Strategic Management, Leadership and Social Science

Bob de Wit is Professor of Strategic Leadership at Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands, and Chairman of Cooperative Society 4.0. His book ‘Strategy: An international perspective’ (8° edition, 2023) is being used as the main strategy text at universities and business schools in over 75 countries at all continents. Bob’s research is focused on the current societal revolution towards a society dominated by Artificial Intelligence and by global companies that are larger and richer than most countries in the world. His recent books are ‘Society 4.0: Resolving eight key issues to build a citizens society (VMN, 2021) and Democracy 4.0: Reinventing democracy to serve citizens in Society 4.0 (VMN, 2023).
 

Prof El Namaki is an authority in strategic management and management applications of Artificial Intelligence. He is founder and past Dean of Maastricht School of Management (Netherlands) and is currently Dean of VU School of Management (Switzerland). He taught and consulted Worldwide. Clients included key MNCs as Philips (Netherlands) and Time Inc. (USA) as well as international organizations as the World Bank, UNDP and the EU. He published 7 books and more than 100 articles.He also taught at key universities and business schools including Sheffield (UK), Beijing (PRC) and Maastricht (Netherlands). His recent publications include pioneering work on strategic thinking in the age of artificial intelligence. His forthcoming book deals with the Neo foundations of strategic management. He received awards from several governments including the government of Malaysia and the government of the People’s Republic of China.

Junghan Bae is working as Professor in the department of international economics and business at Yeungnam University, South Korea. He received Ph.D. degree from Busan National University, South Korea. He was a foreigner researcher from 1993, 3 to 1994, 3 in Waseda University, Japan. He was a visiting scholar in 2001 at Washington State University, USA. His research interests include International Trade Law. He has presented and published his research work in many reputed national and international journals.

A passionate business leader with 20+ years of global experience in developing and delivering innovative solution across various domains with focus on healthcare. An Alumnus of IIMC (IIM Calcutta) & SHIP (Shippensburg University, PA USA) as well incubatee at IIMC Inniovation Park, I founded Medi360,  A Tele-Health service provider with a vision to provide accessible and affordable quality primary healthcare services across rural India.

At a personal level, I always had interest in working for an affordable technology solution that can benefit underserved Indian population at large. I quit my job in 2015 and founded Medi360 with a vision to make Medi360 as default primary healthcare service provider in all rural/undeserved population of India with a vision to make a measurable impact ( 5 millions individual per year within the next 5 years). 

Masumi Kikuchi is an Associate Professor in College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, University of Waseda. She worked in Chinese Universities for 4 years (Guangdong Peizheng College and Qingdao University of Technology). She is researching about national resources management, environment policy, eco-tourism in Asia, especially in China, Japan, and the Southeast Asia. Her representative book is “Nouson-Keikan no Shigen-ka (Process of the Rural Landscape as New Resource – The Dynamic Strategy for Rice Terracces Conservation in Chinese Village Communities)” Ochanomizu-shobo press, 2016. Although the multifaceted functions of agriculture are emphasized and the beauty of rural landscapes is highly appreciated, few farmers are able to make a living from such landscapes. This book asks whether it is possible for farmers to create livelihoods sustained by a rural landscape within a market economy amidst agricultural decline and the impoverishment of rural communities. To achieve this aim, "Resourcification of the Rural Landscape," which forms the title of this book, is necessary. "Resourcification of the Rural Landscape" is considered using field surveys.

Cholera is a major health problem facing most developing countries. Globally, 132, 121 cholera cases were reported in 2016. About 54% of these cases were recorded in Africa.  Between June 2014 and January 2015, a total of 28,922 cholera cases including 243 deaths were reported in Ghana. WHO estimates that the true incidence of Cholera far exceeds the reported cases. We evaluated the cholera surveillance system to determine whether the system was meeting its objectives, and to assess its attributes. We evaluated the cholera surveillance system in the Ga East municipality. We interviewed staff of the GEMA on the operation of the system. We used semi structured questionnaire to assess the attributes of the system.  We reviewed data from the weekly and monthly IDSR and also from the district Health information management system from 2012-2016. We also reviewed annual reports and scientific papers. We applied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated Guidelines for Evaluating Public Health Surveillance Systems. Summarized descriptive analysis of qualitative data was done and presented in graphs and charts. The cholera surveillance is well situated in the IDSR. The case definition is clear, simple and easy to apply. The system is able to detect cases and notify the next level. The data matches with the case base forms. However, the entries in the case base forms were not complete. Positive predictive value could not be assessed as no single case was confirmed by laboratory test. CBSVs attrition was high in the municipality. However, Community health nurses were used as a replacement for the CBSVs. The system is meeting some of its objectives. The system is simple, flexible and acceptable. The system is fairly representative, stable but the data quality is low. Sentinel surveillance should be implemented as routine training of healthcare workers on reporting and proper documentation of suspected cases.

Narmina Rufat Abdullayeva is a nurse by profession and works with one of the private hospitals in Ghana. He holds a BSc in Nursing and currently pursuing a Master of Philosophy degree in Applied Epidemiology and Diseases Control at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana. Daniel has 2 years of public practice and 3 years of private practices as a nurse. He has also been involved in outbreak investigations of infectious diseases in Ghana. He has presented an abstract on money handling practices among food vendors in the University of Ghana at the 1th TEPHINET conference in Thailand. Daniel grew up in one of the remote villages of Ghana and is passionate about controlling infectious diseases

Khalid has over 18 years’ experience in industry across various fields, operations and maintenance, engineering, asset management, project management and strategic planning. Khalid has been involved heavily in implementing the best industry practices in strategy and planning. Also, he was in charge for capital investment plans for new assets based on cost effective methodology within the company. Khalid is currently working as Business Planning and Performance Manager in Marafiq, power and utility company. Khalid holds a Master degree from Malaysia university and Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Muhammad Khan received the M.S. degree in international business from American College Dublin, Ireland, and the Ph.D. degree in international business from Yeungnam University, South Korea, in August 2019. He is currently working as a Lecturer of marketing with the Department of Management Sciences, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. He is also a Ph.D. Supervisor nominated by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. He has coauthored over 28 research articles, in leading international journals, including IEEE Access, Sustainability, Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and the International Journal of Supply Chain Management. His research interests include humanitarian logistics, humanitarian supply chain, and supply chain and logistics. He is on editorial and reviewer boards in different journals of supply chain and business administration.

Magnus S. Magnusson, Ph.D., Research Professor Emeritus, founder, and director of the Human Behavior Laboratory, University of Iceland.  The author of the T-Pattern Self-similarity Theory and the dedicated THEME^TM T-Pattern detection and Analysis (TPA) software (PatternVision.com) initially focused on the real-time organization of behavior. Co-directed the two-year Icelandic Research Council project “DNA analysis with Theme”. International conference talks and keynotes in ethology, neuroscience, mathematics, psychiatry, religion, proteomics, A.I., and nanoscience. Deputy director, Anthropology Laboratory, 1983-1988 in the Museum of Mankind, National Museum of Natural History, Paris. Then repeatedly invited Professor at the University of Paris VIII, XIII, and V until 1993. Works in the formalized inter-university collaboration network MASI, between 38 European and American universities initiated in 1995 in the University Rene Descartes Paris V, Sorbonne based on “Magnusson’s analytical model”.