Satoshi Sugahara is Professor of Accounting at Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU), Japan. His primary research interests are financial accounting in Small and Medium-sized Entities (SMEs) and global implementations of practices and standards for accounting education.

Nabyla Daidj is Associate Professor of Strategy at Telecom Business School, France. Her current research focuses on the evolution of business models and the value creation strategy of IT companies since 2010 in a context of digital transformation.

Sumitaka Ushio is Associate Professor of Management Accounting at Chuo University, Japan. His primary research interest is management accounting to enforce organizational learning. He has also published academic papers relating to accounting education based on active learning methods.