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George Balabanis is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences, with a focus on Marketing and Sociology and Political Science among related subfields such as Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics addressed in Balabanis's work include Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Cultural Differences and Values, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Media Influence and Health, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, and the Impact of Technology on Adolescents.

Frequent publication venues for Balabanis include Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Business Research, International Marketing Review, European Journal of Marketing, and the Global Fashion Management Conference.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Balabanis include:

  • The price of social status desire and public self-consciousness in luxury consumption (2020, Journal of Business Research)
  • A meta-analysis of consumer ethnocentrism across 57 countries (2021, International Journal of Research in Marketing)
  • Meta-analysis of social media influencer impact: Key antecedents and theoretical foundations (2023, Psychology and Marketing)

Collaborators frequently working with Balabanis include Αναστασία Σταθοπούλου, Carmen López, Nikoletta-Theofania Siamagka, Xiaolan Chen, and Aleksandra Karpova.

Best Publications

  • Domestic Country Bias, Country-of-Origin Effects, and Consumer Ethnocentrism: A Multidimensional Unfolding Approach

    George Balabanis;Adamantios Diamantopoulos

  • The Impact of Nationalism, Patriotism and Internationalism on Consumer Ethnocentric Tendencies

    George Balabanis;Adamantios Diamantopoulos;Rene Dentiste Mueller;T. C. Melewar

  • Corporate social responsibility and economic performance in the top British companies: are they linked?

    George Balabanis;Hugh C. Phillips;Jonathan Lyall

  • Between the mass and the class: Antecedents of the “bandwagon” luxury consumption behavior

    Minas N. Kastanakis;George Balabanis

  • Bases of e-store loyalty: Perceived switching barriers and satisfaction

    George Balabanis;Nina Reynolds;Antonis C Simintiras

  • Brand Origin Identification by Consumers: A Classification Perspective

    George Balabanis;Adamantios Diamantopoulos

  • Explaining variation in conspicuous luxury consumption: An individual differences' perspective

    Minas N. Kastanakis;George Balabanis

  • Market orientation in the top 200 British charity organizations and its impact on their performance

    George Balabanis;Ruth E. Stables;Hugh C. Phillips

  • Revisiting Consumer Ethnocentrism: Review, Reconceptualization, and Empirical Testing

    Nikoletta Theofania Siamagka;George Balabanis

  • Gains and Losses from the Misperception of Brand Origin: The Role of Brand Strength and Country-of-Origin Image

    George Balabanis;Adamantios Diamantopoulos

  • The human values’ lenses of country of origin images

    George Balabanis;Rene Mueller;T.C. Melewar

  • Being an entrepreneurial exporter: does it pay?

    George I Balabanis;Eva.S Katsikea

  • Consumer Attitudes towards Multi-Channel Retailers' Web Sites: The Role of Involvement, Brand Attitude, Internet Knowledge and Visit Duration

    George Balabanis;Nina L. Reynolds

  • The effects of loyalty programs on customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty toward high- and low-end fashion retailers

    Anastasia Stathopoulou;George Balabanis

  • Consumer Xenocentrism as Determinant of Foreign Product Preference: A System Justification Perspective

    George Balabanis;Adamantios Diamantopoulos

  • The Relationship Between Consumer Ethnocentrism and Human Values

    George Balabanis;Rene Mueller;T. C. Melewar

  • Inconsistencies in the behavioural effects of consumer ethnocentrism: The role of brand, product category and country of origin

    George Balabanis;Nikoletta-Theofania Siamagka

  • Consumer confusion from own brand lookalikes: An exploratory investigation

    George Balabanis;Samantha Craven

  • Some Attitudinal Predictors of Home-Shopping through the Internet

    George Balabanis;Stefanos Vassileiou

  • Measuring Unethical Consumer Behavior Across Four Countries

    Vince W. Mitchell;George Balabanis;Bodo B. Schlegelmilch;T. Bettina Cornwell

  • Guest editorial: Export marketing: developments and a research agenda

    George Balabanis;Marios Theodosiou;Evangelia S. Katsikea

Frequent Co-Authors

Adamantios Diamantopoulos
Adamantios Diamantopoulos University of Vienna
T.C. Melewar
T.C. Melewar Middlesex University
Vincent‐Wayne Mitchell
Vincent‐Wayne Mitchell University of Sydney
Constantine S. Katsikeas
Constantine S. Katsikeas University of Leeds
T. Bettina Cornwell
T. Bettina Cornwell University of Oregon
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch Vienna University of Economics and Business
Stanley F. Slater
Stanley F. Slater Colorado State University

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