Innovation-Driven Business and Sustainability in the Tropics: Proceedings of the Sustainability, Economics, Innovation, Globalisation and Organisation

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".

Dr. Emiel L. Eijdenberg 是新加坡詹姆斯庫克大學國際貿易與商業中心的高級講師及新加坡主任。Eijdenberg 博士的研究興趣集中在企業家精神及精英旅遊，特別是在熱帶地區。Eijdenberg 博士的研究成果已發表於多個期刊，包括《國際企業行為與研究期刊》、《國際市場研究期刊》、《國際企業家精神評論》、《非洲商業期刊》、《小型企業研究》等，以及數本學術書籍和編輯卷。Eijdenberg 博士與他人合作獲得了近 500,000 的資金，來自多個組織，如荷蘭國際化教育組織 (NUFFIC) 和福斯汽車基金會。在這些項目中，Eijdenberg 博士作為專家參與了包括布隆迪、埃塞俄比亞、肯尼亞、阿曼、盧旺達、坦尚尼亞、烏干達、贊比亞和津巴布韋等地的短期和長期任務。

Dr. Malobi Mukherjee 目前是新加坡詹姆斯庫克大學的講師，並且是牛津大學賽德商學院的國際訪問研究員。Mukherjee 博士在客戶關係管理、服務行銷、零售格式開發和零售公共政策方面擁有超過 15 年的研究、教學和顧問經驗。她的研究成果發表於《長期規劃》、《未來》、《亞太商業評論》和《國際零售、分銷與消費者研究評論》等期刊。她還是一本由 Routledge 出版的關於新興市場零售發展的編輯書籍的作者。Mukherjee 博士曾在《海峽時報》和《商業時報》（新加坡）上被引用，並為《印度快報》、《印度時報》和《商業時報》等主要報紙撰寫意見文章。Mukherjee 博士還是一位專注於情境規劃的未來學家，並在亞洲、澳洲和歐洲的多個零售研究和顧問項目中使用這一方法。Mukherjee 博士在印度加爾各答的總統大學獲得學士學位，在英國利茲大學獲得工商管理碩士學位，並在英國曼徹斯特大學商學院獲得博士學位，期間她獲得了 AXA PPP 健康保險獎學金。

Dr. Jacob Wood 是詹姆斯庫克大學（澳大利亞）商業、法律與治理學院的研究副院長，以及詹姆斯庫克大學新加坡校區商業、資訊科技與科學的研究副院長。他同時也是亞洲國際貿易與商業中心 (CITBA) 的執行董事。Wood 博士的主要研究興趣集中在運輸和物流領域，以及國際貿易的幾個領域，包括非關稅壁壘、產業內貿易和 WTO 爭端解決機制等方面的研究。他的研究成果已發表於多個期刊，包括《世界經濟》、《運輸研究期刊 D 部分：運輸與環境》、《清潔生產期刊》、《國際災害風險減少期刊》、《世界貿易期刊》、《科學計量學》和《亞太經濟文獻期刊》等。Wood 博士還是 Routledge 出版的持續書籍系列《熱帶研究進展》的共同編輯，最近他還與 Springer Nature 出版了一本名為《非洲的多維經濟評估》的書籍。