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Dr Konstantinos Chalkias

Positions held:
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Management
  • PhD Programme Director, Department of Management
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Konstantinos graduated with a PhD in Business Development from the Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, in 2013, where he was awarded the Surrey Business School Scholarship. He also holds a BA in Management Science and Technology from Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, and a MSc in Programme and Project Management from Warwick University, UK. 

    Konstantinos joined Birkbeck, University of London, in March 2019. Before, he was a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Management, Cass Business School, where he was involved in two international research projects. His current project studies the market mechanisms that transfer uninsurable risk into global financial markets in an attempt to bridge the global insurance gap and the implications that this has in market functioning. Previously, he was involved in a global ethnography examining the competitive dynamics of the global reinsurance industry.

    Konstantinos has also teaching and consulting experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry. He has designed and delivered various training and development programmes for senior executives of global (re)insurance companies both in the UK and abroad. He is also delivering consulting services, including data collection, analysis and strategy recommendations, for various companies in the (re)insurance industry. In the past, Konstantinos has also worked as a project manager and a business management consultant.

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    Administrative responsibilities

    • PhD Programme Director

    Honours and awards

    • Fellow (FHEA), Higher Education Academy,

    ORCID

    0000-0001-5365-9579
  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Strategy as Practice (SaP)
    • Practice Theory of Organizations and Markets
    • Paradox Theory
    • Grand Challenges
    • Organization Theory of Risk and Risk Management
    • Insurance and Reinsurance
    • Disaster Risk Financing (DRF)

    Research overview

    Konstantinos is a qualitative researcher interested in practice-based theorizing of strategy, organizations and markets. Drawing from social-practice theory, he studies the organizational practices through which markets are constructed. His research also focuses on exploring how strategy is done inside organizations and the implications on the strategic dynamics of markets. He has also a research interest in organization theories of risk and risk management, with a recent focus on investigating how governments and markets work together to address a grand challenge, the insurance protection gap. Finally, he is interested in international comparative studies that explore organizational variation in global financial markets.

    Research projects

    Risk sharing mechanisms to mitigate the financial consequences of pandemic risk: Economic and social insurance solutions for the UK

    Abstract

    Studying the government, (re)insurance and businesses proposed responses to COVID-19 business interruption in the UK as a means of mitigating the socio-economic impact of the pandemic [2020-present]. See here. 

    Funded by
    Economic and Social Research Council
    Funding type
    ESRC

    The insurance protection gap as a grand challenge: Protection Gap Entities (PGEs) between state and market

    Abstract

    An international research project that studies the market mechanisms that transfer uninsured risk into global financial markets to bridge the global protection gap and the strategic implications that this has in market functioning [2016-present]

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my key areas of research interest. 

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Research Philosophy (BUMN112H7)
    • Organization Theory (MOMN040H7)
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    Book Section

    Other

  • Business and community

    Business and community

    Outreach

    Academy of Management Insights. How nations are collaborating on natural disaster insurance.

    The Conversation: A disaster relief insurance system shows how well international alliances can work – new research

    Services

    • Consultancies and expert advice

      Delivering consulting services on contract for (re)insurance industry companies including data collection, analysis and strategy recommendations. Companies range from global brokers, to global reinsurers, to private-public insurance pools.