Manos
Gkeredakis

Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Technology

• Ph.D. in Management, Liverpool University
• M.Sc. in Operational Research and Management Science, Aston Business School
• B.Sc. in Business Administration, Athens University of Economics and Business

 

Manos (short for Emmanouil) Gkeredakis is Assistant Professor in the Operations, Information and Technology Department. He holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration (Athens University of Economics and Business), a M.Sc. in Operational Research and Management Science (with distinction, Aston Business School) and a Ph.D. in Management (Liverpool University).

He studies how organizations might exploit new opportunities for digital innovation with a focus on crowdsourcing. He is particularly interested in the management and ethical challenges that crowd-based organizations face. In his research, he employs a variety of qualitative methods and uses multiple sources of online and offline field observations, interviews and archival data. His research has been published in top management journals, such as Information Systems Research, Organization Studies, Information and Organization.

Before joining IESE Business School, Assistant Professor Gkeredakis worked for several years at Warwick Business School in the UK (as Assistant Professor of Information Systems), where he received numerous awards for his teaching at Postgraduate and Executive MBA programmes. Between 2013 and 2014, he joined the NYU Stern School of Business, in New York, as Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Visiting Scholar.

He acts as a reviewer for top academic journals, such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organisation Studies, Information and Organization. He is also an invited member of the ESRC Peer Review College and the US National Science Foundation.

Areas of interest.

* Crowdsourcing, crowd-based organizing
* Multi-sided digital platforms
* Coordination practices
* Artificial intelligence
* Knowledge work and innovation
* Epistemology
* Ethical decision making, ethics in the digital age

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

GKEREDAKIS, M., SWAN , J., NICOLINI, D., TSOUKAS, H. (2024). What is the right thing to do? The constitutive role of organizational ethical frameworks in collective ethical sensemaking. Human Relations, 77 (11), 1650-1687. doi:10.1177/00187267231205165. GKEREDAKIS, M., LIFSHITZ-ASSAF, H., BARRETT, M. (2021). Crisis as opportunity, disruption and exposure. Exploring emergent responses to crisis through digital technology. Information and Organization, 31 (1), Article 100344. doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100344. GKEREDAKIS, M., CONSTANTINIDES, P. (2019). Phenomenon-based problematization: Coordinating in the digital era. Information and Organization, 29 (3). doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2019.100254.

Proceedings

GKEREDAKIS, M., CONSTANTINIDES, P. (2021). Crowd-based coordination in the digital age. A Convention lens. Annual Meeting Proceedings: Virtual 2021. Academy of Management Proceedings. GKEREDAKIS, M. (2020). Unpacking the moral dimensions of crowd-based organizing. Academy of Management Proceedings. GKEREDAKIS, M. (2018). How does morality shape the enactment of organizational routines? Academy of Management Proceedings.

Book Chapters

NICOLINI, D., BHARATAN, I., GKEREDAKIS, M., SWAN , J. (2023). From evidence use to evidencing work. Towards a processual view of the role of evidence in commissioning policy-making. In Burgess, Nicola and Currie, Graeme (Eds.), Shaping Sustainable Healthcare: Meaningful Innovation and System Transformation. London: Palgrave Macmillan. GKEREDAKIS, M. (2020). Exploring the accomplishment of inter-organizational collaboration. The value of thick descriptions. In Mir, Raza and Fayard, Anne-Laure (Eds.), The Routledge companion to anthropology and business (pp. 526). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. GKEREDAKIS, M. (2014). Moral judgments as organizational accomplishments. Insights from a focused ethnography in the English healthcare sector. In Cooren, F., E. Vaara, Langley, A. and Tsoukas, H. (Eds.), Language and communication at work: Discourse, Narrativity, and Organizing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Non-refereed articles

GKEREDAKIS, M. (2024). Ethics in action. IESE Business School Insight (168), pp. 56-63. GKEREDAKIS, M. (2024). La decisión correcta. IESE Business School Insight (168), pp. 56-63. GKEREDAKIS, M., TSOUKAS, H., SWAN , J., NICOLINI, D. (2024). Want a More Ethical Team? Build Expertise, Not Just Guidelines. MIT Sloan Management Review.

Cases

GKEREDAKIS, M., LAGO, A. (2024). Arbolus: Making human knowledge digital. IESE, OIT-40-E. GKEREDAKIS, M., LAKHANI, K. R., FAYARD, A.-L. (2020). OpenIDEO (B). Harvard Business School Publishing.