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Fábio Lotti Oliva is based at Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from University of São Paulo, master’s and PhD degrees in business administration from University of São Paulo. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics, Business and Accounting at the University of São Paulo. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Université Pierre-Mendès-France and at the Shanghai University. Fabio Lotti Oliva’s main publications include in the following journals: Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Management Decision and Benchmarking: An International Journal.

Massaki Kotabe is based at Temple University, Philadelphia, EUA. He holds the Washburn Chair Professorship in International Business and Marketing at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University in 1998, he was Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow and a Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr Kotabe served as the President of the Academy of International Business in 2016-2017. He has written more than 100 scholarly publications, including the following books, Global Sourcing Strategy: R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing Interfaces (1992), Anticompetitive Practices in Japan (1996), Global Supply Chain Management (2006) and Global Marketing Management, 7th ed. (2017). He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business.