Iza Gigauri (Ed.)
Iza Gigauri
is a Professor at the University of Georgia in Tbilisi. She received her PhD in Business Administration (Summa Cum Laude) from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia). She holds an MBA from Business School Netherlands (The Netherlands) and an MBA with the highest honors from the American University for Humanities (Georgia). She is a graduate with honors from Ilia State University (Georgia) and Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, marketing, sustainability, entrepreneurship, HRM, Leadership, and digitalization. She has participated in various international scientific conferences and has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers, books, and book chapters. She is a scientific committee member and keynote speaker at academic conferences, a guest editor, an editorial board member and a reviewer at international journals within Emerald, Springer, IGI-Global,MDPI, Frontiers, Inderscience, Taylor&Francis, Elsevier, Wiley. She delivers lectures and teaches seminars at all three levels of higher education. She is an expert, opponent, and supervisor of doctoral dissertations and Master’s theses. She won a number of international scholarships and awards in the field of her academic specialization. Prof. Iza Gigauri was awarded for her contribution to the development of science by the Government of Georgia.
Maria Palazzo (Ed.)
Maria Palazzo
(PhD, AFHEA, FHEA, MSc (Honours), MA, BA (Honours)) is Associate Professor, Universitas Mercatorum (Italy) and a member of the ‘Sustainability Communication Centre’ (SCC) (
). She was a former Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, School of Business (London, Luton, UK), a Visiting Scholar at the University of Granada (Granada, Spain) and a Visiting Lecturer at the Universidad del Norte, Escuela de Negocios (Barranquilla, Colombia). Her articles have been published in Journal of Cleaner Production, Current issues in Tourism, Corporate Social Responsibility & Environmental Management, Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, Journal of Brand Management and in other academic outlets.
Maria Ferri (Ed.)
Maria Antonella Ferri
is Chair and Full Professor of Management at Universitas Mercatorum, where she teaches Strategy, Marketing and Management. She got a PhD in Business Management at The University Ca’ Foscari of Venice; she became researcher at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and then Associate Professor at the Parthenope University of Naples. She is interested in strategic sustainability, social responsibility, management and marketing. She published several books and articles on these items on national and international journals such as TQM journal and Journal of Business Research.