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Dr Muhammad Awais Bhatti, PhD, MBA, is an Assistant Professor in the College of Business, King Faisal University, in Hofuf, Saudi Arabia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business and accountancy; a master’s of business administration in marketing, human resource management and information technology; and a doctorate in training and development. His areas of expertise include international business, strategic management, human resource development, and human resource management. Dr Bhatti has also designed training programs for executives around the world, reviewed articles for the European Journal of Training and Development, and has published in the fields of training and development, internationalization, e-learning, and business research.

Dr Mohammed Alshagawi, PhD, MS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at King Faisal university and was a Fulbright Fellow at Smith College for the 2010-12 academic year. Dr Mohammed holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, a M.S. in Management and Organization from the University of Colorado, Denver and a B.S. in Business Administration from King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. Between 2012 and 2016, Mohammed also served as the Dean of Business School at KFU. In addition, Mohammed has had the opportunity to present several lectures on women entrepreneurship at different American universities including Fairleigh Dickinson University – New Jersey, Smith College – Massachusetts and Drake University – Iowa to name a few. His teaching interests include strategic management, innovation and entrepreneurship and venture growth strategies.

Ahmad Zakariya is a PhD Candidate at School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He holds a master’s of business administration in marketing, human resource management. He is also a lecturer at Department of Management Sciences, National University of Modern Languages, Lahore Campus, Pakistan. His area of research interest includes Training and Development and Sustainable Careers.

Dr Ariff Syah Juhari holds a PhD from Loughborough University, UK, an MSc in Information Management from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, majored in Marketing, from the University of Missouri – Columbia, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the College for Business Administration, Prince Sultan University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he teaches Strategic Management and Management Information Systems. In his previous employment, he held a post as Deputy Dean at the Center for Graduate Studies at Open University Malaysia, and before that, he was the Deputy Director of Knowledge Management at the Centre for Knowledge Management and Information Technology, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia. As a doctoral researcher at Loughborough University, he conducted research to develop software evaluation frameworks for competitive intelligence systems in small and medium-size enterprises. His research interests are in Marketing, Information Systems, and Competitive Strategy, which are areas he has presented and published at various international conferences and journals. He was a member of the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).