Nancy J. Adler is Professor of International Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She conducts research and consults on global leadership, cross-cultural management, and women as global leaders and managers. She has authored more than 100 articles and published four books: International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior (now in its fifth edition, with more than a half million copies in print in multiple languages), Women in Management Worldwide, Competitive Frontiers: Women Managers in a Global Economy, and From Boston to Beijing: Managing With a Worldview. She consults with global companies and government organizations on projects worldwide. Among numerous other awards, she has been honored as a fellow of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, and the Royal Society of Canada. She has been honored as one of Canada's top university teachers. She is also an artist working primarily in watercolor and ink.

Jean M. Bartunek is Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair and Professor of Organization Studies at Boston College. Her doctorate in social and organizational psychology is from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a fellow and a past president of the Academy of Management and is an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. She has published more than 90 articles and book chapters and has authored or edited five books. Her most recent book (coedited with Mary Ann Hinsdale and James Keenan) is Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context: Learning From the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church (2006).

Carrie A. Belsito is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Management of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. She received her B.S. (business administration/management) from California State University, Fresno. She currently teaches human resource management, and her research interests include the areas of strategic human resource management, discretion theory, organizational stigma, and business ethics.

Paul E. Bierly, III is Zane Showker Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at James Madison University. [Page 570]His degrees include a B.S. and B.A.S. (University of Pennsylvania) and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. (Rutgers University). His primary research areas are management of technology, innovation, knowledge management, and strategic alliances. He has published more than 25 articles in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, R&D Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, and numerous other management journals and books. He is on the executive committee of the Academy of Management, Technology and Innovation Management division, and is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital. Previously, he was an officer on a fast-attack nuclear submarine in the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Power Program, a manager at Johnson & Johnson, and a consultant for Princeton Economic Research.

Richard E. Boyatzis is Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at Case Western Reserve University and Adjunct Professor in Human Resources at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain. He was chief executive officer of McBer and Company for 11 years and chief operating officer of Yankelovich, Skelly, & White for 2 years. He is the author of more than 100 articles on behavior change, leadership, competencies, and emotional intelligence. His books include The Competent Manager; Tans-forming Qualitative Information (in 2 languages); Innovations in Professional Education: Steps on a Journey From Teaching to Learning (with Scott Cowen and David Kolb); Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee in 28 languages); and Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting With Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion (with Annie McKee in 16 languages). He has a B.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an M.S. and Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University.

W. Warner Burke is Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Social-Organizational Psychology in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is Codirector of the Eisenhower Leadership Development Program in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was the first executive director of the Organization Development (OD) Network. His consulting experience has been with a variety of organizations in business and industry, education, government, religion, and medical systems. A diplomat in industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, he is also a fellow of the Academy of Management, the Association of Psychological Science, and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology as well as a past editor of both Organizational

Dynamics and Academy of Management Executive. His publications number more than 150, and his most recent book is Organization Change: Theory and Practice, 2nd Ed. (2007).

Robert Chia is Professor of Management at the University of Aberdeen Business School. He received his Ph.D. in organization studies from Lancaster University and publishes regularly in the leading international journals in organization and management studies. Prior to entering academia, he worked for 16 years in aircraft engineering and manufacturing management and was the group human resource manager, Asia Pacific, for a large U.K.-based multinational corporation. His research since entering academia after a successful career in industry has been focused on the enhancement of life chances through the systematic analysis and understanding of the guiding principles underlying the general economy of effort involved in wealth creation.

Stewart R. Clegg is Professor of Management at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, and is Director of ICAN (Innovative Collaborations, Alliances, and Networks) Research, a Key University Research Center. He completed his first degree at Aston University (1971) and completed his doctorate at the University of Bradford (1974). He holds chairs at Aston University, the University of Maastricht, and Vrije Universiteit. He has published extensively in many journals and is recipient of a number of best paper awards including the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book Award. His most recent book is Power and Organizations (2007 with David Courpasson and Nelson Phillips) and Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (2008, with Martin Kornberger and Tyrone Pitsis).

Jay Conger holds the Henry Kravis Research Chair Professorship of Leadership at Claremont McKenna College. He is also a visiting professor of organizational behavior at the London Business School and a senior research scientist in the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. The author of more than 90 articles and book chapters and of 12 books, he researches leadership, executive derailment, organizational change, boards of directors, and the training and development of leaders and managers. His more recent books include The Practice of Leadership (2006), Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Organizations Use Succession Management for Competitive Advantage (2003), Shared Leadership (2002), Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top (2001), The Leader's Change Handbook (1999), Building Leaders (1999), Winning ‘Em Over: A New Model for Management in the Age of Persuasion (1998), and Charismatic Leadership in Organizations (1998). He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his M.B.A. from the University of Virginia, and his D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Russell Cropanzano is Brien Lesk Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management. His primary research areas include perceptions of organizational justice and the experience and impact of workplace emotion. He has edited four books, presented more than 60 papers, and published roughly 80 scholarly articles and chapters. In addition, he is a coauthor (with Robert Folger) of the book Organizational Justice and Human Resources Management, which won the 1998 Book Award from the International Association of Conflict Management. He was also a winner of the 2000 Outstanding Paper Award from Consulting Psychology Journal. He is currently editor of the Journal of Management, a fellow in the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and a representative-at-large for the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management.

Arnoud De Meyer is Professor of Management Studies at Cambridge University (United Kingdom) and Director of the Judge Business School. He is also a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Until August 2006, he was Akzo Nobel Fellow in Strategic Management and a professor of technology management at INSEAD, where he also assumed several management positions, including that of founding dean of INSEAD's Asia Campus in Singapore. His main research interests are in manufacturing and technology strategy, the implementation of new manufacturing technologies, and the management of research and development, and he has published widely in these areas. Recently, he has coauthored four books, on management and innovation in Asia, on the globalization of Asian firms, on management of novel projects, and on E-readiness in Europe. While serving as an academic, he has also acted as a consultant for a number of medium-sized and large companies throughout Europe and Asia.

Angelo S. DeNisi is Dean of the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. After receiving his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from Purdue University, he taught at Kent State, the University of South Carolina, and Rutgers University before moving to Texas A&M University, where he was head of the Department of Management. He served as the editor of the Academy of Management Journal and as chair of both the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources divisions of the Academy of Management, and he is now vice president and program chair for the academy. He also served as president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He has published in a wide variety of journals on topics that include performance appraisal and managing expatriates. He has served, or currently serves, on more than a dozen editorial boards and was the winner of the 2005 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from SIOP.

Laura Dunham is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her research is in the area of entrepreneurship and ethics, with a specific focus [Page 573]on the ethical issues that arise during the start-up of new ventures and the role of entrepreneurial values in resource acquisition processes and outcomes. She received her Ph.D. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

P. Christopher Earley is Dean of the National University of Singapore Business School and is Cycle and Carriage Professor of Management at the London Business School, where he is a former chair and professor of organizational behavior. His research interests include cross-cultural and international aspects of organizational behavior. His recent publications include Cultural Intelligence: Individual Interactions Across Cultures (with Soon Ang); Face, Harmony, and Social Structure: An Analysis of Behavior in Organizations; Multinational Work Teams: A New Perspective (with Cristina Gibson); and “Cultural Intelligence” (with Elaine Mosakowski) in Harvard Business Review.

Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management and Chair of Doctoral Programs, joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1996. Her research investigates leadership influences on learning and change in teams and organizations. In 2003, she received the Cummings Award from the Academy of Management, Organizational Behavior division, for outstanding achievement in early midcareer. Her recent article, “Why Hospitals Don't Learn From Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change” (with Anita Tucker), received the 2004 Accenture Award for a significant contribution to management practice. Before her academic career, she worked as the chief engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller during the early 1980s, and her book, A Fuller Explanation, clarifies Fuller's mathematical contributions for a nonscientific audience. She received her Ph.D. in organizational behavior, A.M. in psychology, and A.B. in engineering and design from Harvard University.

R. Edward Freeman is Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration and Codirector of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics in the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He is an internationally recognized authority on stakeholder management—how to understand and manage the multiple changes and challenges in today's business environment—and on the connection between business ethics and corporate strategy. He has received numerous awards in recognition of outstanding teaching at the Wharton, Minnesota, and Darden business schools. In 2001, he was recognized with a Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute Project on Corporate Responsibility.

Cynthia V. Fukami is Professor of Management in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. She has conducted research and published articles on employee commitment, union attitudes, turnover, absenteeism, employee discipline, and total quality management. She was awarded the 1992 Willemssen Distinguished Research Professorship and was presented [Page 574]with the University of Denver's 1992 Distinguished Teaching Award. From 2000 to 2002, she was the Evelyn and Jay G. Piccinati Endowed Professor for Teaching Excellence. She has served on the board of directors (2 years as chair) of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and has been a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Management Education and Academy of Management Learning and Education. From 1998 to 1999, she was appointed as a scholar in the Carnegie Foundation's Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and was named a fellow of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Dennis A. Gioia is Professor of Organizational Behavior, Department of Management and Organization, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University. Previously, he worked as an engineer for Boeing Aerospace at Cape Kennedy during the Apollo lunar program and for Ford Motor Company as corporate recall coordinator. His current research and writing interests focus on the ways in which identity, image, learning, and knowledge are involved in sensemaking, sensegiving, and organizational change. His work has appeared in Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Dynamics, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Strategic Management Journal, among other journals, as well as in numerous book chapters and proceedings. He also has edited two books of original contributions: The Thinking Organization and Creative Action in Organizations.

Barry M. Goldman is Associate Professor of Management and Policy in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. His primary area of research involves dispute resolution and justice at work, particularly legal claiming. His current focus is on mediation of work-related disputes. He has published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior, among other outlets. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Negotiations and Conflict Management Research. He teaches M.B.A. courses on negotiations and human resource management and doctoral seminars on those same subjects.

Robin Holt is a reader in strategy and ethics at the University of Liverpool Management School. He received his Ph.D. in Government from the London School of Economics. He has worked with both public and private sector organizations, and he has published in a range of social science journals. He has an abiding interest in bringing philosophical perspectives to bear on the prevailing and emerging questions and concerns of business life.

Robert Hooijberg is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. His research, teaching, and consulting focus on leadership and [Page 575]360-degree feedback, negotiations, team building, and organizational culture. His research has appeared in journals such as Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, Human Relations, Organization Science, Human Resource Management, Hospital and Health Services Administration, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Management Education, Administration & Society, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Jennifer Jordan is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She received her doctorate in social psychology from Yale University. Her research interests include moral leadership, awareness, and decision making within the business domain. She coedited (with Robert Sternberg) A Handbook of Wisdom: Psychological Perspectives. She is also a 2004 recipient of the Yale University John F. Enders Research Grant, a 2004 American Psychological Association Dissertation Award, and the 2005 Academy of Management, Social Issues in Management division, Best Dissertation Award.

Robert W. Kolodinsky is Assistant Professor of Management at James Madison University. He did his doctoral work in organizational behavior and human resources management at Florida State University. His primary research interests include wisdom in organizations, ethics, leadership, spiritual issues in the workplace, social effectiveness and social influence processes in organizations, and organizational politics. He has published several book chapters and articles in journals such as Journal of Management and Journal of Vocational Behavior, and papers on which he was the primary author have won best paper awards at two conferences. He also is one of the primary instructors in the United Nations Demining Program's Senior Managers Course, a 5-week program that enriches the management skills of senior managers from countries struggling with the problems associated with land mine removal and civil unrest. He is a three-time small business owner and a small business founder.

Paul R. Lawrence is Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He did undergraduate work in sociology and economics at Albion College and did M.B.A. and doctoral training at Harvard. His research, published in 25 books and numerous articles, has dealt with the human aspects of management. His book, Organization and Enviroinment: Managing Differentiation and Integration (coauthored with Jay Lorsch), added “contingency theory” to the vocabulary of students of organizational behavior. In 2002, he published Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices (coauthored with Nitin Nohria), a book that proposes a four-drive theory of human motivation based on the biology of the brain.

Roy J. Lewicki is Dean's Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Management and Human Resources in the Max M. Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. His research interests are in the areas of trust development, negotiation, and conflict management, and he is the author of numerous research articles and book chapters in these fields. He is probably best known for editing seven volumes of Research on Negotiation in Organizations and for his textbooks (Negotiation, Essentials of Negotiation, and Negotiation: Readings, Exercises, and Cases). He has authored or edited other books on intractable environmental disputes, organizational justice, and organizational change. He is the winner of the Academy of Management's Distinguished Educator Award and was the first winner of the David Bradford Award from the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. He was the founding editor of Academy of Management Learning and Education.

Edwin A. Locke is Dean's Professor of Leadership and Motivation Emeritus in the R. H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Academy of Management. He has been the recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology), the Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Management (Organizational Behavior division), the J. M. Cattell Award (American Psychological Society), and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Academy of Management. He (with Gary Latham) has spent the past 40 years developing goal-setting theory, recently ranked No. 1 in importance among 73 management theories. He has published more than 275 books, chapters, articles, and notes and is internationally known for his research on motivation, job satisfaction, leadership, and other topics.

John McVea is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. His research is in the areas of entrepreneurial strategy, managerial decision making, and entrepreneurial ethics. Currently, he is completing research in the area of decision making in ethically pioneering situations and is developing a number of entrepreneurial case studies from the Twin Cities area. He received his Ph.D. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Nigel Nicholson is Professor at London Business School, where he has held the positions of Chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior, Research Dean, member of Governing Body, and Deputy Dean of the school. He is widely known for pioneering the introduction of the new science of evolutionary psychology to business. His current major research interests include the psychology of family business, personality and leadership, and people skills in management. In these fields, as well as in others such as innovation, organizational change, and executive career development, he has published [Page 577]more than 15 books and 200 articles. He has been a guest professor at German, American, and Australian universities and has been honored by the Academy of Management for his contribution to theory and research. He consults, coaches, and advises in all areas of his wide-ranging interests.

Tjai M. Nielsen is Assistant Professor of Management in the School of Business at The George Washington University (GWSB). He teaches in the full-time, part-time, and executive MBA programs and teaches research methods to GWSB doctoral students. His research primarily focuses on work team effectiveness, leadership development, and organizational citizenship. He recently received a Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management at its 2004 annual meeting. Currently, he serves on editorial boards for the Journal of Organizational Behavior and the journal, Group & Organization Management. Prior to joining GWSB, he spent more than three years working as a consultant for RHR International Company. In this role he provided consulting services in the areas of executive selection and development, succession planning, team development, and executive coaching. He has worked with a variety of organizations within the retail, financial, pharmaceutical, and utility industries in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Lynn R. Offermann is Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the George Washington University. Her research focuses on leadership and followership, teams, organizational processes and influence, and diversity issues. She is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science. Her work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, American Psychologist, and Academy of Management Journal, among other outlets. She has worked with numerous public, private, multinational, and international organizations on executive development and coaching, team development, change management, and organizational development. She has trained and coached hundreds of managers from all over the world to improve their leadership effectiveness in multicultural contexts. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Syracuse University and is currently associate editor of Academy of Management Learning and Education.

Tyrone S. Pitsis is Senior Research Associate at the ICAN (Innovative Collaborations, Alliances, and Networks) Research Center (University of Technology, Sydney [UTS], Australia). His area of research interest is in the phenomenology of project-based interorganizational collaboration, pragmatic philosophy, and positive organizational scholarship. His work has appeared in both academic and industry journals such as Organization Science, Organization Studies, Leadership Excellence, and Management amongst others. He has also been recipient of best paper awards at international conferences. He lectures in executive leadership and in organizational [Page 578]behavior in the M.B.A. program within the School of Management at UTS, and also delivers leadership training and development programs to major corporations in Australia and Europe. He attained an honors degree in social science (psychology) from the University of New South Wales and attained his Ph.D. from UTS in 2006. He is member of the American Academy of Management and is a founding member of the Alliance Association of Australasia. In a previous life, he was an executive chef specializing in South East Asian cuisine.

Jordan Stein is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Management and Organizations at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She previously received her master's in human resources and industrial relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published in Journal of Management. Her current research focuses on organizational justice and conflict.

Robert J. Sternberg is Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. Prior to that, he was the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of Psychology, a professor of management in the School of Management, and director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale University. He also was the 2003 president of the American Psychological Association. Sternberg is the author of more than 1,000 journal articles, book chapters, and books. The central focus of his research is on intelligence, creativity, and wisdom, and he also has studied love and close relationships as well as hate. He has been listed in APA Monitor on Psychology as one of the top 100 psychologists of the 20th century and is listed by the ISI as one of its most highly cited authors (top 0.5%) in psychology and psychiatry.

Eric Sundstrom is Professor at the University of Tennessee, Evaluator for the National Science Foundation, and an independent consultant. His research on the effectiveness of work environments, teams, and organizations has generated more than 70 professional publications, including two books (Work Places [1986] and Supporting Work Team Effectiveness [1999]) and articles in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and more than a dozen other refereed journals. He has supervised more than 20 doctoral dissertations to completion and has served on another 80 or more doctoral and master's committees. He has provided consultation to private companies, such as AT&T, ALCOA, Chrysler Corporation, Exxon USA, Lockheed-Martin, M&M/Mars, Maraven (Venezuela), Nortel, PepsiCo, Rhone-Poulenc, United Technologies Corporation, and Weyerhaeuser, as well as to government organizations, such as the Tennessee Department of Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and U.S. Department of Energy.

Jordi Trullen is Assistant Professor in the Human Resource Management Department at ESADE Business School (Universitat Ramon Lull, Barcelona, [Page 579]Spain). He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Organization Studies from the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College and an M.B.A. from ESADE. His dissertation explored the role of faculty perceptions in mediating responses to quality evaluations at universities. His research interests include practical wisdom in management, organizational change and cognition, and design research as an approach to accomplishing change.

Peter B. Vaill is Professor of Management in Antioch University's Ph.D. program in Leadership and Change. He has served on the business school faculties at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Connecticut, Stanford University, the University of St. Thomas, and George Washington University, where he also was dean of the School of Business and Public Management. His doctorate is from the Harvard Business School. He has been a consultant to many corporations, colleges and universities, health systems, and departments of the U.S. government. He is the author of Managing as a Performing Art (1989), Learning as a Way of Being (1996), Spirited Leading and Learning (1998), and many scholarly articles in the fields of managerial leadership and organization change and development. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, and the Organization Development Network, which gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.

Karl E. Weick is Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He joined the Michigan faculty in 1988 after previous faculty positions at the University of Texas, Cornell University, the University of Minnesota, and Purdue University. His B.A. is from Wittenberg University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology are from the Ohio State University. He is a former editor of the journal Administrative Science Quarterly (1977–1985), a former associate editor of the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Performance (1971–1977), and a former topic editor for human factors at the journal Wildfire. His research interests include collective sensemaking under pressure, medical errors, handoffs and transitions in dynamic events, high-reliability performance, improvisation, and continuous change.