Quality Management and Operations Research

Nezameddin Faghih is the UNESCO Chair Professor Emeritus, and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (Springer). He has published more than 50 books, 100 research articles, and presented more than 120 invited talks in academia, industry, and professional meetings. Ebrahim Bonyadi is an applied statistician in the areas of business and economics and is a researcher at the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Office of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran. His scholarly research focuses on factors influencing entrepreneurship, business, and economic growth. Lida Sarreshtehdari is an applied statistician focusing on entrepreneurship, with expertise in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) dataset. She is a researcher at the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Office of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran. She has published several reports on the domestic entrepreneurship since 2011.