Ms. Mette Bak is a graduate of the University of Copenhagen, and of EAP European School of Management from which she holds the degrees of Diplom-Kauffrau (Germany) and Diplome Grande Ecole de Gestion (France). She is an associate member of the Centre for Cross Cultural Management Research, and is currently working for BASF in Shanghai.

Rohan Bentley has a Bachelor of Business degree in Marketing from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently employed as an Information Technical Officer in the Information Education Services Division in the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW. His main research interest is the interface and integration between marketing and information technology for the benefit of small business decision making and management.

David M. Boje is a Professor of Management in the Management Department, CBAE at New Mexico State University (NMSU); and a co-Director of the NMSU Center for Strategic Decisions. He has published numerous articles in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, and other "top tier" journals; however, he prefers to organize the radicals in the "second tier" journals and conferences to take over the "first tier." He serves on the board of directors of the International Academy of Business Disciplines and is a founding board member of the Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory. In 1991, he assumed editorship of the Journal of Organizational Change Management, redirecting it to a postmodern and critical theory publication. He also serves on the editorial board of Management Digest, Organization, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Management Communication Quarterly. His passion is to transcribe stories that crack the foundation of modernist science. His book publications include Readings in Managerial Psychology (1988) with Hal Leavitt and Louis Pondy; Postmodern Management and Organizational Theory (1996), with Robert Gephart and Tojo Thatchenkery; and Managing in the Postmodern World: America's Revolution Against Exploitation (1994) with Bob Dennehy. He has received numerous teaching awards, including being university teacher of the year twice, and college teacher of the year four times. He was born in Spokane, Washington, December 17, 1947, has three lovely children, and is married to Dr. Grace Ann Rosile.

Ross Cameron has a Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Newcastle, Australia.  He is currently employed in the Financial Advisory Services division of Legal and General in Sydney, Australia.  Legal and General is a large, international insurance and superannuation firm.  His main research interests are financial industry marketing generally and services for superannuation and insurance in particular.

Associate Professor Chris Christodoulou has extensive publications in the field of Strategic Management. In the past twenty years he has been a major contributor to the development of postgraduate management education especially at Swinburne University of Technology. He was also responsible for the establishment of the Swinburne Experiential Learning Centre and the Caravan Management Game industry simulation. Professor Christodoulou is the inaugural Director of the Swinburne Research Centre for Organisational and Strategic Studies.

Ms. Dang thi Kim Chi is a MBA graduate from the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. She is working at present as a project analyst for IFC, and affiliate branch of IMF located in Ho Chi Minh city, which provides financial sources for SMEs in Vietnam.

Dr. Ranjan Das, Professor of Strategic and International Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (a business school set up in collaboration with the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA) had 20 years of industry experience before joining academics. He is also a corporate advisor to a number of leading Indian and multinational corporations. His research and professional interests are in the areas of strategy, corporate restructuring, international business, change management and HRD. He has written two books and published a number of articles in India and abroad. He has close interaction with Indian industry and is currently the Chairman of the Marketing Sub-Committee of Confederation of Indian Industry (Eastern region), India's largest and apex industry association.

Rod Davies is Principal of Orient Pacific Century (Kuala Lumpur, Brisbane, San Francisco) and founder and co-convenor of the Asia Pacific Management Forum. Previously he worked in management and recruitment consulting in Australia and as Director of the Institute for Team Management Studies. A graduate of industrial/organizational psychology from Swinburne, Curtin, and Queensland universities, he has taught Organizational Behaviour, HRM, and Business/Marketing Research at Masters level at the International Management Centres in Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, UK, Australia, Vanuatu and Johannesburg, Queensland University, Queensland University of Technology, Thammasat University, and the Graduate School of Business and Economics (IPWI), Jakarta. He has visited over 40 management schools in the Asia Pacific in the last 3 years, presenting workshops on publishing research. He has published over 20 research papers and presented a dozen conference papers in the same broad areas and in the specific areas of team building, psychometric testing, and aircrew team management. He has edited and co-founded several management journals, and has consulted for around 25 major companies in management development and recruitment. He remains active in research, interest areas being Asian management and organization development, electronic publishing and the Internet for professionals and academics, and the validity of HRD processes in Asia, including psychological test development.

Peter J. Dowling (Ph.D, Flinders University of South Australia) is Foundation Professor of Management and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce & Law at the University of Tasmania. Previous teaching appointments include Monash University, the University of Melbourne and Cornell University. His current research interests are concerned with the cross-national transferability of human resource management practices and strategic management.