Position: Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Research Methods
Email: kourtii@regents.ac.uk
Faculty: Business & Management
School/institute(s): European Business School London, Regent's Business School London
Areas of Expertise: Organisational Psychology
Dr Isidora Kourti has obtained her PhD in Organisational Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). Her doctoral research was funded by the LSE Research Studentship scheme and followed a practice-based approach to examine inter-organisational collaborations. Her research demonstrated how partners through their (inter)actions and social relations build a collaborative identity and how they can manage constantly changing boundaries in a way that supports collaborative work.
Over the last seven years she has taken part in a number of research projects focusing on organisational processes and dynamics. InCaS (Intellectual Capital Statement) was an EU project with partners from 5 European academic institutes that explored knowledge sharing and transfer in SMEs. FLAME (Federated Local Access Management Environment) was a project run by the London School of Economics and funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The project examined identity management in Higher Education institutions. Diversified Teams project was conducted with the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge and analysed decision making and conflict in diversified organisational teams.
Before joining Regent’s University London, she taught for 5 years courses in research methods and organisational psychology-related areas at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the London School of Economics and Birkbeck.
Research Employment
Teaching Employment
Development and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in research methods and organisational psychology related areas.
Supervision of postgraduate and undergraduate dissertations in organisational psychology related areas.
Even though traditional organisational studies focus on the individuals (micro approach) or organisational aspects forgetting the individuals (macro approach), Isidora takes a distinct social psychological approach to examine organisations. She argues that in order to examine organisational phenomena in dynamic and processual terms, it is necessary to follow a relational approach where micro and macro organisational processes cannot be explored in isolation. Following this perspective, her current research efforts concentrate on organisational processes, practices, spatial dynamics and temporal organising, with a particular focus on the way organisations and collaborations adapt to dynamic contexts.
Chapter Publication
- Kourti, I. and Garcia-Lorenzo, L. (2012). Partnership strategies to support children with special educational needs in Greece: The KDAY challenge. In: Patelis, T. (Ed.), Research Studies and Perspectives in Psychological Science. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research. Pp 81-95.
Research Papers
- Kourti. I. and Paschoud, J. (2009). Exploring identity management: The LSE challenge. Proceedings of the 15th European University Information Systems Organization conference, Santiago de Compostela.
- Kourti. I. (2010). The social space of collaboration: Boundary and identity development within a Greek educational partnership. Proceedings of the 17thMulti-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks conference, Keele.
- Kourti. I and Garcia-Lorenzo, L. (2012). Traveling in between spaces: Boundary and identity development in a Greek Educational partnership. Proceedings of the 30thStanding Conference on Organizational Symbolism, Barcelona.
- Kourti. I, Garcia-Lorenzo, L., and Yu, A. (2013). The role of strategic alignment in collaboration: seeking collaborative advantages via boundary negotiation. Proceedings of the 20th Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks conference, Newcastle.
- Kourti, I. and Garcia-Lorenzo, L. (2014). Studying Project-based Organizing through a Temporal Lens. Accepted for presentation in the 30th European Group of Organizational Studies Colloquium, Rotterdam.
- Kourti, I. (2013). The flow of collaboration: Innovating (inter)actions and relationships in a Greek educational partnership through identity and boundary management. Paper presented at the 20th Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks conference, Newcastle.
- Garcia-Lorenzo, L. and Kourti, I. (2013). Participating in knowledge practices: The enacted narratives of an inter-organisational ICT project team. Paper presented at the Management Learning conference, Lancaster.
Yu, A., Garcia-Lorenzo, L. and Kourti, I . (2013) Becoming engaged; amplifying a practice-based approach view on employee engagement. Proceedings of the 15thAsia-Pacific Researchers in Organisational Studies conference, Tokyo
- Kourti. I. (2012). Developing collaborative working spaces: Boundary and identity in a Greek Educational partnership. Paper presented at the 7thOrganization Studies Workshop, Rhodes.
- Kourti, I. (2012). Exploring the collaboration space: A boundary and identity approach for handling ambiguity in a Greek educational partnership. Proceedings of the 19thMulti-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks conference, Wageninger.
- Kourti, I. and Garcia-Lorenzo, L. (2012). Collaboration as an emergent space of practice: Activating boundaries in a Greek educational partnership. Paper presented at the 28th European Group of Organizational Studies Colloquium, Helsinki.
Last updated: 20 July 2015
