Christos Sigalas

BSc, Management & Business Administration, Athens University of Economics and Business; MBA, Athens University of Economics and Business; PhD, Strategic and Financial Management, University of Piraeus

Christos Sigalas has approximately 20 years of undergraduate and graduate teaching experience in the academic fields of strategic and financial management. Currently holds the position of Associate Professor at Deree-The American College of Greece. His main research interests include strategic management, corporate finance, management accounting, and maritime financial management, with more than 20 manuscripts published in academic journals, journals for business practitioners, book chapters, conference proceedings, and economic press. Christos Sigalas was also a business executive with more than 20 years of management, finance and accounting working experience in maritime shipping, investment banking, telecommunication, and management consulting industries. He has significant experience in public equity offerings on U.S. capital markets, debt financings, debt restructurings, as well as shipping investments. For 14 years, he had served as Finance Executive at Seanergy Maritime Holding Corp. (Seanergy), a maritime shipping holdings company listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market.

Selected Publications

• Sigalas C. (2024). Resource allocation choices in asset-intensive industries. European Management Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12697
• Sigalas C. and Gerakoudi K. (2024). Idiosyncratic factors that shape shareholder reward policies in capital-intensive companies. The European Journal of Finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2024.2424804
• Mantzari E., Merika A. and Sigalas C. (2024). Determinants and effects of trade credit financing: Evidence from the maritime shipping industry. European Financial Management, 30(3), 1385-1421, https://doi.org/10.1111/eufm.12448
• Gavriilidis T., Merikas A., Merika A. and Sigalas C. (2023). Development of a sentiment measure for dry bulk shipping. Maritime Policy and Management, 50(1): 58-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/03088839.2021.1959076
• Sigalas C. and Papadakis V. (2022). Is Competitive Advantage a Necessary and Sufficient Antecedent of Superior Financial Performance? Evidence From the Maritime Shipping Industry. International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.301543
• Andrikopoulos A., Merika A., and Sigalas C. (2022). Net Asset Value discounts and premiums in maritime shipping industry. European Financial Management, 28(2), 510-544. https://doi.org/10.1111/eufm.12313
• Andrikopoulos A., Merika A., Merikas A., and Sigalas C. (2021). Related party transactions and principal-principal conflicts in public companies: Evidence from the maritime shipping industry. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 145, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102171
• Sigalas C. and Papadakis V. (2018). Empirical investigation of relationship patterns between competitive advantage and superior performance. Journal of Strategy and Management, 11(1): 81-111. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSMA-01-2017-0010
• Mantzari E., Sigalas C. and Hines T. (2017). Adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards by Greek non-listed companies: The role of coercive and hegemonic pressures. Accounting Forum, 41(3): 185-205, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2017.04.003
• Sigalas C. (2015). Competitive advantage: the known unknown concept. Management Decision, 53(9): 2004-2016. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-05-2015-0185