Christos Pitelis is a scholar of organizations, strategy, international business, political economy and governance. His major contributions include the human organization and praxis theory of value, the behavioural resource-based theory of the firm, the theory of (organization market and ecosystem) co-creation and orchestration, open team production, strategic and demand-side theory of the multinational enterprise, global sustainable value co-creation and capture, public and international entrepreneurship and supply side (antitrust, industrial, innovation, regional, renewable energy, competitiveness) policy. 

He has published in these areas, in leading journals, such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies. Journal of World Business, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, The Leadership Quarterly, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Business History Review, Regional Studies. He is Life Fellow of Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, Professor of Organizational Economics at the N.K University of Athens, Professorial Fellow (Research), Southampton Business School, and Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He is a member of the Cambridge Political Economy Society, co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and literally executor of the works of Edith Penrose.

He has served as Dean, Department Head, President of public sector organization, Chair of an international organization, and he has worked, visited, and taught in several Universities worldwide and consulted for businesses, governments, international organizations, NGOs, and accreditation bodies.