Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska is a professor of economics. She manages the Department of Management at the Lodz University of Technology and she is the manager of the management sciences and quality discipline. She specializes in the issues of strategic management in enterprises, especially the high-tech sector, and interorganizational relations, coopetition, cooperation.

Iwona Staniec works as an assistant professor at the Department of Management, Lodz University of Technology, Poland. Research interests: data analysis, statistics, econometrics, economic forecasting, risk management, innovation risk, risk analysis and assessment, technological entrepreneurship, creating models and forecasting risk in public and private pension systems and social security.