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Professor Olga Epitropaki

Professor

Affiliations
Affiliation
Professor in the Business School

Biography

Prior to joining 黑料不打烊 Business School, Olga was Professor of Organizational Behavior at ALBA Graduate Business School at the American College in Greece where she held the "Stavros Costopoulos" Chair in Human Resource Management and Development. She previously worked at Aston University and the Institute of Work Psychology at Sheffield University.

Her research has been published in top refereed journals, such as the Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, the Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, among others. For her doctoral thesis, she won the 2001 Jepson School Award for Outstanding Dissertations in Leadership Studies, and she was among the six finalists for the 2000 Newman Best Dissertation Award for the Academy of Management.

She has served as Senior Associate Editor of the Leadership Quarterly, Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology: Organizational Psychology. She is also a聽member of various Editorial Boards.

She has further worked for many years as a consultant and executive trainer for numerous Greek and multinational companies such as AIG, AstraZeneca, Athens International Airport, Bancpost, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Boeing, EFG-Eurobank, Erste Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, Minerva, Interamerican, ING, National Bank of Greece, National Power Corporation, Nissan, Novo Nordisk, Pepsico, Phillip Morris, Piraeus Bank, Sanofi Aventis, Titan Group, Vodafone, Xerox and others.

You can contact Olga at olga.epitropaki2@durham.ac.uk.

Mini Biography

Olga Epitropaki is Deputy Executive Dean (Research) at 黑料不打烊 Business School. She received her PhD from Cardiff University in 2000. Her research focuses mainly on social cognition, identity, and dyadic/group processes related to leadership. She is also interested in creative leadership and the application of arts-based interventions in management education.

Research interests

  • Implicit Leadership Theories (ILTs)
  • Leader-Member Exchanges (LMX)
  • Creative Leadership
  • Transformational Leadership
  • Psychological Contracts
  • Employability
  • Identity

Publications

Authored book


  • Schedlitzki, D., Larsson, M., Carroll, B., Bligh, M. C., & Epitropaki, O. (2023). The SAGE Handbook of Leadership. SAGE Publications.

  • Mainemelis, C., Epitropaki, O., & Kark, R. (2018). Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203712214

  • Epitropaki, O., Kyriakopoulos, K., & Zarkos, S. (2011). Management in times of crisis. Kastaniotis.

Chapter in book


  • Epitropaki, O., Acton, B., & Nieberle, K. (2023). Implicit Leadership and Followership Theories: From the leader/follower within and between to leaders/followers in plural and in flux. In D. Schedlitzki, M. Larsson, B. Carroll, M. Bligh, & O. Epitropaki (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Leadership. SAGE Publications.

  • Epitropaki, O. (2018). The self-selection bias in leadership: Understanding reluctant leaders. In R. Riggio (Ed.), What鈥檚 Wrong with Leadership? Improving Leadership Research and Practice (pp. 89-104).

  • Epitropaki, O., Mueller, J., & Lord, R. (2018). Unpacking the Socio-cognitive Foundations of Creative Leadership: Bridging Implicit Leadership and Implicit Creativity Theories. In C. Mainemelis, O. Epitropaki, & R. Kark (Eds.), Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects (pp. 39-55). Routledge.

  • Mainemelis, C., Epitropaki, O., & Kark, R. (2018). Introduction: Connecting Creative Leadership鈥檚 strands of research. In C. Mainemelis, O. Epitropaki, & R. Kark (Eds.), Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects. (pp. 3-22). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203712214

  • Martin, R., Epitropaki, O., & O鈥橞roin, L. (2017). Methodological Issues in Leadership Training: In Pursuit of Causality. In K. Sund, R. Galavan, & G. Hodgkinson (Eds.), Methodological Challenges and Advances in Managerial and Organizational Cognition (pp. 73-94). Emerald.

  • Epitropaki, O., Martin, R., & Thomas, G. (2017). Relational Leadership. In J. Antonakis & D. Day (Eds.), The Nature of Leadership (pp. 109-137). SAGE.

  • Epitropaki, O., & Mainemelis, C. (2016). The 鈥済enre-bender鈥: The creative leadership of Kathryn Bigelow. In C. Peus, S. Braun, & B. Schyns (Eds.), Leadership lessons from compelling contexts. (pp. 275-300). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1479-357120160000008009

  • Epitropaki, O., & Martin, R. (2015). LMX and work attitudes: is there anything left unsaid or unexamined?. In T. Bauer & B. Erdogan (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of leader-member exchange. (pp. 139-156). Oxford University Press.

  • Mainemelis, C., & Epitropaki, O. (2013). Extreme leadership as creative leadership: Reflections on Francis Ford Coppola in The Godfather. In C. Giannantonio & A. Hurley-Hanson (Eds.), Extreme leadership : leaders, teams and situations outside the norm. (pp. 187-200). Edward Elgar Publishing.

  • Epitropaki, O. (2011). Leadership in crisis. In O. Epitropaki, K. Kyriakopoulos, & S. Zarkos (Eds.), Management in times of crisis (pp. 127-136). Kastaniotis (in Greek).

  • Epitropaki, O. (2007). Leadership and competitiveness (P. sponsored by the G. C. E. Officers鈥, Ed.). Association and the Ministry of Development (in Greek).

  • Epitropaki, O. (2007). Diversity management practices in Greece. In M. Vakola & E. Apospori (Eds.), Women in Business. (pp. 265-291). Sideris (in Greek).

Edited book


  • Epitropaki, O., & Martin, R. (Eds.). (2025). Beyond Exchange: Revisiting Leadership as a Relationship. Information Age Publishing.

  • Braun, S., Keller Hansbrough, T., Ruark, G. A., Lord, R. G., Hall, R. J., & Epitropaki, O. (Eds.). (2024). Navigating Leadership: Evidence-based strategies for leadership development.

Journal Article


  • Marstand, A. F., van Knippenberg, D., Kapoutsis, I., Epitropaki, O., Ete, Z., & Dawson, J. (2025). An actor鈥恈entric perspective on leader word鈥恆ction misalignment: Leader locus of control, shame, and behavioural responses. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 98(2), Article e70030. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70030

  • Morgan, R., Braun, S., & Epitropaki, O. (2025). Pursuing a future leader self: A multi鈥恠tudy investigation of leader identity and its motivational and behavioural outcomes. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 98(1), Article e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70014

  • Monzani, L., Bibic, K., Haslam, S. A., Kerschreiter, R., Wilson聽Lemoine, J. E., Steffens, N. K., Akfirat, S. A., Ballada, C. J. A., Bazarov, T., Aruta, J. J. B. R., Avanzi, L., Bunjak, A., 膶erne, M., Edelmann, C. M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., Garc铆a鈥怉el, C., Giessner, S., Gleibs, I., 鈥 van Dick, R. (2024). Political leaders鈥 identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality. Political Psychology, 45(6), 979-1011. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12952

  • Masters-Waage, T. C., Bastardoz, N., Narayanan, J., & Epitropaki, O. (2024). How elections shape perceptions of ideal leadership. American Psychologist, 80(1), 15-32. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001413

  • Marstand, A. F., Epitropaki, O., & Kapoutsis, I. (2024). 鈥楧istant but close鈥: Leadership behaviours, psychological distance, employee coping and effectiveness in remote work contexts. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12544

  • Epitropaki, O., & Avramidis, P. (2024). Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy. The Leadership Quarterly, 35(4), Article 101786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101786

  • Aycan, Z., 脰zbilgin, M., Moraligil, B., & Epitropaki, O. (2024). Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization. European Management Journal, 42(4), 437-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.005

  • Zheng, Y., Epitropaki, O., Graham, L., & Caveney, N. (2022). Ethical Leadership and Ethical Voice: The Mediating Mechanisms of Value Internalization and Integrity Identity. Journal of Management, 48(4), 973-1002. https://doi.org/10.1177/2f01492063211002611
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