Dr Solon Magrizos

PhD, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece (2015)

MBA, Brandeis International Business School, Boston, USA (2005)

For the last 15 years, I have been studying about, researching on, or working with business. During my studies and work experience I was drawn by the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility and how Business interacts with Society.

Intrigued by the topic, I pursued a relevant PhD from the Department of Marketing and Communications of Athens University of Economics and Business. My thesis examined the link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and competitiveness of SMEs and the moderating role of stakeholders in this relationship. I also worked as a Research Associate to various European-funded Projects: Working for ResponsibleMED, our team interviewed Small and Medium Enterprises’ CSR practices and developed an online tool to help evaluate the impact of CSR actions on their competitiveness. For COGITA, we worked with twelve partners from 9 regions to provide public policy makers with input regarding their CSR approach.

Between 2015-2017, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University, where my main tasks involved undertaking research projects focused on Corporate Social Responsibility and SMEs, Social Enterprises and Human Resource Management, and the Ethical Consumer. I was also involved in bidding for, organizing, delivering and disseminating various research bids and calls and I also had the opportunity to help bid for, organize and disseminate ESRC events, co-organize a 1-day conference on Circular Economy with the British Academy of Marketing. In the same time, I co-supervise one PhD student studying Environmental Management Systems in SMEs.

I have also worked for three years as a Lecturer of Marketing for London Metropolitan University (Business College of Athens Campus) where I taught various Marketing and Public Relations classes. I also am a visiting Lecturer of Business Ethics in IES Abroad in London, a non-for profit consortium of American universities offering classes to students in their semester abroad.

• Introduction to Marketing
• Marketing Strategy
• Business Ethics
• Public Relations

Environmental Management Systems in SMEs (Coventry University)

Research Interests

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Ethical Consumers and the attitude-behaviour gap
• Small and Medium Enterprises
• Social Enterprises
• Co-creation
• Consumer Scepticism