Sociology of Entrepreneurship, especially masculinities in Entrepreneurship

Ethnography 

In September 2025 Andreas was appointed Professor in the sociology of entrepreneurship. Before his Professorship at Northumbria, for 14 years Andreas worked at Newcastle University Business School (UK), where he held a post-doctoral research fellowship, a lectureship and senior lectureship (associate professor), all in entrepreneurship. At Newcastle, Andreas was nominated for several teaching awards and prizes and was degree director for a large MSc International Marketing program, which he managed through two reaccreditation processes. He also designed and led several core modules looking at business growth and entrepreneurship from sociological perspectives.

Andreas is a globally recognised scholar. In particular, he is known for research into how masculinities shape and are shaped in business settings, especially entrepreneurial and organisational contexts. He has edited special issues looking at masculinities in the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship and Work, Employment and Society (cabs: 4). Andreas is an Associate Editor at Gender, Work and Organizations (cabs: 3), where he develops submissions on masculinities. He was track-chair for a research stream focused on masculinities at the 2025 Gender, Work and Organisations Conference, chairing 3 sessions over 2 days.

Andreas has published research in leading journals including:

International Small Business Journal

Journal of Business Research

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Gender, Work and Organisations

Organization

Progress in Human Geography

Journal of Business Venturing

Work, Employment and Society 

International Journal of Enterprise and Innovation

Journal of Sociology

Journal of Organizational Sociology 

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Sociological Research Online

The Qualitative Report  

His research is award winning, including a ‘paper of the year’ award from the Journal of Business Venturing (cabs: 4). See:

‪Andreas Giazitzoglu - ‪Google Scholar

Since 2024 Andreas has been a visiting professor of Entrepreneurship at Audencia Business School, France, which is one of the leading business schools in Europe.

He is author of the textbook Business School: a survival guide, published by Routledge (2025).

As Andreas’ Web of Science profile (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/H-3296-2018) shows, he regularly reviews for leading journals, including Human Relations, Work Employment and Society, Sociology, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, International Small Business Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Organization and Journal of Small Business Management.  

Andreas is experienced at performing key external roles, including:

• External Examiner at Lancaster University Business School, UK for the BSc Business and Management program (2024 – current)
• External Reviewer for Entrepreneurship programmes at Nottingham University Business School, China (2022 - 2024)
• Research Fellowship at the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (2021 – 2025).
• Reviewer of funding applications for prestigious international funding bodies, including the Swiss National Science Foundation (2025). 

Andreas has supervised 5 PhD Projects to completion.

Andreas holds an MSc, awarded by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Durham. Using his training as a sociologist, he researches and teaches at the intersection of sociology and entrepreneurship.