Handbook of Research on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Business and Education

James S. Etim is a Professor of Education in the Department of Education at Winston Salem State University. He received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His research areas include Middle grades English Language Arts, education across cultures, instructional strategies, gender issues in education and issues related to social justice and inclusion in education. During the last three years, as a Fellow in the Center for the Study of Economic Mobility at Winston Salem State University, he has focused on issues of academic achievement in middle schools and, low and high performing schools and what can be done to improve student achievement in low performing schools. He has authored one book and edited/coedited eight books. He has published (solely and jointly) more than 60 articles and book chapters in both national and international journals and books. He has been a Co Pi of a National Science Foundation grant on the use of technology in the classrooms (2013-2016). He has received two Fulbright Specialist Awards, one to Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and the other to the Polytechnic of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia. He has also been a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow at the University of Jos, Nigeria (2017). Between 2015 and 2018, he served as the Education Panel Chair for the Global Undergraduate Awards, Dublin, Ireland. He is also the Founding Editor of International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies. Alice S. Etim is Professor of Management Information Systems at Winston-Salem State University. She received her Ph.D. from the iSchool at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Etim has published extensively in her field of Information Science/Systems and her scholarly works are accessible globally. They include many peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and an edited book Developing Countries and Technology Inclusion in the 21st Century Information Society (2021). Etim is the co-editor of Overcoming Challenges and Barriers for Women in Business and Education: Socioeconomic Issues and Strategies for the Future (2021) and the Handbook of Research on Solutions for Equity and Social Justice in Education (2023). Etim's research interests and published works span information and communication technology (ICT) adoption, diffusion, and impact in business/organizations, education, healthcare, project teams, disadvantaged groups, and women. She has also researched and published extensively on the uses of the technologies for service delivery - mobile money & payment systems, mobile commerce, mobile health & telemedicine, ICT & microfinance, and ICT for sustainable development/poverty reduction. Etim served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of ICT Research in Africa and the Middle East (IJICTRAME) between 2016 and 2023.