George Konteos

• University of Western Macedonia

A genuine shift toward a model for sustainable development hinges on revising people's values, attitudes, and behaviors. Education plays a pivotal role in fostering this lifestyle transformation, equipping individuals who are educated under these principles with the skills and values to act as proactive contributors to societal betterment on both l...

The potential of Artificial Intelligence to transform banking practices has been extensively documented, yet restrained acceptance can hinder its envisioned practical success. The paper employs empirical investigation developing and examining the modelled representation of users’ intention and interaction with AI in the Greek systemic banking syste...

Introduction and Purpose: Climate change, a critical global challenge, necessitates action across all sectors, including education. SDG13 (Climate Action) emphasizes the role of education in fostering awareness, critical thinking, and behavioral shifts towards sustainability. Traditional teaching methods often fail to connect theoretical climate kn...

Banking institutions’ digital transformation framework has a phased journey, whose pace may position the institution for success of failure. The paper is providing a structure of progress for assessment on that journey, building on a study of the Greek banking institutions. The main tools employed were empirical case study examination of a represen...

Mobile banking apps (mBA) are considered vital tools for banks’ digital transformation as they offer self-service options for most of their provided services to their customers via mobile devices. However, only a small proportion of retail customers utilize them. The limited relevant literature focuses only on individuals’ behavioral intention to a...

This study examines the interplay between urban policy interventions, infrastructure investments, and economic and labor market outcomes in large metropolitan areas from 2017 to 2022. We have employed empirical research to unravel the phenomena among these domains by employing a comprehensive dataset comprising gross value added (GVA), compensation...

The implementation of eTwinning programs, may be considered a quality assurance practice in international collaborations between educational organizations. E-Twinning is an innovative program of collaborative actions of the European Commission that has been implemented from 2005 until today with great success and helps to make education in Europe m...

This research refers to a case study of a business plan implemented at a private school unit. More specifically, the process of the strategic plan development of a High School of Thessaloniki is presented. Firstly, an analysis of the internal environment of the school unit takes place, in order to uncover its strengths and weaknesses, considering t...

Educational organizations collaborate internationally via eTwinning projects which are regarded as a quality assurance measure. eTwinning is a creative initiative of the European Commission that combines partnerships with innovative layouts. It has been successfully implemented since 2005 and contributes to the modernization of European education t...

This paper examines a business plan that was designed and implemented at a public school. More precisely, the process of developing a high school’s strategic plan in Thessaloniki is described. First, the school unit's internal environment is analyzed to determine its advantages and disadvantages while taking the macroenvironment's opportunities and...

The rapid growth in technology offers both benefits and challenges to traditional teaching and learning methods in the field of education. Not only is information technology (IT) a study topic itself, but it also has a significant impact on all other academic fields. The ways in which teaching, learning, and human resource management are conducted...

Total quality management (TQM) is regarded as the fundamental basis for properly organizing educational activities and initiatives that improve the educational organization throughout its entirety. The purpose of this paper is to uncover to which extent the application of the principles of TQM can be used as a competitive advantage for the educatio...

Using as a case study the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the present research studied the social-economic consequences of major sport events management. The present study examined many researches that had to do with the concept of infrastructure growth as a result of major sport events, as well as offered statistics on evidence of infrastructure development...

The provenance of COVID-19 across the world has continued to render severe consequence to both the economy, people and the environment. This literature review study sought to assess the general impact of COVID-19 on the different systems and the worldwide economy as well as establishing different opportunities for CE. This review revalued that the...

This study sought to investigate the impact of technology integration on teaching and learning in the primary school classroom on economic growth. Two hundred teachers from ten public primary schools in Kozani, Greece, were randomly chosen to complete the survey questionnaire for this quantitative research. The data show that most instructors are a...

This paper examines the stages of the digital transformational path that lies in front of incumbent banks in their conversion into digitally driven institutions and contributes by providing clarity in the parameters that define each stage and the key metrics to be tracked. It is a general review paper, with main tools employed the relevant scholar...

Global issues are emerged due to the advent of internationalization and interdependence processes. There is a number of global issues prevailing worldwide. The present research paper tries to explore the three way classification of global issues such as inter social, natural social and anthropo-social global problems that may occur as a result of d...

This paper investigates the redesigning process of the development identity of a Local Government Regional Unit (City), a case study of Kozani City, Greece. This paper considers Kozani as a potential competitive tourist, investment, and cultural heritage destination that can contribute greatly to place and regional development once redesigned to me...

In the past few years, the process of urban design has been criticized for its definitions, ideas, steps, and interactions with other fields. Local governments' plans for urban development often don't turn out the way people thought they would. This literature review study tried to figure out how the development of a city's identity is affected by...

The COVID-19 pandemic led universities to transform the traditional teaching methodologies into distance education. Therefore, social media has become progressively prominent as teaching and learning resources in universities. Several studies have been conducted for the development of social media as a learning tool. However, there is limited empir...