Alexander Godulla is Full Professor at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University, Germany. His research focuses, among other things, on the transformation and disruption of public communication, technology assessment and innovation as well as the communication of start-ups.

Linjuan Rita Men is Professor of Public Relations and Director of Internal Communication Research in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, USA. Her research interests include internal communication, leadership communication, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurial communications.