Biographies

Dr Juan Gabriel Cegarra
Juan-Gabriel is associate professor of the Business Administration Department of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Manchester and at the University of Hull in the UK. His research interests are on the use of knowledge management to help small and medium businesses to become more competitive. During the last few years he has also been dedicating his time to several research projects on the SME sector (at the European Level) including the congenital learning project. This project was formed by Murcia (Spain) and the Humber region (UK) and was funded by the British Academy of Management. As a lecturer within the Business Administration Department, he has supervised two national projects and three PhD candidates in the domain of knowledge management.

Juan Gabriel Cegarra

Dr Eva Martínez Caro
Eva is an assistant professor of operations management in the Business Management Department, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain). She received her degree in industrial engineering in 2000 and her PhD degree in business management in 2005. She served as the Head of the e-Learning Center of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena for 5 years. She is actually Vice Dean of the School of Industrial Engineering. Her current research interests include knowledge management, technology-based learning environments and technology management.

Eva Martínez Caro

Dr Inocencia Martínez
Inocencia teaches in the area of Organization Studies, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management, and Intangibles Management. She is the Head of the Business Management Department at Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain. Her current research interests are organizational learning, organizational structure, corporate reputation, intangibles management and gender studies. Her papers have been published in prestigious Spanish and international journals. She has also participated in various research projects related to organizational culture, innovation and information technologies. Besides, she has managed strategic plans for the agricultural sector at the regional level and the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. During 1994-99, she was a Financial Director of the G’s España Group, one of the most important fresh produce companies in Spain, and member of the biggest private-owned European agricultural group, the G's Group.

Inocencia Martínez

Dr María Eugenia Sánchez
Eugenia is associate teacher of the Universidad  Politécnica de Cartagena. She teaches in degree and postgraduate studies. Her research topics are human resource management and knowledge management. She has publications in high quality  international journals. She has also participated in various research projects related to organizational culture, innovation and information technologies.

María Eugenia Sánchez

Dr Scott Erickson
Scott is Professor of Marketing in the School of Business at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY where he has also served as Department Chair and Interim Associate Dean.  He holds a PhD from Lehigh University and Masters degrees from Thunderbird and SMU.  He served as Fulbright Research Chair at The Monieson Centre at Queen’s Business School, Kingston, ON in 2010/2011.  He has published widely on intellectual property, intellectual capital, and competitive intelligence.

Scott Erickson

Dr Helen Rothberg
Helen is Professor of Strategy in the School of Management at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY. She is principal of HNR Associates, a consultancy and is also on the faculty of the Fuld Herring Gilad Academy of Competitive Intelligence.  She holds a PhD and MPhil from City University Graduate Center, and an MBA from Baruch College, CUNY.  She has published extensively on topics including competitive intelligence and knowledge management.

Helen and Scott published From Knowledge to Intelligence: Achieving Competitive Advantage in the Next Economy (Elsevier) in 2005, the first book to combine the knowledge management and competitive intelligence fields and examine them from a strategic perspective.  Their forthcoming book Intelligence in Action (Palgrave Macmillan), applying both quantitative and qualitative data to the same issues, will be launched in Fall 2012.

Helen Rothberg

Dr Anthony Wensley
Anthony is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Accounting at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also the Director of the Communications, Culture and Information Technology program at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He has degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Surrey in the UK and McMaster University and the University of Waterloo in Canada. His current research interests include issues concerning the implementation and use of enterprise-wide systems, most particularly, Enterprise Resource Planning systems. The principal concern on this research is on how such systems interact and change knowledge retention and use at an organizational and individual level. Anthony Wensley has been published widely in leading journals and has authored a book on Knowledge Based Systems and many book chapters. He has also been the executive editor of Knowledge and Process Management for over ten years.

Anthony Wensley

Dr Antonio Leal Millán
Antonio is a full Professor and the Head of the Management and Marketing Department at the University of Seville. His research topics include organizational culture, knowledge management and firm innovativeness. His principal area of research relates to the management of knowledge and organizational culture in complex, dynamic knowledge domains. This research focuses on concerns relating to such domains as human resources with particular reference to the structure and creation of knowledge. As a lecturer with the Management and Marketing Department at the University of Seville, he has supervised several national projects and many completed PhD projects. Antonio Leal has been published widely in leading journals and has authored many book chapters.

Antonio Leal Millán

Dr Antonio Juan Briones
Antonio is Assistant Professor of the Business Administration Department of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (Spain). During the last fourteen years he has taught Strategic Management. His research topics include knowledge management, entrepreneurs, business cooperation, innovation firms and government defense industry. He has supervised a completed PhD project and several international projects in strategic agribusiness, tourism diversification and security systems between Costa Rica and the Region of Murcia.

Antonio Juan Briones

Dr José-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon
José-Rodrigo is a senior lecturer in technology and information management at the school of Management in Royal Holloway. He has been the departmental director of the Master of Science in Business Information Systems at the school of Management of Royal Holloway between 2008 and 2011. José-Rodrigo's research work is around the systemic study of information systems and the development of sustainability practices in organisations. His areas of interest include e-government and systems thinking for sustainability. José-Rodrigo set up a Technology and Governance Network (TGN), an international group of academics and practitioners who aim to share their understanding of new forms of relationship mediated through technology. He has been ranked among the top 100 researchers in the area of information systems between 2007 and 2010 in the Ventatesh ranking.

José-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon

Dr Daniel Jiménez Jiménez
Daniel holds a PhD in Human Resource Management from University of Murcia, Spain. He is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Murcia. His work has been published in the Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Information Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management and International Small Business Journal. His research interests include innovation, human resource management, knowledge management and family firms. He has also participated in various research projects related to organizational culture, innovation and information technologies. He is actually Vice Dean of the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Murcia.

Daniel Jiménez Jiménez

Dr Eduardo Tomé
Eduardo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidade Lusiada in Famalicão, Portugal. He made his PhD thesis in Economics at the Technical University in Lisbon in 2001. The thesis topic was the evaluation of European Social Fund operations in Portugal. Since then he has taught in several Portuguese universities, presented and published extensively in international conferences and referred journals on Human Resource, Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Social Policies. He is the Head of the Observatory for Sustainability and Growth at Lusíada Famalicão. He was Programme chair of ECKM 2010 and of MSKE 2009, both Conferences having been held in Lusíada Famalicão in the last two years.

Peter Heisig

Dr Gabriel Cepeda Carrión
Gabriel is associate professor in the Management and Marketing Department at the University of Seville. His main research topics include knowledge management, absorptive capacity, dynamic capabilities and organizational learning and unlearning. He also is an expert in qualitative (case study research) and quantitative (SEM and PLS) methods in management research. His research is published in several top ranked journals including the Journal of Knowledge Management, Management Decision, Journal of Business Research, British Journal of Management, Time and Society, Journal of Organizational Change Management, International Journal of Manpower, International Journal of Information Management, Behaviour and Information Technology, The Service Industries Journal, International Journal for Quality in Health Care. He has developed professional projects about knowledge management in industries including banking, health care and professional sport

Gabriel Cepeda Carrión

Dr Steve Eldridge
Steve is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer who joined the university in 2002 following a career in industry spanning over twenty years. During this period, he progressed through a variety of roles including process engineer, QA manager, management consultant and, ultimately, director responsible for quality, manufacturing and logistics systems in a European supplier to the automotive industry. He completed an Engineering Doctorate with UMIST and was subsequently appointed as a lecturer in the School of Management and then as the director of the Manchester Engineering Doctorate Centre.

Steve Eldridge

Dr Gaby Neumann
Gaby received a PhD in Logistics from the University of Magdeburg for her dissertation on “Knowledge-Based Support for the Planner of Crane-Operated Materials Flow Solutions”. From December 2002 to June 2009 she was Junior Professor in Logistics Knowledge Management at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering there. In December 2009 she became Professor on Engineering Logistics at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau.   logistics learning, didactics of teaching logistics as well as logistics competence profiling and assessment. Gaby Neumann has widely published in those fields and regularly presents related research papers at national and international conferences.

Gaby Neumann

Prof. Ali Hessami
Ali is currently the Director of R&D and Innovation at Vega Systems and Director of System of Systems Engineering Centre at UEL, London. He is an expert in the systems assurance and safety, security, sustainability and knowledge assessment/management methodologies and has a background in design and development of advanced control systems for business and safety critical industrial applications. Ali is a Visiting Professor at London City University’s Centre for Systems and Control in the School of Engineering & Mathematics and at Beijing Jiaotong University School of Electronics & Information Engineering. He is also a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Fellow of the IET, a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the Security Institute.

Ali Hessami

Dr Sandra Moffett
Sandra is a Lecturer within the School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster.  Sandra completed her PhD in Knowledge Management in 2000.  She is creator of the ‘MeCTIP model’ and ‘Benchmarking KM’ assessment tool.  Sandra has conducted extensive funded research with UK organisations on KM implementation and development, applying quantitative and qualitative research methods.  Sandra has 50+ publications on KM in peer reviewed academic journals and international conferences. She is a core member of the Ulster Business School Research Institute and the Intelligent Systems Research Centre, University of Ulster.

Sandra Moffett

Dr. David Cegarra
David is a teacher at the Universidad Politécnica de  Cartagena. His research interests are knowledge management, work life  balance and innovation. His thesis analysed the role of the founders  congenital knowledge in implementing a work life balance culture in  SMEs. Before joining the University he was the Marketing director of a  Technological Center. He has publications in internacional journals  such as Management Decision, The International Journal of Human  Resource Management or the Spanish Journal of Psychology.

David Cegarra

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Gronau
Norbert studied engineering and business administration at Berlin University of Technology. He gained his Ph.D. in 1994 and completed his habilitation thesis in industrial information systems. He currently holds the Chair of Business Information Systems and Electronic Government at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His main research activities focus on the areas of Knowledge Management and Business Resource Management. Norbert is editor of various scientific journals, author of many research papers and editor of some books.

Norbert Gronau

Marta-Christina Suciu
Marta-Christina is a full professor and PhD supervisor at the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania. Her main topics of interest are: Knowledge & innovative based society and economy; Creative and innovative management; knowledge management and Innovation; change management, intangible assets and intellectual capital. She is actively involved in supporting these this topics as a trainer, as a PhD and post PhD  supervisor and as a researcher. She coordinated the national research project IDEI 1224 dedicated to the topic of “Creative economy & knowledge–based society. Challenges and opportunities for Romania”, 2007-2010.

Marta-Christina Suciu

Constantin Bratianu
Constantin is professor of Strategic Management and Knowledge Management at the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Romania.  He is the Head of UNESCO Department for Business Administration, and Director of the Research Center for Intellectual Capital. His main academic interests are: knowledge dynamics, knowledge management, intellectual capital, strategic management and university management.

Constantin Bratianu

Jan Pawlowski
Jan works as Professor in Digital Media - Global Information Systems at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Born in 1971, originally from Essen, Germany. Masters' Degree and Doctorate in Business Information Systems (University of Duisburg-Essen). Professor of Digital Media with the specialization "Global Information Systems". This includes the research coordination of several national and European projects. Main research interests and activities are in the field of Global Information Systems, E-Learning, Modeling Learning-related Processes, Procedural Models, Learning Technology Standardization, Quality Management and Quality Assurance for Education, and Mobile / Ambient Learning. Actively involved in research organizations (AACE, GI, IEEE) and in standardization organizations (DIN, CEN, ISO/ IEC JTC1 SC36). Acting chair of the CEN/ISSS Workshop Learning Technologies.

Jan Pawlowski

Updated 24 January 2012