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.

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.