Sustainable Food Chains and Ecosystems / Cooperative Management (PDF)

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Gert van Dijk is Distinguished Professor of Social Venturing and Cooperative Economics at TIAS, School for Business and Society, Tilburg University. He is Director of the Netherlands Institute of Cooperative Entrepreneurship and Visiting Professor at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, CIHEAM-MAICh. and co-founder of Kucheza, a Dutch company establishing New Generation Cooperatives in agricultural modernization projects. He is Emeritus Professor of Cooperative Business Administration and Management at Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Emeritus Professor of Microfinance and Microinsurance at the same university, and Emeritus Professor of Theory and Practice of Cooperation in the Department of Marketing at Wageningen University. He was Director General of the Netherlands Council of Cooperatives, President of the European Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives and a member of the Board of Directors of Rabobank.

George Baourakis is the Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, CIHEAM-MAICh since June 2012, and the Studies and Research Coordinator of the Business Economics and Management Department of CIHEAM-MAICh since 1989. He has co-ordinated and participated in a large number of EU (FP 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, INTERREG I, II and III-Archimed, MED, ENPI CBC MED, Tempus, Phare, Life, Lifelong Learning, Leonardo Da Vinci, European Social Fund, etc), international and national-regional research projects. He is Affiliate Professor in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, at the Centre of Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands, while he has also been appointed Distinguished Research Fellow in food marketing management at several universities. He has published numerous papers in internationally refereed scientific journals, presented extensively at international conferences and authored/co-authored several scientific and academic books and special issues which have been distributed by renowned publishing houses.

Constantin Zopounidis is Professor of Financial Engineering and Operations Research at the Technical University of Crete (Greece), Distinguished Research Professor at Audencia Nantes, School of Management (France), Senior Academician of the Royal Academy of Economics and Financial Sciences of Spain, and President of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS). He has edited and authored 70 books with international publishers and more than 400 research papers in scientific journals and volumes, conference proceedings and encyclopedias, in the areas of finance, accounting, operations research and management science. In recognition of his research work, he has received several awards from international research societies such as the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, the Decision Sciences Institute, the MOISIL International Foundation, ESCP Europe and the Hellenic Operational Research Society.