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Patrizia Gazzola is an associate professor of Management, Business Combination and Business Planning at the Department of Economics, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. She is an member of the scientific board of: the research center “ethics in business and corporate social responsibility” (CREARES); the International Study Center for Smart Organizations Management and Smart Territory Valorization (SMARTER) and the Business Systems Laboratory. She is a member of the scientific board of several journals and member of the Scientific Committee of international conferences. She conducts research and writes books and articles in strategy, corporate social responsibility, in sustainable development and in systems theory.

Daniele Grechi has a Post Doc position in the Department of Economics at the University of Insubria (Italy), he is also contract lecturer of Financial Mathematics and Quantitative methods for Management at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan and contract lecturer of Advanced Computer Skills at the Public University of Milan. Previously he was a research fellow in the Department of Naval, Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering of the Polytechnical School, University of Genoa. He received (2019) a PhD in Methods and Model for Economic Decisions from the University of Insubria. His current research includes quantitative methods for economic and managerial analysis with a special focus on transportation, tourism and sustainability.

Fragkoulis Papagiannis is an associate professor at Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, the UK. As an academic and business consultant for over 25 years, he delivered several lectures, workshops and EU-funded projects involving business planning and sustainable redesign. As the founder and managing director of an international consulting group, he undertook a major amount of business redesign and change management projects, in the European private sector. He is also a guest professor to Insubria University, Italy, Kingston University, London, the UK and other national and international academic institutions, in the area of business planning and innovation. Research interests and academic publications related to sustainability-driven collaborative schemes, entrepreneurial strategies, enterprise ontology and semantics designs, change and innovation management and enterprise architecture.

Chiara Marrapodi is an Associate Auditor at PWC Italy. She received a master’s degree in Global Entrepreneurship Economics and Management from the University of Insubria (Italy). Previously she was a tutor of international relations at the Department of Economics of the University of Insubria (Italy).