Yen Po Wang is an analyst at I*F Consulting in London, UK. He received his MBA from University of Glasgow and is currently a doctoral candidate at Manchester Business School. As an analyst at a channel management consultancy, he has worked with consumer and financial products and service providers on marketing channel strategies, channel change programmes and channel surveys. Mr. Wang's current research interests are relational exchanges in international marketing channels and roles of market orientation in emerging markets.

Ho-Ching Wei is currently a lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, where he received his Ph.D degree. After receiving his MBA degree in 1981 from University of Arkansas, U.S., Dr Wei went back to Taiwan and served as a senior executive for over ten years in large companies such as Philips Taiwan and Pao-Ku Group. He was also an owner manager of an SME and has had foreign direct investment experiences with his own company before commencing his studies in Australia. Dr Wei's current research interests are the decision making process of top management and/or owner managers, and the role the networks around the owner managers play in the decision making processes.

Robert Westwood is Senior Lecturer and Director of PhD Programs at the Graduate School of Business, University of Sydney. Educated in the UK, he has spent the past 15 years working at universities in the Asia Pacific region, for most of that time at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has research interests in cross-cultural management issues, gender and organization, the meaning and experience of work, power-language issues in organization theory, and post-modernist approaches to conceptualizing organization and management. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in these areas and is the editor and chief contributor to Organizational Behavior: Southeast Asian Perspectives. He is currently co-editing a book on Language and Organization to be published by Sage in 1998/9.

Mr. Donald Xie is a Research Assistant and candidate for the Master of International Management (MIM) degree at Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona. He was born in Shanghai, China and received his early education there. He worked as an accountant in Shanghai from 1982 to 1986 with the China National Native Produce & Animal By-Products Import & Export Corporation. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Goshen College in the US in 1990 and subsequently worked as an international project manager with CTB, Inc. He expects to complete his MIM degree at Thunderbird in 1996.