Pavlos A. Vlachos

Pavlos A. Vlachos

The Theodore Papalexopoulos Chair in Sustainability
Professor of Marketing

  • PhD, Athens University of Economics and Business 
  • MBA, National Technical University of Athens 
  • BSc in Marketing, Athens University of Economics and Business 

Short Bio

Pavlos Vlachos is the Theodore Papalexopoulos Chair in Sustainability, a Professor of Marketing at Alba Graduate Business School (tenured) and the Associate Dean of Research & Innovation at the School of Business and Economics. 

He has served as the academic director of the Alba MBA (AMBA accredited) and his teaching includes Research Methods, Strategic Marketing, Marketing Analytics and Corporate Social Responsibility. His current research explores organizational social evaluations and particularly how different stakeholders—including employees, job seekers, customers, investors and financial analysts—understand and react to Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Research (section: CSR/Ethics). Among others his work has appeared in Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Human Relations (2022; 2023), Harvard Business Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Organizational Behavior (2014; 2017), Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Tourism Management, Journal of Business Ethics, European Journal of Information Systems, Industrial & Organizational Psychology (Perspectives), Industrial Marketing Management, and International Journal of Human Resource Management among others. 

Selected Publications

2025

Kay, A., Vlachos, P.A., Tasoulis, K., & Farndale, E. (2025). “Fraught expectations: A fairness heuristic process model of the pros and cons of CSR for talent acquisition,” Human Resource Management, vol. 64, no 2, pp. 465-483 (ABS 4, FT50).

2024

Papagiannakis, G. E., Vlachos, P. A., Koritos, C., & Kassinis, G. I. (2024). Are publicly traded tourism and hospitality providers greenwashing? Tourism Management, 103, 104893.

2023

Kay, A., Charles, T., Reb, J., Vlachos, P.A. (in press). “Mindfully Outraged: Mindfulness Amplifies Retribution via Moral Outrage at Third-Party Injustice,” Organizational Behavioral and Human Decision Processes (ABS=4; IF=5.606) (Equal 2nd co-authorship)

2023

Tasoulis, K., Pappas, I., Vlachos, P.A., Oruh, E. (2023) “A configurational approach to planned organizational culture change: The case of John Lewis Partnership,” Human Relations, vol. 77, no. 9, 1272-1305 (ABS 4, FT 50)

2022

Kassinis, G., Kay, A., Papagiannakis, G., Vlachos, P.A. (in press) “Stigma as Moral Insurance: How Stigma Buffers Firms from the Market Consequences of Greenwashing?” Journal of Management Studies (ABS=4; FT; Special issue: Organizational Stigma) (equal contribution).

2022

Bachrach, D.G., Vlachos, P.A., Irwin, K., Morgeson, F (2022). “Does how firms invest in CSR matter? An attributional model of how job seekers react to configurational variation in CSR,” Human Relations vol.73, pp.532-559 (ABS=4) (first two authors equally contributed) (IF=5.658).

2020

Vlachos, P.A., Avramidis, P., Panagopoulos, N., (2020) How to Optimize Your Company’s Approach to Data Privacy. Harvard Business Review. Available Here

2017

Vlachos P.A, Panagopoulos, N., Bachrach, D., Morgeson, F.P. (2017). “The effect of managerial and employee attributions of corporate social responsibility initiatives,” Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1111-1129 (IF=10.079).

2014

Vlachos, P., Panagopoulos, N., & Rapp, A. (2014). “Employee Cognitions of and Behaviors towards Corporate Social Responsibility Programs: A Multi-study Investigation of Direct, Moderating, and Cascading Effects,” Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 990-1017 (IF=10.079).

2013

Vlachos, P., Panagopoulos, N., & Rapp, A. 2013. Feeling good by doing good: employee CSR-induced attributions, job satisfaction, and the role of charismatic leadership, Journal of Business Ethics, 118(3): 577-588.

2009

Vlachos, P., Tsamakos, A., Vrechopoulos, A., & Avramidis, P. 2009. Corporate social responsibility: attributions, loyalty and the mediating role of trust, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 37(2): 170-180.

2008

Theotokis, A., Vlachos, P., & Pramatari K. 2008. The moderating role of customer-technology contact on attitude towards technology-based services, European Journal of Information Systems, 17(4): 343-351.

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