Pierre-Yves Donzé is Professor of Business History at Osaka University, Japan, and a visiting professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Véronique Pouillard is Professor of International History at the Institute for Archeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Joanne Roberts is Professor in Arts and Cultural Management and Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK.