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M. Muzamil Naqshbandi is a faculty member at the School of Business and Economics, University of Brunei Darussalam. Previously, he worked at the University of Dubai in the UAE and the University of Malaya in Malaysia. Before joining academia, he worked in diverse sectors such as non-banking financial services and media. Dr. Naqshbandi is the Associate Editor of Management Decision (Emerald Publishing), International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (Emerald Publishing) and the Senior Associate Editor of FIIB Business Review (Sage Publishing). He serves on the editorial boards of prestigious international journals, such as Journal of Knowledge Management, European Journal of Innovation Management and Leadership and Organization Development. His current research is focused on open innovation, leadership and knowledge management. Dr. Naqshbandi has won several international research grants totaling more than $150,000. He actively presents his work in international fora and contributes to the program committees and advisory boards of several international conferences. His recent work has appeared in leading journals such as R&D Management, International Business Review, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Production Planning and Control, Industrial Management and Data Systems, among others.

Ibrahim Kabir is a PhD candidate at School of Business and Economics, University Brunei Darussalam, and an academic staff at Northwest University Kano. His research interests include Human Resource Management (HRM) entrepreneurship development, business environments, small scale business management, business performance evaluation and growth potential of informal enterprises. He served in several university positions, including examination officer; level coordinator; coordinator, industrial learning and tour. He also participated in several DFID research and won two different Institutional Based Research (IBR) grants.

Nurul Amirah Ishak is currently pursuing her PhD in Management at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). Her research interests primarily lie in Strategic Knowledge Management and Organisational Behaviour. Amirah earned her Bachelor of Science Honours degree (Biological Sciences) in 2016 and Master of Management degree in 2019, both from UBD. Prior to pursuing her Master’s Degree, she worked as a volunteer at UBD Herbarium (2016) and as Research Assistant (2016–2017) at the Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (IBER). Her research work has appeared in such journals as VINE: The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems and International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management (IJABIM).

Md. Zahidul Islam is an Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business and Economics at the University Brunei Darussalam (UBD). Previously he worked with universities in Bangladesh and Malaysia. Dr Zahid has years of active teaching, consultancy and research experience in Strategic Management, Human Resource Management and Knowledge Management. Dr Islam’s research interests include Strategic Knowledge Management, Strategic Management, New Product Development, Corporate Social Responsibility and Enterprise Resources Planning. His research work has appeared in such journals as International Journal of Information Management, Management Decision, Journal of Database Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Environmental Management, VINE: The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems.