Research & Professional Achievements
Research & Professional Achievements
Research Focus
International business, with a focus on a) International Strategic Alliances with Greek partners and more specifically on partner relationships and their impact on ISA success, knowledge transfer and trust and b) the strategic capabilities, knowledge IT tools and AI on the international performance of Greek firms.
Food Value Chain (FVC) with a focus on how sustainability principles can be integrated the chain and more specifically on food packaging, and recycling systems that can minimize environmental impact while maintaining product safety. I am also interested in the relationship between efficient supply chain management and IT and AI tools.
Research interests
· International Strategic Alliances
· Digital Technologies and exports
· Food Value chain and International Business
· Entrepreneurship
Ongoing projects
· Strategic Capabilities, Knowledge and International Performance of Greek exporting firms
· Differences and similarities of partner complementarity, similarity and compatibility and their impact on trust development in international strategic alliances
· Use of Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Food Exports
· Intergenerational succession and innovation in Greek family SMEs: Assessing the role of knowledge transfer and successor readiness
Rotsios, K., Folinas, D., Mouchtari, C., Andreou, A., Fotiadis, T., Folina, M. T., & Gasteratos, A. (2025). Exploring the factors influencing the acceptance of IoT applications in food packaging. Foods, 14(4), 575.
Sklavounos, N., Rotsios, K., & Hajidimitriou, Y. A. (2024). The Impact of Foreign Partner’s Senior Management Prior Experience and Commitment on Trust and Knowledge Transfer in International Strategic Alliances. WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics.
Rotsios K, Konstantoglou, A, Folinas D, Fotiadis T, Hatzithomas L, Boutsouki C., (2022), “Evaluating the Use of QR Codes on Food Products”. Sustainability, 14(8):4437
Rotsios, K., Sklavounos, N. and Hajidimitriou, Y., (2021a), “Successful Knowledge Transfer in IJVs: The Role of Trust, Partner Compatibility and Expected Benefits”. European Journal of International Management, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 595–614
Rotsios, K., Sklavounos, N., & Hajidimitriou, Y., (2021), “IJV partner relations in emerging markets: the importance of Greek partner's prior IJV experience”. Journal of Strategy and Management.