Dr Emiel L. Eijdenberg is Senior Lecturer and the Singapore Director of the Centre of International Trade and Boniness in Asia, James Cook University, Singapore. Dr Eijdenberg’s research interests are about entrepreneurs(hip) and elite tourism, especially in the Tropics. Dr Eijdenberg’s work has been published in journals such as International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, International Journal of Market Research, International Review of Entrepreneurship, Journal of African Business, Small Enterprise Research, and in several scholarly books and edited volumes. Dr Eijdenberg has secured in collaboration with others close to € 500,000 in funding from multiple organisations such as the Dutch organisation of internationalisation in education (NUFFIC) and Volkswagen Foundation. In these projects, Dr Eijdenberg is involved as an expert for short and long-term assignments in, amongst others, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Oman, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.Dr Malobi Mukherjee is currently a Lecturer at James Cook University, Singapore, and a Visiting International Researcher at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Dr Mukherjee has over 15 years of research, teaching and consultancy experience in customer relationship management, services marketing, retail format development and retail public policy. She has published in Long Range Planning, Futures, Asia Pacific Business Review and International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research. She is also the author of an edited book on retail development in emerging markets published by Routledge. Dr Mukherjee has been quoted in the Straits Times and Business Times (Singapore) and written opinion pieces for leading newspapers such as Indian Express, Times of India, and Business Times. Dr Mukherjee is also a futurist specialising in the scenario planning which she has used for several retail research and consultancy projects across Asia, Australiaand Europe. Dr Mukherjee earned her undergraduate degree at Presidency University, Kolkata, India; her Master in Business Administration from Leeds University, United Kingdom, and her PhD from Alliance Manchester Business School, United Kingdom, where she was the recipient of the AXA PPP Healthcare scholarship.Dr. Jacob Wood is the Associate Dean of Research (ADR) for the College of Business, Law, and Governance at James Cook University (JCU, Australia) and the ADR for Business, IT, and Science at JCU Singapore. He is also the Managing Director for the Centre of International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA). Dr. Wood’s primary research interests are in the areas of transportation and logistics and as well as several areas within the field of international trade, including works in nontariff barriers, intra-industry trade, and the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. From these studies, he has been published in various outlets including The World Economy, Journal of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and the Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Journal of World Trade, Scientometrics, and Journal of Asia-Pacific Economic Literature among others. Dr. Wood is also co-Editor of an ongoing book series that is published by Routledge titled “Advances in Research on the Tropics”, and recently he has also published a Book with Springer Nature titled “A Multidimensional Economic Assessment of Africa”.
