Emerging Markets from a Multidisciplinary Perspective : Challenges, Opportunities and Research Agenda

In 2016 Emma was selected for participation in the inaugural Digital Economy Crucible funded by EPSRC through the Challenging Human Environments and Research Impact for a Sustainable and Healthy Digital Economy (CHERISH-DE) multidisciplinary research centre. In the same year she also secured funding from British Council UAE to attend Employee Engagement for Quality Energy Efficient Workplaces and facilitate a panel session with Professor Yogesh Dwivedi about employee engagement with Green IT/S. Emma was also Programme Co-Chair of the 15th IFIP I3E Conference on “Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”.

Mahmud A. Shareef is currently an Associate Professor of School of Business, North South University and a visiting Professor in Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Previously, he was the Fellow of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada to conduct research on Electronic-government. He is a Research Associate in Ontario Research Network for Electronic Commerce (ORNEC), Ottawa, Canada. He has done his PhD in Business Administration from Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada with the highest Senate Medal. He received his graduate degree from both the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in Business Administration (MBA, Finance) and Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in Civil Engineering (M.Eng.). Before that, he has completed his undergraduate degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). He is the principal author of both books. He has presented several seminal papers in management seminars in USA, Canada, Switzerland, and UK. Mr. Mahmud is the recipient of more than 15 academic awards including 2 Best Research Paper Awards for the best journal and conference papers from UK and Canada. He was the guest Editor (Special Issue) of International Journal of Electronic-Government Research (IJEGR) which is published from UK. He has extensive research experience in the fields like Information technology management, Consumer behavior management, Organizational reformation, Electronic-government, Electronic-commerce, and Identity theft. He has published more than 50 research papers addressing organizational theories, adoption and quality of Electronic-government and Electronic-commerce, and other topical management issues in different international refereed conference proceedings and international journals (All are from North America and Europe). He is the principal author/editor of the refereed books Proliferation of the Internet Economy: E-Commerce for the Global Adoption, Resistance and Cultural Evolution, Stakeholder Adoption of E-Government Services: Driving and Resisting Factors and E-Government Service Maturity and Development: Cultural, Organizational and Technological Perspectives published by Information Science Reference, IGI Global Publications, USA. He is also the coauthor of several book chapters of refereed books published from USA. Recently, he has finished writing/editing the refereed book Transformational Government through eGov: Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Technological Issues, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK named  which is published from UK in 2012 April. At present, he is editing/writing another book Public Administration Reformation: Market Demand from Public Organizations which will be published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, New York, NY 10017, USA (To be Published in 2013). He has presented several seminal papers at management seminars in the USA, Canada, and the UK. He received more than 15 academic awards including two Best Research Paper Awards for the best journal and conference papers from the UK and Canada. He has  also edited a special issue of International Journal of Electronic Government Research as the guest editor.

Marc Clement was born in Llanelli, Wales. He graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in Physics from Swansea University and a PhD in Laser Physics from Swansea University with the research undertaken at the Rutherford Laboratory. Marc then gained a Fellowship from the Royal Society to study at the Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, in Paris. He has held several senior academic positions including being the Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales for six years before returning to become Executive Chair in the Institute of Life Science at the College of Medicine, Swansea University. In 2014 Marc was invited to become Vice President of Swansea University with a specific role of developing major strategic projects; and more recently in October 2015, Marc was appointed as Dean of the School of Management, Swansea University. Marc has also held several public appointments serving on and chairing committees on behalf of Welsh Government and representing Wales on the UK Board of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). Marc is an entrepreneur having founded several businesses and is the named inventor of many patents in the field of medical devices.

Antonis Simintiras joined GUST in August 2015 as the MBA Program Director, and in 2016 was put in charge as the Dean of the College of Business Administration. He completed his degree and post graduate studies in the USA and UK, and began his career as a Sales Manager for a Greek FMCG company.In 1991, he started his first academic job as a Lecturer in Marketing at Swansea University. Four years later he moved to the Open University, as Reader in Marketing, for two years, and in 1998 returned to Swansea University as a Marketing Professor– a position he held until 2015.Over the years his research interests have been in the areas of personal selling and sales management, cross-cultural research methodology, and consumer behavior. His work has appeared in many academic journals and he has even presented his findings at several international conference proceedings. Professor Simintiras has also co-authored a book on Global Sales Management.Over the years, he has held several visiting professorial appointments at universities in France, Spain, Austria, Greece, Finland, USA, and China, and acted as a consultant for various companies and government organizations. Moreover, he has held many administrative roles, including serving as the Dean of the Business School at Swansea University, and as Deputy Dean responsible for Internationalization.

Banita Lal is a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Business School at Nottigham Trent University. Currently, Dr Lal's research interests are within the areas of: the usage of mobile technologies by workers / homeworkers and the influence on home-work boundaries, factors affecting the adoption of broadband technology in different countries, including developing nations, and the usage of virtual environments by organisations.