Gerard P. Hodgkinson is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Strategic Management and Director of the Centre for Organizational Strategy, Learning and Change at the University of Leeds, UK. The author of over 50 scholarly articles and chapters in edited volumes on topics ranging from socio-cognitive processes in competitive strategy to intuition and the nature and role of mental models in organizational decision making, and applied psychometrics, his work has appeared in a number of distinguished outlets including the Annual Review of Psychology, Organization Studies, Personnel Psychology, and Strategic Management Journal. He has also co-authored three books. A chartered occupational psychologist, in 2001 he was elected a fellow of both the British Psychological Society and the British Academy of Management. In recent years, his work on managerial and organizational cognition has been taken forward through the award of a senior fellowship of the UK ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research (2004–07). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (1999–2006) and currently co-edits the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Organization Science.

Annie Pye, PhD, is Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter's Centre for Leadership Studies. Her enduring research interest is in “making sense” of how small groups of people “run” complex organizations, integrating concepts of leadership, governance, strategy and board/director process research and analysis. Funded by two ESRC grants, she has researched chief executives, chairmen and board members in large UK organizations (e.g., Prudential, Marks & Spencer, Hanson and LloydsTSB), over a 20-year period. Current research includes a collaborative qualitative study with Dr Phyll Johnson (University of Strathclyde) into non-executive directors' learning and developing over time, and continuing long-term research with Dr Louise Knight (University of Bath) into network leadership and learning. She has published in a range of journals including Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, British Journal of Management, Management Learning, and Corporate Governance: An International Review.

Julia Balogun is Professor of Strategic Management at Cass Business School, City University, London, and a Ghoshal Fellow of AIM Research. Her research centers on processes of strategy development and strategic change, with a focus to date on how strategic activity is initiated and championed at multiple levels within organizations, predominantly from a sensemaking perspective. Her current research explores strategizing as a distributed organizational activity, through a focus on activities such as strategic planning and change. She has published in a wide range of journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Human Relations, and her book, Exploring Strategic Change, is in its third edition. She also serves on a number of editorial boards including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Long Range Planning.