Adamantia Pateli

Ionian University | IONIO · Department of Informatics

Highly-skilled migrants and refugees finding employment in low-skill vocations, despite professional qualifications and educational backgrounds, has become a global tendency, mainly due to the language barrier. Employment prospects for displaced communities are mostly decided by their knowledge of the sublanguage of the vocational domain they are i...

Highly-skilled migrants and refugees finding employment in low-skill vocations, despite professional qualifications and educational background, has become a global tendency, mainly due to the language barrier. Employment prospects for displaced communities are mostly decided by their knowledge of the sublanguage of the vocational domain they are in...

The current study aims to investigate the factors that affect a hotels’ decision to adopt digital technologies. Our theoretical grounding builds on the Technology–Organization–Environment (TOE) research framework. Our research model was validated through a survey of 502 hoteliers and managers using the Partial Least Squares–Structural Equation Mode...

Despite their educational level and professional qualifications, an important percentage of highly-skilled migrants and refugees find employment in low-skill vocations throughout the world. Typical vocational domains include agriculture, cooking, crafting, construction, and hospitality. As a first step towards developing an educational tool for hel...

Over the past twenty years the dynamic capabilities view (DCV) has gained prominence in the IS field as a theoretical perspective from which to explain competitive advantage in turbulent environments. While there are quite a few review studies of DCs in the strategic management domain, research on DCs in the IS area has not been synthesized nor cri...

The present research investigates the crucial role of “Transformational Leadership (TFL)” on employees’ “anxiety”, “personal stress”, and “workplace loneliness”, and finally on employees’ “burnout”. Moreover, this survey investigates the moderating role of “HRM practices” in the relationship between TFL and burnout. For the needs of the research, “...

Dynamic capabilities theory emerged as a leading framework in the process of value creation for firms. Its core notion complements the premise of the resource-based view of the firm and is considered an important theoretical and management framework in modern information systems research. However, despite DCTs significant contributions, its strengt...

In recent years, an increasing number of new entrepreneurs use online crowd-funding as a novel tool for funding their start-ups. Consequently , there is a growing need for tools that allow them to steer their campaigns successfully. The aim of our work is to define the success factors for crowd-funding campaigns using machine learning techniques. T...

The importance of the organizational adoption of social media is increasingly raised in hospitality literature because of the recognition of Web 2.0 technologies as a significant tool for improving customer information searching and experience, as well as for enriching firm digital strategy. The present study seeks to empirically explore the determ...

A question of central importance for researchers and practitioners is how information technology (IT) can help firms survive and thrive in turbulent and constantly changing business environments. To address this issue, this study develops the idea that IT architecture flexibility helps sustain competitive performance by driving the formation of IT-...

Dynamic capabilities theory (DCT) emerged as a leading framework in the process of value creation for firms. Its core notion complements the premise of the resource-based view of the firm and is con-sidered an important theoretical and management framework in modern information systems re-search. However, despite DCT’s significant contributions, it...

By incorporating a strategic alignment perspective, we investigate how complementary capabilities, i.e., IT flexibility, a firm’s networking capability and absorptive capacity influence firms’ level of innovation. We do so, by empirically validating our main research question and associated research model using PLS-SEM, i.e., causal modeling on a s...

This study explores how firms’ incremental and radical innovation capabilities can be explained from technological and dynamic capabilities and specifically their combinative alignment. We propose a strategic alignment model—grounded on dynamic capabilities and modular systems theory—and examine to what extent strategic alignment affects a firm’s i...

This paper aims at investigating organizational mechanisms through which firms involved in open innovation initiatives can acquire external knowledge, integrate it with the existing one residing in the diverse functional areas, and transform it into innovation outcomes. Following the knowledge transformation perspective, we use the notions of early...

Social media have managed to radically change the way in which people interact and thus has outpaced the adoption of several previous communication innovations, such as mobile phones, Internet and television. Facing the dramatic increase of social media use, businesses are beginning to explore how these tools can help them grow and improve profits,...

This study develops a conceptual model to examine determinants of social media adoption for open innovation at the firm level. Building on the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework, six facilitating conditions are hypothesized to influence a firms`firms`decision to deploy social media technologies for open innovation purposes. Partial...

The Dynamic Capabilities View (DCV) has emerged as an influential theoretical and management framework in modern IS research. However, despite the view's significant contributions, its strength and core focus are essentially in its use for historical firm performance explanation. Furthermore, valuable contributions have been made by several researc...

Background Although doctors increasingly engage in online information seeking to complement their medical practice, little is known regarding what online information sources are used and how effective they are. Objective Grounded on self-determination and needs theory, this study posits that doctors tend to use online information sources to fulfil...

A central question for researchers and practitioners is whether and how IT (information technology) can help build a competitive advantage in uncertain environments. To address this question, the present study seeks to empirically explore the relationship between IT-enabled dynamic capabilities and competitive performance. By drawing upon recent th...

As access to health care is important to people’s health especially for vulnerable groups that need nursing for a long period of time, new studies in the human sciences argue that the health of the population depend less on the quality of the health care, or on the amount of spending that goes into health care, and more heavily on the quality of ev...

A growing body of information systems studies are examining the organizational impact of IT in terms of IT capabilities. Yet, despite more than a decade since the original conception of IT capabilities which largely builds on the Resource-Based View (RBV) of the firm, the manner in which the notion is conceptualized and measured provides an increas...

A question of central importance for researchers and practitioners is whether Information Technology (IT) can help build a competitive advantage in constantly changing environments. One characteristic of a firm's IT infrastructure in particular, flexibility, has been posited as being a critical enabler in attaining competitive performance gains. Ye...

Purpose - Strategic alignment is a theory-based state that is considered as crucial for organizations in order to realize performance gains from Information Technology (IT) investments and deployments. Within the domain of purchasing and supply chain management there has been a growing interest on how purchasing strategy can be effectively aligned...

This research explores the satisfaction gap between the expectations of medical doctors when using the Internet to search for health-related information, and the confirmations they receive following the use of specific information sources to meet their information needs. We executed a quantitative study on 303 medical doctors to capture their onlin...

In this paper a hybrid model for measurement of building vulnerability caused by strong motion arrays is proposed. Our model is based on is a multi-disciplinary method that will predict the behavior of a building structure in reaction to unforeseen stress. In addition, we classify the already proposed vulnerability assessment methods and we describ...

Purpose - Satisfaction and experience are essential ingredients for successful customer retention. This study aims to verify the moderating effect of experience on two types of relationships: the relationship of certain antecedents with satisfaction, and the relationship of satisfaction with intention to repurchase. Design/methodology/approach - T...

With organizations now placing an increasing amount on attention on the management of their supply chain activities, the role of Information Technology (IT) in supporting these operations has been put in the spotlight. In spite of extensive research examining how IT can be employed in various activities of supply chain management, the majority of s...

This paper discusses the technology and commercialization challenges of a research initiative intended to establish a wireless metropolitan network for the city of Corfu. Key wireless mesh networking issues are discussed and value for the potential service providers and users of the network is specified. The network development builds on advanced f...

The increasing emphasis that organizations are placing on purchasing and supply chain management over the past decade, has set the spotlight on the potential of procurement systems. However, the majority of studies still examine IT adoption enablers despite the fact that procurement systems are perceived as a commodity in modern enterprises. Studie...

The application of E-government through the use of mobiledevices is a challenge for all the countries. Although developing countries are slow in adopting the new technologies, most of their habitants are already familiar with the use of mobile devices. Despite that, the implementation of m-government is still a problem. Few scholars have researched...

Motivated by the fact that social media are continuously gaining in popularity, firms are piloting different approaches of promoting their products and services. However, there is much debate in the academic and business community about the effectiveness of social media as a platform for marketing. Specifically, practitioners are concerned with how...

Social Media has been gaining popularity worldwide over the last years at an increasingly growing rate. Motivated by this fact, firms are piloting different approaches of promoting their products and services to consumers in order to capitalize on the prominence of such websites. However, there is much debate in the academic and business community...

This paper investigates the uses of the popular social network site Facebook, and the influence of these uses on acceptance and satisfaction. A total of 171 Facebook users answered a questionnaire that allowed us to examine how the four uses of Facebook (social connection, social surfing, wasting time and using applications) shape the level of user...

The scope of this paper is to examine the perceptions which induce the Greek customers to purchase over the Internet, testing the direct effect of experience and the moderating effect of satisfaction. A review of research conducted in the Greek online market demonstrates that satisfaction, self-efficacy, and trust keep a prominent role in the Greek...

Adoption of Social Media (SM) has been growing in an incremental manner over the past few years. In their attempt to capitalize from the large user base present on such websites, business executives have been piloting different approaches in order to gain a competitive edge and promote their products and services to consumers. Research however, has...

The mEXPRESS system addresses the needs of the professional exhibition industry supporting and facilitating context aware services in the indoor exhibition environment. The three goals served by the platform are the enhancement and facilitation of the visitor experience, the improvement of business communications, and the provision of management an...

Pursuing and achieving service innovation is of utmost importance for firms operating in technology-and knowledge-intensive sectors. The lack of market consolidation combined with the environment uncertainty – due to both market volatility and technology unpredictability – require the formation of partnerships to produce innovation in ever-shor...

A great number of recent studies in the e-government area focus on investigating how technology-induced changes in the public sector connect with the New Public Management (NPM) reform, envisioned by many politicians. Researchers in this field contend that e-government denotes a structural and process-oriented change of governmental organizations,...

The scope of this paper is to examine the perceptions which induce the Greek customers to purchase over the Internet, testing the direct effect of experience and the moderating effect of satisfaction. A review of research conducted in the Greek online market demonstrates that satisfaction, self-efficacy, and trust keep a prominent role in the Greek...

We employed a property rights approach to formulate a set of hypotheses explaining the choice between equity and non-equity alliances in the Information and Communication Technology industry. The firm's need to control knowledge exchange and the resulting innovation makes property rights an important concern permeating partners’ strategic behavior....

Online shopping purchase intention is influenced by several factors based on the literature review. Effort expectancy, performance expectancy, trust and self-efficacy are some of the most widely used factors. An empirical study was undertaken to investigate the impact of various levels of these factors on consumer purchase intention. High levels of...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the mechanism through which decisions on the preferred governance mode of strategic technology alliances are made at the firm level. Design/methodology/approach The author constructed a value‐mediated governance model that is empirically tested through a survey of 57 strategic alliances in the Greek wi...

Motivated by the recent restructuring and convergence of the information technology (IT) and telecommunications (TELCO) industries and the business trend towards the formation of networks, this research focuses on examining the evolutionary dynamics of the convergent Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry. The agent-based computati...

The distributed 'open' model of innovation development has been increasingly applied in service sectors to grasp the opportunities of networking. Till now, there have been many competing theoretical frameworks, with no universal model or consensus, to open innovation through networking. This paper applies a three-perspective theoretical framework,...

This paper discusses the technology and commercialization challenges of a research initiative intended to establish a wireless metropolitan network for the city of Corfu. Key wireless mesh networking issues are discussed and value for the potential service providers and users of the network is specified. The network development builds on advanced f...

Abstract Asthe,evolution of e-business,technology,has passed,from,the early phase,of hype,and innovation to the mature phase of adoption and use, the research interest of both the academic,and business,communities,is shifting to investigating opportunities,for market exploitation of e-business technologies. As a result, the debates around establish...

This paper discusses the technology and commercialization challenges of a research initiative intended to establish a wireless metropolitan network for the city of Corfu. Key wireless mesh networking issues are discussed and value for the potential service providers and users of the network is specified. The network development builds on advanced f...

Strategic management research has often emphasised the importance of alliances as efficient structure to develop and commercialise technology-based innovation. The advantage of strategic alliances over the traditional hierarchical and market-like organisational forms has been evident in high-tech markets, featured by high degree of resource specifi...

Consideration of cost and resource benefits generated from an alliance have prevailed the theoretical and empirical research about strategic alliances and value networks/ webs. As research in the area advances, strategic and financial theories, such as Game Theory and Real Options Theory, set the groundwork for investigating the anticipated strateg...

The plethora of actors, the complexity of relationships and the variety of information and financial flows affecting the mobile entertainment arena today, have created a series of challenging business opportunities for entrepreneurs and key market players. The evolving and quite promising mobile music market, however, is suffering from the luck of...

This paper discusses the development and trial of a Wireless Exhibition Guide that employs mobile, wireless, and indoor positioning technologies to introduce sophisticated information, communication, and navigation exhibition services, thus, leveraging the value proposition of exhibition stakeholders. Results indicate user acceptance of the system...

Strategic alliances are the primary collaboration form for organizations participating in value webs, the most widely used form of structuring business activities in the digital economy. Such alliances can assume many alternative governance modes, ranging from hierarchy-like alliances (joint ventures) to market-like alliances (contractual agreement...

Exhibition shows are essentially information exchange hubs. Their success relies on the quantity and quality of interaction of the involved parties: exhibitors, visitors, and organizers. The introduction of advanced wireless ap- plications in the exhibition industry is a major opportunity for improving inter- action and communications, thus leverag...

Purpose To construct and test, through its application to a real case study, a methodology that generates contingencies for the evolution of a company or an industry's reference business model (BM) under the impact of a technology innovation. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on theoretical predicaments of organizational development and...

As eBusiness is moving towards maturity, research interests shift to the investigation of opportunities for market exploitation of eBusiness technologies. As a result, the debate around business models naturally becomes more topical. However, while many researchers and practitioners are contemplating business models, there is an alarming lack of th...

Considering the advances of wireless, mobile and positioning technologies and the high requirement of the mobile marketing world for reaching as many customers as possible in a personalized way, this paper presents a wireless technology solution for sending targeted advertising or information messages on mobile devices. The research and development...

Considering the advances of wireless, mobile and positioning technologies and the high requirement of the mobile marketing world for reaching as many customers as possible in a personalized way, this paper presents a wireless technology solution for sending targeted advertising or information messages on mobile devices. The research and development...

Exhibition shows accumulate vast quantities of information and their success relies in the quantity and quality of interaction of the involved parties: exhibitors, visitors and organizers. The more effective the interaction between end parties, the more successful the exhibition. The application of advanced ICT applications in the exhibition indust...

The benefits of living in a fast changing information society become evident if effective e-business practices are implemented, offering companies exposure and access to global markets and consumer access to customized, high quality services. Such practices are facilitated by innovative and effective e-business models. However, the business literat...

The benefits of living in a fast changing information society become evident if effectivee-business practices are implemented, offering companies exposure and access to globalmarkets and consumer access to customized, high quality services. Such practices arefacilitated by innovative and effective e-business models. However, the businessliterature...

The benefits of living in a fast changing information society become evident if effective ebusiness practices are implemented, offering companies exposure and access to global markets and consumer access to customized, high quality services. Such practices are facilitated by innovative and effective e-business models. However, the business literatu...

Technology is increasingly becoming a major driver of business change. However, it is well documented that businesses cannot readily exploit the advantages provided by technological innovations unless these are combined with some sort of organizational restructuring. More often than not, business model evolution is necessary in order to leverage in...

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The Internet has emerged as a viable and reliable tool for recruiting. Using the Internet and E-business applications, companies and applicants can reach one another faster and easier. This convenience has resulted in significant challenges for human resource departments. First-generation automation tools made the initial step toward addressing the...

Abstract Agreat,deal of attention ,is recently ,being paid to the ,potential of mobile communication,technologies to redefine ,and ,extend the world of traditional eBusiness by rendering its applications available to mobile users. The term Mobile Business (mBusiness) has been ,coined to denote ,the ways ,in which ,mobile George M. Giaglis, Ada Pate...

The increasing number of str ategic alliances and mostly those involving an exchange of technology components or knowledge, since the early 1980s, has motivated a growing body of research on strategic alliances. The debate on the most appropriate alliance governance mode, as critical strategic decision to be made in firm level, provided the motivat...

The Internet provides a new medium for interpersonal communication and information exchange that holds the potential for delivering forms of career counseling services that are appropriate to the medium. The challenge facing counselors lie in discovering what type of counseling services are appropriate to this new medium and in delineating the pote...

Two of the most active research fields in Information Technology nowadays are Internet Services Portals used by governmental organizations for carrying out transactions with the public, and Interoperability Patterns for achieving seamless cooperation of heterogeneous existing systems. When referring to e-Government applications in Local Administrat...