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Helena Ahola
Helena Ahola, Lic (Econ), is Principal Lecturer of Marketing at Oulu University of Applied Sciences, where she currently teaches research methods and marketing. Her research interests include services marketing, service design, e-business, and Internet marketing. She has been involved in e-business and service design-related projects, and she has published and presented her research on marketing, value creation, and e-retailing in several international Internet and service-related conferences.
Sari Alatalo
Sari Alatalo is a Senior Lecturer of English Business Communication at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences. She is also a doctoral candidate in international business at the University of Oulu, Oulu Business School. She recently published in Israeli Journal of Humor Research. Her research interests include communication in various contexts, including business and education, the use of humor and playfulness in communication, and well-being at work. Alatalo is currently working as a project manager for the multidisciplinary research project HURMOS—Developing Humor as a Strategic Tool for Creating Innovative Business. HURMOS is a joint project of two universities, namely, Oulu University of Applied Sciences and University of Oulu. Alatalo is also involved in FINNIPS (Finnish Network for International University Programmes) examination processes.
James Barry
James Barry is Associate Professor of Marketing at Nova Southeastern University’s Huizenga Business College. Dr. Barry received his DBA from Nova Southeastern, MBA from DePaul University, and BSEE from University of Notre Dame. He has published in European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Global Marketing, International Journal of Emerging Markets, and International Business Research, among others. His book, Social Content Marketing for Entrepreneurs (Business Expert Press) was released in 2015. His research interests include social media marketing, online thought leadership, humor in advertising, and cross-cultural relationship marketing. Prior to his academic career, he served as an executive strategic marketer for GE, Rockwell Collins, AT&T, and BFGoodrich.
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Yoann Bazin
Yoann Bazin is Associate Professor of Management and Business Ethics at the ISTEC Business School in Paris, where he is also Dean of Research. His areas of research interest include practice-based studies, critical thinking, philosophy, business ethics, management education, and a business-in-society perspective. He has published several articles in European Management Review, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and M@n@gement. He is co-editor-in-chief (with Yvon Pesqueux) of the Society and Business Review.
Michael Billig
Michael Billig was Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, where he worked for more than 30 years. He is the author of Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour (Sage, 2005). He has published books on a variety of subjects, including psycho-analytic theory, fascism, humor, rhetoric, the history of rock-’n-roll, and eighteenth-century theories of mind. His latest book is The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration, written with Cristina Marinho (Bloomsbury Press, 2017). His book Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2013), criticizing the over-use of technical language in social sciences, has been well received in some quarters but sparked opposition in others. To date, it has not had any noticeable effect on the way social scientists write.
Marcel Bogers
Marcel Bogers is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Copenhagen. He works in the Unit for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management, within the Department of Food and Resource Economics (Faculty of Science). He has published in Journal of Management, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Long Range Planning, California Management Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Industry and Innovation, and Creativity and Innovation Management, among others. His research interests include openness and participation in innovation and entrepreneurial processes within, outside, and between organizations; he has studied specific issues such as open innovation, business models, family businesses, and university–industry collaborations. He has been guest editor at several journals, such as Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, California Management Review, and R&D Management, and he serves on the editorial board of multiple journals, including Journal of Product Innovation Management and Creativity and Innovation Management.
Alexander Brem
Alexander Brem holds the Chair of Technology Management at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Moreover, he is Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (Sønderborg, Denmark).
Carla Canestrari
Carla Canestrari is a researcher and assistant professor in general psychology at the University of Macerata (Italy). Dr. Canestrari received her PhD from the University of Macerata. She has published in Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Discourse Processes, Humor, Discourse Studies, Europe’s Journal of Psychology, Language and Dialogue, and Review of Cognitive Linguistics, among others. Her research interests include humor studies and, in particular, the perceptual and cognitive processes involved in understanding humorous and ironic texts, as well as the discursive strategies used to build humorous communication. She is a member of the EPhPLab (Experimental Phenomenology of Perception) group at the University of Verona, Italy.
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Valerio Cori
Valerio Cori received his PhD from the University of Macerata (Italy). He has published in Journal of Cognitive Psychology and Gestalt Theory. His main research interests include humorous communication and irony. He is currently involved in a research project concerning sensory perception in agri-food and pharmaceutical fields.
Danielle J. Deveau
Danielle J. Deveau is a lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Waterloo’s Department of English Language and Literature. She has published articles related to humor, cultural scenes, cultural mapping, and creative industries in International Journal of Cultural Studies, Culture and Local Governance, Media Culture & Society, Cultural Studies, and Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, among others. She co-edited a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication related to cultural production in Canada (with Zoë Druick) and has published chapters in a variety of edited anthologies. Her research interests include creative industries, digital mapping, urban cultural scenes, humor, and communication.
Margherita Dore
Margherita Dore is a research fellow and adjunct lecturer in the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies and the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. She received her doctoral degree in linguistics (audiovisual translation [AVT]) from Lancaster University (2008) and holds an MSc in translation and intercultural studies from UMIST (2002), as well as a BA in English and Latin-American studies from the University of Sassari, Italy. Dr. Dore is the editor of Achieving Consilience: Translation Theories and Practice (CPS, 2016); she has also published a series of papers relating to the use of AVT humor in television series such as Friends, The Simpsons, Misfits, and the Italian series Montalbano. Her research interests include AVT and literary translation, humor, and cognitive linguistics.
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Hershey H. Friedman
Hershey H. Friedman is Professor of Business at Brooklyn College’s Koppelman School of Business. Dr. Friedman received his PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has held both the Bernard H. Stern Chair of Humor and the Murray Koppelman Professorship. He has published in Decision Sciences, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Advertising Research, Psychosociological Issues in Human Resource Management, Journal of the Market Research Society, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Journal of Leadership and Management, and Journal of Leadership Studies, among others. His latest book, God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor, co-authored with Linda Weiser Friedman, was published by Transaction Publishers (2014). His research interests include biblical leadership, business ethics, and humor.
Linda Weiser Friedman
Linda Weiser Friedman is Professor of Information Systems and Statistics at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business and the Graduate Center, both of the City University of New York. Dr. Friedman received her PhD from the Polytechnic Institute of New York (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering). She has published in Computers & Information Science, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and Argumentation, among others. Her books include Comparative Programming Languages: Generalizing the Programming Function (Prentice Hall, 1991); The Simulation Metamodel (Kluwer, 1996); and God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor (Transaction, 2014), with Hershey H. Friedman. Her research interests include humor studies, Jewish studies, simulation, online education, and social media.
Matthew Gorton
Dr. Matthew Gorton is Professor of Marketing at Newcastle University Business School. Dr. Gorton received his PhD from Plymouth University. He has published in the Journal of Advertising, Environment and Planning A, Industrial Marketing Management, World Development, and Food Policy, among others. His research interests include sponsorship, food policy and marketing, and small businesses and rural development. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Agricultural Economics and the coordinator of the EU H2020 project Strength2Food.
Sandra Graça
Sandra Graça is Assistant Professor of International Business in the Collegium of Comparative Cultures at Eckerd College. Dr. Graça received her DBA from Nova Southeastern, as well as her MBA and BA from Western Michigan University. She has published in Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, International Journal of Emerging Markets, and International Business Research. Dr. Graça’s chapter in Emerging Markets and the Future of the BRIC Nations (Edward Elgar Publishing) was released in 2015. Her research interests include communication across cultures, B2B relationship capital, relationship marketing in emerging markets, and humor in advertising. Prior to academia, she founded and managed a cross-cultural exchange organization.
Rob Hecker
Rob Hecker is a senior lecturer in the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics at the University of Tasmania, following a long term as Academic Director, Postgraduate. He researches the behavior of people on both sides of a firm’s boundary, reflecting his long career in customer services and marketing, as well as his own consulting business, after he had earned a PhD in psychology. He is an associate fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute and a recently retired board member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. He contributes to journals such as International Journal of Human Resource Management, Personnel Review, and Journal of Business Ethics, as well as to international conferences.
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Trine Heinemann
Trine Heinemann is project coordinator for the E-ferry project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program (e-ferryproject.eu). With a background in linguistics and conversation analysis, she has worked for many international universities in the United Kingdom, Sweden, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Finland. She has published in a range of journals and edited volumes, including Research on Language and Social Interaction, Design Studies, CoDesign, Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Journal of Pragmatics, Language in Society, PNAS, and Learning, Culture and Social Interaction. She has also edited several special issues and one book. Her research focus includes anything that involves interaction, whether between humans or among humans, technology, and objects, as well as whether those interactions take place in the context of design, innovation, everyday life, service encounters, or caregiving situations.
Marc Järvinen
Marc Järvinen graduated with a bachelor’s degree in international business and administration from Oulu University of Applied Science in 2013. His research interests included innovative business processes in marketing and the use of humor as a communication strategy. Armed with his own healthy sense of humor, Järvinen conducted a case research into the use of humor in marketing communications with the Finnish company Varusteleka. This research was later refined and presented at the 23rd Nordic Academy of Management Conference in Copenhagen in 2015. He now studies a master’s degree in marketing at Oulu Business School and will continue his research on humor and viral marketing.
Roger J. Kreuz
Roger J. Kreuz is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis. He received his PhD from Princeton University. He has published in Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Cognition, Discourse Processes, and Journal of Language and Social Psychology, among others. His books include Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (MIT Press, 2015), and Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication (MIT Press, 2017), both with Richard Roberts. His research interests include discourse processing and pragmatics, nonliteral language, cross-cultural communication, and computer-mediated communication. He currently serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis.
Nicholas A. Kuiper
Nicholas A. Kuiper is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Kuiper received his PhD in psychology from the University of Calgary in 1978. Over the past two decades, his main research interests have focused on explorations of the sense of humor and its relation to psychological well-being and psychopathology. Professor Kuiper has published several research articles in Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research, Personality & Individual Differences, and Motivation & Emotion, as well as book chapters on various aspects of humor, personality, and mental health. In addition to editing three special journal issues on humor research and theory, published by Europe’s Journal of Psychology, he has authored several encyclopedia entries on humor and laughter topics. He is a member of the International Advisory Board for the series on Topics in Humor Research.
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Nadia B. Maiolino
Nadia B. Maiolino is a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Western Ontario. She received her Masters of Science there and completed her undergraduate training at Brescia University College. The majority of her published works examine positive personality characteristics and their relation to psychological well-being. Her major research interests also include psychological models of psychopathology and vulnerability to mania in the context of bipolar disorder. She has published research on humor in various scholarly journals, including Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Israeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal, and special journal issues on humor research and theory published by Europe’s Journal of Psychology. She has also served as a reviewer for Europe’s Journal of Psychology for contributions focused on humor and positive personality characteristics.
Angela Martin
Angela Martin is an adjunct professor at the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics and Principal Consultant at Pracademia, a research translation business. She earned her doctoral degree in organizational psychology, and has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications related to factors that promote well-being at work, in journals such as Human Resource Management, Human Relations, and Academy of Management, Learning and Education.
Eeva-Liisa Oikarinen
Eeva-Liisa Oikarinen is a doctoral candidate in Marketing at the University of Oulu, Oulu Business School. She has published in Journal of Service Management, Corporate Reputation Review, Australasian Marketing Journal, and International Journal of Innovation Management, among others. Her research interests include consumer advertising, corporate and employer brand communications, service encounters, social media marketing, humor, and well-being. Currently Oikarinen is working as a project manager of the multidisciplinary research project HURMOS—Developing Humor as a Strategic Tool for Creating Innovative Business.
Daryl Peebles
Daryl Peebles is an honorary associate with the University of Tasmania’s Tasmanian School of Business and Economics. After a 40-year professional career in human resource management, corporate communications, and media, and a parallel career as a writer and performer of humorous material for theater and comedy venues, he blended these two aspects of his working life through a research-based PhD examining the use and value of humor in Australian workplaces. He is a past chair of the Tasmanian Division of the Australian Institute of Training and Development and a founding member of the Australian Human Resources Institute.
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Barbara Plester
Barbara Plester is Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Auckland’s Business School. Dr. Plester received her PhD from Massey University in 2008. She has published in journals such as Employee Relations and Humor, Culture and Organization, among others. She recently published a book that encapsulates 12 years of her humor research (The Complexity of Workplace Humour: Laughter, Jokers and the Dark Side, Springer, 2016). She has also contributed book chapters to Humor: Emotional Aspects, Role in Social Interactions and Health Effects (Nova Science Publishers, 2016) and Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor (Routledge, 2017). Her research interests include humor and fun at work; the organization as a food environment; and how the relationship between technology and emotions interacts with workplace outcomes such as stress, burnout, and well-being.
Daniel Putz
Daniel Putz is Professor of Organizational Psychology at the Rhenish University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany. He received his PhD from RWTH Aachen University. He has published in Management Learning, German Journal of Counselling and Academic Studies, and several peer-reviewed books. His research interests include humor in the workplace, learning from errors at work, and vocational interests and career goals. He serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals, including Human Relations and German Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.
Tabea Scheel
Tabea Scheel is currently Interim Professor for Work and Organizational Psychology at Europa-Universitaet Flensburg, Germany. Dr. Scheel received her PhD from the University of Leipzig and conducted research as a postdoc at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published in European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management, Frontiers in Psychology, and Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, among others. Her research interests include humor in the work context, human resource management and psychological contracts, new ways of working (e.g., coworking, crowdsourcing), motivational processes at work (e.g., procrastination), and change readiness. She reviews for a range of peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Applied Psychology: An International Review, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly).
Elena Tavella
Elena Tavella is Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Tavella received her PhD from the University in Copenhagen. She has published in the European Journal of Operational Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society, among others. Her research interests include strategizing and decision-making processes, facilitation, and top-management teams.
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John White
John White is Associate Professor in Marketing at Plymouth University. His work has been published in Journal of Advertising, European Journal of Marketing, and Industrial Marketing Management, among others.
Katharina Wolf
Katharina Wolf is an academic with Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia (WA), where she serves as the course coordinator for the public relations program. Dr. Wolf has 20 years of communication and media experience as an educator and practitioner. Her industry experience spans media, communication, and research roles in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She has published in PR Review, Journal of Communication Management, Higher Education Research & Development, and Asia-Pacific Public Relations Journal. Her research interests focus on activism and (community) advocacy, diversity, and employability.
Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa
Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa specializes in the sociology of science, transdisciplinary collaboration, bioethics, and reproduction, along with her other interests in cultural studies. She is an instructor in Sociology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She has published articles on the intersections of science and society in Body & Society, Feminist Theory, Placenta, and Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics.