Biographical note

Dr. Samuel O Idowu, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Corporate Social Responsibility at London Guildhall School of Business & Law, London Metropolitan University, UK. He researches in the fields of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Accounting and has published in both professional and academic journals since 1989. Samuel is the Deputy CEO and First Vice President of the Global Corporate Governance Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of three Springer reference books – the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (2013), the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility (2015) and the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management (forthcoming in 2021). He is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility (IJCSR) and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Economics and Business Administration (AJEBA). He is also a series editor for Springer’s books on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance.  René Schmidpeter is founder of the M3TRIX Institute for Sustainable Business Transformation in Cologne, Germany. He holds professorships at various universities and research centers in Europe, Asia and Australia. He is series editor for Springer’s CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance books, and section editor of the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR), editor of the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility (DCSR) as well as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of CSR (Springer) and the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management (ESM). His research and teaching activities focus on the management of Corporate Social Responsibility, international perspectives on CSR, social innovation and sustainable entrepreneurship as well as the relationship between business and society.