IJSRM Editorial Board

Lazo is a university professor and researcher who has specialised throughout his career in organizational-technical and economic aspects of the economy and social transition. He is the Dean, and Full Professor of the Faculty of Information Technologies at the University of Vitez, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He worked for 21 years in the Institute of Economics, University of Banja Luka, where he was engaged as a project manager, author and chief researcher in numerous scientific researches and projects in the fields of development and organisation of economic and social sectors, education and planning of human resources, development and application of methods for economic analysis and management processes, functional and system analysis of social protection and services sector.

As a Fulbright scholar, he organised and taught undergraduate course of Analytical Methods in Management at The DuPree College of Management, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

He has published over 200 scientific and professional papers, between them are 23 books, and 20 are participations as author, co-author, team leader or co-leader and consultant in over 20 international scientific research projects. He is a certified expert of the HEA – Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance of B&H, and certified national trainer and consultant of the EU Regional Economic Development B&H in the field of strategic and operational management, and management information systems.

Professor Vignali joined Leeds Met on 1 September 2003 from the School of Consumer, Tourism and Hospitality Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he had been the Consumer Section and Research Head for the past three years. Prior to this he was the postgraduate diploma course leader in the department of Retailing and Marketing. He has written more than 50 articles and books in the field of Retailing and Marketing and is the editor of two academic journals, The British Food Journal and the International Journal of Management Cases. In the past Professor Vignali has worked for Crown Berger Paints, part of Akzo Nobell, and Benetton, where he has held positions from brand manager to export director and developed distribution and retail operations in Europe and the Middle East.

Prof.Dr. Bernd Hallier is Managing Director of the EHI Retail Institute www.orgainvent.de  since 1985. He is also the President of EuroShop – worldwide exhibition for retail investment goods  www.euroshop.de, Chairman of the Board of the Orgainvent www.orgainvent.de , founder of EUREPGAP (now GlobalGAP- Good Agricultural Practice) www.globalgap.org Prof.Hallier manages also the European Retail Academy  www.european-retail-academy.org  as an executive member of the Board of Trustees. Apart from his teaching activity in Germany he lectures in trade marketing and trade management at the Moscow academy of business at the Government of Moscow and in Philadelphia/USA. Additionally he is monitoring for the EU in 2010 “new skills” for commerce to prepare international blended learning systems.

Dr Konstantopoulou is currently Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences in Edge Hill University. Her research interests span across Education and Management with a focus on student experience and organisational management, branding and small businesses.

She has supervised Postgraduate students as well as undergraduate students and is interested in the publication of education pedagogy.

Louise F. Reid is a Lecturer in Digital Marketing at the University of Gloucestershire. Her career in the fashion sector encompassed both retailing and buying roles, for brands Warehouse and Cotton Traders respectively. Louise’s PhD research, which follows a BA (hons) in Consumer Studies and an MSc in Strategic Fashion Buying, investigates the role of psychological and physical determinants of clothing comfort within the consumer’s process of garment evaluation within multiple channel retail environments. This research informs her current teaching on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses and research consultancy in 3D body scanning, marketing, retailing and wellbeing.

Jamila Jaganjac is an associate professor and Dean of Faculty of Business Economics at University Vitez. She has published numerous academic papers, two textbooks and contributed to a research monograph. Her main research interests focus on entrepreneurship and strategic management of intellectual capital and knowledge. She is a member of the editorial board for a number of academic journals and Editor in Chief of SKEI-international interdisciplinary journal. She is a regular member of the International Research Academy of Science and Art- IRASA and an expert representative of the academic community in BiH at the Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality assurance. She has participated in several international projects related to entrepreneurship and human resource management. She previously worked in the financial sector as a regional manager, as well as in several international organizations.

Léo-Paul DANA is Professor at ICD Business School, Groupe IGS, Paris, France and at Dalhousie University, Canada.   A graduate of McGill University and HEC-Montreal, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Professor at INSEAD.    Since the 1980s, he has been researching – for and with Indigenous peoples – about entrepreneurship and small business by Indigenous peoples, i.e., those whose ancestors were living in an area prior to colonisation or within a nation-state prior to the formation of a nation-state.