-015-9376-y
5. Bouzanis, C., Panos, G. 2017 Book review: Greece, Financialization and the EU: The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction Journal of General Management 42 4 SAGE Publications

   https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52891 doi: 10.1177/0306307017703001

   http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306307017703001
6. 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 (Ed.), Collective Online Platforms for Financial and Environmental Awareness 9 56 Cham Springer International Publishing

   https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52892 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-50237-3_1

   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50237-3_1

All Research

• 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.

• MN-M520 Leadership

  Leadership continues to be discussed and sought after, even though we now live in supposedly more democratic times with flatter organisations and empowered employees. It also remains a perennial issue in organisation studies, with significant questions concerning how best to understand the theory and development of leadership. Students will be exposed to a range of classical and contemporary approaches to the study of leadership and will examine the practical implications of these for strategic leadership and the management of change.

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”.