Zografia Bika

Zografia Bika is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich Business School, UK. Her research focuses on rural, family and institutional entrepreneurship issues using a sociological lens, and has been published in journals such as Family Business Review, Regional Studies, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, European Management Review, Sociological Review, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Development Studies, and Human Relations. Her family business research was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and won the Best ‘Family Business’ Paper Award at the 2018 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Entrepreneurship Division, Chicago, USA (https://ent.aom.org/awards) and the 2020 US Family Firm Institute Best Unpublished Research Paper Award (https://www.ffi.org/awards/best-unpublished-research-paper/). She previously led the academic evaluation of the major £10.8M EU Interreg France (Channel) England 'Increase Valorisation Sociale' project (co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund) that aimed to boost enterprise training and job opportunities for thousands of social housing residents in England and France (2018-2023). An output from this applied research project has been nominated for the 'Best Empirical Paper Award' at the 2024 US Academy of Management Conference, Entrepreneurship Division. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. [Email: z.bika@uea.ac.uk]