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History - Location of the Department

The Department of Business and Organization Administration was founded through Law No 4610/2019 (70 Α΄). It is part of the School of Management of the University of the Peloponnese, which is located in Kalamata, the capital of the Prefecture of Messinia. It is a new and dynamic part of the University of the Peloponnese, which aspires to leave its own mark in education, research and connection with businesses, public organisations and society, by providing its students with diversified higher education. The vision of the Department of Business and Organization Administration is to create a strong connection between academic excellence and the business community, in order to build a responsible future. The Department’s students have the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of courses, which cover the fields of Administration, with emphasis on these two specialisations: Business and Organisation Administration.

The Department is located in the city of Kalamata, at the Antikalamos Junction at the University of the Peloponnese.

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies

Undergraduate Studies

The Department’s Curriculum aims to provide students with deeper knowledge and a focused approach about several business and organisation operations, such as Management, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Digital Marketing, Digital Strategy, Finance, Operations Research, Business intelligence (BI), Human resource management (HRM) and Accounting.

The curriculum lasts 8 semesters (4 years). At the 6th semester, students choose one out of the two specialisations (informal groups) of courses: (a) Business Management (BM), and (b) Organisation Management (OM). The specialisations-modules of courses aim to help students deepen their knowledge on the fi eld of study they are interested in and to achieve a better academic and learning planning of the Curriculum. They are informal and are not referred on the awarded degree.

The curriculum meets the standards of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Within this framework, the curriculum description includes the allocation of ECTS-credits to all educational components, i.e. the assessment of the eff ort required by the students to achieve the expected learning outcomes of each component. 30 ECTS-credits account for the work during one academic semester, while one ECTS-credit accounts for 25 or 30 hours of work. The Undergraduate Curriculum off ers 240 ECTS-credits in total.

Postgraduate Studies

At the Department, there are three Postgraduate Curricula operating:

a) “Historical Demography” in co-organising with the Ionian University

b) “Public Management and Governance” Its purpose is the interdisciplinary study of the complex administrative phenomenon, not only at the central government level, but also at the one of the local self-governance levels. It mainly focuses on the Greek example in the light of the European environment in which it is integrated, as well as on the 
comprehension of symbols of democratic, eff ective and effi cient local, national and EU governance within an intelligent, viable and socially balanced development. It lasts three (3) semesters.

c) “Techno-economic Management Systems” It connects policy applications to issues of organising models and technologically advanced decision-making methods in public and private sector administration. It lasts three (3) semesters.

Doctoral Studies

The Department’s Doctoral Studies aim to promote original scientifi c research and lead to a Doctoral Degree (D.D.), which certifi es the conducting of original scientifi c research and the researcher’s contribution to the development of knowledge on the wider study fi eld of Business and Organisation Administration. More information is available in the Doctoral Studies Regulation of the Department (Government Gazette 2580/issue B/ 26-06-2020).

Career Prospects

The Department of Business and Organization Administration aspires to create corporate members with the required knowledge, so that they can continue their theoretical and empirical scientific research, or directly apply the principles, values and practices of Administration by introducing their own ventures or advancing already existing ones, off ering consulting services to those who want to launch their own ventures, as well as working as executives in local, regional and central administration and contemporary entrepreneurship structures.

In particular, the Curriculum aims to create specialised scientists in the area of Administration through an interdisciplinary approach, provide knowledge on business and organisation administration systems (private and public), help the participants contribute effi ciently to business and organisation operation, educate students on how to take leadership initiatives in case of possible technological or organising changes, which will be necessary for the business or the organisation, so that it meets the requirements of a fast developing international environment.

Research

According to current socio-economic developments, there is a need of creating a long-term Research Strategy of the Department for the time period 2020-2025, by defi ning any research priorities for the aforementioned time period, and it is integrated within the general strategic framework of the University of the Peloponnese.

The Department of Business and Organization Administration is a new Department of the University of the Peloponnese and thus, it created a need for the design of a common research strategy, which was defi ned at the same time with the creation of the curriculum. This procedure ensured not only an osmosis between Teaching and Research Staff members (DEP) and students, and the participation of all members, but also the existence of the required foundations for the development of research groups in common fi elds of study.

The framework of the Department’s research strategy includes the following axes:

▶ Organising and Management
▶ New Technologies and Quantitative Data Analysis
▶ Operations Research and Business Intelligence
▶ Financial Administration
▶ Social Policy

Within the framework of the Department of Business and Organisation Administration, a research laboratory has been founded and operates with the title “Administration Information and Quantitative Data Analysis Systems.

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