Conference Schedule at Glance
Monday, May 21
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Arrival to Santorini, transfer to hotel
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14:30-18:30 - Doctoral Consortium
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19:00-21:00 - Welcome Reception at the Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre
Tuesday, May 22
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8:00-9:30 - Concurrent Sessions
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9:30-10:00 - Coffee Break
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10:00-11:15 - Plenary session I
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11:15-11:30 - Coffee Break
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11:30-12:45 - Concurrent Sessions
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12:45-14:00 - Networking Lunch with Interactive Presentations
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14:00-15:30 - Concurrent Sessions
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Free Afternoon to enjoy Santorini!
Wednesday, May 23
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8:00-9:30 - Concurrent Sessions
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9:30-10:00 - Coffee Break
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10:00-11:15 - Plenary Session II
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11:15-11:30 - Coffee Break
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11:30-12:45 - Concurrent Sessions
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12:45-14:00 - Networking Lunch with Interactive Presentations
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14:00-15:15 - Concurrent Sessions
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15:15-15:30 - Coffee Break
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15:30-16:45 - Meet the Editors Session
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19:30 - Farewell Dinner at local winery Santowines
Thursday, May 24
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Check-out, transfer to airport!
Conference Program
Tuesday, May 22nd
08:00-09:30 Session 1A: Global Entrepreneurship
Session Chair: Peter Naudé
Location: Room A
How and When does Entrepreneurial Knowledge Impact New Venture Performance?
Francis Donbesuur and Ghasem Zaefarian
Is R&D Good for New Venture Survival? A Double-edged View of Financial Resource and Industry Knowledge
Understanding Sources of Competitive Advantage on Global Freelancing Platforms: The Case of Design Professionals
Ekaterina Nemkova and Pelin Demirel
Does Institutional Support Cultivate Firm’s Entrepreneurial Orientation In Emerging Economies?
Zhenxin Xiao, Xiaoyun Chen, Maggie Dong, Shanxing Gao and Kevin Zhou
From Fragile to Agile - Agile Marketing as a Key Driver of Entrepreneurial Internationalization
Birgit Hagen and Antonella Zucchella
08:00-09:30 Session 1B: Market Entry and Internationalization I
Session Chair: Pejvak Oghazi
Location: Room B
Unpredictability and Market Entry Performance: The Mediating Effects of Improvisation and Business Network Commitment
Mikael Hilmersson, Martin Johanson, Heléne Lundberg and Stelios Papaioannou
The Effect of Managerial Self-interest on a Foreign Exit Decision: The Role of Trust and Local Embeddedness
Qun Tan, Carlos Sousa, and Wei Jiang
Global Sourcing Decision-making Process: Antecedents and Outcomes of Decision Speed
Kevin D. Clark and Barbara Francioni
How Does Market Knowledge Drive Mode of Foreign Subsidiary Establishment at Market Entry and Post Entry?
The Effect of Managerial Mindset on Internationalization Decisions: An Experimental Investigation
Christina, Magnus Hultman, and Aristeidis TheotokisPapadopoulou
08:00-09:30 Session 1C: Global Consumer Research I
Session Chair: Yeyi Liu
Location: Room C
Crowdfunding and the Redefinition of Consumer Power: a Global Perspective
A Cross-Cultural Study on Counterfeit Luxury Consumption: Does Acculturation Play a Role?
Linda Shi, Annie Cui, and Ling Jiang
Prisoners of Our Own Experiences: Emigrants’ Reconciliation of Domestic Product Offering During Homecoming Honeymoons
Individuals' Perceptions of Non-profit Organizations: A Three Country Evaluation of Non-profit Brand Image
Nina Michaelidou, Milena Micevski, and Selma Kadic-Maglajlic
Red or Blue? The Impact of Power on Consumers’ Color Preference From the Perspective of Culture Orientation
Yeyi Liu, Hongyan Jiang, and Bangshun Liu
09:30-10:00 Tea and Coffe Break
10:00-11:15 Plenary session I
Session Chair: Dave Stewart
Presentations by: Michael Ahearne
Rajesh Chandy
Costas Katsikeas
V Kumar
11:15-11:30 Tea and coffee break
11:30-12:45 Session 2A: Global Innovation I
Session Chair: Nicole Hartley
Location: Room A
Does Global Perspective Lead to Sustainable Innovation? Empirical Evidence from International Firms
Goksel Yalcinkaya, Shuili Du, and Ludwig Bstieler
Investigating the impact of New Product Introduction NPI Process Characteristics on Firm Performance: Case of Global Pharmaceutical Industry
Amalesh Sharma, Alok Saboo, and V Kumar
Disruptive Innovation: Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Global Competition
Balancing Marketing and New Product Development Capabilities to Export Performance: Direct and Moderating Effects
Ana Lisboa and Dionysis Skarmeas
11:30-12:45 Session 2B: Global Relationship Management
Session Chair: Bodo Schlegelmilch
Location: Room B
Forty Years of Research on Exporter-importer Relationships: A Review
Bilge Aykol and Leonidas Leonidou
When does Cross-Border Customer Engagement in Design Stage Drive Supplier Performance? A Motivation-Opportunity-Ability Framework
Zhaleh Najafi Tavani, Ghasem Zaefarian, Sahar Mousavi and Peter Naudé
Trust, Distrust, and Performance of International Strategic Alliances in Times of Uncertainty
Giuseppe Musarra, Matthew Robson, and Constantine Katsikeas
SMEs’ Export Channel Choice: Predictions from Real Options Theory
Edith Ipsmiller, Keith D. Brouthers, and Desislava Dikova
11:30-12:45 Session 2C: Cross-border and Regional Branding-State of Play and Future Directions
Session Chair: Christos Pitelis
Location: Room C
Cross-border Global Brand Management-an integrated perspective
Christos Pitelis and Eleni E. N. Piteli
Inter-national Branding Strategy and its Effect on Brand Performance: A Comparison Between the USA and China
Sharifah Faridah Syed Alwi, Andreas Georgiadis, Christos Pitelis, and Lia Zarantonello
The Effect of Ethical Branding on Brand Performance: An international Comparison between USA and China
Sharifah Faridah Syed Alwi, Andreas Georgiadis, Christos Pitelis, and Lia Zarantonello
The role of stakeholders in managing place brand in crisis: Stavanger region case study
Julia Mykhailiuk
12:45-14:00 Lunch and (Poster) Interactive Session I
Emerging Market SME Export Performance
Constanza Bianchi
RETAILARCH: A Multiple-Item Scale for Measuring Consumer Perceptions of International Retail Architecture
Mohammad Foroudi, Pantea Foroudi, Suraksha Gupta and Michael Czinkota
Customer Value Perceptions towards Novel Products in a Developed and an Emerging Market
Toula Perrea, Pol Chryssochou, and Athanasios Krystallis
The Effects of Sleepiness on Variety-Seeking Behavior
Zhongqiang Tak Huang, Yitian Sky Liang, Charles B. Weinberg and Gerald J. Gorn
Do Big Data Affect International Business Strategy and Performance
Itzhak Gnizy
Consumer Personality Traits and iPhone consumption in China
Steven D'Alessandro, Gong Sun, Jie Li, Lester Johnson, Leanne Carter and Zhiming Cheng
Dynamic Capabilities in Turkish Export Ventures
Merve Turgut, Constantine Katsikeas, Bulent Menguc and Stavroula Spyropoulou
Firm Status, Collaboration Network, and Innovation: Behind the Rise Of Chinese High-Speed Train Sector (1993-2014)
Justin Tan
Information Processing Capacity and Market Agility
Nick Hajli and Farid Shirazi
An Application of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Explore Educational Policy Marketing
Mowshine McChamp and Cheng-Hua Wang
An Empirical Study about the Influence of Country Personality and Product Involvement on Consumer’s Purchase and Visit Intentions
Ana Sousa, Helena Nobre, and Minoo Farhangmehr
14:00-15:30 Session 3A: Global Marketing Strategy I
Session Chair: Aviv Shoham
Location: Room A
TV Series Adaptations and Their Repercussions on Consumers: A Qualitative Analysis
Bilge Aykol, İlayda İpek, and Nilay Bıçakcıoğlu
Chief Marketing Officer Presence and Strategic Alliance Success
Hang Nguyen and Hui Feng
Chutzpah-driven Export Marketing: Effects on Export Responsiveness and Performance
Kalanit Efrat, Yoel Asseraf, and Anne Souchon
Export Marketing Adaptation and Export Performance: An Intra-Firm Analysis
João S. Oliveira, John W. Cadogan, and Anssi Tarkiainen
How Outside-in and Inside-out Positional Advantages Impact Strategic International Performance?
14:00-15:30 Session 3B: Global Consumer Research II
Session Chair: Adamantios Diamantopoulos
Location: Room B
Is it Really Better to Take Two? Effects of Dual Language Labelling in a National and Cross-Cultural Setting
Sabrina Heix and Hartmut Holzmueller
The Role Of Consumer Nationality And Product Country-Of-Origin For Brand Choice In Countries Of Low Product Ethnicity
Katharina Zeugner-Roth, Claudiu Dimofte, and Fabian Bartsch
Building Brand Credibility in Post- Globalizing Markets: The Role of Perceived Brand Globalness and Cultural Symbolism
Timo Mandler, Fabian Bartsch, and Choong Min Han
The Global/Local Product Attribute: Decomposing and Predicting Attribute Weight and Preference in Developed and Emerging Markets
Christina Sichtmann, Vasileios Davvetas, and Adamantios Diamantopoulos
The Effect of eWoM Characteristics on Consumers’ Purchase Intentions: The Moderating Role of Culture
Sabrina Hegner and Bart Horstman
14:00-15:30 Session 3C: Global Sales and Account Management
Session Chair: Nicholas Paparoidamis
Location: Room C
Global Account Management: Dynamic Capabilities, Strategies, and Business Environments
Key Account Managers’ Competencies: Evidence from an Arab Context
Fawaz Baddar Alhussan, Faten Baddar Alhusan, Amarachi Amaugo and Lulu Alhesan
Role Stressors, Does It Really Affect Sales Performance?
Nicholas Paparoidamis and Fawaz Baddar Alhussan
Adopting M-commerce in Developing Countries: The Influences of Consumer Innovativeness on Perceived Risk, Cost, Ubiquity, Value, and Usage
Abdul Ashraf, Narongsak Thongpapanl, Ali Anwar and Carman Cullen
Effects of Customer E-Commerce Transitions on Short- and Long-Term Channel Performance
Brett Josephson, Ju-Yeon Lee, Shrihari Sridhar and Robert Palmatier
Free afternoon
Wednesday, May 23rd
08:00-09:30 Session 4A: Global Ethics, Sustainability, and Corporate Responsibility
Session Chair: Matthew Robson
Location: Room A
International Venturing, Green Institutional Entrepreneurship, and Moderating Role of SOEs versus Non-SOE s: Empirical Evidence from a Transitional Economy
Chengli Shu, Jinxin Liu, and Per Davidsson
Sustainability Strategy: Examination of its Antecedents, Consequences, and Contingency
Arinze Christian Nwoba, Nathaniel Boso, and Matthew Robson
Corporate Boards Must Act as Ethical Gatekeepers If They Are to Serve their Fiduciary Duties
Theodore Peridis and David Weitzner
Responsible Entrepreneurship: Multilevel Determinants of CSR Engagement in SMEs
Cezara Nicoara and Vita Kadile
Exploring Green Business Strategies within Exporting Context: Drivers, Processes, and Consequences
08:00-09:30 Session 4B: Cross-cultural Consumer Behavior
Session Chair: Katharina Zeugner-Roth
Location: Room B
Antecedents and Outcomes of Consumer Country-of-Origin Perceptions: A Meta-analysis
Leonidas Leonidou, Saeed Samiee, Bilge Aykol and Nikolaos Korfiatis
Consumer Xenocentrism: Its Personality Trait Antecedents and the Role of Consumer Disidentification and Public versus Private Consumption
Yi Peng and Hyeyoon Jung
Consumption as a Mechanism to Compensate the Perceived Loss of Psychological Ownership of self: a cross-cultural study of women in relationships
Ranjitha G P and Anandakuttan B Unnithan
Consumer Authenticity Seeking: Conceptualization, Measurement, Antecedents, and Consequences
Fabian Bartsch and Katharina Zeugner-Roth
The Role Of Cultural Intelligence in Intercultural Service Encounters: A Cross-Cultural Examination
Nicholas Paparoidamis and Thi Thanh Huong - Jenny Tran
08:00-09:30 Session 4C: Global Marketing Strategy II
Session Chair: Ayşegül Özsomer
Location Room C
The Relationship Between Multimarket Contact and MNCs Performance – The Moderating Effects of Global Integration and Local Responsiveness
Yu-Ching Chiao, Chun-Chien Lin, and Ting-Wei Lu
Does Crowd Wisdom Bring Wealth? The Impact of Crowdsourcing on Shareholder Value
The Role of Market Orientation and Market Learning in Managing a Prolonged Economic Crisis
Ayşegül Özsomer and Markos Tsogas
Chief Marketing Officers And Firm Performance: A Multinational Perspective On The Value Relevance Of The Chief Marketer
Atanas Nik Nikolov, Mihail Miletkov, and Plamen Peev
Global Marketing Strategies In Task Environments: Conditions For Success And Failure
Simos Chari and George Balabanis
09:30-10:00 Tea and Coffee break
10:00-11:15 Plenary Session II
Session Chair: Jan Heide
Location: Room A
Presentations by: David Griffith
Satish Jayachandran
Neil Morgan
Gerard Tellis
11:15-11:30 Tea and Coffee break
11:30-12:45 Session 5A: Global Brand Management and Marketing Communications I
Session Chair: Michael Houston
Location: Room A
Enhancing Consumer Attitude Toward Culturally Mixed Symbolic Products from Global Brands in Emerging Markets: The Role of Cultural Respect
Xiaoling Guo, Martin Heinberg, and Shaoming Zou
A Comparison of Five Theoretical Explanations of Favouritism Towards Foreign or Domestic Brands
George Balabanis, Anastasia Stathopoulou, and Jiayu Qiao
Determining Effective Communication Strategies for Service Offshoring Decisions
Tony Lu, Gary Gregory, and Liem Ngo
Cross Cultural Differences In Hotel Attribute Appraisals: A Supra-National Approach
11:30-12:45 Session 5B: Export and Import Management
Session Chair: Paul Harrison
Location: Room B
The Influence of Ambidexterity on Firm Performance Based on International Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Lixun Su, Annie Cui, Saeed Samiee and Shaoming Zou
A New Approach to the Relationship Between the Importer-Tailored Export Marketing Mix and Exporter Performance
Claude Obadia, Raluca Mogos Descotes, Irena Vida and Dora Trikki
Export Activity, R&D investment and Foreign Ownership: Does it Matter for Productivity?
Carlos M. P. Sousa, Emanuel Gomes and Ji Yan
Predictors and Effects of Importer-perceived Relationship Value
Dionysis Skarmeas, Paraskevas Argouslidis, Flora Kokkinaki and Athina Zeriti
11:30-12:45 Session 5C: Global Innovation II
Session Chair: Narongsak Thongpapanl
Location: Room C
Social Innovation: Integrating Product and User Innovation
Jonathan Linton and Konstantin Fursov
Geographic Dispersion and Co-location in Global R&D Portfolios: Consequences for Firm Performance
Mario Kafouros, Eva Mavroudi, and Chengqi Wang
Political Instability and Innovation of African Firms
Vendor Certification and Innovation in Global Outsourcing: A Boon or Bane for Growth? A Moderated Mediation Effect of International Clients
Shanthi Gopalakrishnan and Haisu Zhang
12:45-14:00 Lunch and Poster (Interactive) Session II
Governance Choice, Specific Assets, and Business Culture Similarity: Evidence from an Emerging Economy
Umar Burki
Evaluating Modules from a Learning and Developmental Imperative in the Context of Management Education – A metric of ability or a measure of contentment?
Alvina Gillani and Smirti Kutaula
Down the Street or Across the Seas: The Influence of Proximity and Ethical Engagement on the British and Indian Fair Trade Consumption
Alvina Gillani and Smirti Kutaula
Online Behavioral Advertising Acceptance/Avoidance
Daina Nicolaou and Thomas Soutzis
Resilience in Global Supply Chains: Inter-organisational and Cultural Perspectives
Jacqueline Jing You
Conceptual Development and Measurement Approaches to International Targeting Strategies
Marina Kyriakou and Markos Tsogas
Cell Phone Anxiety and Nationalistic Bias
Peter Magnusson, Stacey Robinson, and June Cotte
Making internalization a General Theory of the Multinational Firm: Toward an Asymmetric Power –Resource Value–Transaction Cost ART Framework Xin Li Controlling and Breaking Boundaries: Understanding Actor Agency During Supply Chain Entry V.G.Gamithri Gayana Karunasena and Daniel D. Prior
Bargaining Power and Value Capture of Emerging Economy Exporters
Hanh Pham and Bent Petersen
Luxury Counterfeiting Resistance: A Preliminary Investigation
Siham Mourad and Pierre Valette-Florence
The Role of Trust Beliefs in Shaping m-commerce Usage Intention: The “Good” vs. the “Efficient and Ethical” m-retailer
Luciano Lapa, Abdul Ashraf, and Narongsak Thongpapanl
Agile Marketing Process Drives Value Proposition Validation in International Markets: A Qualitative Analysis
Ieva Puke
14:00-15:15 Session 6A: Market Entry and Internationalization II
Session Chair: Leonidas Leonidou
Location: Room A
A Meta-Analytic Review Investigating the Significance of Transaction Cost Economics in International Marketing
Su Jin Yeon and Young Wook Song
Ties that Bind or Ties that Blind? Networking of Small- and Medium-Sized Family for and During Internationalization
Tanja Leppäaho, Sarah Jack, Pia Arenius and Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki
Making internalization a General Theory of the Multinational Firm: Toward an Asymmetric Power–Resource Value–Transaction Cost ART Framework
Controlling and Breaking Boundaries: Understanding Actor Agency during Supply Chain Entry
V.G.Gamithri Gayana Karunasena and Daniel D. Prior
14:00-15:15 Session 6B: Global Brand Management and Marketing Communications II
Session Chair: Peter Gabrielsson
Location: Room B
Decision-making Logic and Brand Orientation of Young Internationalizing Firms: The Performance Consequences
Samuel Yaw Kusi and Peter Gabrielsson
Brand Equity Formation: The Cultural Differences and Moderating Role of Perceived Brand Origin
Should Emerging Firms Say it Loud? The Effect of Foreign Acquisitions on the Perceived Value of Acquired Local Brands
Anh Nguyen Hoang Minh and Lailani Alcantara
A Cross-cultural Examination of Eco-innovation Adoption using Choice-based Conjoint Analysis: The Case of the “Green” Car Market
Charalampos Saridakis
14:00-15:15 Session 6C: Global Marketing Research, Big Data, and Analytics
Session Chair: Kay Peters
Location: Room C
Off-line Customer Flow Forecast through Deep Neural Networks
Xiaofeng Zhang, Xiaoyun Chen and Maggie Dong
Determinants and Consequences of International Launch Time Window: The Roles of Advertising and Word of Mouth
Web-sourced Competitive Intelligence and Embeddedness Impacting Customer Satisfaction: Evidence from Exporters vs. Non-Exporters
Kalanit Efrat, Amiram Markovich, Daphne Raban and Andreas Wald
Elicitation of salient brand emotions in Western and Asian markets: The role of elicitation context
Alexander Jakubanecs, Magne Supphellen, Alexander Fedorikhin, Hege Mathea Haugen, and Njål Sivertstøl
15:15-15:30 Tea and coffee break
15:30-16:45 Meet the Editors Session
Session Chair: Dave Stewart
Panelist: Michael Ahearne (International Journal of Research in Marketing)
Doug Hughes (Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management)
Satish Jayachandran (Journal of Marketing Research)
Costas Katsikeas (Journal of International Marketing and Journal of International Business Studies)
V Kumar (Journal of Marketing)
Neil Morgan (Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science)
Dave Stewart (Journal of Public Policy Marketing)
19:30-late Conference dinner at Santo Wines