Dr. Lecturer Sema Üstgörül is working in Faculty of Healt Science, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Türkiye. She graduated from the Nursing Faculty, Hacettepe University in Ankara. She completed a masters and PhD in Gynecology and Obstetrics Nursing. Her research interests comprise networks and partnerships in diverse disciplines and health management. She especially studies in sustainability, female managers, and sexual health. She is a member of the Federation of Sexual Health Associations in Turkey. She has about 25 papers indexed in SSCI and Scopus, which is another international database index.

Bülent Akkaya works as a Dr. Lecturer in the Department of Office Management Assistant of the Manisa Celal Bayar University located in Manisa in the west of Turkey. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration Management with a specialization in Management, Leadership, and Agility in Science Parks. His research interests comprise networks and partnerships in diverse disciplines. He has been working on dynamic capabilities, agile leadership, Industry 4.0, and quality of management in contemporary enterprises.

Maria Palazzo (PhD, AFHEA, FHEA, MSc (Honours), MA, BA (Honours)) is  an Associate Professor at the Universitas Mercatorum (Rome, Italy). She was a former Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, School of Business  (London, 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). She is Editor of Cogent Business  and Management and the International Journal of Sustainable  Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility. Her articles have been published in the TQM Journal, European J. of International  Management, Corporate Social Responsibility & Environmental  Management,  Current Issues in Tourism, International Journal of Bank  Marketing, Qualitative Market Research: an International Journal, Land  Use Policy, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, Journal of Brand  Management, and other academic outlets.

Alessandra Micozzi is Full Professor of Applied Economics at the Universitas Mercatorum and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences. She is the National Coordinator of the GEM ITALIA team for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Her main research activities concern high-tech entrepreneurship, female entrepreneurship, and technology transfer. She has co-founded five innovative start-ups, one of which is a university spin-off. She is Coordinator of the doctoral program in "Sustainability and ESG agenda", 39th cycle.