Markos Zachariadis

Research Associate in Service Innovation Research

BSc Econ (Univ. of Patras), MSc, PhD (London School of Economics)

Professional experience

Markos has worked as a business analyst and consultant for a number of organisations, including Hewlett Packard, UBS Investment Bank and Cobalt Tree Capital, in Greece, Spain and the UK.

He is currently part of CLAHRC (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care), a multidisciplinary research project focusing on the diffusion of service innovation through knowledge exchange and multidisciplinary teams in NHS.

Previous appointments

Prior to joining Cambridge Judge Business School, Markos was a Research Assistant at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), and a Teaching Fellow at London Business School and the London School of Economics.

Awards and scholarships

• NET Institute Award (NYU Stern), Summer Research Grant, 2011
• LSE Research Studentship award, Department of Management (ISIG), 2007-2011
• Postgraduate Research Award from the George & Victoria Karelias Foundation, 2008-2009
• Selected for the Doctoral Consortium of the Organizational Communication & Information Systems (OCIS) division at the Academy of Management, 2010

Research interests

Economics and diffusion of service innovation; ICT and productivity; technology management; IS strategy; innovation in financial services (and healthcare); history, adoption, and use of networks and standards; mixed methods; knowledge diffusion in organisations.

Markos Zachariadis is a member of the Operations, Information & Technology subject group.

Selected publications

Zachariadis, M. and Scott, S.V. (2007) "Diversity in IS research: developing a mixed methodology approach to understanding the business value of payment system innovations in financial services." In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, 11-13 December 2007, Montréal, Canada.

Zachariadis, M., Scott, S.V. and Barrett, M. (2010) "Designing mixed-method research inspired by a critical realism philosophy: a tale from the field of IS innovation." In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, 12-15 December 2010, St Louis, MO. (Previously published as a University of Cambridge Judge Business School Working Paper, No.03/2010)

Scott, S.V., Van Reenen, J. and Zachariadis, M. (2010) "The impact of the diffusion of a financial innovation on company performance: an analysis of SWIFT adoption." LSE Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Papers, No.0992. London: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Scott, S.V. and Zachariadis, M. (2011) "Origins and development of the global S.W.I.F.T. network: 1973-2009." Business History (forthcoming; previously published as an LSE Department of Management ISIG Working Paper, No.182)