Costas Andriopoulos

Costas Andriopoulos is a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He joined Cass Business School in September 2014. Before joining Cass, Costas held a Chair in Strategy at Cardiff Business School, and, prior to that held posts at Brunel Business School, University of Aberdeen Business School and the University of Strathclyde Business School. He has also been a visiting Professor at Said Business School (University of Oxford), Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), Grenoble Ecole de Management, International Hellenic University, and ALBA Graduate Business School.

His main research interests focus on how organizational paradoxes enable innovation in the face of changing technological environments. In particular, he studies how entrepreneurial firms in high-velocity markets can excel at both incremental (exploiting current capabilities) and discontinuous innovation (exploring into new space).

His research, funded by the Carnegie Trust and the Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity has been published in leading academic journals such as Organization Science, Human Relations, Long Range Planning, California Management Review, European Journal of Marketing, International Small Business Journal, among others. He is the co-author of the book “Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation” (2nd Edition, Sage, 2014). Currently Professor Andriopoulos is working on a book about corporate curiosity.

Professor Andriopoulos is an award-winning teacher. He teaches New Venture Creation at the EMBA programme and New Product Innovation at the MSc in Marketing Strategy and Innovation at Cass Business School. He has taught executive and senior leadership teams how to manage organizational change and innovation, high-performing teams, entrepreneurial/design thinking, strategic paradoxes and breakthrough innovation. In his teaching, he systematically intertwines theory and practical application (e.g. teaching cases, simulations, in-class exercises). You can follow him on Twitter @candriopoulos. For more information, you can also check his personal website: http://www.andriopoulos.org

Qualifications

BSc, MSc and PhD.

Languages

French and Greek, Modern (1453-).

Expertise

Primary Topics

• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation & Creativity
• Organization Theory
• Organizational Behaviour
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Strategic Management

Additional Topics

• Design Thinking
• Family Businesses

Industries/Professions

• creative industries
• high technology
• professional service
• sr&d organizations

Geographic Areas

• Americas - North
• Europe

Research Topics

• Organizing ambidexterity over time
• Paradoxical cognition in New Product Development Teams

Chapter

Andriopoulos, C. and Gotsi, M. (2017). Methods of Paradox. In Smith, W.K., Lewis, M.W., Jarzabkowski, P. and Langley, A. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox (pp. 513–529). UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-875442-8.

Editorial Activity

Long Range Planning, Member of Editorial Board, 2014 – present.