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Paolo Capolupo is an assistant professor at Pegaso Telematic University and Lecturer at Polytechnic University of Bari. He has been visiting PhD candidate at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management and visiting scholar at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD). His research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship and strategy in family businesses. His studies have been published on international journals, such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, International Small Business Journal, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Knowledge Management and Journal of Family Business Strategy. He serves as Editor for the Journal of Knowledge Management and Guest Editor for the Journal of Family Business Strategy. He received the Best Paper Award at the IFERA 2023 Annual Conference and the Francesco Galati Award at the AiIG 2024 Annual Conference.

Armando Papa PhD, is currently a full professor of management, innovation and marketing at the department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Salerno. He is Fellow (F-EMAB) of the EuroMed Research Business Institute (EMRBI) and he is a research member of GNOSIS – Mediterranean Institute for Management Science, School of Business at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Previously, he was associate professor of marketing at the University of Teramo. He earned the Italian National qualification as Full Professor in 2020. Earlier, he joined the University of Rome Universitas Mercatorum. He was formerly research fellow at the ICxT Innovation Center, University of Turin. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Naples Federico II and a postgraduate master in Finance (2011). He is also Member of the EuroMed Research Business Institute. He won the Best Paper Award at the 9th EuroMed Conference in Warsaw (Poland) in 2016. He is skilled in Knowledge Management, Open Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance and Family Business. He is associate editor of Journal of Knowledge Economy (Springer) and managing editor of Journal of Knowledge Management (Emerald) and International Studies in Management and Organization (Taylor & Francis). He is listed as Innovation Manager at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. He is engaged in various peer-review processes for several ranked and outstanding international management. He is engaged as an editorial board member for the Journal of Intellectual Capital, British Food Journal, Management Research Review and other international journals. He is a member of the I.P.E. Business School of Naples.

Fabio Fiano is Full Professor of Business Management at the Pegaso Digital University. He received a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from the Second University of Naples, Italy. Fabio Fiano graduated from Second University of Naples with a bachelor’s in Business Administration; he also holds a Master’s degree in Management Control and Information Systems from the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy.

Formerly Professor of Tourism Management and Territorial Marketing, Business Creation, Corporate Strategy and Governance, Project Financing, Digital Technologies for Business, Healthcare Management, Innovation Management, Strategic Management.

His editorial engagement regards the membership of the Editorial Advisory Board and the activities of Ad hoc Reviewer for numerous international top journals.

He has published articles on prestigious journals (including Small Business Economics, Management Decision, Journal of Knowledge Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Business Process Management Journal, British Food Journal, Journal of Intellectual Capital, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of World Business, International Marketing Review) as well as in international conference proceedings on the following topics: Innovation, Corporate Governance, Knowledge Management, Bankruptcy Prediction Models, Big Data, Industry 4.0, International Business.

Gian Luca Gregori is currently Full Professor in Economics and Business Management at the Department of Management of the Università Politecnica delle Marche. He graduated in Economics with Honors (summa cum laude) in 1985 at the University of Ancona. In July 1987, he obtained a research position at the Business Science Institute at the University of Ancona where, from November 1999 to December 2002, he continued his academic career as Associate Professor. In 2002, he became Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the same university. From November 2009 to April 2014, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics “Giorgio Fuà” of the Università Politecnica delle Marche as well as the Director of the Economics Doctoral School. Currently he is Rector of the Università Politecnica delle Marche.

His main research interests include BtoB marketing, distribution and sales management, innovation, internationalization and SMEs, and his research has appeared in several leading international journals, such as Industrial Marketing Management, European Management Journal, Journal of Knowledge Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Intellectual Capital, Journal of Business Research, Technovation.