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Dr Theano Lianidou

Professor of Management

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School: Richmond Business School

Theano Lianidou is a Professor of Management at Richmond American University London. Her research interests include leadership, social status, corporate social sustainability, and digitalization. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Management Reviews, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Managerial Psychology and Leadership. She holds a PhD from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, USA.

  • PhD – Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
  • SFHEA – Senior 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.