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1 Notes on Contributors Melodena Stephens Balakrishnan is Professor of Marketing and Brands, Karlshochschule International University and Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. Her areas of research are Middle East North Africa, crisis management, branding, place marketing and social entrepreneurship for which she has won several competitive research grants and published on the same. She has an intercultural perspective having lived in India, USA, Taiwan and UAE. She has 20 years of experience in industry and academia. She is the Founder and President of the Academy of International Business (MENA), which she began in She is the Editor of a Case Book Series Actions and Insights that looks at organizations operating in the MENA region. She enjoys working on bridging the industry-academic gap and mentoring start-ups. mstephensb@karlshochschule.de Felicjan Bylok is Professor of Sociology and a specialist of the field of the sociology of consumption. He serves as Director of the Institute of Sociology and Psychology of Management in the Technical University of Cz stochowa. For many years he has been actively participating in scientific congresses, conferences and symposiums in the field of the sociology of consumption, economic sociology and the sociology of organization. The scientific and research works of Prof. Dr. hab. Felicjan Bylok consist of almost 160 papers published in both Polish and foreign journals, as well as collective works. Aside from this, he is the author of a multitude of papers in the sphere of consumer behaviour, prosumption, sustainable consumption, ethics of consumption, consumer culture and consumer society. bylokfelicjan@gmail.com Leszek Cichob azi ski is an Assistant Professor of Human Resources Management and Negotiation at the Management Faculty of the Cz stochowa University of Technology, Poland. His main scholarly interest is in human resources management. His research focuses on the anthropology of organization, organizational semiotics and communication with his educational background in Sociology from Jagiellonian University/Kraków as well as a Doctorate in Liberal Arts. He has worked as an Adjunct Professor in the Speech S. Sonnenburg, D. Wee (eds.), Touring Consumption, Management Culture Interpretation, DOI / , Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2015

2 320 Notes on Contributors Department at Southern Illinois University, USA, and as a visiting lecturer at the Perugia University, Italy. In the recent past, he has shifted his research focus to tourism in a cooperation with the local government in Cz stochowa in the frame of the EU projects COESIMA and INTERREG III C. lech@zim.pcz.pl Ulrich Gehmann studied Biology, Business Administration, and History. Manager in industry and international consulting Founder of the research group formatting of social spaces, and of the journal New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, University of Karlsruhe (KIT), Germany. Publications on mythological issues and their impacts on recent sociocultural reality, spatial issues, and virtual worlds, Museum projects dealing with evolution, history, and their processes. Lecturer at Karlshochschule International University; partner in a German consulting firm active in the EU-Commission. ugehm@t-online.de Sourav Kargupta got his PhD degree from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2014, working at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His doctoral thesis concerns the possibility of a located feminist ethics and a critique of the intentional subject. He has previously worked in an academic project at the Martin Luther University, Germany. He has published on critical theory, literature and the philosophy of social sciences. His recent publications include, Feminist Justice Beyond Law: Spivakian Ab-Use of Enlightenment Textuality in Imagining the Other, in an edited volume. souravkargupta@googl .com Ian King is Professor of Aesthetics and Management at the University of the Arts, London. He has a background in international music, theatre and academia. He has written and published widely in journals across a number of disciplines. His most recent book is entitled: Experiencing Organizations: New Aesthetic Perspectives, published by Libri in His research interests include: Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy and Organization Studies. i.king@fashion.arts.ac.uk Wendelin Küpers is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany. Combining a phenomenological and cross-disciplinary orientation, his research focuses on embodied, emotional and creative, respectively aesthetic dimension in organizational life-worlds. In his current research and teaching he is focusing on

3 Notes on Contributors 321 more responsible and wiser forms of organizational and leadership towards more integral and sustainable inter-practices. Viktória Kundi is Associate Professor at Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, Székesfehérvár Budapest, Hungary. She has a BA in Tourism from KJUAS and an MA in Marketing from Széchenyi István University, Hungary. She was awarded a PhD in Regional Sciences in 2013 at Széchenyi István University for a thesis on festivals economic and sociocultural impacts on cities. In addition to her academic work, she is also an active tour guide. She is member of the Hungarian Geographical Society and the Hungarian Tour Guides Association. Her current research interests include cultural consumption, and cultural and economic impact analysis. Her key publications are in connection with her doctoral thesis. kundiviki@gmail.com Erica Liu is currently the programme leader of BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design in the University of Hertfordshire. Before joining the University, Erica was an interior and exhibition designer in the Far East for over 10 years. Erica continued her profession in the UK and obtained a PhD in Cultural Studies. She is keen to support young people and women in getting a career in the construction industry and acts as a consultant for the Pinkspiration Social Enterprise. Erica advocates multi-disciplinary collaboration and her projects have won 19 national awards. Her research interests include place branding and vernacular practice in architecture. e.liu2@herts.ac.uk Fernando Peña López is Associate Professor of Private Law at the University of A Coruña (Spain). His research has been mainly dedicated to the European Consumer Protection Law and to the Law of Torts. As a member of a Research Group on Consumer Protection at his university, he has been publishing papers concerning different topics within this area of Law for more than ten years. The most representative outcome of his research group activity in terms of knowledge transfer is the volume, «Consumer Claims» (3rd. Edition 2010), which is one of the most consulted legal books about consumer protection in Spain. fernando.pena@udc.es Gábor Michalkó is Scientific Advisor at the Geographical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Professor of Tourism at Corvinus

4 322 Notes on Contributors University of Budapest and Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, Székesfehérvár Budapest, Hungary. He was awarded a PhD in Geography from University of Debrecen in 1998, and a DSc from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2009, for his contribution to tourism geography. His recent research interests include urban tourism, shopping tourism, health tourism, human ecology of tourism, and the relationship between tourism and quality of life. He has published 8 books and nearly 150 scientific articles, his research findings were presented at many international conferences. michalko.gabor@csfk.mta.hu Florin Mure anu is an architect with a masters degree in Integrated Urban Planning at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest. He lectures in urban planning and land use management at the same university. With a PhD. in urban sciences, and a postdoctoral research in cultural anthropology at the Babe -Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, his investigative studies span away from architecture, towards the interdisciplinary field of urban development and cultural landscape. gomarchgo@yahoo.com Monica Mure anu is an architect with a masters degree in Conservation and Rehabilitation of Built Heritage at UAUIM, Bucharest and a research masters degree in Cultural and Social History of Architecture and Urban Forms in the XIXth and XXth centuries at École Nationale Superieure d Architecture de Versailles and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, France. With a PhD. in Architecture and Building Restoration she is currently lecturing at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest in the field of technical sciences. monicamuresanu@yahoo.com Roy A. Partain is an assistant professor of law at Soongsil University, in Seoul, South Korea. His research draws from legal philosophy, law & economics, and other substantive areas of law to examine the impact of technological innovations on society and its legal orderings. Energy law, environmental law, and related subjects have been a primary focus. His legal research has also engaged the political discourse and social narratives that provide the substrate upon which legal orderings and norms are built. Tamara Rátz is Professor of Tourism, and Director of the Institute of Tourism and Business Studies at Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences,

5 Notes on Contributors 323 Székesfehérvár Budapest, Hungary. She was awarded a PhD in 2000 from Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Business Administration, Hungary, for a thesis on the socio-cultural impacts of tourism development at Lake Balaton. She is the author or co-author of more than 180 publications on tourism, including a number of books on the impacts of tourism, attraction and visitor management, and health tourism and quality of life. Her current research interests include cultural and heritage tourism development, and creativity and innovation in niche tourism development. tratz@kodolanyi.hu Stephan Sonnenburg is Professor for Creativity and Performative Management at the Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is Dean of the Faculty Management and Performance. Stephan Sonnenburg has broad research interests in the field of creativity, marketing, branding and management within which he examines its performative and transformative potential. ssonnenburg@karlshochschule.de In Germany, Jan Specht studied architecture and engineering followed by a Master of Business Administration with a focus on tourism management. He worked on major real estate projects around Europe and the Middle East as well as a researcher and lecturer at different European universities. Jan received a scholarship from the EU Science and Technology Fellowship Programme China and was doing research at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. During his doctoral studies at the International Graduate School of Girona (Spain) Jan investigated the role of contemporary architecture in urban travel destinations. After two years at IUBH in Munich he is now professor of tourism and hospitality management at DHBW in Ravensburg. specht@dhbw-ravensburg.de Desmond Wee is Professor for Tourism Sciences and Spatial Theories at the Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is Head of the Bachelor Programme International Tourism Management. Desmond Wee uses reflexive, interpretive and visual methodologies to explore how tourism is performed in the everyday through emerging notions of identity, embodiment and intimacies. dwee@karlshochschule.de

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