Patrick Wright is William J. Canaty / GE Professor of Strategic HR and Director of the Cornell Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. His research interests span the relationship between HR practices and firm performance, the creation of a strategic HR function, and HR's role in corporate governance, and he is the co-author of Fundamentals of Human Resource Management (McGraw Hill) with Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, and Barry Gerhart.

Peter Boxall is Professor of Human Resource Management and Associate Dean for Research in the Business School at the University of Auckland. His research is concerned with the links between HRM and strategic management and with the changing nature of work and employment systems and he is the co-author of Strategy and Human Resource Management (Palgrave Macmillan) with John Purcell.

John Purcell is Research Professor at the Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick Business School, focusing on the impact of the Information and Consultation Regulations on UK companies. He is also the Strategic Academic Adviser for the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas). In addition, he is a Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), dealing with trade union recognition. He is the co-author, with Peter Boxall, of Strategy and Human Resource Management (Palgrave Macmillan).