Vasilios Stouraitis

Vasilios Stouraitis serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom, with an active ORCID profile (0000-0001-5825-2604). His academic work focuses on entrepreneurship education, FinTech applications, and SME development in emerging economies, particularly across Africa, Malaysia, and Poland. He currently leads a knowledge exchange project on third-sector enterprise resilience while accepting new PhD students.

Dr. Stouraitis specializes in context-driven entrepreneurial education models and the digital transformation of SMEs in developing regions. His research examines how institutional environments, cultural factors, and technological adoption influence business growth, with particular emphasis on FinTech integration in educational curricula and middle-management dynamics in international partnerships. Recent work analyzes entrepreneurial intention determinants among Malaysian students and digitalization patterns in high-growth SMEs across Malaysia and Poland.

His publication trends (2024-2025) reveal concentrated exploration of digital technologies' role in emerging market business ecosystems, combining empirical studies from Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe to develop context-sensitive frameworks for enterprise education and development.

Scientific recognition includes:

• Best paper award in Management track at the 6th Global Business Conference (Sibenik, Croatia, 2015)

As a PhD supervisor, he mentors doctoral candidates in entrepreneurship and international business. His current grant-funded project 'Building an innovative and resilient scaling up toolkit for third sector enterprises' (February-August 2025) develops business model innovations for community transport organizations, reflecting his commitment to practical knowledge exchange. External engagements include serving as examiner for University of Chichester (2024-2028), University of Roehampton (2020-2024), and Harper Adams University (2019-2023), alongside visiting lectureships at Universidad del Istmo and Swiss School of Management.

Professional networks span UN consultancy (Food and Agriculture Organization since 2014), conference keynote speaking (9th International Conference in Economics and Business 2025), and media contributions on AI in enterprise education. Current activities focus on scaling third-sector resilience through the 2025 knowledge exchange project while expanding research on digital transformation in emerging market SMEs.