Charidimos K. Tsoukas

Charidimos K. Tsoukas was born in 1961 in Karpenisi. He graduated as an electrical engineer from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and as an industrial engineer from Cranfield University in the UK. However, he did not become an engineer, but turned to the social sciences, completing his doctoral thesis on Organisation Theory at Manchester Business School.

He completed his military service and subsequently pursued an academic career. He taught at the British universities of Manchester, Essex and Strathclyde, as well as at the ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens. He is currently Professor of Strategic Management at the Columbia Ship Management Chair at the University of Cyprus and a Distinguished Research Professor of Organisational Studies at the University of Warwick in the UK.

He has published dozens of articles in leading international academic journals in his field, as well as several books (either as author or co-editor), including: Complex Knowledge (Oxford University Press), Philosophy and Organization Theory (Emerald), From Stagnation to Forced Adjustment: Reforms in Greece, 1974–2010 (Columbia University Press) and If Aristotle Were a CEO (Kastaniotis). He is a co-founder of the prestigious International Symposium on Process Organization Studies and co-editor of the series “Perspectives on Process Organization Studies” published by Oxford University Press, whilst he has served as editor-in-chief of the distinguished academic journal Organization Studies. In 2014, he was awarded the high academic distinction of Doctor of Science by the University of Warwick for his scholarly work.

He has contributed to Greek newspapers and maintains a personal blog on political commentary (htsoukas.blogspot.com). He strives to instil in his students the value and method of critical and reflective thinking, without forgetting Wittgenstein’s aphorism: ‘Look, don’t think’.