Dimitris Skuras
Biographic Data
| ID | 3705160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitris Skuras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitris |
| FAMILY NAME | Skuras |
| SIGNATURE | SKURAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Patras |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7146-9549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Regional Pathways to Internationalization
This study examines the geographic distribution of Erasmus+ incoming student mobility across European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from 2014 to 2020, highlighting significant regional disparities. It addresses the crucial questions of how regional and institutional factors influence student attractiveness and the emerging hotspots of mobility, which are vital for understanding the dynamics of educational internationalisation and regional …
Natura 2000 public awareness in EU
The Natura 2000 network is a system of managed natural areas exclusively designed to protect Europe's most valuable and threatened species and habitats and covers 18.6% of its land area, and 8.9% of its marine territory. Repeated Eurobarometer public opinion surveys show that European citizens are unaware of this broad network. Awareness is a prerequisite to successful participatory planning. The present work addresses two issues. First, it refle…
Consumers’ awareness of the EU’s protected designations of origin logo
Purpose Protected designation of origin (PDO) and protected geographical indication (PGI) products form the core of the European Union (EU) quality food policy. Low and fragmented logo recognition perils the entire plan. This work aims to provide a “classification” of European consumers as regards logo awareness based on generic demographic and socio-economic characteristics and to test hypotheses relating PDO awareness with the purchasing behavi…
Don't change my towels please
A transdisciplinary approach to the economic analysis of the European Water Framework Directive
Back to basics
Innovation and Peripherality
This article examines the rates of innovative activity of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in central areas and equally developed but less accessible areas in six European Union member states. The probability of innovating is well predicted by the observable characteristics of firms, entrepreneurial characteristics, and business networks. More accessible areas consistently present higher rates of innovative activity than do their periphe…
Productive efficiency and firm exit in the food sector
Resources and Activities Complementarities
This paper focuses on the role of business networks, and especially on the ways in which formal and informal interactions among economic agents shape the tourist product. Local businesses are considered as agents who realize and/or create economic opportunities and develop new goals and strategies. Businesses are not viewed as independent entities, but as actors whose actions are embedded in structures of ongoing relations. As such, similar resou…
A Decision Support System for Integrated Tourism Development
Departement_IRSTEA]GT [TR1_IRSTEA]RURAMEN / AMANDE
Business networks and innovation in selected lagging areas of the European Union
The present paper examines the operation of business networks and the associated level of innovative activity in rural areas of the European Union by adopting a macro view. The empirical evidence is derived from field work carried out in 12 European Union areas located in six member states in the framework of a European Union funded research project. Results show that the spatial extension of business networks and businesses' innovative activity …
Rural tourism and visitors' expenditures for local food products
Skuras D., Dimara E. and Petrou A (2006) Rural tourism and visitors' expenditures for local food products, Regional Studies 40, 769–779. European rural development policy has supported the production of local and regionally denominated food as a means to differentiate agricultural production, and rural tourism as a means to diversify rural employment. The aim of the present work is to address tourists' decision to buy local food products while vi…
Rural entrepreneurship in Europe
The present work provides an integrated view of rural entrepreneurship and sets the agenda for future research in the area. Rurality defines a territorially specific entrepreneurial milieu with distinct physical, social and economic characteristics. Location, natural resources and the landscape, social capital, rural governance, business and social networks, as well as information and communication technologies, exert dynamic and complex influenc…
Entrepreneurial human capital accumulation and the growth of rural businesses
Agricultural policy for quality and producers’ evaluations of quality marketing indicators
Regional Image and the Consumption of Regionally Denominated Products
A number of quality products and services, often catering for niche markets, have become associated with certain regions. This geographical association has proved important in influencing the mentality of urban consumers, their behaviour and, consequently, the demand for such products. This work identifies three sets of elements of the regional resource base that contribute towards consumer-constructed regional images-namely, factors related to n…
The Contribution of Scenic Beauty Indicators in Estimating Environmental Welfare Measures
Usage of fuzzy modeling for cultivation of forests irigated by wastewater treatment plants
Cultivation of forests and plant species by utilizing processed wastewater and sludge from the wastewater treatment plants is an effective method to reduce the release of harmful substances and provide favorable conditions for the development of agricultural sector under the shortage of water resources. For this purpose, the experiments have been carrying out to investigate the ability of species to absorb chemical elements under increased concen…
Factors Influencing the Integration of Alternative Farm Enterprises Into the Agro-Food System
Financial stress and general crisis in European agriculture recently have generated a widespread interest in alternative paths of farm business development and structural adjustment. One of the options suggested by policy makers and adopted by farmers was the development of alternative farm enterprises (AFEs), in which farmers recombine resources on the farm and produce a new mix of products and services in order to supplement their incomes. In t…
Agriculture and the Greek Rural Environment
Over the past forty years Greek agriculture has experienced significant changes with profound impact on the state of the rural environment. Intensification of agricultural production is the driving force behind most negative environmental impacts caused by agricultural activities. Intensification is indicated by increased farm specialization and concentration, mechanization of production, increased fertilizer and pesticide use and high demand for…
Farm business and the development of alternative farm enterprises
Resources and Activities Complementarities
This paper focuses on the role of business networks, and especially on the ways in which formal and informal interactions among economic agents shape the tourist product. Local businesses are considered as agents who realize and/or create economic opportunities and develop new goals and strategies. Businesses are not viewed as independent entities, but as actors whose actions are embedded in structures of ongoing relations. As such, similar resou…
Rural tourism and visitors' expenditures for local food products
Skuras D., Dimara E. and Petrou A (2006) Rural tourism and visitors' expenditures for local food products, Regional Studies 40, 769–779. European rural development policy has supported the production of local and regionally denominated food as a means to differentiate agricultural production, and rural tourism as a means to diversify rural employment. The aim of the present work is to address tourists' decision to buy local food products while vi…
Entrepreneurial human capital accumulation and the growth of rural businesses
Farm business and the development of alternative farm enterprises
Don't change my towels please
A Decision Support System for Integrated Tourism Development
Departement_IRSTEA]GT [TR1_IRSTEA]RURAMEN / AMANDE
Factors Influencing the Integration of Alternative Farm Enterprises Into the Agro-Food System
Financial stress and general crisis in European agriculture recently have generated a widespread interest in alternative paths of farm business development and structural adjustment. One of the options suggested by policy makers and adopted by farmers was the development of alternative farm enterprises (AFEs), in which farmers recombine resources on the farm and produce a new mix of products and services in order to supplement their incomes. In t…
Agricultural policy for quality and producers’ evaluations of quality marketing indicators
Regional Image and the Consumption of Regionally Denominated Products
A number of quality products and services, often catering for niche markets, have become associated with certain regions. This geographical association has proved important in influencing the mentality of urban consumers, their behaviour and, consequently, the demand for such products. This work identifies three sets of elements of the regional resource base that contribute towards consumer-constructed regional images-namely, factors related to n…
Innovation and Peripherality
This article examines the rates of innovative activity of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in central areas and equally developed but less accessible areas in six European Union member states. The probability of innovating is well predicted by the observable characteristics of firms, entrepreneurial characteristics, and business networks. More accessible areas consistently present higher rates of innovative activity than do their periphe…
Productive efficiency and firm exit in the food sector
The Contribution of Scenic Beauty Indicators in Estimating Environmental Welfare Measures
Agriculture and the Greek Rural Environment
Over the past forty years Greek agriculture has experienced significant changes with profound impact on the state of the rural environment. Intensification of agricultural production is the driving force behind most negative environmental impacts caused by agricultural activities. Intensification is indicated by increased farm specialization and concentration, mechanization of production, increased fertilizer and pesticide use and high demand for…
Farm business and the development of alternative farm enterprises
Agriculture and the Greek Rural Environment
Over the past forty years Greek agriculture has experienced significant changes with profound impact on the state of the rural environment. Intensification of agricultural production is the driving force behind most negative environmental impacts caused by agricultural activities. Intensification is indicated by increased farm specialization and concentration, mechanization of production, increased fertilizer and pesticide use and high demand for…
Usage of fuzzy modeling for cultivation of forests irigated by wastewater treatment plants
Cultivation of forests and plant species by utilizing processed wastewater and sludge from the wastewater treatment plants is an effective method to reduce the release of harmful substances and provide favorable conditions for the development of agricultural sector under the shortage of water resources. For this purpose, the experiments have been carrying out to investigate the ability of species to absorb chemical elements under increased concen…
Factors Influencing the Integration of Alternative Farm Enterprises Into the Agro-Food System
Financial stress and general crisis in European agriculture recently have generated a widespread interest in alternative paths of farm business development and structural adjustment. One of the options suggested by policy makers and adopted by farmers was the development of alternative farm enterprises (AFEs), in which farmers recombine resources on the farm and produce a new mix of products and services in order to supplement their incomes. In t…
Rural entrepreneurship in Europe
The present work provides an integrated view of rural entrepreneurship and sets the agenda for future research in the area. Rurality defines a territorially specific entrepreneurial milieu with distinct physical, social and economic characteristics. Location, natural resources and the landscape, social capital, rural governance, business and social networks, as well as information and communication technologies, exert dynamic and complex influenc…
Entrepreneurial human capital accumulation and the growth of rural businesses
Agricultural policy for quality and producers’ evaluations of quality marketing indicators
Regional Image and the Consumption of Regionally Denominated Products
A number of quality products and services, often catering for niche markets, have become associated with certain regions. This geographical association has proved important in influencing the mentality of urban consumers, their behaviour and, consequently, the demand for such products. This work identifies three sets of elements of the regional resource base that contribute towards consumer-constructed regional images-namely, factors related to n…
The Contribution of Scenic Beauty Indicators in Estimating Environmental Welfare Measures
Business networks and innovation in selected lagging areas of the European Union
The present paper examines the operation of business networks and the associated level of innovative activity in rural areas of the European Union by adopting a macro view. The empirical evidence is derived from field work carried out in 12 European Union areas located in six member states in the framework of a European Union funded research project. Results show that the spatial extension of business networks and businesses' innovative activity …
Rural tourism and visitors' expenditures for local food products
Skuras D., Dimara E. and Petrou A (2006) Rural tourism and visitors' expenditures for local food products, Regional Studies 40, 769–779. European rural development policy has supported the production of local and regionally denominated food as a means to differentiate agricultural production, and rural tourism as a means to diversify rural employment. The aim of the present work is to address tourists' decision to buy local food products while vi…
Productive efficiency and firm exit in the food sector
Resources and Activities Complementarities
This paper focuses on the role of business networks, and especially on the ways in which formal and informal interactions among economic agents shape the tourist product. Local businesses are considered as agents who realize and/or create economic opportunities and develop new goals and strategies. Businesses are not viewed as independent entities, but as actors whose actions are embedded in structures of ongoing relations. As such, similar resou…
A Decision Support System for Integrated Tourism Development
Departement_IRSTEA]GT [TR1_IRSTEA]RURAMEN / AMANDE
Innovation and Peripherality
This article examines the rates of innovative activity of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in central areas and equally developed but less accessible areas in six European Union member states. The probability of innovating is well predicted by the observable characteristics of firms, entrepreneurial characteristics, and business networks. More accessible areas consistently present higher rates of innovative activity than do their periphe…
Back to basics
A transdisciplinary approach to the economic analysis of the European Water Framework Directive
Don't change my towels please
Consumers’ awareness of the EU’s protected designations of origin logo
Purpose Protected designation of origin (PDO) and protected geographical indication (PGI) products form the core of the European Union (EU) quality food policy. Low and fragmented logo recognition perils the entire plan. This work aims to provide a “classification” of European consumers as regards logo awareness based on generic demographic and socio-economic characteristics and to test hypotheses relating PDO awareness with the purchasing behavi…
Natura 2000 public awareness in EU
The Natura 2000 network is a system of managed natural areas exclusively designed to protect Europe's most valuable and threatened species and habitats and covers 18.6% of its land area, and 8.9% of its marine territory. Repeated Eurobarometer public opinion surveys show that European citizens are unaware of this broad network. Awareness is a prerequisite to successful participatory planning. The present work addresses two issues. First, it refle…
Regional Pathways to Internationalization
This study examines the geographic distribution of Erasmus+ incoming student mobility across European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from 2014 to 2020, highlighting significant regional disparities. It addresses the crucial questions of how regional and institutional factors influence student attractiveness and the emerging hotspots of mobility, which are vital for understanding the dynamics of educational internationalisation and regional …
Business (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Marketing (8 works) · Rural development and sustainability (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · European union (6 works)