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Overview

Pavlos Dimitratos was affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with particular focus on several subfields including Strategy and Management, Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics addressed in Dimitratos's body of work included International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Family Business Performance and Succession, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Corporate Finance and Governance, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Islamic Finance and Banking Studies, and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy.

Dimitratos published extensively in reputable venues, most notably the International Business Review and Strategic Change. Key recent papers include:

  • Strategic decision-making processes, international environmental munificence and the accelerated internationalization of SMEs, 2020, International Business Review
  • International entrepreneurial SMEs in the Muslim world: The role of religion in the GCC countries, 2022, International Business Review
  • Agency controls and subsidiary strategic initiatives: The mediating role of subsidiary autonomy, 2021, International Business Review
  • The Role of Transformative Learning in Mediating the Entrepreneurial Orientation-International Performance Relationship: A Three-Country Study, 2025, Strategic Change

Their frequent co-authors comprised Saïd Elbanna, Andreas Petrou, Elias Hadjielias, Ioannis C. Thanos, and Heba Younis, with collaborative contributions across several papers.

Best Publications

  • Born globals: Propositions to help advance the theory

    Mika Gabrielsson;V.H. Manek Kirpalani;V.H. Manek Kirpalani;V.H. Manek Kirpalani;Pavlos Dimitratos;Pavlos Dimitratos;Carl Arthur Solberg

  • The relationship between entrepreneurship and international performance: the importance of domestic environment

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Spyros Lioukas;Sara Carter

  • SME Entrepreneurial Orientation, International Performance, and the Moderating Role of Strategic Alliances

    Keith D. Brouthers;George Nakos;Pavlos Dimitratos

  • Theoretical Foundations of an International Entrepreneurial Culture

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki

  • International Entrepreneurship Research: What Scope for International Business Theories?

    Stephen Young;Pavlos Dimitratos;Léo-Paul Dana

  • Future directions for international entrepreneurship research

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Marian V. Jones

  • UK export performance research: review and implications

    Colin Wheeler;Kevin Ibeh;Pavlos Dimitratos

  • Governance mechanisms of small and medium enterprise international partner management

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Spyros Lioukas;Kevin I. N. Ibeh;Colin Wheeler

  • Micromultinationals:: New Types of Firms for the Global Competitive Landscape

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Jeffrey Johnson;Jonathan Slow;Stephen Young

  • Strategic decision-making processes in internationalization: Does national culture of the focal firm matter?

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Andreas Petrou;Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki;Jeffrey E. Johnson

  • International entrepreneurial culture—Toward a comprehensive opportunity-based operationalization of international entrepreneurship

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Irini Voudouris;Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki;George Nakos

  • The global smaller firm in international entrepreneurship

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki;Antigoni Pitsoulaki;Heinz Josef Tüselmann

  • The Case Study in Family Business: An Analysis of Current Research Practices and Recommendations

    Tanja Leppäaho;Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki;Pavlos Dimitratos

  • International Entrepreneurial Culture and Growth of International New Ventures

    Mika Gabrielsson;Mika Gabrielsson;Peter Gabrielsson;Pavlos Dimitratos

  • Micro-multinational or not? International entrepreneurship, networking and learning effects

    Pavlos Dimitratos;José Ernesto Amorós;María Soledad Etchebarne;Christian Felzensztein

  • Beyond categorization: New directions for theory development about entrepreneurial internationalization

    A Rebecca Reuber;Pavlos Dimitratos;Olli Kuivalainen;Olli Kuivalainen

  • SME Networks and International Performance: Unveiling the Significance of Foreign Market Entry Mode

    Maria-Cristina Stoian;Josep Rialp;Pavlos Dimitratos

  • Images of Women in Online Advertisements of Global Products: Does Sexism Exist?

    Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki;Kalliopi Mathioudaki;Pavlos Dimitratos;Yorgos Zotos

  • SME internationalization: How does the opportunity-based international entrepreneurial culture matter?

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Jeffrey E. Johnson;Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki;Stephen Young

  • The motivation of international entrepreneurship: The case of Chinese transnational entrepreneurs

    Pavlos Dimitratos;Trevor Buck;Margaret Fletcher;Nicholas Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonella Zucchella
Antonella Zucchella University of Pavia
Mika Gabrielsson
Mika Gabrielsson Hanken School of Economics
Keith D. Brouthers
Keith D. Brouthers King's College London
Sara Carter
Sara Carter University of Glasgow
Sylvie Chetty
Sylvie Chetty Uppsala University
José Ernesto Amorós
José Ernesto Amorós Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Olli Kuivalainen
Olli Kuivalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology
Shaker A. Zahra
Shaker A. Zahra University of Minnesota
Nikolaos Tzokas
Nikolaos Tzokas Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship
Melvin J. Lerner
Melvin J. Lerner University of Waterloo

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