Amanda Hoel-Green is a Masters Degree candidate in Management and Organization at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. She is interested in sociology and public policy issues, and in how attention to classical theories enhances our understanding of both.

Paul Hirsch is the James Allen Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Organization at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he is also a member of the Sociology and Communication Studies Departments. Hirsch's research spans economic sociology, institutional theory, culture, and communication studies. He has studied the discourse of corporate takeovers, interviewed Studs Terkel, and addressed issues in institutional and organization theory, and mass communication. Hirsch's articles have appeared in American Journal of Sociology, Work and Occupations, Theory and Society, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the New York Times.

Peer C. Fiss is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. from the Departments of Management & Organization and Sociology at Northwestern University. His current research interests include corporate governance and the diffusion of practices, framing and symbolic management, and the use of set-theoretic methods such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and fuzzy sets in management and the social sciences.