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**Robert D. Hisrich** is the Bridgestone Chair of International Marketing and Associate Dean of Graduate and International Programs at the College of Business Administration at Kent State University. He holds a B.A. from DePauw University and an M.B.A. and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. Professor Hisrich's research pursuits are focused on entrepreneurship and venture creation: entrepreneurial ethics, corporate entrepreneurship, women and minority entrepreneurs, venture financing, and global venture creation. He teaches courses and seminars in these areas, as well as in marketing management, and product planning and development. His interest in global management and entrepreneurship resulted in two Fulbright Fellowships in Budapest, Hungary, honorary degrees from Chuvash State University (Russia) and University of Miskolc (Hungary), and being a visiting faculty member in universities in Austria, Australia, Ireland, and Slovenia. Professor Hisrich serves on the editorial boards of several prominent journals in entrepreneurial scholarship, is on several boards of directors, and is author or coauthor of over 300 research articles appearing in journals such as _Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice_. Professor Hisrich has authored or coauthored 41 books or their editions, including _Marketing: A Practical Management Approach; How to Fix and Prevent the 13 Biggest Problems That Derail Business; International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing and Managing a Global Venture_ (3rd edition), and _Technology Entrepreneurship: Value Creation, Protection, and Capture_ (2nd edition). **Veland Ramadani** is an Associate Professor at South-East European University, Republic of Macedonia where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in entrepreneurship and small business management. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management, family businesses and venture capital investments. He authored or co-authored around eighty research articles and fifteen books, including _Entrepreneurship and Management in an Islamic Context; Female Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: Trends and Challenges_ ; _Family Businesses in Transition Economies: Management, Succession and Internationalization_ ; _Entrepreneurship in the Balkans: Diversity, Support and Prospects_ ; _Direct Marketing and Small Business_ ; _Business Angels_ (in Albanian language); _Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management_ (in Albanian language) and Venture Capital and Small Business (in Macedonian language). Besides serving as an Associate Editor of _International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business_ (IJESB) and _International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation_ (IJTTC), Dr. Ramadani serves on the editorial and review boards of several journals from the field of entrepreneurship and management. Dr. Ramadani received the Award for Excellence 2016 - Outstanding Paper by Emerald Group Publishing ( _Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy_ ).