Bryan Christiansen is the Chief Executive Officer of Tactical Systems, LLC in Indiana, USA. A former business lecturer at universities in Russia, Turkey, and the USA, he has traveled to 41 countries where he has conducted international business since 1985 in multiple languages and various industries with Global 500 firms and smaller. Christiansen received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing at the University of the State of New York in 1996 and his MBA degree at Capella University in 2003. The author of 29 Scopus-indexed Reference books on business, cultural studies, economics, and psychology, he is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish. Christiansen is currently working with a Russian theoretical mathematician on a new economic model for developing nations.
Joanna Karmowska is a Sociologist, using insights from her host discipline to advance the study of organisations. She gained her PhD in Sociology from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She has also undertaken executive education at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Her research interests focus on organizational temporariness, creative organisations, international work and SME internationalization. Her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, International Business Review, Industrial Relations Journal and Urban Studies, and she is a recipient of the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ 2016 Rising Star Engagement Award. She has held visiting academic positions in Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, the UK and the US.