Publications by the School of Business and Economics
Department of Management and International Business
Kapareliotis, I., Voutsina, K., & Patsiotis, A. (2019). Internship and employability prospects: Assessing student’s work readiness. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 9(4), 538–549. https://doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-08-2018-0086
Purpose
Changes in the workplace have raised serious concerns about the future of work and the effectiveness of undergraduate academic programs to sufficiently prepare students for business. The purpose of this paper is to address this concern by exploring how internship employment (placement) is implicated in the young business graduates’ employability prospects.
Design/methodology/approach
This research explored the students’ perceptions regarding their degree of “work readiness” after completing an internship program. The concept of “work readiness” is conceptualized in terms of role clarity, ability and motivation. An institution of higher education in Greece provided the sampling frame for this research. Online survey data have been used.
Findings
Students who attend internship programs assessed positively all aspects of the work readiness construct. They knew what it was expected by employers from them to do at work. They were able to effectively apply basic academic skills, high-order skills and professional skills required by employers on the job and placed greater importance to the intrinsic rewards than the extrinsic ones.
Research limitations/implications
This is an exploratory study and is designed as a foundation for future empirical studies. Further research could examine the dimensions of the work readiness concept in other geographic contexts and validate the scale measurement with larger samples.
Originality/value
The integration of scattered pieces of literature on graduates’ employability through the lenses of “work readiness” is a novel theoretical approach to explore the effectiveness of internship programs on employability prospects in the Greek context.
Department of Marketing
Kapareliotis, I., & Miliopoulou, G.-Z. (2019). Gender bias in academia: An attempt to render the intangible tangible. In A. Georgiadou, M. A. Gonzalez-Perez, & M. R. Olivas-Luján (Eds.), Advanced Series in Management: Vol. 22. Diversity within diversity management: Types of diversity in organizations (pp. 247–271). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877-636120190000022013
Originality/Value
Despite the ample and rising amount of research findings, there is no coherent framework to adequately include all the factors that contribute to gender bias in academia. By integrating and organizing the different, multifaceted causes already pointed out by previous findings, the authors hope to contribute to future research with specific variables to test and correlate, as well as to the formulation of more sophisticated policies.
Kapareliotis, I., Voutsina, K., & Patsiotis, A. (2019). Internship and employability prospects: Assessing student’s work readiness. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, 9(4), 538–549. https://doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-08-2018-0086
Purpose
Changes in the workplace have raised serious concerns about the future of work and the effectiveness of undergraduate academic programs to sufficiently prepare students for business. The purpose of this paper is to address this concern by exploring how internship employment (placement) is implicated in the young business graduates’ employability prospects.
Design/methodology/approach
This research explored the students’ perceptions regarding their degree of “work readiness” after completing an internship program. The concept of “work readiness” is conceptualized in terms of role clarity, ability and motivation. An institution of higher education in Greece provided the sampling frame for this research. Online survey data have been used.
Findings
Students who attend internship programs assessed positively all aspects of the work readiness construct. They knew what it was expected by employers from them to do at work. They were able to effectively apply basic academic skills, high-order skills and professional skills required by employers on the job and placed greater importance to the intrinsic rewards than the extrinsic ones.
Research limitations/implications
This is an exploratory study and is designed as a foundation for future empirical studies. Further research could examine the dimensions of the work readiness concept in other geographic contexts and validate the scale measurement with larger samples.
Originality/value
The integration of scattered pieces of literature on graduates’ employability through the lenses of “work readiness” is a novel theoretical approach to explore the effectiveness of internship programs on employability prospects in the Greek context.
Department of Tourism, Hospitality, and Sports
Gaitanakis, L., & Leivadi, S. (2020). Focusing on resort sport tourism development: The case of Costa Navarino. In V. Katsoni & T. Spyriadis (Eds.), Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Cultural and tourism innovation in the digital era: Sixth international IACuDiT conference, Athens 2019 (pp. 507–517). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36342-0_39
Greece, as a top Mediterranean destination, has seen a rapid increase in tourist arrivals during the economic crisis, remaining a strong ‘player’ on the European market. Costa Navarino resort in Messene presents a promising as well as daring private initiative effort in the direction of developing and promoting sport tourism as an upgraded tourism promise. Focusing on sport tourism, especially in golf and quality leisure tourism seems to depart from the ‘four S’ tourism product type. The aim of the research is to examine the development and practices of sport tourism within a resort environment especially examining the ‘elite’ sport tourist as suggested at Weed’s sport tourism participation model. The case study approach has been applied focusing on this enormous sport tourism development in need to deeply examine the uniqueness of the case. The results highlighted that the new development largely based the core product on the ‘elite’ side of the sport tourism spectrum through the creation of luxury facilities and the provision of high quality sport infrastructure such as golf and specific profile events. Focusing on developing quality active sport participation in the resort setting, Costa Navarino aims to establish the site as a destination for elite sports tourism.