Editorial board

Co-Editors-in-Chief

Professor Steffen Roth
Excelia Business School La Rochelle; University of Cambridge - France; UK

Professor Augusto Sales
FGV EBAPE - Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration; Yale University - Brazil; USA
augusto.sales@fgv.br

Associate Editors

Professor Erik Aal
Corvinus University of Budapest -

Hungary Professor Philipp Altmann
Central University of Ecuador -

Ecuador Dr. Gianpaolo Basile Universitas Mercatorum
- Italy

Professor Hugo Cadenas
University of Chile -

Chile Professor Leo-Paul Dana
Dalhousie University - USA

Professor Albrecht Fritzsche
IEDC Bled School of Management -

Slovenia Dr. Pedro Giardano
University of Buenos Aires -

Argentina Dr. Dong-Hyu Kim
University of Glasgow - UK

Professor Juliana Mansur Fundação Dom Cabral
- Brazil

Professor Pastora Melgar Manzanilla Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
-

México Professor Takemitsu Morikawa
Keio University - Japan

Dr. Massimiliano Pirani Universita Telematica Pegaso
- Italy

Mauro Romanelli
University of Naples Parthenope - Italy

Professor Charbel Salloum
EM Normandie Business School - France

Professor Sandro Luis Schlindwein
Federal University of Santa Catarina - Brazil

Professor Ermanno C. Tortia
University of Trento - Italy

Dr. Cesar Albenes Zeferino Universidade do Vale do Itajai
- Brazil

Professor Kristof van Assche
University of Alberta - Canada

Professor Krešimir Žažar
University of Zagreb -

Croatia

Managing Editors

Dr. Nico Buitendag
University of the Free State -

South Africa Dr. Bryan Cheang
King’s College London - UK

Dr. Vincent Lien
University of Cambridge - UK

Dr. Richard Pretorius
Eindhoven University of Technology -

The Netherlands

Theory Transfer and Impact Editors

Michael Charlton
Sheffield Hallam University - UK

Brian Shedleski
Excelia Business School - France

Commissioning Editor Paul Kidd
Emerald Publishing - UK
pkidd@emerald.com

Journal Editorial Office (For queries related to pre-acceptance)

Please contact the Journal Editorial Office
eng-ed-office.emerald@kwglobal.com

Supplier Project Manager (For queries related to post-acceptance)

Lalita Shree Lakshmanamoorthy
Emerald Publishing
lalita.emerald@tnq.co.in

Honorary Editors

Professor Dirk Baecker
Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen - Germany

Professor John Beckford Cybernetics Society, Beckford Consulting
- UK

Professor Raul Espejo Syncho Ltd, Lincoln
- UK

Professor Michael C. Jackson
University of Hull - UK

Dr. Michael Lissack
Second Order Science Foundation, Salem, Massachusetts; Tongji University, College of Design and Innovation - USA; People's Republic of China

Professor Artur Mkrtichyan
Yerevan State University -

Armenia Dr. Matjaz Mulej
University of Maribor -

Slovenia Professor Markus Schwaninger
University of St Gallen -

Switzerland Senior Advisory Board Professor Clemens Bechter
Thammasat University - Thailand

Professor Elena-Madalina Vatamanescu
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration -

Romania

Editorial Advisory Board

Professor Alejandro Agafonow
ESSCA School of Management - France

Professor Wolfgang Amann HEC Paris in Qatar
-

Qatar Professor Nikitas Assimakopoulos
University of Pireus, President Hellenic systemic society - Greece

Dr. Roland Bardy
Florida Gulf Coast University - USA

Professor Philip Baron
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology, University of Johannesburg -

South Africa Professor Jolanta Bieliauskaitė
Mykolas Romeris University -

Lithuania Dr. Francesco Caputo
University of Naples “Federico II” - Italy

Dr. Elias G Carayannis
GWU School of Business - USA

Dr. Luciana Cezarino
Federal University of Uberlandia - Brazil

Professor Zhen-Song Chen
Associate Professor, Wuhan University -

People's Republic of China Professor Gerhard Fink WU-Wien
-

Austria Dr. Jeffrey Forrest (Yi Lin)
Slippery Rock University - USA

Professor Giuseppe Giordano
University of Salerno - Italy

Dr. Adel Hatami-Marbini
De Montfort University - UK

Professor Dariusz Jemielniak
Kozminski University -

Poland Professor Angus Jenkinson Cybernetics Society, Thinking
- UK

Dr. Mark Johnson
University of Liverpool - UK

Professor Michal Kaczmarczyk
University of Gdansk -

Poland Professor Jari Kaivo-oja
University of Turku, Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics - Finland

Dr. Louis Klein Systemic Excellence Group
- Germany

Professor Franz Kasper Kroenig
Cologne University of Applied Sciences - Germany

Associate Professor Jesús F. Lampón
University of Vigo - Spain

Dr. Eka Lekashvili
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University -

Georgia Dr. Allenna Leonard Toronto
- Canada

Dr. Mingwei Lin
Fujian Normal University -

People's Republic of China Professor Riccardo Manzotti
IULM University of Milan - Italy

Professor Piero Mella
Pavia University - Italy

Dr. Josè Merigo
University of Technology, Sydney - Australia

Professor Edoardo Mollona
University of Bologna - Italy

Professor Francisco Morales
Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador -

Ecuador Professor Donato Morea Ph.D
University of Cagliari - Italy

Professor Sören Möller
University of Southern Denmark -

Denmark Associate Professor Dr. Kashif Nisar Universiti Malaysia Sabah
- Malaysia

Professor Mark Pennington
King's College London - UK

Professor José Pérez Ríos
University of Valladolid - Spain

Professor Miguel Pérez-Valls
University of Almería - Spain

Dr. Julie Ricard
McGill University - Canada

Dr. Bernard Scott
Former Reader at Cranfield University - UK

Professor Davide Secchi
Paris School of Business; University of Southern Denmark - France; Denmark

Associate Professor Eka Sepashvili
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University -

Georgia Professor Valery Solovyev
Kazan Federal University, Kazan -

Russian Federation Professor Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos Guedes
Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication -

Austria Dr. Ben Sweeting
University of Brighton, Brighton - UK

Dr. Vladislav Valentinov
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies - Germany

Professor Steve Watson
University of Cambridge - UK

Dr. Liss C. Werner
Technical University Berlin - Germany

Professor Hengjie Zhang
School of Business, Hohai University -

People's Republic of China Professor Zhen Zhang
Dalian University of Technology -

People's Republic of China Emeritus Editor-in-Chief Professor Gandolfo Dominici
University of Palermo - Italy

In Memoriam Professor Klaus Krippendorff
University of Pennsylvania - USA

Professor J. Rose
University of Central Lancashire - UK

Professor Robert Vallee World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics
- France