Maria Kapardis
Professor
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIGITAL BUSINESS
maria.kapardis@cut.ac.cy
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Dr. Maria Krambia-Kapardis is currently a Professor of Accounting with a specialization in Forensic Accounting at the Cyprus University of Technology. Professor Krambia-Kapardis is also the Associate Dean of the School of Management and Economics at the same University. Maria is the founder and first Chair of Transparency International-Cyprus (2010-2017), the founder and first president of the Economic Crime and Forensic Accounting Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (2010-2014) and a co-founder and member of the Board of the Cyprus Branch of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE- Cyprus) (2017- ). Her research interests are corruption and anti-corruption; ethical behaviour; fraud detection, investigation and prevention; and ethical leadership. She has published extensively internationally including books such as (a) Financial Compliance: Issues, Concerns, and Future Directions and (b)Corporate Fraud and Corruption: A Holistic Approach to Preventing Financial Crises. She is a Fellow member of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand and a Certified Fraud Examiner. She has been awarded a number of prizes for her publications by Emerald Literati Network and the ACFE awarded her the global Achievement in Outreach/Community Service Award for being an active contributor to her community and being committed to helping improve the quality of life where she lives and works. In December 2019 she was awarded the ACE Anti-Corruption Excellence Award in the academic research and education category. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7762-1118;
Διδασκαλία
1. Επιχειρηματική Ηθική,
2. Χρηματοοικονομική Λογιστική,
3. Διοικητική Λογιστική
Επιστημονικά ενδιαφέροντα
1. Anti- Corruption
2. Economic Crime and Fraud
3. Auditing
4. Forensic Accounting
5. Corporate Social Responsibility
6. Business Ethics
7. Corporate Governance
8. Fraud Investigation and Prevention
9. Women in Business
10. Corporate Compliance
Εκδόσεις/δημοσιεύσεις (2017-2011)
Book Authored
1. Krambia-Kapardis, M. (2016) Corporate Fraud and Corruption: A Holistic Approach to Preventing Financial Crises. Palgrave Macmillan.
2. Krambia-Kapardis, M. and Tsolakis C. (2011) Economic Crime in Businesses: Prevention, Detection, Investigation, Kritiki publishers in Greek, Athens
Chapters in Books
1. Krambia-Kapardis M. (2017) Fraud and Corruption: Protagonists in creating a financial crisis, In Europe In Crisis: Crime, Criminal Justice, and the way Forward, Ed. C.D Spinellis, Nikolaos Theodorakis, Emmanouil Billis and George Papadimitrakopoulos, Volume II Ant. Sakkoulas Publishers L.P (ISBN: 978-960-596-107-7). pp. 563-582 (http://en.crime-in-crisis.com/)
2. Krambia-Kapardis M and Neophytidou Christina. (2017) Lobbying in Cyprus: In Urgent Need of hard and soft legislative framework. In Lobbying in Europe: Public Affairs and the Lobbying Industry in 28 EU Countries, ed. Alberto Bitonti and Harris Phil. Palgrave Macmillan., pp. 89-101 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55256-3_8
3. Krambia-Kapardis. (2016) Opaque Lobbying: The Achelous heel to Transparency. Crime Investigation and Prosecution (ed.) Courakis N. Volume I (in greek). Athens:Sakkoulas pp 895-931 ISBN 978-960-15-2762-8
4. Kapardis, A., & Krambia-Kapardis, M. (2016). Applying Evidence-Based Profiling to Disaggregated Fraud Offenders. In Dion, Michel, Weisstub, David, Richet, Jean-Loup (Eds.), Financial Crimes: Psychological, Technological, and Ethical Issues. Dordrecht:Springer Press pp 269-294
5. Krambia-Kapardis M and Courakis N. (2016). Anticorruption Measures: The Panacea to A Financial Cliff, In Dion, Michel, Weisstub, David, Richet, Jean-Loup (Eds.), Financial Crimes: Psychological, Technological, and Ethical Issues. Dordrecht:Springer Press pp. 3-31
6. Krambia-Kapardis, M. (2015) Auditor’s fraud detection role: An elusive role? In Research Handbook on International Financial Crime ed. Barry Rider Cheltheham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. p 612-624
7. Κrambia-Kapardis, M. Ο νομοθέτης και το «Lobbying». (2015). Συμβολές στην Επιστήμη του Δικαίου και των Διεθνών Σχέσεων (Essays of Law and International Relations). Sakkoula Publisher p.321-328
8. Krambia-Kapardis, M. (2015) Public Sector Corruption In Courakis N. and A Samara-Krispi (eds) Public Sector and Corruption: Problems and Measures. Sakkoulas, pp. 80-83. (in greek) ISBN 9769605663101
9. Krambia-Kapardis M. (2012) Εφικτά και αποτελεσματικά μέτρα (νομοθετικά, διοικητικά κ.α) για την καταπολέμηση της διαφθοράς : Το παράδειγμα της Κύπρου, in N. Courakis, KD Spinelli, and Zagoura P (Eds) Διαφάνεια και Καταπολέμηση της Διαφθοράς A. Sakkoulas (in greek pp. 229-261).
10. Krambia-Kapardis, M. (2011) La notion de crime de col blanc, In Dion M. (Ed) La criminalité financiére: prevention, gouvenance, et influences culturelles, de boeck, Bruxelles.pp. Chapter 1 p. 13-36
11. Kontos G., Krambia-Kapardis. M. and Milonas, N. (2011) Chapter 11: Creative Accounting and Fraud in Greece. In Jones M. (Ed.) Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Scandals. West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons. pp.211-233
Referred Journal Articles Published
1. Krambia-Kapardis, M , Clark C. and Zopiatis A. (2016) Satisfaction Gap in Public Sector Financial Reporting, International Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, Vol 6 (3): 232-253.
2. Krambia-Kapardis M. (2016) Contributing to Financial Crisis Prevention Through Banking and Financial Services Regulation. Banking and Financial Services Policy Report, v 35. No. 7 p1-11.
3. Krambia-Kapardis M and Papastergiou K (2016) Fraud victimization in Greece: Room for improvement in prevention and detection. Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 23 Iss 2 pp. 481 - 500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JFC-02-2015-0010
4. Arsalidou Demetra and Maria Krambia-Kapardis, (2015) Weak Corporate
Governance Can Lead to a Country’s Financial Catastrophe: The Case of Cyprus. Journal of Business Law, 2015, Issue 4, p361-382.
5. Krambia-Kapardis, M and Neophytidou C (2014) Corporate Social Responsibility in the Hotel Industry, Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 8, https://jotr.eu/index.php/article-s-download; http://jotr.eu/index.php/hospitality-management/97-kapardi
6. Krambia-Kapardis M. (2014) "Perception of political corruption as a function of legislation", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 21 Iss: 1, pp.44 – 55; http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JFC-04-2013-0025
7. Assiotis A and Krambia-Kapardis M. (2014) “Corruption Correlates: The case of Cyprus”, Journal of Money Laundering Control, Vol. 17 Iss: 3, pp.260 – 268
8. Zopiatis A., Krambia-Kapardis A and Varnavas A. (2012) Υ-ers, X-ers and Boomers: Investigating the multigenerational (mis)perceptions in the hospitality workplace. Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research12(2):101-121
9. Krambia-Kapardis M and Pavlou I (2012). Competitiveness of CSR Actions: Learning from the Cypriot experience, Journal of Business & Social Research V. 2(2):54-67
10. Krambia-Kapardis, M. and Zopiatis A. (2011) Personal Values of Accountants and Accounting Trainees, Business Ethics a European Review 20(1) :59-70
11. Krambia-Kapardis M. and Ioannou A. (2011) Six sigma the panacea to sustainability, Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing 7 (2) : 158-172
Research Reports Commissioned
1. Krambia-Kapardis M. (2017) A Review of Anti-Corruption Agencies and a Suggested Model for Cyprus. Report Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and Public Order and presented on the 14th of February 2017.
2. Krambia-Kapardis, M. (2013) Suggestions for Measures to Combat Corruption in Cyprus, Transparency International Cyprus. http://www.transparencycyprus.org/el/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/TIC_Suggestions_Anticorruption-Measures_english_March-13.pdf
Refereed Conference Presentations
1. Krambia-Kapardis M and Kapardis A (2017) The self-protection need for economic crime researchers, 35th International Symposium on Economic Crime 4-10 September, Cambridge University, UK
2. Krambia-Kapardis M and Kapardis A. (2016) Governance and Fraud Risk Assessment needs to be contextualized to be effective, 34th International Symposium on Economic Crime 5-10 September, Cambridge University, UK.
3. Krambia-Kapardis M. (2016) Contextualizing Financial Statement Fraud Detection and Prevention, European Accounting Conference- Symposium. 10-12 May 2016, Maastricht.
4. Krambia-Kapardis M. and Kapardis A. (2016). Criminology, Corporate Fraud and Corruption Prevention in Averting Corporate Collapses, 2016 ACFE Middle East Fraud Conference, 14-15 February 2016, Dubai.
5. Krambia-Kapardis M and Kapardis A. (2015) Legal and Regulatory Risks to those who do compliance, 33rd International symposium on Economic Crime, 6-13 September 2015, Cambridge University.
6. Kapardis A. and Krambia-Kapardis M. (2015) Profiling Fraud Offenders: State of the Art, EAPL, 2015 4-6 August 2015 Nuremburg, Germany
7. Krambia-Kapardis, M. and Neophytidou C (2015) Lobbying Regulation in the EU: transparency’s Achilles’ heel, International Conference on Anti-Corruption, Good Governance and Human Rights, Paris, France 18-19 May 2015. International Science Index 17(5):1395-1400
8. Krambia-Kapardis, M and Charalambous E (2015) Corruption in the Financial Services Industry: Can Regulation be the Panacea? International Conference on Anti-Corruption, Good Governance and Human Rights, Paris, France 18-19 May 2015. International Science Index 17(5):1348-1353
9. Kouta C., Parmaxi A, Krambia-Kapardis M, Vasiliou C, Ioannou A, Lambrou G (2014) “ Nurses and Midwives: of importance to health” 21st Pancyprian Nursing Conference 21ο Παγκύπριο Συνέδριο Νοσηλευτικής και Μαιευτικής , 26 October 2014, Cyprus
10. Parmaxi A., Kouta C., Krambia-Kapardis M, Vasiliou C, Ioannou A, Lambrou G (2014) Bringing technology in the service of gender equality: the Womenpower project, Gender, Law and Institutions, held at the University of Cyprus on the 21st and 22nd of November 2014.
11. Krambia-Kapardis M, Varnavas A., Neophytidou C, Ioannou A, and Tyrimos A (2014) Sustainability in the Global Hotel Industry: The case of Reporting, Eurochrie, 6-9 October, Dubai, UAE
12. Krambia-Kapardis M. (2014) Transparent Lobbying and Public Interest Disclosure, 32nd International Symposium on Economic Crime, 1-7 September 2014, Jesus College, Cambridge
13. Krambia-Kapardis, M and Neophytidou C. (2014) CSR Reporting in the Hotel Industry, 4th International Conference on Tourism and Hospitality Management, Athens, Greece, 19-21 June- conference proceedings p.145-157 http://dratte.gr/DRATTE/Acad._conferences.html
14. Krambia-Kapardis, M and Kapardis A. (2013), ‘ Detection, Whistleblowing and Witness Protection’, 31st International Symposium on Economic Crime, 1-8 September, 2013 Jesus College, University of Cambridge
15. Krambia-Kapardis, M.(2013) ‘ Anti-corruption: the role of Governance and Audit’, 31st International Symposium on Economic Crime, 1-8 September, 2013 Jesus College, University of Cambridge
16. Pavlou I, Krambia Kapardis M., Neophytidou C. (2012) CSR Tool and Proposed Actions in EuroMed area. presented to the 5th International CSR conference held in Berlin 4-6 October 2012
17. Krambia Kapardis M. and Assiotis A (2012) Corruption correlates: the case for Cyprus, OBEGEF conference – Interdisciplinary Insights on Fraud and Corruption, 14-15 September 2012, at Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal).
18. Antonaras A. and Krambia-Kapardis, M. (2012) A conceptual framework for corporate ethics: An exploratory paper. 25th EBEN Conference, 19-22 September, Barcelona, Spain.
19. Krambia Kapardis M and Kapardis A, (2012) Star Gazing- the next 30 years! 30th International Symposium on Economic Crime, 2-9 September 2012, with the theme Economic Crime-Surviving the Fall, The Myths and Realities, Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
20. Krambia-Kapardis M and Pavlou I. (2012) ‘Competitiveness of CSR actions in the Euromed area’ 4th ICAF conference, Corfu, 29-31 August.
21. Krambia-Kapardis M (2012) Corruption in Cyprus: Public Perceptions and Legislative Aspects, 22nd European and Psychology and Law Conference (EAPL)10-13 April, University of Cyprus, Nicosia Cyprus
22. Krambia-Kapardis M and Pavlou I (2011) CSR Contribution and Competitiveness: The Cypriot Experience. 4th Euromed Conference in Crete 19-21 October 2011, ISBN 978-9963-711-01-7
23. Krambia-Kapardis M. (2011), Governance and Risk Management, 29th International Symposium on Economic Crime, 4-11 September 2011, Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
24. Zopiatis, A., Krambia-Kapardis, M, Varnavas A, Pavlou I (2011) Generational Differences in the Hospitality Industry: An Issue of Concern, I-Chrie 2011, Denver, Colorado, USA 27-30 July. [796 downloads]
25. Krambia-Kapardis, Clark, C M. and Zopiatis A. (2011) Public Sector Financial and Non-Financial Information Characteristics: Users’ Perceptions in Cyprus 2011 European Academy of Management Conference on Management Culture in the 21st Century , held in Tallinn, 1-4 June 2011. Track 31
Andreas Petrou
Professor
andreas.petrou@cut.ac.cy
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Pavlos Symesou
Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIGITAL BUSINESS
pavlos.symeou@cut.ac.cy
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Pavlos Symeou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management. He obtained his PhD from Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge, specializing in business economics. Previously, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Strategy, Technology and Organizations of the University of Munich. His research interests revolve around the examination of marketing capabilities, absorptive capacity, and corporate social performance and their role in business organizations’ strategy. He has taught at the University of Munich, the University of Cambridge, and the Cyprus International Institute of Management, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His teaching portfolio includes courses in marketing, corporate innovation, management in the industries of electronic communications, and research methods.
Georgios Kokkinidis
Assistant Professor
georgios.kokkinidis@cut.ac.cy
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Dr George Kokkinidis is an Assistant Professor in HRM at the Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Digital Business. He holds an MSc in Management and a PhD from the University of Leicester and he has worked in various Universities in the UK.
His research interests lie in the field of Management and Organisation Studies, drawing inspiration from sociology, philosophy, political theory, and human geography. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary and qualitative research, specialising in alternative forms of organisation and organising. His research interests extend to a range of HRM and management related topics such as the organisation of space, employees’ wellbeing, employees’ emotions and attitudes to work. In recent years, he has been involved in major funded projects related to social economy education (funded by the European Commission) and health care (funded by the UKRI-AHRC). He has widely published in some of the top journals in his field and most of his recent publications and works in progress are based on collaborations with third sector organisations.
He is also a Fellow in HEA and his teaching and supervision expertise covers a range of areas associated with HRM, management, organisation studies, cooperative studies and social entrepreneurship. He is interested in supervising PhD students across any of these areas, and particularly interested in topics related to:
• Alternative forms of organising
• Workers’ cooperatives
• Grassroots health care initiatives and Social Clinics
• Social movements and solidarity initiatives
• The social organisation of space and time
• Employees' emotions and attitudes to work
• Wellbeing and wellness programmes
Constantinos Kontoghiorghes
Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIGITAL BUSINESS
c.kontoghiorghes@cut.ac.cy
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Constantinos Kontoghiorghes currently teaches the Human Resource Management, Leadership, and Organizational Behavior related curriculum at the Cyprus University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia State University and his Masters and Bachelor degrees from The Ohio State University. He has published widely in the areas of training transfer, talent management and organizational performance, and has twice received the “Cutting Edge” Research award from the Academy of Human Resource Development in the United States. His current research work involves a four-year Horizon 2020 funded project in the area of “female entrepreneurship”
Elias Hadjielias
Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIGITAL BUSINESS
elias.hadjielias@cut.ac.cy
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Dr. Elias Hadjilias (PhD, FHEA) is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship of Management of Hotel and Tourism Department of the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Lancaster (UK) in Management specialized in Entrepreneurship, a MSc in International Business Administration from University of Manchester (UK) and a BA in Business Administration from University of Kingston (UK).
Before joining the Cyprus University of Technology, he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at UClan Cyprus and Director of CEDAR (Centre of Entrepreneurial Development, Alliance and Research). He also has consulting experience on new businesses and business development issues.
Elias teaches entrepreneurship to undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research includes issues such as business groups, entrepreneurship in family businesses, sustainable entrepreneurship and business-to-business collaborations and co-operations. He has published scientific articles in international prestigious journals in the field of entrepreneurship.
Michael Christofi
Lecturer
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIGITAL BUSINESS
michael.christofi@cut.ac.cy
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Ariana Polyviou
Lecturer
ariana.polyviou@cut.ac.cy
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Ariana Polyviou is a Lecturer at the Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Digital Business. She holds a PhD in Management of Information Systems (Athens University of Economic and Business), MSc in Human-Computer Interaction (University College London) and BEng in Computer Science (University of York). Previously she has served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nicosia, Adjunct Professor at IE Business School and visiting researcher at the LSE. She has received several awards and scholarships for her research, including the AIS Mid-Career Award and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship.
Research Activities
Her research focuses on the business and social impact of technology including human-centered AI, metaverse, cloud computing and blockchain and emphasizing on topics relevant to digital innovation and entrepreneurship, digital business strategy, digital transformation, technology policy and technology adoption. Her work has been published in journals including Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Information Systems Frontiers and others. She has attracted funding and served as a principal investigator or co-principal institutional investigator in 20+ research projects funded by the European Commission and she has served as an evaluator for research proposals of the European. She is currently co-principal investigator of a network of 17 doctoral candidates on the topic of metaverse for business and social value.
Service
She has been a guest editor for various special issues in journals and she served as Program Co-chair, Track Chair and Associate Editor of AIS-affiliated conferences (e.g., ICIS, ECIS, MCIS) over multiple years. She is a member of Cyprus’ national committee of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). In the past she has served as a member of Cyprus’ national committee of the Digital Championship and a mentor in multiple entrepreneurship centers and incubators in Cyprus and Greece as well as a committee member of several startup competitions.
Angelos Vouldis
Special Scientist
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIGITAL BUSINESS
angelos.vouldis@cut.ac.cy
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He is a consultant, researcher, author, speaker and lecturer. He has implemented numerous projects in "rebranding" people and businesses in Cyprus. "Rebranding" including: brand strategy identity, redesigns, business performance developments. In addition to his academic publications, he is an editorial member of Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management and Journal of Organisational Studies and Innovation (JOSI). He is currently a lecturer in European University - International Business School in Barcelona and at the Robert Kennedy College in Switzerland, teaching business courses, supervising and marking MBA and MA theses. Additionally, he has extensive teaching experience in the department of Business School at the University of West London, the Cyprus Institute of Marketing and the Mediterranean Institute of Management (MIM) - Cyprus. Beyond his academic career his resumes trace a history of extensive management background, experience and accomplishment in all aspects of strategic planning, performance management, sales and marketing management with Mercedes-Benz Cyprus.
Lambrianos Lambrianou
Special Scientist
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DIGITAL BUSINESS
l.lambrianou@cut.ac.cy
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Dr. Lambros Labrianou is a special scientist at the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Cyprus University of Technology. At the same time, he is employed as a Special Scientist at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus and is General Coordinator of the Institute of Social Research "ergotaxio". He holds a doctorate in Sociology from the Institute of Sociology of the Philosophical School (2010) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.