John M. Mezias is an associate professor at the University of Miami's School of Business Administration. He received his PhD from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1998. His research examines managerial cognition, international human resource management, strategic leadership, and legal consequences of strategic actions. He has published in a variety of scholarly journals including the Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, British Journal of Management, Journal of Management, Long Range Planning, Journal of International Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Industrial-Organizational Psychologist. He serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal and Journal of International Business Studies, and was a guest editor of the Journal of International Management.

William H. Starbuck is Professor in Residence at the Lundquist College of Business of the University of Oregon and Professor Emeritus at New York University. He has held faculty positions in economics, sociology, and management at Purdue University, the Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and New York University, as well as visiting positions in universities and business schools in England, France, New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden. He was also a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Management in Berlin. He has been Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly; he has chaired the screening committee for senior Fulbright awards in business management; he has directed the doctoral program in business administration at New York University, and he was the President of the Academy of Management. He has published over 140 articles on accounting, bargaining, business strategy, computer programming, computer simulation, forecasting, decision making, human–computer interaction, learning, organizational design, organizational growth and development, perception, scientific methods, and social revolutions. He has also authored two books and edited 16 books, including the Handbook of Organizational Design, which was chosen the best book on management published during the year ending May 1982.