Adamantia Pateli is Associate Professor of Management of Information Systems and Innovation at the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University, in Corfu, Greece. She also serves as chair of the recently funded Department of Tourism of the Ionian University. She has a PhD on strategic technology alliances from the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business. Dr. Pateli has participated in a number of national and European funded research projects in the areas of Electronic Commerce and Information Systems. She has published her research in leading academic journals, such as Information & Management, R&D Management, Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Information Systems, and Management Decision. Her current research interests lie in the areas of digital innovation and transformation, crowdsourcing, business ecosystems, multi-sided digital platforms and open innovation.