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AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHY

Ivana Beveridge is a PhD candidate at the Université Paris 2–Sorbonne Universités (LARGEPA). She is a partner at Sunrise International Education, a branding consultant, and a lecturer at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3). She holds an MBA from the University of Warwick and has extensive industry experience with leading market- ing communications and branding agencies in Asia, the Middle East, the United States, and Europe.

Dr. Harish C. Chandan is Professor of Business at Argosy University, Atlanta. He was interim chair of the business program in 2011. He received President’s award for excellence in teaching in 2007, 2008, and 2009. His teaching philosophy is grounded in the learner needs, learn- ing styles, collaborative, experiential, and life-long learning. His research interests include change management, innovation, leadership, marketing, and organizational behavior. He has published 20 peer-reviewed articles in business journals and 15 book chapters in business reference books pub- lished by IGI Global, Routledge and Elsevier. Dr. Chandan is Coeditor of an upcoming Business reference book and has presented conference papers at Academy of Management, International Academy of Business and Management, Southeast Association of Information Systems, and Academy of International Business.

Kirk Chang is an HR consultant and legal mediator. He is also profes- sor and research convenor for the Salford Business School, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom. His research interests lie in the areas of employee behavior, organizational dynamics, and people manage- ment. His recent research output appear in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Journal of Strategy and Management, Industrial Relations, and other management journals.

Kuo-Tai Cheng is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management and he works for the Department of Environmental and Cultural Resources, National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan. His research is in the field of organizational behavior, public pol- icy, and management. His recent research output appears in: International Journal of Management and Innovation, Advances In Management, Utilities Policy, and other related journals.

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Dr. Rituparna Das is Professor of Economics at Adamas University. He taught at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES). Prior to that he was heading the Centre for Studies in Banking and Finance, set up by the corpus of the Reserve Bank of India at National Law University Jodhpur. His prior academic associations include National Institute of Bank Management, National University of Juridical Sciences and Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, and is certified by the University Grant Commission and College Service Commission. He has postgraduate qualifications in Economics and Management and a PhD in Econometric Modelling. He is recognized by the biographers like Marquis Whos Who and International Biographical Centre, and visiting guest lecturer at City University of Hong Kong.

Sam Dzever is Professor of Management at Télécom Ecole de Management, France. His research in the fields of marketing, supply chain management, industrial organization, and Asia-Pacific business has appeared in noted international academic journals, including Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Journal of Marketing and Communication, European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Asian Business and Management, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, among others. He has also authored 12 books, research monographs, and edited collections, including The Economic Relations Between Asia and Europe: Organisations Trade and Investment (coedited with Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Jacques Jaussaud, Chandos Publishing, Oxford, 2007); Evolving Corporate Structures and Cultures in Asia: The Impact of Globalization (coedited with Jacques Jaussaud and Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, ISTE and Wiley, London and New Jersey, 2008).

Seock-Jin Hong is assistant professor at University of North Texas (UNT), USA and Professor at the Kedge Business School in Bordeaux, France. Prior to joining UNT and Kedge, Prof. Hong was an Associate Professor and Director at the Graduate School of Logistics at the University of Incheon. Dr. Hong was a Research Associate at the Air Transport Department of the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) and an Assistant General Manager in Korean Airlines Seoul from 1988. Dr. Hong has a PhD from the University of Toulouse 1 of France, in addition to a Master of Transport Economics from Ecole National des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France.

Javed Ghulam Hussain holds a BA (Hons) in Economics, M. Soc. Sci in Money Banking and Finance, and a PhD from the University of

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Birmingham. He has spent most of his career in the university sec- tor in his main area of specialization: entrepreneurial finance. Previously he worked for 5 years for Birmingham City Council (1986–88) then Forward Trust (now a subsidiary of HSBC) (1988–90) as a finance offi- cer and financial analyst respectively. He joined Birmingham City University (then University of Central England) as a Senior Lecturer in 1990, was promoted to Reader, and to Professor in 2010. In addition to teaching Corporate Finance, he was Director of the MBA and PhD pro- grammes, and has served as Research Co-ordinator for the Department of Accounting and Finance. His research interests are entrepreneurial finance, microfinance and ethnic enterprise. He has served on the editorial board of journals and has published extensively in international journals and contributed towards book chapters.

Dr. Johannes Kadura is founding partner and Managing Director of Think Asia Group, and the founding partner and business coach at China Entrepreneur.net. He has served as Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, and as an Adjunct Professor at Peking University. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Jun Li is a Senior Lecturer (Associated Professor) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. He previ- ously held a post at Chinese Academy of Sciences and was the President of Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe) in 2012–13, and cur- rently serves as Editor of Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. He teaches and researches in the areas of entrepreneurship and policies, innovation management, and Chinese entrepreneurship. Among his pre- vious publications are China’s Economic Dynamics: A Beijing Consensus in the Making? (2014, Routledge) and Incentives for Innovation in China (2015, Routledge).

Dr. Nirjhar Nigam is an Associate Professor working with the Finance department at ICN Business School, and affiliated to CEREFIGE and LARGE research laboratories. She teaches Corporate Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Strategy, and Governance at various levels (Bachelors, Masters, and Executive Education). She earned her Doctorate in Finance and Management from the University of Luxembourg and University of Strasbourg. Dr. Nigam’s contributions to the field of Finance have been recognized and published with leading academic journals in Finance such as Journal of Banking and Finance. She has collaborated on several success- ful research projects with the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR),

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Luxembourg, Standards and Poor’s, Strasbourg University and Agence Nationale De La Recherche (ANR), France.

Jonathan M. Scott is a Reader in Entrepreneurship and Head of the Centre for Strategy & Leadership at Teesside University Business School where he teaches strategic management, entrepreneurship, and doctoral research methods. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Entrepreneurship Unit, University of Turku, Finland, and at Waikato Management School, New Zealand. He has extensively published in international Journals and coauthored a number of books: Thompson et  al.’s textbook Strategic Management Awareness and Change,7th ed. (Cengage, 2014), and coeditor of Hussain and Scott’s Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Finance (Edward Elgar, 2015). His research interests are access to entrepreneurial finance, business support and policy, and interna- tional comparative differences.

W. Travis Selmier II, PhD Travis worked in international investments for 17 years during which he researched, and traveled to, 60 countries. Named in Barrons Top 100 Portfolio Managers list in 1998, he was one of the first foreigners to sit for the Chartered Market Analyst Exam—in Japanese—in 1992. He taught Finance at IU’s Kelley School of Business from 2008 to 2011 and completed his PhD in Political Economy. He pres- ently researches language economics, international financial markets gov- ernance, property rights of financial goods, East Asian banking, and mining CSR. He reads six languages and publishes in business, international eco- nomics, policy and international political economy, including Boao Review, Business Horizons, International Review of Economics & Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Review of International Political Economy, World Economy, and various book chapters.

Andreas W. Stratemeyer is an Associate Professor of Marketing at California State University, Fresno. He earned a BS in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA and PhD in Marketing from New Mexico State University. Dr. Stratemeyer has published numerous articles in such journals as Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Academy of Marketing Science Review, Services Marketing Quarterly, and others.

Tang Renwu is Professor of Public Administration, Dean of the Academy of Government, Beijing Normal University, and Professor and Dean of the

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School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Normal University, P.R. China. Prof. Tang has published widely in both national and international academic journals and contributed to numerous books, research mono- graphs, and edited collections in the field.

Julie Taylor is principal lecturer of Lifelong and Interprofessional Learning. She is also programme leader of MSc Legal and Criminological Psychology and works for the College of Law and Social Science, University of Cumbria, Carlisle, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on organizational issues, workplace stress, citizenship, and job satisfaction. Her recent research output appears in: Applied Psychology Research, Forensic Update, Forensic Update Compendium, Industrial Relations, and other cognate journals.

Duane Windsor (PhD, Harvard University) is the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management in Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business. His research emphasizes corporate social responsibil- ity, stakeholder management, and anticorruption reforms. His research has appeared in various journals and chapters in various collections.

Zhang Chi has been a research assistant at Kedge Business School in Bordeaux since June 2014 and is a PhD candidate of Ecricome Business School. His research focus is on guanxi’s impact on supply chain col- laboration for Chinese overseas companies. Zhang has attended sev- eral international conferences concerning air transportation and supply chain management and teaches several classes in Kedge Business School including: air transportation, supply chain strategy in Asia pacific, lean management.

Zhao Guoqin is a researcher at the Institute of Finance and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China. His research interests include regional governance, international trade, and public management. He has published a large number of articles in domestic mainstream journals, and has undertaken several research projects under the auspices of the National Social Science Fund and the Beijing Social Science Fund.