Dr Georgios Kominis

  • Senior Lecturer (Accounting & Finance)

telephone: 01413306316
email: Georgios.Kominis@glasgow.ac.uk

R468 Level 4, Gilbert Scott Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181

Biography

George graduated from the Technological Educational Institution of Piraeus in Athens with a B.Sc. in Business Administration. He was employed in the Accounting Department of Greenpeace Greece for two years (1994-1996) as Chief Accountant. During the period from 1996 to 2002 he attended and successfully completed postgraduate studies at the University of Glasgow (MAcc, Ph.D.) that resulted in his appointment as Lecturer in 2002.

George undertakes research in the area of management control.  His main interests include the impact of management control systems on human behaviour in contemporary organisations, the design of incentive schemes and reward packages for middle managers, and the determinants of dysfunctional behaviour in the managerial setting.  In the last four years, and partly with the financial support of the CIMA Research Foundation, his research programme has mainly concentrated on systems of performance measurement, evaluation and reward, and the way these influence the process of motivation at the middle management level.

George is a member of the editorial board of Scientific Touristic Journal, and he frequently reviews papers for a number of leading international accounting journals, including Management Accounting Research, Accounting and Business Research, and the British Accounting Review.

Research interests

George is a member of the Accounting research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

  • Management control
  • Motivation
  • Rewards
  • Business ethics

Publications

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Number of items: 23.

2024

Brunetto, Yvonne, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Ashton‐Sayers, Julia (2024) Authentic leadership, psychological capital, acceptance of change, and innovative work behaviour in non‐profit organisations. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 83(1), pp. 69-87. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8500.12603)

2023

Rodrigues, Andre, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2023) Framing risk management within management control systems. In: Rana, Tarek and Parker, Lee (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Public Sector Accounting. Routledge, pp. 189-201. ISBN 9781003295945 (doi: 10.4324/9781003295945-18)

2020

Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Gunn, Douglas (2020) Risk governance through public sector interactive control systems: the intricacies of turning immeasurable uncertainties into manageable risks. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 379-387. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2021.1965729)

Dudau, A.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Kominis, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Brunetto, Y. (2020) Red tape and psychological capital: a counterbalancing act for professionals in street-level bureaucracies. Journal of Professions and Organization, 7(3), pp. 334-350. (doi: 10.1093/jpo/joaa024)

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Sicilia, Mariafrancesca (2020) Building trust in public sector networks: the role of rhetoric and persuasion. Financial Accountability and Management, 36(2), pp. 134-150. (doi: 10.1111/faam.12229)

Corduneanu, Roxana, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 and Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2020) Crowding-in or crowding-out: the contribution of self-determination theory to public service motivation. Public Management Review, 22(7), pp. 1070-1089. (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1740303)

Trinchero, Elisabetta, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 and Corduneanu, Roxana (2020) With a little help from my friends: the positive contribution of teamwork to safety behaviour in public hospitals. Public Management Review, 22(1), pp. 141-160. (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2019.1638443)

2018

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2018) Boundary-spanning leadership in hybrid networks: a case study of English local safeguarding children boards. In: Bonomi Savignon, Andrea, Gnan, Luca, Hinna, Alessandro and Monteduro, Fabio (eds.) Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services. Series: Studies in public and non-profit governance (7). Emerald Publishing: Bingley, UK, pp. 243-260. ISBN 9781787437708 (doi: 10.1108/S2051-663020180000007008)

Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 (2018) Collective corruption - how to live with it: towards a projection theory of post-crisis corruption perpetuation. European Management Journal, 36(2), pp. 235-242. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2017.12.001)

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Szocs, Melinda (2018) Innovation failure in the eye of the beholder: Towards a theory of innovation shaped by competing agendas within higher education. Public Management Review, 20(2), pp. 254-272. (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2017.1302246)

2016

Kerr, John, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Deeley, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6712-3908, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Song, Yue (2016) Audio-Visual Feedback: Student Attainment and Student and Staff Perceptions. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)

2015

Martin, Ingrid, Corduneanu, Roxana and Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2015) Readdressing the balance between control and empowerment in CHAS’s current health and safety procedures and processes to effect positive change. Project Report. Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS). (Unpublished)

2014

Paputa Dutu, Carmen, Sandgren, Eva and Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2014) Creating a business plan for a community-led environmental charity organisation that aims at sponsoring make changes in lifestyle that are beneficial for people, their communities and the environment. Project Report. Urban Roots. (Unpublished)

2013

Dudau, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 and Kominis, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2013) Trust and control in children's services. In: Llewellyn, S., Brookes, S. and Mahon, A. (eds.) Trust and Confidence in Government and Public Services. Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415896191

Szocs, Melinda, Clement, Elizabeth and Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2013) Proposing ways to understand the target population and promote the service of a Scottish third-sector organisation that assists people with mobility difficulties. Project Report. Shopmobility Paisley and District (SPD). (Unpublished)

2012

Kominis, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Dudau, A.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 (2012) Time for interactive control systems in the public sector? The case of the Every Child Matters policy change in England. Management Accounting Research, 23(2), pp. 142-155. (doi: 10.1016/j.mar.2012.04.002)

Tabbner, Catherine, Roberts, Fiona and Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2012) A community consultation exercise to assess the impact of a Scottish charity providing weekly programme of groups and activities in an underprivileged area of Glasgow. Project Report. LINKES. (Unpublished)

2007

Kominis, G (2007) The expectancy-valence theory revisited: developing an extended model of managerial motivation. Management Accounting Research, 18(1), pp. 49-75. (doi: 10.1016/j.mar.2006.10.002)

2006

Emmanuel, C., Kominis, G. and Slapnicar, S. (2006) Exploring the missing link: rewards and the performance measurement system. In: Neely, A.D., Kennerley, M. and Walters, A. (eds.) Performance Measurement and Management 2004: Public and Private: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Performance Measurement and Management - PMA 2004, UK, Edinburgh, International Conference Centre (EICC), 28-30 July 2004. Centre for Business Performance: Cranfield, UK, pp. 227-240. ISBN 9780953376131

2005

Kominis, G (2005) Exploring the reward preferences for middle level managers. Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, 2(1), pp. 54-76.

Kominis, G (2005) Reward system design and perceptions of middle level managers. Cima Research Update (newsletter of Cima Research), March, p. 10.

2004

Kominis, G. and Emmanuel, C. (2004) Reward systems and managers reward preferences. In: Neely, A.D., Kennerley, M. and Walters, A. (eds.) Performance Measurement and Management 2004: Public and Private: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Performance Measurement and Management - PMA 2004, UK, Edinburgh, International Conference Centre (EICC), 28-30 July 2004. Centre for Business Performance: Cranfield, UK, pp. 547-554. ISBN 9780953376131

2003

Kominis, G (2003) The expectancy-valence model of motivation revisited: a case study from the UK hotel industry. Touristic Scientific Review, 1(1), pp. 57-74.

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Articles

Brunetto, Yvonne, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Ashton‐Sayers, Julia (2024) Authentic leadership, psychological capital, acceptance of change, and innovative work behaviour in non‐profit organisations. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 83(1), pp. 69-87. (doi: 10.1111/1467-8500.12603)

Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Gunn, Douglas (2020) Risk governance through public sector interactive control systems: the intricacies of turning immeasurable uncertainties into manageable risks. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 379-387. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2021.1965729)

Dudau, A.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Kominis, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Brunetto, Y. (2020) Red tape and psychological capital: a counterbalancing act for professionals in street-level bureaucracies. Journal of Professions and Organization, 7(3), pp. 334-350. (doi: 10.1093/jpo/joaa024)

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Sicilia, Mariafrancesca (2020) Building trust in public sector networks: the role of rhetoric and persuasion. Financial Accountability and Management, 36(2), pp. 134-150. (doi: 10.1111/faam.12229)

Corduneanu, Roxana, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 and Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2020) Crowding-in or crowding-out: the contribution of self-determination theory to public service motivation. Public Management Review, 22(7), pp. 1070-1089. (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1740303)

Trinchero, Elisabetta, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 and Corduneanu, Roxana (2020) With a little help from my friends: the positive contribution of teamwork to safety behaviour in public hospitals. Public Management Review, 22(1), pp. 141-160. (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2019.1638443)

Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 (2018) Collective corruption - how to live with it: towards a projection theory of post-crisis corruption perpetuation. European Management Journal, 36(2), pp. 235-242. (doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2017.12.001)

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Szocs, Melinda (2018) Innovation failure in the eye of the beholder: Towards a theory of innovation shaped by competing agendas within higher education. Public Management Review, 20(2), pp. 254-272. (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2017.1302246)

Kominis, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Dudau, A.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 (2012) Time for interactive control systems in the public sector? The case of the Every Child Matters policy change in England. Management Accounting Research, 23(2), pp. 142-155. (doi: 10.1016/j.mar.2012.04.002)

Kominis, G (2007) The expectancy-valence theory revisited: developing an extended model of managerial motivation. Management Accounting Research, 18(1), pp. 49-75. (doi: 10.1016/j.mar.2006.10.002)

Kominis, G (2005) Exploring the reward preferences for middle level managers. Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, 2(1), pp. 54-76.

Kominis, G (2005) Reward system design and perceptions of middle level managers. Cima Research Update (newsletter of Cima Research), March, p. 10.

Kominis, G (2003) The expectancy-valence model of motivation revisited: a case study from the UK hotel industry. Touristic Scientific Review, 1(1), pp. 57-74.

Book Sections

Rodrigues, Andre, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2023) Framing risk management within management control systems. In: Rana, Tarek and Parker, Lee (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Public Sector Accounting. Routledge, pp. 189-201. ISBN 9781003295945 (doi: 10.4324/9781003295945-18)

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2018) Boundary-spanning leadership in hybrid networks: a case study of English local safeguarding children boards. In: Bonomi Savignon, Andrea, Gnan, Luca, Hinna, Alessandro and Monteduro, Fabio (eds.) Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services. Series: Studies in public and non-profit governance (7). Emerald Publishing: Bingley, UK, pp. 243-260. ISBN 9781787437708 (doi: 10.1108/S2051-663020180000007008)

Dudau, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487 and Kominis, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2013) Trust and control in children's services. In: Llewellyn, S., Brookes, S. and Mahon, A. (eds.) Trust and Confidence in Government and Public Services. Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415896191

Emmanuel, C., Kominis, G. and Slapnicar, S. (2006) Exploring the missing link: rewards and the performance measurement system. In: Neely, A.D., Kennerley, M. and Walters, A. (eds.) Performance Measurement and Management 2004: Public and Private: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Performance Measurement and Management - PMA 2004, UK, Edinburgh, International Conference Centre (EICC), 28-30 July 2004. Centre for Business Performance: Cranfield, UK, pp. 227-240. ISBN 9780953376131

Kominis, G. and Emmanuel, C. (2004) Reward systems and managers reward preferences. In: Neely, A.D., Kennerley, M. and Walters, A. (eds.) Performance Measurement and Management 2004: Public and Private: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Performance Measurement and Management - PMA 2004, UK, Edinburgh, International Conference Centre (EICC), 28-30 July 2004. Centre for Business Performance: Cranfield, UK, pp. 547-554. ISBN 9780953376131

Research Reports or Papers

Kerr, John, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Deeley, Susan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6712-3908, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Song, Yue (2016) Audio-Visual Feedback: Student Attainment and Student and Staff Perceptions. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Martin, Ingrid, Corduneanu, Roxana and Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2015) Readdressing the balance between control and empowerment in CHAS’s current health and safety procedures and processes to effect positive change. Project Report. Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS). (Unpublished)

Paputa Dutu, Carmen, Sandgren, Eva and Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2014) Creating a business plan for a community-led environmental charity organisation that aims at sponsoring make changes in lifestyle that are beneficial for people, their communities and the environment. Project Report. Urban Roots. (Unpublished)

Szocs, Melinda, Clement, Elizabeth and Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2013) Proposing ways to understand the target population and promote the service of a Scottish third-sector organisation that assists people with mobility difficulties. Project Report. Shopmobility Paisley and District (SPD). (Unpublished)

Tabbner, Catherine, Roberts, Fiona and Kominis, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2012) A community consultation exercise to assess the impact of a Scottish charity providing weekly programme of groups and activities in an underprivileged area of Glasgow. Project Report. LINKES. (Unpublished)

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Grants

2013: CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) seed-corn grant on the Inter-organisational Management Control in Public Sector Partnerships

2004-2006: CIMA grant on Reward System Design and the Perceptions of Middle Level Managers

Supervision

  • Rodrigues, André
    FROM MANAGEMENT CONTROL TO INTEGRITY CONTROL: THE ROLE OF POST-CRISIS ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING

An empirical evaluation of the advance pricing agreement process

Teaching

  • Accounting for Management Control  (BAcc)
  • Accounting and Civic Responsibility (Service-learning, BAcc)
  • Research Method and Methodology (BAcc)
  • Management Accounting and Control (MAcc)
  • Research Methods (MAcc)
  • Management Accounting  (BAcc)
  • Managerial Accounting and Organisational Behaviour  (BAcc)
  • Issues in Accounting Research (MAcc)

Additional information

Research projects and work in progress

An empirical investigation of the expectancy-valence theory of motivation in the managerial setting.

This is a joint project with Clive Emmanuel (University of Glasgow). The paper reports the results of an empirical study designed to examine the relationship between managerial perceptions of elements of the performance measurement, evaluation and reward system (PMERS) and the managers' motivation. The working paper, entitled 'An empirical investigation of the expectancy-valence theory of motivation in the managerial setting, examines middle management motivation, incentives and management control systems.


Dr Georgios Kominis, Lecturer in Accounting & Finance