Associate Editor Dr.Kula works as a full-time associate professor and department chair at the Department of Business Administration at Erzurum Technical University, Türkiye. Dr. Kula holds an MAA Degree from University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX, USA and a PhD in Management and Organization from Atatürk University, Türkiye. He completed his PhD thesis on competitive intelligence in the telecommunications and automotive industries on a national scale. He currently conducts academic studies in the fields of competition in SMEs; competition management and innovation management. İlvaten has been the executive of four different European Union Erasmus+ Key Action 2 projects in the fields of migration management, STEAM education and emergency and disaster management.