Ismail Iyigün has been working as a lecturer in Edirne Vocational School of Social Sciences at the Trakya University. His current research areas are marketing, logistics and supply chain management. He received his Ph.D. degree with business administration from Gebze Technical University in 2016. The focus of his Ph.D. thesis is the effects of sales and logistics competencies on the relationship continuity in supply chain and corporate governance: an application in logistics enterprises.

He received a Master of Economics degree from the Trakya University and researched the commodities market of historical process and application of Uzunköprü. He graduated high school in Kabatas High School in 1989 and received an undergraduate degree from the Department of Economics, Marmara University, in 1994. Ömer Faruk Görçün teaches in the Faculty of Business Administration at the Kadir Has University. He is also a member of the transportation council of the Ministry of Transportation of Turkey. In addition to that, he has performed some duties such as the president and a member in the committees of the research & development and the railway regulation. He had duties as the member of the board in Rail Systems Association and was the advisor for the Crane Operator Association and Heavy Transport Association. As an aspect of his academic studies and works, he works on optimization and decision-making techniques in the fields of logistics and supply chain management. In addition to many studies published in international and national reputable journals, he wrote many scientific books, which were published by international and national publishers, such as Industry 4.

0, Integrated Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management, Warehouse and Inventory Management, and Railway Transportation.