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ALEXIA PANAYIOTOU

PANAYIOTOU ALEXIA
+357-22893618
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Business and Public Administration
FEB 01 - Faculty of Economics and Management, 018 FEB01
University Campus
Ed.D. (Human Development and Psychology), Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, USA, 2001.M.P.P. (Public Policy), Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, USA, 1996.M.S. (Engineering-Economic Systems), Stanford University, USA, 1990.B.A. (Economics and Political Science), Stanford University, USA, 1989.
 

Alexia Panayiotou is the UNESCO Co-Chair on Gender Equality at the University of Cyprus and an Associate Professor in Management and Organization Studies in the Department of Business and Public Administration. She completed undergraduate and graduate studies at Stanford University and has a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University.  Her research interests include gender and work; critical management pedagogy; organizational paradoxes and tensions; the representation of management and organizations in popular culture; organizational space and symbolism; and organizational narratives. Her work has appeared, amongst others, in the Academy of Management Learning and Education, Management Learning, Strategic Organization, Organization, and the Journal of Management Inquiry.  Her article "Paradoxes of Change" (co-authored with G. Kassinis) received the 2016 Best Paper Award in the Academy of Management Organizational Development and Change division. Dr. Panayiotou has served as an Associate Editor of the journals Gender, Work and Organization, Management Learning, and the European Management Review and has been on the Editorial Boards of the British Journal of Management and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. She is currently an Associate Editor of Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry.

With extensive NGO experience, Dr. Panayiotou remains passionate about social change, with a particular interest in how alternative forms of organizing and academia can contribute to such goals. Currently, she is coordinating one of the work packages of the Horizon-funded project, TWIN4MERIT (led by the University of Cyprus), focusing on the role of gender in the definition of ‘excellence’ in management and business research. She is also the national expert for another Horizon-funded program, INSPIRE: Building a European Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality in Research and Innovation. In the past, she has served as the Cyprus expert in the European Commission’s Expert Group on Gender, Employment and Social Inclusion, an independent expert for the Mutual Learning Programme of the European Employment Strategy, and as a board member of the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies. Dr. Panayiotou is also a one of the first 100 core members of the global network Women Waging Peace.

Dr. Panayiotou is also a core member of the University of Cyprus Gender Studies program, where she teaches both MA and PhD students.

 

Critical management pedagogy; gender and work; feminist analysis of organizations; organizational inequalities; management/organizational control, power and resistance; organizational paradoxes; space and symbolism; visuality; popular culture; organizational narratives and discourses.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

    • Simpson, A. V., Panayiotou, A., Berti, M., e Cunha, M. P., Kanji, S., & Clegg, S. (2023). Pandemic, power and paradox: Improvising as the New Normal during the COVID-19 crisis. Management Learning, 54(1).
    • Panayiotou, A. (2020), Teaching leadership the ‘day after’, with care. Gender in Management, 35(7/8): 629-637.
    • Bell, E., Panayiotou, A. and Sayers, J. (2019), Reading the TED talk Genre: Contradictions and Pedagogical Pleasures in Spreading Ideas about Management. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 18(4): 547-563.
    • Panayiotou, A., Putnam, L. and Kassinis, G. (2017), Generating Tensions: A Multilevel, Process Analysis of Organizational Change. Strategic Organization, 17(1): 8-37. (DOI:10.1177/1476127017734446).
    • Kassinis, G. and Panayiotou, A. (2017), Website Stories in Times of Distress: Learning from Liquidity. Management Learning, 48(4): 397–415. (first published online 2016, DOI: 1177/1350507617690684)
    • Kassinis, G. and Panayiotou, A. (2017), Visuality as Greenwashing: The Case of BP and Deepwater Horizon. Organization and Environment, 31(1): 25-47. (DOI: 10.1177/1086026616687014).
    • Kassinis, G. and Panayiotou, A. (2017), The Helix of Change: A Visual Metaphor. European Management Review, 14(2): 143-163. (first published online 2016, DOI: 10.1111/emre.12096).
    • Kassinis, G., Panayiotou, A., Dimou, A., and Katsifaraki, G. (2016), Gender and Environmental Sustainability: A Longitudinal Data Analysis. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 23(6): 399-412. (first published online Feb. 2016, DOI: 10.1002/csr.1386).
    • Cheng, C., with Panayiotou, A. et al. (2016), Explaining Differences in Subjective Well-Being Across 33 Nations Using Multilevel Models: Universal Personality, Cultural relativity and National Income. Journal of Personality, 84(1): 46-58.
    • Panayiotou, A. (2015), Spacing Gender, Gendering Space: A Radical ‘Strong Plot’ in Film. Management Learning, 46(4): 427-443. (first published online 2014).
    • Panayiotou, A. (2012), Deconstructing the Manager: Discourses of Power and Resistance. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal (formerly Equal Opportunities International), 31(1): 10-26.
    • Panayiotou, A. and Kafiris, K. (2011), Viewing the Language of Space: Organizational Spaces, Power and Resistance in Popular Films. Journal of Management Inquiry, 20(3): 263-284.
    • Panayiotou, A. (2010), ´Macho´ Managers and Organizational Heroes: Competing Masculinities in Popular Films. Organization, 17(6): 659-684. (2nd most read article of this journal in 2012)
    • Schmitt, D., with Panayiotou, A. et al. (2007), The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits: Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38(2): 173-212.
    • Kassinis, G. and Panayiotou, A. (2006), Perceptions Matter: CEO Perceptions and Firm Environmental Performance. Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 23(3): 67-80. 
    • Panayiotou, A. (2006), Constructing Labor: An Exploration of Emotional Reactions to Work in Two Cultural Settings. International Journal of Work, Organization and Emotion, 1(4): 352-365.
    • Panayiotou, A. (2004), Switching Codes, Switching Code: Emotional Responses of Bilinguals in English and Greek, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 25(2&3): 124-139.
    • Panayiotou, A. (2004), Bilingual Emotions: The Untranslatable Self, Studies in Sociolinguistics (Estudios de Sociolinguistica), 5 (1): 1-19.
     Chapters in Refereed Books
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    • Panayiotou, A. (2021), Visual Research as a Method of Inquiry for Gender and Organizations, in Carole Elliott, Valerie Stead and Sharon Mavin (Eds), Handbook of Research Methods in Gender and Management. Chapter 15, pp. 232-248. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
    • Panayiotou, A. (2021), Media Analysis: On the Importance of Everyday Images, in Monika Kostera and Nancy Harding (Eds), Organizational Ethnography. Chapter 8, pp. 109-128. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
    • Panayiotou, A. (2016), The Margin as a Space of Resistance: Transforming Gendered Leadership through Popular Film, in Carole Elliott, Valerie Stead, Sharon Mavin and Jannine Williams (Eds), Gender, Media and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers. Chapter 14, pp. 243-258. Volume 5, Women and Leadership Book Series. London, UK: International Leadership Association and Information Age Publishing, Inc.
    • Panayiotou, A. and Kafiris, K. (2010), Firms in Film: Representations of Organizational Space, Gender and Power, in Dvora Yanow and Alfons von Marrewijk (Eds), Organizational Spaces: Rematerializing the Workaday World, Chapter 9, pp. 174-199. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
    • Panayiotou, A. (2006), Translating Guilt: An Endeavor of Shame in the Mediterranean?, in Aneta Pavlenko (Ed.), Bilingual minds: Emotional experience, expression, and representation, Chapter 7, pp. 183-208. New York, NY: Multilingual Matters.
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