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About the Editor and Contributors

Adee Athiyaman, Ph.D., is professor of marketing in the Illinois Institute
for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University. His research on marketing
models has been published in more than 30 scholarly journals such as the
Australian Journal of Marketing Research, European Journal of Marketing, Aus-
tralasian Journal of Regional Studies, New Zealand Journal of Applied Business
Research, and Marketing Intelligence and Planning. His current research in-
volves an examination of the various scenarios and contextual factors that
affect entrepreneurial development and action.

Brian Dabson is research professor at the Harry S. Truman School of Public
Affairs, University of Missouri (Columbia). He is president and CEO of the
Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) and codirector of the RUPRI Center
for Rural Entrepreneurship. He holds an undergraduate degree in planning
and a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Birmingham,
England. Before coming to the University of Missouri, he was president of
CFED (formerly Corporation for Enterprise Development), a Washington,
D.C.–based national nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding eco-
nomic opportunity through asset-building, entrepreneurship, and economic
development. He has written and presented extensively on various aspects of
economic development policy and practice, with a special focus in recent
years on entrepreneurship and economic development in rural America. He
served two terms as president of the Organization for Economic Coopera-
tion and Development’s (OECD) Forum on Social Innovations.

Gisele F. Hamm, M.S., manages the MAPPING the Future of Your Com-
munity Programs in the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs where she also

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