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Carolina Lopez Nicolas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Finance at the University of Murcia, Spain. She has been a Visiting Professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and Michigan State University in the USA. Her current research relates to business model innovation, knowledge management, information systems, mobile communications, gender and family businesses. She has published on these topics in such journals as the Information and Management, International Journal of Information Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Knowledge Management, Service Industries Journal, European Management Journal and Online Information Review.

Shahrokh Nikou is a Docent in Information Systems and a Senior Lecturer of Information Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University. His research interests relate to information systems, with a particular focus on the role of digital transformation as an enabler for organizational change, both within enterprises and across their entire value network. He has practical and academic experience in designing business models, as well as consumer studies. He is a member of the editorial board of Telematics and Informatics, Electronic Markets, the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations and International Journal of Electronic Business Research. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals, conference proceedings and book chapters.

Francisco Jose Molina Castillo is an associate professor at University of Murcia, Faculty of Economics and Business, Department of Marketing. His research focusses on innovation, business model innovation, digital marketing and mobile marketing. He published over 40 journal articles including Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Technovation, Information and Management, International Journal of Information Management and International Journal of Electronic Commerce.

Harry Bouwman is an emeritus Information Systems Professor at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, and an associate professor at Information and Communication group, Engineering Systems and Services, Faculty Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. His research is focussed on strategy, business models and enterprise architecture; on mobile/IoT/Ind 4.0 applications and on the context of use and user behaviour. He is an experienced researcher and published 18 books and more than 150 academic peer-reviewed journal papers. He serves as a senior (managing) editor for a number of journals. He has extensive experience in large (European) projects.