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Received: 8 May 2018

Accepted: 10 August 2018

First Online: 3 September 2018

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: Dan-Cristian Dabija* (corresponding author), Associate Prof. Dr. with Habilitation (PhD Supervision), Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Teodor Mihali 58–60, RO – 400,591 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Room 125, Tel. 0040.264.418.652/3/4/5; Fax. 0040.264.412.570, Department of Marketing, cristian.dabija@econ.ubbcluj.roDan-Cristian Dabija, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing and PhD Supervisor in Marketing at the PhD School in Business and Economics of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. Dr. Dabija completed his PhD Studies at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, and has been awarded several doctoral and postdoctoral research scholarships at Romanian, German, British and Finish universities. Dr. Dabija has recently lead a research project on sustainability in retailing financed by the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation (125,000 EUR). He has published in various journals, has participated in numerous conferences (European Marketing Academy Conference, World Marketing Congress, Annual MBAA International Conference, Annual North American ACR Conference, RESER), and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer forAmfiteatru Economic,Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Global Marketing,andMarketing Education Review, as well as for Romanian and European research projects. His teaching disciplines are Retailing, International Marketing, Tourism Marketing, Sales Promotion and Strategic Marketing. Dr. Dabija has conducted different trainings on project management, retailing, retail marketing, marketing, sales and promotions in summer schools, companies and human resources development courses. More recently Dr. Dabija published in Romanian the second edition of the bookTo conceive, to write and to publish a scientific article in business and economics, which was awarded in late 2017 the first book prize of the Romanian Association of Economic Faculties.Brîndușa Mariana Bejanis PhD student since 2016 in Marketing at the PhD School in Business and Economics of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. The PhD thesis is about self-esteem and the influence on consumer behavior. Recently, PhD Bejan was Research Assistant and member in the project “Causal relationships between sustainable development and Generations X, respectively Y in contemporary society. A holistic retail marketing approach”. She has published in various journals and has participated in some conferences (Marketing from Information to Decision Cluj-Napoca, iCOnEc).Brîndușa Mariana Bejan, PhD Student, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Teodor Mihali 58–60, RO – 400,591 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Room 125, Tel. 0040.264.418.652/3/4/5; Fax. 0040.264.412.570, Department of Marketing, brandusa.bejan@econ.ubbcluj.ro

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