Dionysis Skarmeas

TL;DR: The authors proposed and tested a model that explains consumer skepticism toward the corporate social responsibility of grocery retailers and its influence on important consumer-related outcomes, finding that attributions of egoistic and stakeholder-driven motives elicit consumer skepticism towards CSR, while values-driven attributions inhibit skepticism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a comprehensive model integrating performance-enhancing mechanisms and antecedent processes of trust in import-export relationships and found that existing levels of trust have a positive effect on relationship performance outcomes achieved 1 year later.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of market-related exploitative and explorative capabilities, together with product development ones, in the context of exporting and found that entrepreneurial orientation is a precursor of exploitative, explorative product development and overseas market related capabilities.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretically anchored model was developed and tested to explain the sources and consequences of green skepticism, which revealed that consumers' perceptions of industry norms, corporate social responsibility, and corporate history are important factors that explain why consumers assign different motives to corporate environmental actions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the extent to which certain market and exporter characteristics affect the development of relationship quality in the context of importing distributors trading with exporting manufacturers of industrial products, finding that psychic distance is related negatively to relationship quality, while transaction-specific investments and role performance are associated positively with relationship quality.