Business and Management in Asia: Digital Innovation and Sustainability

Tobias Endress
 is Assistant Professor at the AIT School of Management and Program Director Business Analytics & Digital Transformation (MSc). He has more than 20 years of professional experience in banking and finance, project business, digital transformation, and change management. His former (non-academic) roles include project and program manager, product owner, and business analyst. He has completed professional training for banking and graduated in Computer Science and Business Administration (IBW) at VWA Frankfurt (Germany) and in Business Economics at Avans+ in Breda (Netherlands). He got Master’s Degree in Leadership in Digital Communication at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), as well as Doctorate in Business Administration at the University of Gloucestershire (UK). He is Fellow of the EuroMed Academy of Business. 

Yuosre F. Badir
 is Associate Professor of technology and innovation management and the Director of the Doctoral Programs (PhD & DBA) at the School of Management of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Prior to AIT, Dr. Badir worked as a Research Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Associate at the College of Management of Technology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Visiting Scholar at New York University (NYU), and a Lecturer at the European University in Geneva. He received the degrees of Ph.D. in Management of Technology (2006) and Executive Master in Management of Logistical Systems (2000), both from the EPFL; M.Sc. in Project Management (1998) from the University of Putra Malaysia (UPM); and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1993) from the University of Benghazi. His primary area of research focuses on managing innovation, technology, and digital transformation in emerging markets SMEs. He has published articles in, among others, Research Policy, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Journal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change.