Florian Bauer holds the Sir Roland Smith Chair in Strategic Management at Lancaster University Management School. He examines sustainable corporate development and organizational transformation processes, particularly mergers and acquisitions. He is also editor-in-chief of M&A Review and co-founder of MADiscover GmbH (digitization of M&A screening).

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Martin Friesl is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Bamberg, Professor of Strategic Management at Lancaster University Management School and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR). His research focuses on strategic renewal, strategy implementation, and the development and replication of organizational capabilities.

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​Wolfgang H. Güttel is a university professor for human resources and corporate management at the Institute for Management Sciences and Dean of the Academy for Continuing Education (ACE) at the TU Vienna. His research is dedicated to the topics of leadership, strategy & change management. Previously, he was head of the Institute for Leadership and Change Management at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and Co-managing director of the LIMAK Austrian Business School.

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Ann-Christine Schulz is research coordinator and senior researcher at the Institute for Digital Transformation and Strategy (IDS). She previously worked as a Junior Professor for corporate strategy at the Free University of Berlin and as a visiting researcher at UC Irvine and WU Vienna. Her research interests lie in the areas of restructuring, acquisitions and management compensation.

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Walter Schwaiger is Chairman of the Institute of Management Sciences and Professor at the TU Wien. He studied business administration at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Innsbruck, where he habilitated in 1999. His teaching and research interests include IFRS Financial Management: Investment and Financing, Cost and Performance Accounting, Controlling as well as Enterprise Risk Management and IT-based Management Systems.

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochen Koch holds the Chair of Management and Organization and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship Research at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt | Or. His research focuses on strategic heuristics and communication in organizations, organizational creativity, path dependence and the strategic development of emerging markets (e.g. start-ups).

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Raluca Ionescu PhD is a lawyer and expert negotiator. She has 22 years of experience working at and with multinational banks during which she led numerous negotiations with international business partners from different industries and various cultures.

Dragos-Cristian Vasilescu is a consultant, trainer, lecturer and program coordinator for negotiation, management and innovation. He has been teaching at the Vienna University of Technology, the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Vienna University of Applied Sciences, the WKW and several other universities for more than 10 years.

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