Evangelia Aranitou

Professor, Economic Sociology
  • aranitouv@soc.uoa.gr
  • Ag. Konstantinou 14, P.C. 104 31, Athens

Resume

Η Volia Arantitou She is a professor of Economic Sociology at the Department of Sociology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studied economics and social sciences at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the Université Paris Dauphine in Paris. Her research interests include the sociological dimension of economic action and the institutions that it forms, class analysis, institutions and the system of social representation, the organization of work/labor relations and social dialogue, the theoretical and political-institutional relations between economics and democracy, as well as the multifaceted aspects of small entrepreneurship. Since 2008 she has been the scientific director of the INEMY of the research institute of the Greek Federation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship, while since 2025 she is the Director of the Laboratory of Consumption, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Department of Sociology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Detailed CV-GR

 

  • The End (;) of Wage Work. How Disruptive Technologies Revolutionize the Way We Work, Scientific Editing, Introduction, Athens, Roes Publications, 2025, original title Employment is Dead. How Disruptive Technologies Revolutionize the Way We Work, D. P. Piscione and J. Drean, Boston: Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press (2025).
  • Leaders of the Greek Economy: The Nautical Port – Bridge of Leadership in Business with the New Generation Athens, Nautical Port (2025).
  • The Economic Impact of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Analytical Approaches to Growth Challenges Amid Crises in Europe, Aranitou, V., Manioudis, M., Angelakis, A. (eds.), New York, Palgrave Macmillan, (2025).
  • The Economics of Retailing: The Poly-transformation of a Traditional Sector,Aranitou, V., Kostis, P., Manioudis, M., and Panagiotopoulou, M., New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
  • The Electoral Behavior of Greeks Amidst Memorandums and the Pandemic: Edited by V. Georgiadou and M. Tsantzani, Athens, Gutenberg 2022.
  • Retailing. History, Economics and Transformations in Retail, Economia, Athens, 2021.
  • The Middle Class in Greece during the Memoranda Era: Between Collapse and Resilience, Athens, Thetemeli, 2018.
  • The collective representation of merchants: From the 19th century in the ESEEE, with M. Psalidopoulos, Athens, INEMY-ESEEE, 2014.
  • «Assessing the impact of the memoranda on the Greek labour market and labour relations» (by A. Dedoussopoulos, F. Koutentakis), Working Paper No. 53, ILO, Geneva, 2013.
  • Social dialogue and employers’ organizations in Greece. From the cooperation of the social partners in the dominance of the markets, Athens, Savaslas, 2012.
  • Small-scale trade in post-war Greece. The politics of a dubious survival, Athens, Papazis, 2006.

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