Consumer behavior experiences at food courts: a humanistic and sustainability perspective

Ashok Ashta (Ph.D. De Montfort University, UK) is Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Studies, The University of Kitakyushu, Japan, and Visiting Research Faculty at Thammasat Business School, Thailand. He has over three decades of international business experience at world-class manufacturing companies such as Toyota, Hitachi, Minebea and Kameda Seika. When at Minebea, he served as Managing Director and CEO of their Indian subsidiary. Later, he served as nonresident board director of TH Foods, Inc. – Kameda's joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in the USA. He has lectured and written extensively on international business matters. Ashok's current research interests focus on cross-cultural management and leadership. He also enjoys fun-running.

Professor Peter Stokes is based at the Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University (UK). He has researched and published in, and reviewed extensively for, world-class journals. He has held visiting professor/advisor roles in business schools in France, Ireland, Germany, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Hong Kong, China, India, Mexico and Dubai. He has also applied his work to consultancy projects across a range of business sectors. He currently holds positions on major international bodies including: Vice-President-Business Relations and UK Country Director for the EuroMed Research Business Institute; and, UK Ambassador for the Association Francophone de Gestion des Ressources Humaines, Fellow CMI and Principal Fellow HEA.

Chaturong Napathorn (Ph.D. Cornell University, USA) is Associate Professor at Thammasat Business School, Bangkok, Thailand. He teaches Macro-organizational behavior, human resource management, compensation management and other subjects related to organization and human resource management. His research interests include strategic human resource management, international human resource management and talent management. Before joining Thammasat Business School, he obtained a scholarship to pursue a Master's Degree at Cornell University from the Central Bank of Thailand, where he worked for several years in the areas of financial institution development fund and organization development. He received several publication awards and scholarships from the National Research Council of Thailand and the Office of Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation of Thailand.

Patnaree Srisuphaolarn (Ph.D. Hitotsubashi University, Japan) is Associate Professor at Thammasat Business School, Bangkok, Thailand. She teaches Cross-cultural Management, Business and Capitalist Development in Thailand and other subjects relating to International Business. Her recent research investigates trust formation between Thai subordinate and their foreign supervisors. Her experience working for Mitsubishi Trading and Dai-Ichi Kikaku Thailand was her main inspiration to explore the cross-cultural communication and trust formation in international business organization. She has been invited for lectures at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Hosei University and Hitotsubashi University, as well as incoming students from partner universities, for example, the University of New South Wales, Aoyama Business School and the University of Texas at Austin.