Maria José Sousa (Ph.D. in Management) is a university professor and a research fellow at the ISCTE/Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Her current research interests are public policies, information science, and innovation and management issues. She is a best-selling author in ICT and people management and has co-authored over 70 articles and book chapters and published in several scientific journals (e.g., Journal of Business Research, Information Systems Frontiers, European Planning Studies, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). She has also organized and moderated international conferences and is the guest editor of several Special Issues. She has participated in several European projects of innovation transfer and is also an external expert of the COST Association, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, and president of the ISO/TC 260, Human Resources Management, representing Portugal in the International Organization for Standardization.