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Dr Theano Lianidou

Associate Professor – Management

Research interests

  • Leadership
  • Social Status
  • Diversity
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • PhD – Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
  • FHEA – Fellow, Advance HE, UK
  • MPA – Columbia University, USA
  • MSc – Boston University, Belgium
  • BSc – Deree – The American College of Greece

Journals:

  • Begley, T. M., Dominick, P., Iordanoglou, D., Lianidou, T., Marchese, M., & Prastacos, G. P. (2025). Practitioner Experiences With Digitalization in Human Resource Management. Human Resource Management Journal.
  • Lianidou, T. and Zhu, D. (2023) “Corporate social purpose statements and employee perceptions about the CEO and the corporation: A large sample natural experiment“, Journal of Business Research, 169, Article 114286.
  • Lianidou, T. and Zheng, W. (2023) “Leader diffuse status and leadership outcomes: Towards an integrative framework”, International Journal of Management Reviews, 25(3): 443–466.
  • Lianidou, T., Lytle, A. and Kakarika, M. (2022) “Deep-level dissimilarity and leader-member exchange (LMX) quality: The role of status”, Journal of Managerial Psychology, 37(4), 379-393.
  • Kakarika, M., Lianidou, T., Qu, Y. and Bligh, M. (2022) “Organisational behaviour in the COVID-19 context: Effects of supervisor-directed deviance on retaliation against subordinates”, British Journal of Management, 33(1), 435-454.
  • Lianidou, T. (2021) “The role of status and power inequalities in leader-member exchange”, Leadership, 17(6), 654–673.

Book Chapters:

  • Lianidou, T., & Lytle, A. (2025). Understanding How Status Cues Can Influence Gender and Race Effects on Leader Selection and Leadership Impressions. In C. Harrison (Ed), Leadership and Leadership Development (pp. 133-148). Routledge.
  • Iordanoglou, D, Lianidou, T., Dominick , P., Begley, T. M., Marchese, M., & Prastacos, G. P.(2025). What Management Skills Are Needed in the Digital Era? A Business Executive Perspective. In G. Prastacos & N. Pouloudi (Eds), Leading and Managing in the Digital Era: Shaping the Future of Work and Business Education. Springer Nature.
  • Lianidou, T. (2024) “Leaders appointed in times of crisis and leader and leadership development”. In Harrison, C. (Ed.) Leadership During a Crisis: A Focus on Leadership Development. Routledge.
  • Lianidou, T. and Lytle, A. (2024) “Gender and Race Effects on Leaders: The Role of Status Cues”. 84th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August, Chicago, USA.
  • Lianidou, T., Wasti, S.N. and Dominick, P.G. (2024) “Understanding Female Learner Reactions to Case Studies Portraying Female Leaders”. 84th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August, Chicago, USA.
  • Wasti, S.N., Lianidou, T. and Dominick, P.G. (2024) “”Hidden” Inequalities in the Hidden Curriculum”, 40th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, July, Milan, Italy.
  • Lianidou, T. and Zheng, W. (2022) “Contextual factors influencing effects of leader characteristics on leadership outcomes”. 82nd Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August, Seattle, USA.
  • Lianidou, T. and Zheng, W. (2021) “When do leader characteristics affect leadership outcomes? A status perspective”. British Academy of Management Conference, September, Virtual.
  • Lianidou, T. and Zhu, D. (2021) “Institutional logic shifts and employee perceptions: The role of decoupling”. British Academy of Management Conference, September, Virtual.
  • Lianidou, T. and Kakarika, M. (2020) “More threatened but not more retaliatory: Contextualizing leader responses to upward social undermining during the COVID-19 pandemic”. Organizational Behavior Division COVID-19 Research Plenary, 80th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August, Virtual.
  • Lianidou, T. and Holahan, P. (2019) “The global pecking order: The effect of the leader’s country of origin on leader affect”, 4th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium, May, Corfu, Greece.
  • Lianidou, T. and Holahan, P. (2018) “Top management team (TMT) infanticide: An evolutionary perspective of how successor CEOs make decisions about TMT membership”, 34th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, July, Tallin, Estonia.