Investigating social capital, trust and commitment in family business: case of media firms

Mehdi Tajpour holds a PhD Corporate Entrepreneurship at the University of Tehran. Also, he is a Research Fellow at Ondokuz Mayıs University. His main areas of interest are innovation management, higher education, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial university, academic spin-offs, internationalisation of university and human resources management. He had published several academic manuscripts in international journals and contributed to some national and international conferences. Also, he serves as a Reviewer in a series of distinguished international journals.

Aidin Salamzadeh is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran. His interests are start-ups, new venture creation and entrepreneurship. Aidin serves as an Associate Editor in Revista de Gestão and Innovation and Management Review (Emerald) and an Editorial Advisory in The Bottom Line (Emerald). He is the Co-founder of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Lab (UK). Besides, he is a reviewer in numerous distinguished international journals. Aidin is a member of the European SPES Forum (Belgium), the Asian Academy of Management (Malaysia), the Institute of Economic Sciences (Serbia) and Ondokuz Mayis University (Turkey).

Yashar Salamzadeh is a Senior Lecturer in Graduate School of Business at Universiti Sains Malaysia. He had published over 100 research articles in international journals and conferences. Yashar has 11 years of teaching in MBA and master of management courses in four different universities and has supervised more than 65 graduate dissertations. He has worked as a Project Manager in many international research projects. Besides being an EFQM Auditor, Yashar has five years of management consultancy experience for different public and private organisations. He also has cooperated in more than 20 international journals as an editorial board member and review board member. Yashar has served GSB as Head of “Global Strategy and Organizational Behavior” research cluster since 2018 up to now. His interest fields include entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial universities, [digital] leadership, business models, strategic management, green business, corporate social responsibility (CSR), human resource management (HRM) and networked organisations.

Vitor Braga is an Associate Professor at the School and Technology and Management at the Porto Polytechnic and a Researcher at CIICESI and CETRAD. He holds a PhD from Middlesex University Business School on Business Cooperation. His research interests also include international business and economic geography. He is the Director of the Business Sciences BSc, the MSc in International Management and the Head of the Business Sciences Department.