The GCBME Book Series aims to promote the quality and methodical reach of the Global Conference on Business Management & Entrepreneurship, which is intended as a high-quality scientific contribution to the science of business management and entrepreneurship. The Contributions are the main reference articles on the topic of each book and have been subject to a strict peer review process conducted by experts in the fields. The conference provided opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and implementation of experiences, to establish business or research connections and to find Global Partners for future collaboration.
The conference and resulting volume in the book series is expected to be held and appear annually. The year 2019 theme of book and conference is "Creating Innovative and Sustainable Value-added Businesses in the Disruption Era". The ultimate goal of GCBME is to provide a medium forum for educators, researchers, scholars, managers, graduate students and professional business persons from the diverse cultural backgrounds, to present and discuss their researches, knowledge and innovation within the fields of business, management and entrepreneurship. The GCBME conferences cover major thematic groups, yet opens to other relevant topics: Organizational Behavior, Innovation, Marketing Management, Financial Management and Accounting, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship and Green Business.
About the Author: Prof. Dr. Ratih Hurriyati, MP is the head of the doctoral management program at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Her overarching research area includes Marketing Management. In the last 5 years she has published over 30 papers in refereed academic journals, 65 papers in conference proceedings, and nine books between 2007 and 2018. She has successfully completed the supervision of six Doctoral degree students and over 30 Master degree students, and currently leads a team of four doctoral researchers in many areas related to marketing management and entrepreneurship.
Prof. Benny Tjahjono is a leader of the Sustainable Production and Consumption cluster at the Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University. His overarching research area includes Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management. His research track record has been demonstrated by winning a number of research grants from the UK Engineering & Physical Research Council (EPSRC), InnovateUK, European Union, overseas funding agencies and directly from the UK industry sectors. He was one of the Principal Investigators and a member of a consortium consisting of seven universities in Europe recently being awarded the Horizon2020 MSCA Innovative Training Network worth 3,995,643, aiming to formulate the service-oriented business for the European Circular Economy.
Prof. Ikuro Yamamoto is an Emeritus Professor from Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya. He is also active as Nagoya Mosque Vice Chairman of Board of Directors. His research area covers economic and economic policy. Some books that have been written by Prof Ikuro Yamamoto are Metropolises in Asia (joint work), New Way of Work under Co-existence with Dispatched Workers, Small and Medium Enterprises: Growth Strategy and Cluster in Indonesia, and Human Resource Cultivation and Workplace Building to Sustain Globalization Central Institute of Industrial and Labor Policies.
Prof. Agus Rahayu, MP is the Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Business Education at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI). His overeaching research area includes Strategic Management. His research track record has been demonstrated by winning a number of research grants from ministry of research, technology and higher education for 5 consecutive years. He has been an assessor at the university's national accreditation institution for almost more than ten years. His research in the last 5 years has focused on vocational education in West Java, especially regarding local unique resources that can be used by schools as learning resources.
Dr. Ade Gafar Abdullah, M.Si is an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering Education at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI). He is currently serving as the head of Technical and Vocational Education Study Program at School of Postgraduate Studies, UPI. He is also the Coordinator of UPI publication center and vice editor in chief of Indonesian Journal of Science and Technology (IJOST). Dr. Ade Gafar Abdullah completed his doctoral degree in Nuclear Physics at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia in 2010. He publishes on nuclear engineering, electrical engineering, and engineering education in numerous journals. He has experiences as an editor of proceedings published by CRC Press, IOP Conference Series, Atlantis Press, and Scitepress.
Ari Arifin Danuwijaya, M.Ed., G.Cert.Ed. is a lecturer at the English Education Department, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI). He is also a member of staff of the UPI publication center and a member of the Editorial Board of the Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (IJAL). He earned his Bachelor in English Education from UPI and Master of Education in Educational Research, Assessment, and Evaluation from Flinders University, Australia. In 2017, he completed a graduate certificate program on Educational Assessment: National Examination and Computer-based Testing from the University of Adelaide. Some of his major interests are language assessment, language teaching methodology, and academic writing.
