Greek Customs Research Articles

The Relation between Consumer Perception and Objective Understanding of Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels (FOPNLs); Results from an Online Representative Survey.

This study investigates the efficacy of Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels (FOPNLs) as a cost-effective tool for improving dietary choices among Greek consumers. The purpose of the study was to investigate Greek customers' preferences and comprehension of commonly used European FOPNL schemes. The Hellenic Food Authority and the Agricultural University of Athens performed a representative online survey in March 2022, titled "The Role of Nutritional Labelling in Public Perception and Food Procurement." Consumers responded to a questionnaire separated into two parts. Part one included (i) personal, sociodemographic information, and (ii) subjective opinions on the FOPNL schemes, and part two comprised (iii) an objective understanding of NutriScore and NutrInform Battery, using 15 different foods. Participants were randomly allocated to these groups, and general mixed models were used for analysis. A total of 1389 adults completed the first part of the survey, and 74.8% completed the second part. The Multiple Traffic Lights scheme was the preferred FOPNL, chosen by 48.4% of respondents, compared to 19.7% for NutrInform Battery and 12.3% for NutriScore. However, the mean objective assessment score was highest for NutriScore (5.8 ± 2.3) compared to NutrInform Battery (5.4 ± 1.9). The results highlight the necessity for comprehensive nutrition education programs by showing a considerable gap between subjective preferences and an objective understanding of nutrition labels.

The Family of Philip II of Macedon: the culturological approach of ancient authors

Philip II of Macedon had an unprecedented number of interethnic marriages and seven children born in these unions. His matrimonial activity met the requirements of politics. However, the works of ancient authors contain a large amount of contradictory information concerning the family of Philip II. Attempts by ancient historians to retrospectively explain the situation of the royal children and wives often make it difficult to recreate the true picture of what happened. The ancient authors were representatives of a different culture, a different era, different from the time of Philip's reign. Therefore, modern researchers still do not have a single opinion regarding the marital relations of the Macedonian king and his family, which confirms the relevance of this topic. The purpose of this article is to clarify the role of members of the royal family at the court of Philip, and the factors that influenced their participation in political affairs. The theoretical basis of the research is the works of Athenaeus, Plutarch, Pompey Trog and Diodorus Siculus, as well as the works of modern authors. The methods of analysis and synthesis, the method of systematization of materials, as well as the comparative historical method and the method of studying cultural memory were used in the work. For the first time, the article attempts to consider the history of the family of Philip of Macedon, systematizing all available references in the sources. In addition, the authors analyze the material in the context of the ancient perception of the world. As a result of the study, the authors came to the conclusion that all ancient historians were not only influenced by Greek customs and customs and the traditional dichotomy of "Hellenes-barbarians", but also wrote their works under the impression of contemporary political events. These circumstances influenced the desire of historians to rationalize and explain the events that took place in the family of the Macedonian king. The culturological approach allowed the ancient authors to focus only on important events from their point of view, which did not always correspond to reality.

Icons and iconographic samples. New touches to the iconography of the reliquary with the relics of st. Athanasius III Patellarios

Since the 1660s, the incorruptible relics of the Patriarch of Constantinople Athanasius III (Patellarius), buried according to a Greek custom in a seated position, have been venerated in the Mgar Holy Transfiguration Monastery near the town of Lubny in the Poltava province of the historical Malorussian region. Due to the prolonged uncertainty concerning the official recognition of him as a saint, the iconography of the patriarch is virtually devoid of traditional iconographic images. Instead, small pilgrimage depictions of the shrine with his relics or the entire tomb complex have become widespread. The icons and iconographic samples found in museums and private collections, as well as documents on the transfer of the relics and the design of the reliquary, allow us to expand our understanding of the specifics and stages of development of this peculiar composition. The article brings to light several successive iconographic renditions, associated with the manufacture of a new reliquary and the saint’s increased veneration after the publication of hagiographic materials. While the majority of the surviving icons were made in the modern-day territories of Ukraine, they were in demand and copied by the masters of central Russia. The portrayals of Saint Athanasius III, created in the monastery workshops or commissioned by the Mgar monastery, characterize the little-known center of local icon painting of the late 18th – mid-19th centuries.

Kale Akte – ‘the Fair Promontory’. New Research and Interpretations on the Urban History and Foundation by Ducetius

This paper examines the origins of the ancient urban settlement Kale Akte on the north coast of Sicily, based on the extensive excavations and research carried out at Caronia and Caronia Marina over the last two decades. It is suggested that the name Kale Akte – ‘Fair Promontory’ – was probably coined in Archaic times by Greek merchants and would have derived from the promontory with its harbour, an obvious landmark for the Greeks. The recently discovered Archaic harbour at Caronia Marina is regarded as a Sikel harbour, created as a maritime outlet for a Sikel settlement that must have existed on the hill-top of Caronia before the foundation by Ducetius. The archaeological finds suggest that the Sikel settlement was well acquainted with the Greek custom of the symposion. In the Archaic period, Kale Akte can be viewed as a ‘middle ground’ where traders of different ethnicities and cultural identity put differences aside in order to make a profit on trade. The topographical characteristics of the site are compared with the two other alleged foundations by Ducetius: Menai (Mineo) and Paliké. The hill-top of Caronia has close similarities with Mineo, but also with Cittadella, the precursor to Morgantina. Ducetius cannot have been the instigator behind the grand urban plan of Morgantina, since all his urban projects seem to have been on a relatively limited scale. The topographical situation of Kale Akte is also compared with that of the neighbouring cities Halaesa, Apollonia and Haluntium. However, the interests of these urban centres were dominated by territorial ambitions, while Kale Akte appears to have specialized in trade and maritime commerce from its inception. It is suggested that the harbour of Kale Akte in Roman times may well have served a much larger area than its own territory. The foundation of Kale Akte on the hill-top of Caronia is thought to have been undertaken by Ducetius with the consent of Syracuse, which was interested in founding a maritime trading post on this part of the coast, and was still under Sikel dominion. This would explain the open character of the settlement and the lack of any fortifications.

Dictionaries as Sources of Folklore Data ed. by Jonathan Roper

Reviewed by: Dictionaries as Sources of Folklore Data ed. by Jonathan Roper David S. Azzolina (bio) Dictionaries as Sources of Folklore Data edited by Jonathan Roper. Folklore Fellows Communications, no. 321. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2020. Pp. 246. €28.00. ISBN: 978-951-41-1157-0. Folklorists are very creative when it comes to finding sources of folklore, and students of dictionaries likewise know that dictionaries can be used in many ways beyond their immediate functions. Jonathan Roper, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, has edited a collection of ten articles that begin a fruitful avenue of research into the use of dictionaries as a reservoir of folklore. After an introduction by Roper, the collection consists of three sections of three articles each: Folklore in the Formation of Dictionaries, Case Studies of Dictionaries, and Folklore in Dictionaries: Methodological Considerations. All the chapters are based on real-life data in the dictionaries themselves, usually also based in fieldwork. Each has something significant to say about the role folklore can play in the compilation of dictionaries and how dictionaries can inform the folklorist. I am going to end this review by focusing on Roper’s introduction. The first section, Folklore in the Formation of Dictionaries, begins with a discussion of how Roman Catholic priest Patrick Dinneen strove to compile a dictionary of “an unsettled language like Irish,” necessitating the use of proverbs and sayings, customs, and beliefs. There are even references to material culture of the Irish in this 1904 work. Timothy R. Tangherlini from the Department of Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley, looks at a dictionary of Jutland folk speech published in four volumes between 1886 and 1914. He starts with a history of Danish dictionaries, a subject likely unknown to most English-speaking readers. Henning Feilberg, the compiler of the dictionary, was a chaplain in southern Jutland and though he had little experience as a fieldworker, he used a large variety of folklore sources including a network of collectors. Tangherlini concludes with an overview of the future of Jutlandic dialect dictionaries. Focusing on John Sampson’s 1926 dictionary of Welsh Gypsy (Romani) dialect, Jeremy Harte notes that Sampson was a fieldworker par excellence. He collected folktales, superstitions, and other belief narratives. The problem may be that such collecting may skew an outsider’s worldview of the Gypsies as a backward group. Roper in his Preface notes that the articles [End Page 235] in this section are connected by their attention to the past, almost reclamatory work as well as their afterlife. The second section is most explicitly devoted to case studies, though all the chapters are case studies in some sense. What makes the chapter by Zoja Karanović and Jasmina Dražić on the 1818 Srpski rječnik (The Serbian Dictionary) and its 1852 revision most interesting is how a dictionary can play an important role in a culture. Its compiler, Vuk Karadžić, looms large in the development of Serbian culture more generally, having produced other works on folk songs and ethnology. Naturally, these materials were included in his dictionary as well as superstitions and mythological beliefs and even humor. Compiled in Latin, since Frisian was chiefly a spoken language in the nineteenth century, Joost Hiddes Halbertsma’s 1872 Lexicon Frisicum is the subject of Anne Dykstra’s chapter. What makes this dictionary unique is its focus on superstitions and the lengthy entries expounding them. By looking at a variety of Greek dictionaries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Haralampos Passalis notes that they “constitute products of an era, whose main aim was to prove the relation of Modern Greek customs and language with those of antiquity” (pp. 161–62). All of which is to say that the materials were included as a demonstration of antiquity that was encouraged by larger social forces. The entire effort was caught, as Passalis calls it, between the folklorist and the lexicographer. The final section is devoted to methodological considerations. The famous Dictionary of English/Creole of Trinidad and Tobago is the first example. The methodological problem here is one of inclusion, according to Lise Winer, author of not only the chapter but also of the...

Roots ancient or medieval? Nikolaos Politis, modern Greek folklore studies and ancient Greek religion

The question posed by the title can be reformulated in the following manner: to what extent has it been possible or desirable to connect modern Greek customs with ancient ones? not customs in general, but more precisely religious customs. Greek folklore studies typically begin with Nikolaos Politis, professor at the University of Athens, the first to introduce the term λαογραφία (meaning “folklore studies”) towards the end of the nineteenth century. Yet, we need to revert to at least as far back as the time prior to the Greek Revolution, that is, the period of the Greek enlightenment, in order to trace the beginnings of the shaping of the ideological framework of modern Greek folklore studies. it is well known and has aptly been pointed out, also in connection with Greek folklore studies, that for the Greeks the enlightenment movement went hand in hand with a specific form of romanticism. The Greek idea of the nation developed within the framework of the Romantic movement and on the basis of the connection between “us” and “the ancients”. How, then, were modern Greek folk customs that were not firmly related to the orthodox church incorporated in this new cultural narrative?

Fallen Soldiers and the Gods

The retrieval and subsequent burial of the war dead in classical Greece was considered an important component of any given battle. Scholarship has observed how the retrieval of the war dead in the classical period could determine the outcome of a battle, as well as how the commemoration of the war dead functioned as a tool of civic identity, especially in the city of Athens. Although the above observations provide sufficient motivation for the recovery of the battle dead, this paper proposes an additional impetus for their collection: religion. Although scholars have often noted that Greek customs surrounding the war dead were motivated by religious concerns, what those religious concerns were have not been elaborated. This paper remedies this gap by exploring the relationship between the war dead and the gods. In this paper, I argue that the war dead were considered the property of the gods and were afforded special protections for this reason. Moreover, the proper burial of the war dead was necessary to transfer the war dead from the custody of the human world to the gods below. Such a transfer, I argue, maintained the relationship between the polis and the gods, ensuring its continued existence.

Greek Influences on Roman Dowry Law

ABSTRACTClassical and Hellenistic Greek laws and dowry practices were generally more progressive and provided more protections for wives than early Roman marriage law and practice. Roman dowry law then witnessed a series of significant developments over the course of the republic, beginning with the time when the Romans were coming into increased contact with Greek culture. Changes in social attitudes towards the conditions for women in marriage, their ability to control their dowries, and their right to own property, seem to have been responsible for these transformations in Roman family law. As Romans became increasingly Hellenized, their dowry and marriage practices in general came to resemble patterns prevailing in the Greek world, perhaps as a result of individuals’ emulation of Greek laws and customs. The shift from the overall predominance of marriage in manu to marriage sine manu may therefore be explained partly by influences from the Greek world.

Customer Participation, e-Service Quality, Satisfaction: (e)Service Dominant Logic Trinity

This study aims to assess the effects of customer participation behavior on perceived e-service quality and satisfaction in Greek e-shops, by analyzing data collected by 335 Greek customers, employing Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (SEM) of the ADF method. The research explores and expands existing literature, focusing on self-service technologies and specifically on e-shopping, while customer participation is considered a multi-dimensional construct. The results reveal that one dimension of customer participation behavior (responsible behavior) positively affects perceived service quality, as well as customer satisfaction, while information seeking affects only e-service quality, whereas the two dependent variables are not affected by information sharing.

Queer Relations between the American Dream and Postcolonial Resistance in The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)

Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) kindled debates on 9/11 discourse by providing a third-world perspective on the historical tragedy. While centering on postcolonial and international complications surrounding 9/11, Hamid addresses homosexual and racial identity in the text. Based on existing scholarship reading the text as postcolonial resis tance, this essay aims to expand our view of 9/11 narratives by analyzing homosexual politics in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which has barely been recognized by scholars. This essay examines, on the one hand, the mentor-mentee relationship between the closeted gay character Jim and Pakistani immigrant Changez (hearkening back to Greek customs of homosexuality), and, on the other hand, it looks at their mentorship as sit uated within postcolonial discussions concerning the effeminization of Asia and the assimilation process within a diaspora. Approaching the novel as an American dream narrative reveals an underlying anxiety about American society’s rejection about Others as well as of homosexuality. This essay argues that The Reluctant Fundamentalist critiques a white nationalist discourse after 9/11 in which orientalist impulses supersede homophobia, excluding racial others and integrating white homosexuals as patriotic members.

Famar buys Bayer plant in Quebec

Famar Health Care Services, a Greek custom manufacturer with 11 facilities in the European Union, is establishing a foothold in North America with the acquisition of a Bayer plant in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. The facility makes liquid-, semisolid-, and solid-dosage-form drugs and employs about 150 people. Last year, Famar acquired a Roche dosage-form drug plant in Spain.

Greek Immigrants in Australia: Implications for Culturally Sensitive Practice.

This exploratory research examined adjustment challenges, resiliencies, attitudes, emotional health, economic stability, criminal involvement, victimization and service experiences, and some cultural propensities of Greek Immigrants (GIs) in Australia using a convenient multi-generational sample (n = 123; response rate = .5). Data were collected via surveys, telephone, and personal-interviews in four major Australian cities. Among other things, the study revealed that Greek identity and cultural customs are often significant to first generation GIs. Adjustment challenges upon entry include primarily language, housing, and transportation difficulties, nostalgia for relatives and the motherland, unfamiliarity with socio-cultural systems, unemployment, money challenges, and lack of friendships. Christian faith, the extended family, family values and traditions, cultural pride for ancient Greek achievements, and a hard 'work ethic' are notable resiliencies that support GIs in their struggles and solidify their pursuit for happiness and success. Financial concerns, aging, and nostalgia for relatives and the motherland were the primary causes of socio-emotional instability. Attitudinal differences in the respondents based on age, gender, and socio-economic status, cross-cultural comparisons, and recommendations for culturally-sensitive practice with GIs are analyzed and methodological limitations illuminated. Future research needs in the field are also highlighted.

The Jewish community and the Hellenistic culture in the light of the Books of the Maccabees

Summarising the proposed analyses of the contents of the Books of the Maccabees, it can be noted that the Biblical authors described three main attitudes of the Jews to the Hellenistic culture and the pagan religion that was part of that culture: the attitude of openness and ready adoption of the “Greek customs,” military resistance, as well as the heroic attitudes of giving one’s life for the sake of fidelity to the prescripts of the Law. As the Books of the Maccabees show, the high priests of Jerusalem played a non-unimportant role in the process of the city Hellenization. It also should be observed that the authors, describing historical facts, sometimes put their own interpretation on them to express a definite theological message.

Econometric investigation of internet banking adoption in Greece

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine if high branch fees, branch dissatisfaction as well as any previous experience of Greek banking customers with other banking technologies (i.e. Automated Teller Machines (ATMs)) have any impact on the probability of internet banking adoption. Further, the authors comment on the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of Greek banking customers, which effect the decision to adopt internet banking services. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employed the logistic regression model to examine the probability of Greek customers adopting internet banking based on certain demographic characteristics but also due to high branch fees, any dissatisfaction with branch services or due to previous experience of electronic banking technologies (ATMs). Findings – After estimating a logistic model, the authors report that branch dissatisfaction and high branch fees have no impact to the internet banking adoption in Greece, therefore Greek customers prefer to visit branches and are willing to pay high fees for the transactions. However, the authors find that ATM users are more likely to adopt internet banking services in Greece. Research limitations/implications – The authors should employ a technology acceptance model, to test the effect of perceived ease-of-use, perceived usefulness and technology self-efficacy of customers on the probability of e-banking adoption. The authors should also examine other hypotheses using recent data from other European countries and compare the results with those from Greece. Practical implications – The findings are strongly recommended to Greek bank managers. Originality/value – The research is primarily motivated by the lack of similar studies to explain empirically the characteristics of Greek bank customers which affect the adoption of internet banking.

Evaluation of E-Banking Dimensions by Greek Customers

Problem statement: The use of electronic banking is increased rapidly worldwide and offers to the users many advantages. However, the percentage of Greek e-banking users, even if it has increased, is still very low. The adoption of e-banking depends on some factors which are connected with the services that the banks offer and the satisfaction from these factors influences, the overall satisfaction. Approach: The aim of this study was the exploration of the perception of Greek e- banking users about the factors affecting the satisfaction from the use of e-banking and moreover the influence of their experiences in the perception's formation. Results: In order to achieve the aims of this study a research was realized, using a structured questionnaire, in 354 users of e-banking. The results show that Greek customers are quite satisfied from the e-banking dimensions and moreover the dimensions that mostly affect the overall satisfaction are and convenience/usefulness. Conclusions: The results indicate also that the most of Greek customers are characterized as low familiar with e-banking services. The level of familiarity of Greek customers depends on gender, education and income. Based on our findings it is in the best interest of e-banking service providers to gain the trust and usefulness of their customers.

The Funeral Customs in the Folk Traditions of Greece and the Territory of the Republic of Macedonia

Abstract This paper explores the parallel interpretation of the funerals, the folk beliefs and the symbolic understandings of funeral customs in the Greek and the folk tradition in the territory of the Republic of Macedonia. Most of the Greek funeral customs, as well as those in the Macedonian folk tradition, can be connected with those that were practiced in other people and in other times. Although impression is gained that the ancient funeral customs have been forgotten, they have lived their development thus as they could, with the aim to satisfy the living and to give expression of human grief, pain, enthusiasm and even hope. In the Greek and Macedonian folk traditions, old beliefs and rites are present today as well in these areas. In some places they have been altered as a result of the contemporary views, and in some rural areas are almost identical as in the time when they first appeared. The aim is to show the similarities and differences within the scope of the funeral and magical - ritual actions between these two folk traditions that begin immediately after the death of a loved one and continue until the funeral. This paper will also offer a comparative analysis of the funeral customs between the Greek and the Macedonian folk tradition by observing the rudiments of the funeral customs that were practiced in the past. In certain cases they have been altered as a result of modern views, and in some rural areas they have remained unchanged

그리스 시대의 남성복과 여성복에 표현된 젠더(gender) 특성 분석

Ancient Greece was a patriarchal society that distinguished gender roles between men and women. Although their costumes were composed of simple rectangular fabric without any technical complications in itself, the Greeks did try to express gender differences in their clothing. The final look of the Greek costume was dependent on the way the cloth draped onto its wearer as well as the wearer's identity. Greeks costume could just be seen as a rectangular fabric when it was not draped on a person's body. The purpose of this study is to examine how the gender differences were expressed in the ancient Greek drapery costume, which was made by using a completely different technical process, compared with the modern tailored costume. There are four elements of the costume that give the costume its formative shape, which are the wearer's body, the rectangular fabric (material as the first formative costume), the way the fabric is draped, and the final appearance as the second formative costume (the relationship between the wearer's body and the costume) and this study analyzes these elements individually. It is intended to analyze the gender characteristics and how each element appears in a different way from the perspective of Structuralism, an analytical method that considers a phenomenon as a total sum of the elements. Literature research was conducted and representative sculpture, painting and pottery, were used between the Archaic Period (B.C. 800~500) and the Classical Period (B.C. 500~323). The results show that the gender differences appear in each formative element of costume: First, the body was distinguished by the ancient Greek custom. The man's nudity was accepted while the woman's body was concealed. Second, in regards to the first formative costume, which was the rectangular fabric, men's were made with thick high quality wool because their involvement in outdoor activities meant that they needed clothes to stay warm, while the women wore clothes made of thin wool or hemp cloth, because their most of their activities were at home. Third, the way to drape the fabric shows the gender differences by changing the length of the clothing and its design ; men's short khiton was practical for big movement and at the same time the clothing exposed the man's body. The woman's doric khiton diversified its decoration by the size of the apotigma and by using the belt. Finally the second formative costume reflected the Greeks' social distinction between a man's body and a woman's body. The man's costume naturally exposed the man's body. On the other hand, the woman's long costume has a variety of shapes on the ground, that concealed her lower body, while the ornamental function was more accentuated than the man's costume. The gender differences expressed in Greek costume fundamentally reflected the point of view of the male and female body and their social roles in society.

International brand strategy and mode of entry in the services sector: lessons from the financial crisis

A financial crisis can have severe implications for the long-term growth of financial institutions. We show that there are brand and mode of entry strategies that can help banks to survive under such difficult conditions. Research of country-of-origin (COO) effects is often very general and focused on tangible goods. Here we focus on how COO effects triggered by country-specific shocks impact the financial services sector during a financial crisis. We also investigate specific strategies that can help financial services organizations survive and grow. In particular, this study investigates how financial services organizations amplify or mitigate COO effects during a financial crisis in cases where country-specific shocks play a role. We show that brand strategy and mode of entry affect consumer evaluations of foreign banks. Two experiments were conducted among Dutch, German, Belgian, Swiss, Greek and American banking customers in the Dutch market. The use of a neutral brand name is generally preferable to using a country-related brand name. Greenfield investment can have a positive effect on bank performance compared to acquiring a local bank, especially when the country-of-origin image is more positive. Interestingly, the loss from a negative macroeconomic shock is limited for the greenfield strategy.

Factors Affecting Customers’ Decision for Taking out Bank Loans: A Case of Greek Customers

The concept of loyalty has received much consideration from both academics and practitioners in various industries and is a predominant research topic in the banking industry. Identifying the factors that affect customers’ decision to take out a loan from a particular bank has become an essential asset for many banks in their effort to attract new customers and to maintain existing ones. The purpose of the present study is to identify factors that influence Greek customers’ decision to take out a loan from commercial banks. A number of variables (demographics, service quality and satisfaction) have been examined as potential factors influencing customers’ decision to take out a loan. A randomly selected sample of Greek citizens (n=277) was chosen in order to test our hypotheses. A questionnaire with self-determined scales was created after ensuring the instrument’s validity through confirmatory factor analysis. Logistic regression results show that personal marital status, customer service, shop design and interest rates are the most significant predictors of taking loans. Several managerial implications suggest bank managers should focus on giving loans to single individuals as well as change their interest rates policies by decreasing rates for all kinds of loans, especially housing loans.

An extension of TAM model with IDT and security/privacy risk in the adoption of internet banking services in Greece

PurposeThis paper presents an extended technology acceptance model (TAM) with concepts from the innovation diffusion theory (IDT) and customers’ perceived risk, aiming to examine the factors affecting Greek customers’ intentions to adopt internet banking services. Furthermore, several individual differences are examined, with respect to their impact on the formation of customers’ attitude about the pros and cons of the new technology.Design/methodology/approachBased on an empirical study including off‐line banking customers that are familiar with the internet, the authors validate a causal model linking the constructs of the proposed service's compatibility, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived security and privacy risk, customers’ demographics and IT competences, with customers’ intentions to adopt internet banking services in the future. Partial least squares procedure was used to analyze 212 cases collected from residential customers via personal interviews using a properly designed questionnaire.FindingsThe results indicated that service compatibility is the key factor, which mostly shapes customers’ behavioural intentions toward internet banking adoption, followed by TAM constructs and perceived risk elements. Moreover, TAM and perceived security and privacy risk constructs partially mediate the relationships between compatibility and customers’ behavioural intentions, while perceived usefulness partially mediates the relationship between perceived ease of use and customers’ intentions. Finally, in terms of the impact of individual differences on customers’ beliefs about internet banking compatibility, value and risk elements, younger, mostly male customers, with adequate previous IT experience who find themselves to be compatible with the new service, are a more promising target group to use internet banking, as an alternative channel to perform their financial transactions in the future.Originality/valueThis study explores the influence of an extended TAM model factors on internet banking adaptation behaviour of Greek customers. The proposed model has never been used in the internet banking context and could be utilised to provide a solid theoretical foundation of the internet banking acceptance case.