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Editors andContributors About the Editors Mariusz Soltanifar is a lecturer and coach inmarketing and entrepreneurship at the International Business School at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen,Netherlands.He obtained amaster’s degree in InternationalMarketing andBusiness from theUniversityofŁódź (Lodz) inPolandwhilewritinghis thesis at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, located in Karlsruhe,Germany,andat theHelsinkiUniversityofTechnology inFinland.He is currentlyfinalising his Ph.D. research at theOpenUniversity of theNetherlands at the Faculty ofManagement in the Strategy andGeneralManagement Department on exploring the behaviour of non-managerial employees in the corporate entrepreneurship process. For many years, he has been a guest lecturer among others at universities in South Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Indonesia, Switzerland andGermany. He has contributed his marketing and entrepreneurship expertise to several academic textbookspublishedbyMcGraw-Hill, PearsonandSpringer.His research has also been cited in publications on multinational management. From 2012 to 2018, he served as the CEO of the largest networking platform connecting Polish professionals abroad. In2016,he received theGoldenOwlAward inVienna forhis achievements. In addition to his accomplishments in academic institutions and texts, he has made practical contributions to innovative marketing projects across the globe. Most importantly, he is a husband and a father, and in his free time, he enjoys long-distancerunning,cookingPersiandishesandservinglocalchurchcommunities. Dr.MathewHughes is a professor and chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Loughborough University School of Business and Economics. Before this appointment, he was a reader in Entrepreneurial Management at the Durham University Business School and served as the director of their Ph.D. program. Earlier in his career, he served as an assistant professor and an associate professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and was the director of the M.Sc. Entrepreneurship and the deputy director of the Doctoral Program at Nottingham xxi