Gopalkrishnan R. Iyer (Ph.D., Virginia Tech) is Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing at the Florida Atlantic University. His current research areas include comparative marketing, industrial marketing and business ethics. His interest in humanities include cross-cultural aspects of trade and sociology of religion. His recent research has been published or forthcoming in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Global Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, and Teaching Business Ethics. Gopal is the 1997 recipient of the Abraham J. Briloff Prize for the best paper in business ethics.

Dr. Terence Jackson is the Director of the Centre for Cross Cultural Management Research at EAP European School of Management, a pan-European graduate business school with campuses in Paris, Oxford, Berlin and Madrid. He has a bachelors degree in Social Anthropology, a masters degree in management education, and a Ph.D. in organizational psychology.

Jai-Beom Kim is Assistant Professor of International Business at Myongji University. He earned his first degree in Business Administration at Seoul National University. He did his graduate work at Seoul National University (Business Administration), Cambridge University (Economics), and Manchester Business School, where he earned his Ph.D.  Professor Kim has been on the faculty of Department of Strategy and International Business at City University Business School, London, and then at Department of Management at University of London, London, United Kingdom.  He has published an article in Journal of Consumer Marketing and has presented his works at the Academy of International Business (1996) and Strategic Management Society (1996, 1997, 1998).

Paul Kirkbride is the Managing Director of the Change House, a consulting business that specializes in organizational change and development, strategic human resources management, corporate culture and aspects of international management. He is also a Retained Associate at Ashridge Management College where he used to be on the full-time staff as a Team Leader on the college's core change programs. In addition he is Visiting Professor and former British Aerospace Professor of Organizational Change at the University of Hertfordshire. His Asian connections stem from a 5-year stint as Reader in Management at the City University of Hong Kong and from continuing consulting to leading clients such as the Hong Kong Bank, Cathay Pacific and the Mass Transit Railway Corp. Other clients in Europe have included Zeneca, Digital Equipment, the Glaxo Group and the Department of Health. His academic background includes degrees in Management Studies and Industrial relations and a PhD from the University of Bath. He has more than 50 articles, 10 book chapters and two books to his credit.

Professor Kam-hon Lee is Professor of Marketing and Dean of Business Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his B.Comm. and M.Comm. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his Ph.D. in Marketing at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States. His research areas include cross-cultural marketing, strategic marketing, and marketing ethics. Professor Lee has published in Journal of Marketing, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, The World Economy, International Marketing Review, European Journal of Marketing, Marketing Education Review, and other international refereed journals. Professor Lee has taught in executive programs, or rendered consulting services to different institutions including the World Bank, Hang Seng Bank, Coca-Cola (China), Proctor & Gamble (Guangzhou), Digital Equipment Corporation, Du Pont Asia Pacific Ltd., Dentsu Advertising Agency, and Chinese Arts & Crafts (H.K.).

Dr. Peter Ping Li is an Associate Professor of Management at California State University at Stanislaus. He received his Ph.D. in International Business from George Washington University. His primary research interest lies in the development of holistic, dynamic and paradoxical theories with regard to strategic management of multinational corporations

Hong Liu , BSc., MSc., Ph.D.,  Lecturer in Marketing and Director, China Business Centre.  Hong Liu joined Manchester Business School in 1992 with a background in engineering and economics. He completed his PhD in marketing at Warwick Business School, having been awarded a Hong Kong marketing scholarship. He consulted for the OECD, the Brunei government, the Chinese government, and a number of major companies. He is the Director of China Business Centre, which has been awarded a number of contracts from the British Government and UNDP to train senior Chinese managers and officials. He regularly visits China to give seminars and conduct research in collaboration with the Chinese government. His research interests include marketing in Sino-foreign joint ventures, branding strategy in China and marketing-technology interface.

Dr. Linda Low is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Policy, National University of Singapore. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the National University of Singapore in 1984. Her research interests include public-sector economics and public policy; public enterprises and privatization; social security; human-resource development; health and education; development and trade in the service sector (communications, business and finance, tourism, professional services); science and technology; information technology; telecommunication. She has been consultant to many international and local agencies. In Singapore, she has been consultant to the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Population Planning Unit, Ministry of Health, National Productivity Board, Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, Port of Singapore Authority, Trade Development Board and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. She was a resource person to the Services Subcommittee in the Economic Planning Committee which prepared the Strategic Economic Plan for Singapore, under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. At the international level, she was consultant to the Asian Development Bank, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (UNESCAP) and Asia Pacific Development Corporation.