Qualifications: Postgraduate Certificate University of Glasgow United Kingdom Academic Practice PhD Athens University of Economics and Business Greece Management Master’s Degree University of Warwick United Kingdom Science in Marketing and Strategy BSc Athens University of Economics and Business Greece Business Administration
Dr Ioannis Thanos is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and deputydirector of the Mergers and Acquisitions instituteat Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), Lancaster University, UK. Hehas been voted from students and hasreceived teaching awards inthree different universities: Lancaster University (Lancaster University, 2016, 2017), University of Glasgow (2014, 2015) and University of Athens (2018). He has received and been shortlisted for several other research (e.g., Journal of Strategy and Management best paper award, Strategic Management Society best conference paper award) and has widely published in leading academic journals.He is Associate Editor of the European Management Journal. For more information: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/people/ioannis-thanos
Kapoutsis, I., and Thanos, I.C. (2018). Politics in organizations: Lessons, challenges and future directions. European Management Journal, 36(5): 589-592 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2018.10.001
ABS: 2
JCR Impact factor: 2.481
SJR (SCimago Journal Rank): 1.078
Teerikangas, S., and Thanos, I.C. Looking into the ‘black box’: unlocking the effect of integration on acquisition performance (2018). European Management Journal, 36(3): 366-380 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2017.06.002
ABS: 2
JCR Impact factor: 2.481
SJR (SCimago Journal Rank): 1.078
Kapoutsis I, Papalexandris A and Thanos I.C. Hard, soft or ambidextrous? Which influence style promotes managers’ task performance and the role of political skill (inpress). International Journal of Human Resource Management doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1233447
ABS: 3
JCR Impact factor: 1.65
SJR (SCimago Journal Rank): 0.871
Thanos, I.C., Dimitratos, P. and Sapouna, P. (2017). The implications of international entrepreneurial orientation, politicization and hostility upon SME international performance, International Small Business Journal, 35(4):495-514 doi: 10.1177/0266242616641749.
ABS: 3
JCR Impact factor: 3.677
SJR (SCimago Journal Rank): 1.819
Petrou, A. P., and Thanos, I. C. (2014) The “grabbing hand” or the “helping hand” view of corruption: Evidence from bank foreign market entries. Journal of World Business, 49 (3). pp. 444-454. ISSN 1090-9516 (doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2013.10.004).
ABS: 4
JCR Impact factor: 3.758
SJR (SCimago Journal Rank): 1.974
Dimitratos, P., Plakoyiannaki, E., Thanos, I.C., and Förbom, Y.K. (2014) The overlooked distinction of multinational enterprise subsidiary learning: its managerial and entrepreneurial learning modes. International Business Review, 23 (1). pp. 102-114. ISSN 0969-5931 (doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2013.08.003).
ABS: 3
JCR Impact factor: 2.476
SJR (SCimago Journal Rank): 1.193
Elbanna, S., Thanos, I. C., and Colak, M. (2014, equal contribution) An exploratory study of the determinants of the quality of strategic decision implementation in Turkish industrial firms. Journal of General Management, 40(2), pp.27-46. ISSN 0306-3070,
ABS: 2
SJR (SCimago Journal Rank): 0.162
Shared first authorship
Elbanna, S., Thanos, I. C., and Papadakis, V. (2014) Understanding how the contextual variables influence political behaviour in strategic decision-making. Journal of Strategy and Management, 7 (3). pp. 226-250. ISSN 1755-425X (doi:10.1108/JSMA-02-2014-0013). Emerald 2015 outstanding paper award Journal of Strategy and Management.
ABS: 1
Kapoutsis, I., Papalexandris, A., Thanos, I.C., and Nikolopoulos, A.G. (2012) The role of political tactics on the organizational context–career success relationship. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23 (9). pp. 1908-1929. ISSN 0958-5192 (doi:10.1080/09585192.2011.610345).
ABS: 3
JCR Impact factor: 1.65
SJR (SCimago Journal Rank): 0.871
Papadakis, V.M., and Thanos, I.C. (2010) Measuring the performance of acquisitions: an empirical investigation using multiple criteria. British Journal of Management, 21 (4). pp. 859-873. ISSN 1045-3172 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2009.00671.x),
ABS: 4
JCR Impact factor: 2.982
SJR (SCimago Journal Rank): 2.249
2016
Lancaster University Management
Academic Staff Member of the Year -2017
Lancaster University Management
Shortlisted for the Dean’s award in the category Early Career Teacher of the Year
2015
College of Social Sciences of the University of Glasgow
(http://www.glasgowstudent.net/events/stas/2014-2015/)
Shortlisted for the 2014-2015 Best Teacher Award
2014
College of Social Sciences of the University of Glasgow
(http://www.glasgowstudent.net/events/stas/2013-2014/) Shortlisted for the 2013-2014 Best Teacher Award
2015
University of Athens
Best Teacher Award
MBA Program
2015
Emerald 2015 outstanding paper award-Journal of Strategy and Management
2012
The 32nd Strategic Management Society conference
My co-authored paper «CEO Risk-Taking Propensity and the Quality of Strategic Decisions: Effects of Living on the Wild Side» was nominated for the best conference paper και best conference paper for practice implications
2013
The 32nd Strategic Management Society Conference
My co-authored paper “The Effects of Strategic Decision Processes: A Broad Examination of Contextual Boundary Conditions” was nominated The best conference paper και best conference paper
The website of the European Management Journal (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-management-journal/)
My co-authored article «Looking into the ‘black box’: unlocking the effect of integration on acquisition performance», has had the most social media attention
2010
EIBA conference and was published in the Progress in International Business Research, vol. 6
My co-authored article «Strategy Processes, Environmental Determinism and Performance in Internationalized SMEs» was selected together with another 14 articles among more than 300 submissions
Higher Education Academy
United Kingdom
Fellow
2016 -2017
large, strategy process group, Strategic Management Society
Representative
2015 -2016 -2017
European Academy of Management track: “Microfoundations of Strategy: Dynamic Capabilities, Knowledge, and Ambidexterity”
Track- co-Chair
2016
European Academy of Management 2016 track: “Management Research in the Arab Middle East - What 's Now and What 's Next?”
Track- co-Chair
2013
European International Business Academy Conference
Session Chair
2015 -2016 -2017
European Academy of Management conferences
Session chair and discussant
2011
British Academy of Management conference
Session Chair
2016 -2017
Strategic Management Society
Session Chair
