Dr Konstantinos Chalkias
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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.
Web profiles
Administrative responsibilities
- PhD Programme Director
Honours and awards
- Fellow (FHEA), Higher Education Academy,
ORCID
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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
The insurance protection gap as a grand challenge: Protection Gap Entities (PGEs) between state and market
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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)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Jarzabkowski, P. and Krull, E. and Kavas, M. and Chalkias, Konstantinos (2021) Strategies for responding to pandemic risk: removal and/or redistribution. Journal of Financial Transformation (54), pp. 62-69.
- Jarzabkowski, P. and Bednarek, Rebecca and Chalkias, Konstantinos and Cacciatori, E. (2021) Enabling rapid financial response to disasters: knotting and reknotting multiple paradoxes in interorganizational systems. Academy of Management Journal 65 (5), pp. 1477-1506. ISSN 0001-4273.
- Bednarek, Rebecca and Chalkias, Konstantinos and Jarzabkowski, P. (2021) Managing risk as a duality of harm and benefit: a study of organizational risk objects in the global insurance industry. British Journal of Management 32 (1), pp. 235-254. ISSN 1045-3172.
- Anesa, M. and Chalkias, Konstantinos and Jarzabkowski, P. and Spee, A.P. (2019) Practicing capitals across fields: extending Bourdieu to study inter-field dynamics. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 69B, pp. 129-142. ISSN 0733-558X.
- Cacciatori, E. and Jarzabkowski, P. and Bednarek, Rebecca and Chalkias, Konstantinos (2019) What's in a model? Computer simulations and the management of ignorance. Academy of Management Proceedings 2019 (1), pp. 18102-18102. ISSN 0065-0668.
- Jarzabkowski, P. and Bednarek, R. and Chalkias, Konstantinos and Cacciatori, E. (2019) Exploring inter-organizational paradoxes: methodological lessons from a study of a grand challenge. Strategic Organization 17 (1), pp. 120-132. ISSN 1476-1270.
Book Section
- Jarzabkowski, P. and Chalkias, Konstantinos (2018) Making markets for uninsured risk: Protection Gap Entities (PGEs) as risk-processing organizations in society. In: Gephart, R. and Miller, C. and Svedberg Helgesson, K. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Emergency Management. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 507-510. ISBN 9781138208865.
Other
- Jarzabkowski, P. and Chalkias, Konstantinos and Clarke, D. and Iyahen, E. and Stadtmueller, D. and Zwick, A. (2019) Insurance for climate adaptation: opportunities and limitations. Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Washington, DC, U.S.: Global Commission on Adaptation, UN.
- Jarzabkowski, P. and Chalkias, Konstantinos and Cacciatori, E. and Bednarek, Rebecca (2018) Between state and market: protection gap entities and catastrophic risk. London, UK: Cass Business School, City, University of London.
- Jarzabkowski, P. and Cabantous, L. and Tapinos, E. and Chalkias, Konstantinos (2014) Global Reinsurance Masterclass Series 7 - Imagining the future: stay ahead in the reinsurance game through scenario planning. London, UK: Cass Business School, City, University of London.
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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
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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.
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Consultancies and expert advice