Dimos Chatzinikolaou

Thessaloniki, Greece

I am an Adjunct Faculty member at the AACSB-accredited School of Business of the University of Nicosia and a member of the Knowledge Management, Innovation and Strategy Center (KISC). I also coordinate the Stra.Tech.Man Lab at the Department of Economics, Democritus University of Thrace.

My research develops evolutionary and systems-oriented macro–meso–micro approaches to international political economy, business ecosystems, entrepreneurship, and sectoral transformation, with particular emphasis on energy transitions and the geopolitics of the global economy. I am interested in how firms and ecosystems adapt under structural change, how strategic and managerial capabilities form, and how institutional and intermediary structures enable or constrain that adaptation.

Recent and forthcoming work appears in Strategy & Leadership, The Journal of Entrepreneurship, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Journal of Global Responsibility, Journal of Economic Integration, and Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. I currently serve as Leading Guest Editor for special issues of Sustainability and Discover Global Society, and as a member of the International Editorial Board of Mercados y Negocios.

I teach at MBA and undergraduate level in Corporate Strategy, Globalization and International Business, Business Economics, Leadership and Innovation, Managing SMEs and Family Businesses, and Energy and Geopolitics, and have developed full distance-learning material for several of these courses.

Alongside my academic work, I run VSME Hellas — an advisory practice that helps Greek small and medium-sized enterprises prepare Voluntary SME (VSME) sustainability statements under the EFRAG standard and EU Recommendation 2025/1710.

A complete record is available in my CV and on the publications page.

Research streams

International political economy
New globalization, geoeconomics, geopolitics, multipolarity

Business ecosystems
Stra.Tech.Man, helix theories, regional ecosystems, less-developed regions

Entrepreneurship & innovation
Evolutionary economics, dynamic capabilities, firm physiology, SMEs & family businesses

Energy systems & transitions
Energy geopolitics, sustainable energy policy, energy ecosystems, market liberalisation

Methods & tools

Methods — Systematic & integrative literature review · Bibliometric / citation analysis · Conceptual & typological theory-building · Case study · Policy analysis

Tools — LaTeX/XeLaTeX · Python · Zotero (Better BibTeX) · Git · Cloudflare Workers + D1 · Astro/Next.js

selected publications

EMJB

Exporter Species as Heuristic Forms: A Typology of Export Marketing Capabilities in a Peripheral Region

Dimos Chatzinikolaou

EuroMed Journal of Business, 2026

ABS 2; ABDC B; Scopus Q1; WoS IF 3.9; EconLit.

Marketing

DOI Bib HTML

@article{chatzinikolaou2026exporter,
  title = {Exporter Species as Heuristic Forms: A Typology of Export Marketing Capabilities in a Peripheral Region},
  category = {Marketing},
  author = {Chatzinikolaou, Dimos},
  journal = {EuroMed Journal of Business},
  volume = {21},
  number = {5},
  pages = {182--204},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Emerald},
  doi = {10.1108/EMJB-03-2026-0172},
  note = {ABS 2; ABDC B; Scopus Q1; WoS IF 3.9; EconLit.},
}

S&L

Leading Through Complexity: An Integrative Review and Contingent Innovation Framework

Dimos Chatzinikolaou

Strategy & Leadership, 2026

ABS 1; ABDC C; Scopus Q3

Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology Management

DOI Bib HTML

@article{chatzinikolaou2026leading,
  title = {Leading Through Complexity: An Integrative Review and Contingent Innovation Framework},
  category = {Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology Management},
  author = {Chatzinikolaou, Dimos},
  journal = {Strategy \& Leadership},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Emerald},
  doi = {10.1108/SL-01-2026-0005},
  note = {ABS 1; ABDC C; Scopus Q3},
}

JoE

From Business Ecosystems to Firm Physiology: The Strategy–Technology–Management Evolutionary Synthesis

Charis Vlados and Dimos Chatzinikolaou

The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2025

ABS 1; FNEGE 4; ABDC C; Scopus Q2; WoS IF 2.7; EconLit

Evolutionary & Institutional Economics

DOI Bib HTML

@article{vlados2025physiology,
  title = {From Business Ecosystems to Firm Physiology: The Strategy--Technology--Management Evolutionary Synthesis},
  category = {Evolutionary & Institutional Economics},
  author = {Vlados, Charis and Chatzinikolaou, Dimos},
  journal = {The Journal of Entrepreneurship},
  volume = {34},
  number = {2},
  pages = {268--303},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Sage},
  doi = {10.1177/09713557251349310},
  note = {ABS 1; FNEGE 4; ABDC C; Scopus Q2; WoS IF 2.7; EconLit},
}

JKE

Public Support for Business, Intermediary Organizations, and Knowledge Transfer: Critical Development and Innovation Policy Bottlenecks

Dimos Chatzinikolaou and Charis Vlados

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2025

FNEGE 4; ABS 1; ABDC C; Scopus Q2; WoS IF 3.3; EconLit. Online first 2024.

Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology Management

DOI Bib HTML

@article{chatzinikolaou2025public,
  title = {Public Support for Business, Intermediary Organizations, and Knowledge Transfer: Critical Development and Innovation Policy Bottlenecks},
  category = {Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology Management},
  author = {Chatzinikolaou, Dimos and Vlados, Charis},
  journal = {Journal of the Knowledge Economy},
  volume = {16},
  pages = {4605--4625},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/s13132-024-02161-y},
  note = {FNEGE 4; ABS 1; ABDC C; Scopus Q2; WoS IF 3.3; EconLit. Online first 2024.},
}

JPE

Russo–Ukrainian War and the Emerging New Globalization: A Critical Review of Relevant Research

Charis Vlados and Dimos Chatzinikolaou

The Japanese Political Economy, 2024

ABS 1; ABDC B+; Scopus Q3; Web of Science; EconLit

International Political Economy

DOI Bib HTML

@article{vlados2024russo,
  title = {Russo--Ukrainian War and the Emerging New Globalization: A Critical Review of Relevant Research},
  category = {International Political Economy},
  author = {Vlados, Charis and Chatzinikolaou, Dimos},
  journal = {The Japanese Political Economy},
  volume = {50},
  number = {1},
  pages = {91--113},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
  doi = {10.1080/2329194X.2024.2309594},
  note = {ABS 1; ABDC B+; Scopus Q3; Web of Science; EconLit},
}

JEEE

Crisis, Innovation and Change Management: A Blind Spot for Micro-Firms?

Dimos Chatzinikolaou and Charis Vlados

Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 2024

FNEGE 4; ABS 1; ABDC C; Scopus Q1; WoS IF 2.9. Online first 2022.

Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology Management

DOI Bib HTML

@article{chatzinikolaou2024crisis,
  title = {Crisis, Innovation and Change Management: A Blind Spot for Micro-Firms?},
  category = {Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology Management},
  author = {Chatzinikolaou, Dimos and Vlados, Charis},
  journal = {Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies},
  volume = {16},
  number = {3},
  pages = {698--719},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Emerald},
  doi = {10.1108/JEEE-07-2022-0210},
  note = {FNEGE 4; ABS 1; ABDC C; Scopus Q1; WoS IF 2.9. Online first 2022.},
}

Dialectical Geopolitics in the Multipolar Energy Era

Dimos Chatzinikolaou

World Affairs, 2026

Scopus Q2. Forthcoming.

International Relations & Security Studies

Bib

@article{chatzinikolaou2026dialectical,
  title = {Dialectical Geopolitics in the Multipolar Energy Era},
  category = {International Relations & Security Studies},
  author = {Chatzinikolaou, Dimos},
  journal = {World Affairs},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  note = {Scopus Q2. Forthcoming.},
}

MyN

From Hyperglobalization to “New Globalization”: Transnational Corporations, Geopolitical Shocks, and Resilient Global Value Chains

Dimos Chatzinikolaou and Charis Vlados

Mercados y Negocios (Markets and Businesses), 2026

Scopus Q4

International Business & Strategy

DOI Bib HTML

@article{chatzinikolaou2026hyperglob,
  title = {From Hyperglobalization to ``New Globalization'': Transnational Corporations, Geopolitical Shocks, and Resilient Global Value Chains},
  category = {International Business & Strategy},
  author = {Chatzinikolaou, Dimos and Vlados, Charis},
  journal = {Mercados y Negocios (Markets and Businesses)},
  volume = {57},
  number = {27},
  pages = {49--80},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Universidad de Guadalajara},
  doi = {10.32870/myn.vi57.7949},
  note = {Scopus Q4},
}

Sys

From Equilibrium to Evolution: Redesigning Business Economics Education Through Systems Thinking and Dynamic Capabilities

Dimos Chatzinikolaou

Systems, 2025

Scopus Q1; WoS IF 2.3

Economic Methodology & History of Economic Thought

DOI Bib HTML

@article{chatzinikolaou2025systems,
  title = {From Equilibrium to Evolution: Redesigning Business Economics Education Through Systems Thinking and Dynamic Capabilities},
  category = {Economic Methodology & History of Economic Thought},
  author = {Chatzinikolaou, Dimos},
  journal = {Systems},
  volume = {13},
  number = {12},
  pages = {1094},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  doi = {10.3390/systems13121094},
  note = {Scopus Q1; WoS IF 2.3},
}