
Dr Katerina Nicolopoulou
Professor
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
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EMERALD Literati Award for Outstanding Paper Recipient 2022 Faculty Award CABS FT50 Recipient 2019 Best paper Award SIG Entrepreneurship, EURAM Conference 2017 Recipient 2017
Area of Expertise
My research interests and expertise focus on:
- Social, Diversity and Sustainability aspects of Entrepreneurship
- Impactful Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and social innovation in the context of emerging economies
- Cosmopolitanism as a disposition and a mindset for addressing Global Challenges in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
- Interdisciplinarity: philosophical roots and practical relevance for entrepreneurship, management and organisations
Having lived and worked in five different countries, across three continents, I have developed skills for international communication and stakeholder engagement across a range of sectors.
Findings from my research studies in the UAE have appeared in business publications in Dubai, such as Capital Business; Executive Women and Education Now! (Gulf News).
In the practitioner roles I have held, I have trained in methods for Strategic Planning, Consulting, GRI, SA8000 as well as Balanced scorecard.
Prize And Awards
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Founding team entrepreneurial experience, external financing and social enterprise performance Sahasranamam Sreevas, Lall Saurabh, Nicolopoulou Katerina, Shaw Eleanor British Journal of Management, pp. 1-21 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12726 Challenging the assumptions of social entrepreneurship education and repositioning it for the future : wonders of cultural, social, symbolic and economic capitals Karatas-Ozkan Mine, Ibrahim Shahnaz, Ozbilgin Mustafa, Fayolle Alain, Manville Graham, Nicolopoulou Katerina, Tatli Ahu, Tunalioglu Melike Social Enterprise Journal Vol 19, pp. 98-122 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-02-2022-0018 How can the 'Do No Harm' principle inform the design and implementation of traditional innovation for sustainable performance Fahmy Ahmed, Nicolopoulou Katerina 36th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management (2022) The development of social and human capital on the employee retention aspect for the HRM in social enterprises in Thailand Thammadee Naraporn, Nicolopoulou Katerina, Sambajee Pratima 36th Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management (2022) Dual nature of the relationship between corporate social responsibility and human resource management : a blessing or a curse? Karatas-Ozkan Mine, Özgören Çağla, Yamak Sibel, Ibrahim Shahnaz, Tunalioğlu Melike Nur, Pinnington Ashly, Nicolopoulou Katerina, Baruch Yehuda Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Vol 29, pp. 1578-1594 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2305 Explaining institutional memory in entrepreneurship programmes implementation Eze Henry, Nicolopoulou Katerina, Lassalle Paul EGOS 2022: 38th Colloquium of the European Group for Organization Studies (2022)
Publications
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Scottish Entrepreneurship Research Seminar - Entrepreneurial diversity as a Force for Good Organiser 6/8/2022 READING GROUP (Event) Chair 23/6/2022 UAE Research Evenings at Strathclyde 2022, Chair: Book presentation Management Consultancy- Insights and Real Consultancy Projects Participant 2022 Socially Progressive Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A research and activities agenda Speaker 2022 International Leadership Association (ILA) Global Conference 'Wisdom in Times of Crisis' Organiser 2022 Non Executive Director Training Participant 2022
Bridging Inclusive Entrepreneurship with Neurodiversity Nicolopoulou, Katerina (Principal Investigator) Lassalle, Paul (Co-investigator) Casulli, Lucrezia (Co-investigator) Taylor, Helen (Co-investigator) Fahmy, Ahmed (Co-investigator) Achlada, Yolanda (Co-investigator) Strathclyde Knowledge Exchange Fund 15-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023 Student Excellence Award (SEA) - £99,008 over three years (2021-24) Nicolopoulou, Katerina (Principal Investigator) Ates, Aylin (Co-investigator) A micro-foundational perspective of dynamic capability development: Addressing the Social Enterprises context and the Zero-Waste Agenda 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024 Beverly Best JARA PGR studentship Nicolopoulou, Katerina (Principal Investigator) Digital Female Entrepreneurs in the LAC region 01-Jan-2021 SEA PGR Studentship Zakia Jabeen- The development of strategic capabilities for promoting social enterprises in adopting the Zero Waste agend Nicolopoulou, Katerina (Principal Investigator) 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024 Navigating COVID-19 related transitions and transformations of economically marginalised women entrepreneurs within urban poor communities of the Greater Cairo Region in Egypt (GCR). Nicolopoulou, Katerina (Principal Investigator) Salama, Ashraf (Co-investigator) Christine Samy Aziz Habib, C (Research Co-investigator) Mohamed, Sherine (Researcher) Horgan, Donagh (Researcher) Whitfield, Caroline (Researcher) GCRF Scottish Funding Council COVID-19 Response Award 01-Jan-2020 - 26-Jan-2021 JARA studentship- Naraporn Thammadee HRM in Social Enterprises in Thailand Nicolopoulou, Katerina (Principal Investigator) 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2022
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Dr
Katerina
Nicolopoulou
Professor
Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
Email: katerina.nicolopoulou@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted