Iza Gigauri (Ed.)
Iza Gigauri
received her PhD in Business Administration (Summa Cum Laude) from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia). She holds an MBA from Business School Netherlands and an MBA with highest honors from the American University for Humanities (Georgia). She is a graduate with highest honors from Ilia State University (Georgia) and from Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). She delivers lectures and teaches seminars at all three levels of higher education. She is an expert, opponent, and supervisor of dissertations. She won a number of international scholarships and awards in the field of her academic specialization. Her research interests include corporate responsibility, marketing, sustainability, entrepreneurship, HRM, and leadership. She has participated in 38 international scientific conferences and published over 80 peer-reviewed papers, 2 books, and 18 book chapters. She is a scientific committee member and keynote speaker at international conferences, a guest editor, an editorial board member and a reviewer at international journals within Emerald, Springer, IGI Global, Frontiers, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Wiley, and Inderscience.
Maria Palazzo (Ed.)
Maria Palazzo (PhD) is Associate Professor at Universitas Mercatorum, Rome, Italy. She was a Research Fellow at the Department of Political, Social and Communication Studies (DSPSC), University of Salerno (Italy). Since 2015, she has been a member of the ‘Sustainability Communication Centre’ (SCC) at the DSPSC. She was a former Lecturer at University of Bedfordshire, School of Business (London, Luton, UK), a Visiting Scholar at the University of Granada (Granada, Spain), and a Visiting Lecturer at the Universidad del Norte, Escuela de Negocios (Barranquilla, Colombia). Her research focuses on corporate and marketing communication, branding, corporate social responsibility, tourism, community relations, and sustainability. Her articles have been published in Journal of Cleaner Production, Current Issues in Tourism, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, Journal of Brand Management and in other academic outlets.
Maria Ferri (Ed.)
Maria Antonella Ferri
is Chair and Full Professor of Management at Universitas Mercatorum, where she teaches Strategy, Marketing and Management. She got a PhD in Business Management at The University Ca’ Foscari of Venice; she became researcher at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and then Associate Professor at the Parthenope University of Naples. She is interested in strategic sustainability, social responsibility, management and marketing. She published several books and articles on these items on national and international journals such as TQM journal and Journal of Business Research.