Rosemary Batt is the Alice H. Cook Professor of Women and Work at the Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include work organization and teams, service sector productivity and competitiveness, labor market restructuring, and inequality. She has published numerous book chapters and articles in such journals as Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations, and the British Journal of Industrial Relations. She is co-author of The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States (with Eileen Appelbaum, 1994). email: rb41@cornell.edu

Pamela S. Tolbert is Professor and chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Her research encompasses studies of processes of change in organizations' formal structure, the role of organizations in social stratification, and the linkages between occupations and organizations. All of these interests are reflected in her current research on the rise of non-tenure-track faculty and use of tenure systems in higher education. She is the co-author, with Richard Hall, of Organizations: Structure, Process and Outcomes (2004).

Paul Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the Open University in England. His main research interests are in the political economy of the international system and the theme of globalization. In particular this concentrates upon the possible limits to globalization and on the notion of global corporate citizenship. In addition, he is working on related issues around different forms of coordination and governance. His most recent books are Between Hierarchies and Markets: The Logic and Limits of Network Forms of Organization (2003) and Politics and Power in the UK (edited with Richard Heffernan, 2004). In 2004 he will be Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Warwick. email: G.F.Thompson@open.ac.uk

Stephen Ackroyd is Professor of Organizational Analysis in Lancaster University Management School where he is Head of the Department of Organization, Work and Technology. His current research is into contemporary organizational change and particularly the reorganization of the largest British firms retaining some manufacturing capacity. Among his recent books are Organizational Misbehaviour (with P. Thompson, 1999), Realist Perspectives on Management and Organizations (edited with Steve Fleetwood, 2000), The Organization of Business (2002), and Critical Realist Applications in Organization and Management Studies (edited with Steve Fleetwood, 2004). email: s.ackroyd@lancaster.ac.uk