Autorenportrait
Michael Czinkota teaches international business and trade at the Graduate School and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University (USA). He is also the Chaired Professor Emeritus for international marketing at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. His academic work has focused on export development strategies and the linkage between terrorism and international business. He has written widely in leading journals on the topic. He has authored over 25 books in the fields of business, marketing and trade. He also wrote three leading college texts, International Marketing 11th edition, International Business 9th edition and Fundamentals of International Business 3rd edition. Visit his blog at http://michaelczinkota.com.Masaaki Kotabe holds a joint appointment at the School of Commerce, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan and at the Shidler College of Business at University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Dr. Kotabe served as President of the Academy of International Business in 2016-17. He has written more than 100 scholarly publications, with well over 20,000 Google Scholar citations. His books include the following books, Global Sourcing Strategy: R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing Interfaces (1992), Anticompetitive Practices in Japan (1996), Global Supply Chain Management (2006), and Global Marketing Management, 8th ed. (2020). He is both an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business and of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies. Demetris Vrontis is the Vice Rector for Faculty and Research and a Professor of Strategic Marketing Management at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He is the Managing Director of Gnosis Mediterranean Institute for Management Science and the President of the EuroMed Academy of Business, which serve as important and influential regional hubs in the area of Business and Management. He is the Founder and Editor in Chief of the EuroMed Journal of Business, an Associate Editor of the International Marketing Review, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Research and a Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Management. He has widely published in over 300 refereed journal articles, 45 books and 65 chapters in books, and has presented papers to over 80 conferences around the globe.His is a certified Chartered Marketer and a Chartered Business Consultant. Riad Shams is a senior lecturer in marketing at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. He has published twelve books, contributed articles to top-tier international journals, and guest-edited for various reputable journals. He is the founder and co-editor of the Annals of Business Research, and associate editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. Dr. Shams obtained a second place in the Cambridge-Kent-Czinkota Competition for Excellence in Business Research-2019. He received the Emerald Literati Awards (Outstanding Paper-2019, Outstanding Reviewer-2018), and the EuroMed Research Award in 2014. As per Google Scholar, he is globally the fifth most cited author in social business research.
