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Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka is Assistant Professor and Erasmus+ Coordinator in the Faculty of Management at Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland.
Shashi Kant Gupta is an Adjunct Professor, Lincoln University College, Malaysia.
Muhammad Shahbaz is Professor of Economics at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Markus A. Launer is Full Professor for Business Administration and Service Management at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany, where he also teaches at the ZWIRN Center in Sustainability and Risk Management.