Research

Articles
Khanagha, S., Ansari, S., Paroutis, S. & Oviedo, L. (2022) Mutualism and the Dynamics of New Platform Creation: A Study of Cisco and Fog Computing. Strategic Management Journal. Special issue on Strategies for Platform Ecosystems, 43 (3), 476-506. Download ResearchGate
Knight, E., Daymond, J. & Paroutis, S. (2020) Design-led Strategy: How to Bring Design Thinking into the Art of Strategic Management. California Management Review, 62(2): 30-52. Download ResearchGate
Heracleous, L., Paroutis, S. & Lockett, A. (2020) Rhetorical Enthymeme: The Forgotten Trope and its Methodological Importance. European Management Review, published ahead of print. Download ResearchGate
Kassotaki, O., Paroutis, S. & Morrell, K. (2019) Ambidexterity Penetration across Multiple Organizational Levels in an Aerospace and Defense Organization. Long Range Planning, 52(3): 366-385. Download ScienceDirect ResearchGate
Wawarta, C. & Paroutis, S. (2019) Strategy Tools in Open Strategizing: Blessing or Curse for Making Strategy more Actionable? Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Download
Appio, F.P., Lima, M., Paroutis, S. (2019) Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation Ecosystems, Technological Advancements, and Societal Challenges. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, editorial for the special issue on Understanding Smart Cities, 142, 1-42. Download ResearchGate
Heracleous, L., Wawarta, C., Gonzalez, S & Paroutis, S. (2019) How a Group of NASA Renegades Transformed Mission Control. MIT Sloan Management Review. Download
Knight, E., Paroutis, S. & Heracleous, L. (2018) The Power of PowerPoint: A Visual Perspective on Meaning Making in Strategy. Strategic Management Journal, 39(3): 894–921. Download
Knight, E. & Paroutis, S. (2017) Becoming Salient: The TMT Leader’s Role in Shaping the Interpretive Context of Paradoxical Tensions. Organization Studies, 38 (3-4): 403-432. Download
Bednarek, R., Paroutis, S. & Sillince, J. (2017) Transcendence through Rhetorical Practices: Responding to Paradox in the Science Sector. Organization Studies, 38 (1): 77-101. Download
Papachroni, A., Heracleous, L. & Paroutis, S. (2016) In Pursuit of Ambidexterity: Managerial Reactions to Innovation-Efficiency Tensions. Human Relations, 69 (9): 1791-1822. Download
Athanasiou, T., Patel, V., Garas, G., Ashrafian, H., Shetty, K., Sevdalis, N., Panzarasa, P., Darzi, A. & Paroutis, S. (2016) Mentoring Perception and Academic Performance: An Academic Health Science Center Survey. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 92 (1092): 597-602. Download
Athanasiou, T., Patel, V., Garas, G., Ashrafian, H., Hull, L., Sevdalis, N., Harding, S., Darzi, A. & Paroutis, S. (2016) Mentoring Perception, Scientific Collaboration, and Research Performance: Is there a ‘Gender Gap’ in Academic Medicine? An Academic Health Science Centre Perspective. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 92 (1092): 581-586. Download.
Angwin, D., Paroutis, S. and Connell, R. (2015) Why Good Things Don’t Happen: The Micro-foundations of Routines in the M&A Process. Journal of Business Research, 68 (6): 1367-1381. Download
Paroutis S., Franco A. and Papadopoulos T. (2015) Visual Interactions with Strategy Tools: Producing Strategic Knowledge in Workshops. British Journal of Management. Special issue: Materializing Strategy and Strategizing Materials, 26: S48-S66. Download
Papachroni, A., Heracleous, L. & Paroutis, S. (2014) Organizational Ambidexterity through the Lens of Paradox Theory: Extending the Research Agenda. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Published online ahead of print. Download
Bednarek, R., Paroutis, S. & Sillince J. (2014) Practicing Transcendence: Rhetorical Strategies and Constructing a Response to Paradox. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. 2014 Strategizing, Activities and Practices (SAP) IG Best Paper Award.
Doh, J., Lawton, T., Rajwani, T. & Paroutis, S. (2014) Why your Company may need a Chief External Officer: Upgrading External Affairs can help align Strategy and improve Competitive Advantage. Organizational Dynamics, (43) 2: 96-104. Download
Paroutis, S., Bennett, M. & Heracleous, L. (2013) A Strategic View on Smart City Technology: The Case of IBM Smarter Cities during a Recession. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Special Issue Upgrading a City via Technology, Published online. Download
Paroutis, S., Mckeown, M. & Collinson, S. (2013) Building Castles from Sand: Unlocking CEO Mythopoetical Behaviour in Hewlett Packard from 1978 to 2005. Business History, Special Issue The Age of Strategy: Strategy, Organizations and Society, 55 (7): 1200-1227. Published online. Download
Paroutis, S. & Rajwani, T. (2013) Institutional Conditions and Political Capabilities: An Examination of Airline Reactions to 9/11. Paper presented at the Academy of Management conference, Orlando. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Download
Paroutis, S. & Heracleous, L. (2013) Discourse Revisited: Dimensions and Employment of First-Order Strategy Discourse during Institutional Adoption. Strategic Management Journal, 34 (8): 935-956. Abstract Download. OpenAccess
Wright, R., Paroutis, S. & Blettner, D. (2013) How Useful are the Strategic Tools We Teach in Business Schools? Journal of Management Studies, 50 (1): 92-125. Download. 2013 JMS Best Paper Award (awarded in 2014) and 2016 Emerald Citations of Excellence award.
Sammut-Bonnici, T. & Paroutis, S. (2013) Developing a Dominant Logic of Strategic Innovation. Management Research Review, Special issue, 36(10).
Paroutis, S. & Al Saleh, A. (2009) Determinants of Knowledge Sharing using Web 2.0 Technologies. Journal of Knowledge Management, 13 (4): 52-63. Download from Publisher Download
Angwin, D., Paroutis, S. & Mitson, S. (2009) Connecting Up Strategy: Are Senior Strategy Directors (SSDs) a Missing Link? California Management Review, Spring, 51 (3): 74-94. Download
Paroutis, S. & Pettigrew, A. M. (2007) Strategizing in the Multi-business Firm: Strategy Teams at Multiple Levels and over Time. Human Relations, 60 (1): 99-135. Special Issue on Strategizing: The Challenges of a Practice Perspective. Download from Publisher Download Contents of the Human Relations Special Issue