Prof. Dr. M. Cihan Yavuz is a faculty member at Çukurova University, Department of Tourism Management. Yavuz holds a BA in Economics, an MA in Business Administration (Marketing), and a PhD. His research interests include city and destination branding, tourism planning, and sustainable economic development. He contributes to university-city collaborations in his field. In recent years, he has been working on stakeholder-supported smart city technologies and applications to help improve city branding, tourism planning, and sustainable economic development.

Dr. Muhammad Usman is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the College of Business School, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE. His research focuses on organizational leadership and employees’ work-related outcomes. His recent research has appeared in Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, British Journal of Management, Tourism Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Public Management Review, and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, among others