Zhihua Wang is Senior Lecturer and Global MBA Program Leader at Glasgow Caledonian University, London; Editor- in- Chief of the International Journal of Applied Management Theory and Research, IGI Global; and a member of the Editorial Board of Forum for Social Economics, Taylor Francis. She has published over 43 research papers on peer- reviewed international journals and proceedings. Her research interests include knowledge transfer, game theory, real options, culture and identity theory. Eleftherios Giovanis is Associate Professor of Economics at the Izmir Bakircay University. He completed his PhD in environmental economics at the Royal Holloway University of London. He has participated in several research projects, and has worked in universities in Italy, UK, and Turkey. His research interests include environmental, health, labour and welfare economics. Nikolaos Karagiannis is Professor of Economics at Winston- Salem State University, North Carolina; a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity; an invited visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, England; and the co- editor of American Review of Political Economy. He has published extensively in the areas of economic development, public sector economics, and macroeconomic policy analysis. He is the author, co- author and co- editor of 22 books and has published over 160 papers as refereed journal articles, book chapters and op-eds.