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Professor Syed Awais Ahmad Tipu holds Doctor of Science and Master of Science degrees from George Washington University, USA. He is currently working as a professor in the Department of Management at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics and International Journal of Logistics Management. His research interests include sustainable supply chains, entrepreneurial cognition, work values of aspiring entrepreneurs, and necessity drive entrepreneurship.

M. Azhar Hussain is a professor of economics and statistics at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and a visiting professor at Roskilde University (Denmark). He received his PhD (econ) degree from the Arhus School of Business (Denmark). His research focuses on empirical analyses of welfare applying an inter-disciplinary approach involving various social sciences. Research interests include income and consumption distribution, inequality, deprivation, poverty, polarization, social and health indicators, political economy, perceptions and robust multidimensional ranking of population subgroups. Diverse microdatasets from around the world are the main basis of his analysis. He publishes regularly in international peer-reviewed journals and books.

Dr Abu Elias Sarker is an associate professor in the Department of Management at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Dr Sarker received his PhD in Public Administration from the University of Liverpool in 1991. His areas of research interest include governance, public sector reform, social accountability, and decentralization and local government. He has published original articles in reputed journals in public administration.