Richa Goel, PhD, is Associate Professor of Economics and International Business, Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies, Noida, Symbiosis International Deemed University, Pune, India. She has more than 21 years of experience in academics and consistently strives to create a challenging and engaging learning environment where students become life-long scholars and learners. Imparting lectures using different teaching strategies, she is an avid teacher, researcher, and mentor. She has to her credit a number of books and research papers published in reputed national and international journals and has participated at many professional conferences as well. She is serving as a member of review committees for conferences and journals and also acts as associate editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment. She is a gold medalist in her Master of Economics with dual specialization at the master level with an MBA in HR and with dual specialization at graduate level with gold medal in Economics along with a Bachelor of Law. She also holds a PhD in Management and has about six years of working in the area of diversity management. Vikas Garg, PhD, is the Assistant Director of the Executive Programs Management Domain at Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India.
He has more than 20 years of experience with over 10 PhD scholars currently under his guidance. He has published numerous research papers in various Scopus- and ABDC-indexed international and national journals. He is acting as Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment (indexed in the WoS and Scopus). He is also acting as the Book Series Editor with Taylor and Francis for three books series: Technology Innovations: Strategies for Business Sustainability and Growth; Emerging Trends in Technology in Management and Commerce; and Electronic Commerce Management for Business. He has been working with new innovative ideas in the field of patents and copyrights. He has been the lead organizer in conducting various international conferences, workshops, and case study competitions, including those affiliated with IEEE. He has been conferred with many national and international awards for being best academician, researcher, and employee. Michela Floris, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Management in the Department of Economics and Business, University of Cagliari, Italy.
She has been teaching Family Business Management for several years. She has published articles in leading journals (e.g., Family Business Review, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Journal of Management and Governance, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Management Review Quarterly, Journal of Family Business Management, The TQM Journal) and received relevant awards and grants for her studies (e.g., Academy of Management Best Paper-2009 and 2015l Carolyn Dexter Award-2015; IFERA & STEP Best Paper on conference theme-2019; Selected Paper SIMA-Sinergie Conference-2021). Her main interest of research focuses on strategy, organizational goals, and goal-driven behaviors in family firms, including entrepreneurship, marketing, innovation, and growth. She received her PhD in Management and holds a master's degree in Economics from the University of Cagliari, Italy.