Stephen Ackroyd, editor
Stephen Ackroyd is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Analysis at Lancaster University Management School. His early research was into organizational misbehaviour and was completed whilst working as a consultant. In the course of his career, Stephen has researched public sector organizations and the professions (especially medicine, law, and business consultants), as well as conducting a longitudinal study of the organizational forms and strategies of the largest British companies. His recent books include: Realist Perspectives on Management and Organisation (with S. Fleetwood, Routledge 2000), The Organization of Business (Oxford University Press 2002), The New Managerialism and the Public Service Professions (with I. Kirkpatrick and R. Walker, Palgrave Macmillan 2005), The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization (with R. Batt and others, Oxford University Press 2006), and Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour (with D. Muzio and J-F. Chanlat, Palgrave Macmillan 2006). Stephen is currently working on updating his books Organizational Misbehaviour and The Organization of Business.

Rosemary Batt, editor
Rosemary Batt is Professor of Women and Work at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. Her research ranges across high-performance work systems, unions, international and comparative workplace studies, technology, and work and family issues, and her publications include The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the U.S. (ILR Press, Cornell) with Eileen Appelbaum.

Paul Thompson, editor
Paul Thompson is Professor and Head of the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde. His research traverses the labor process, organization theory, and workplace misbehavior and conflict, and he is the co-editor of the recent Oxford Handbook on Work and Organization (Oxford University Press) with Stephen Ackroyd, Rosemary Batt, and Pamela Tolbert.

Pamela S. Tolbert, editor
Pamela S. Tolbert is Professor and chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior in the School of Industrial Relations at Cornell University. She came to the ILR School after receiving her Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA. She is broadly interested in processes of organizational change, the role of organizations in social stratification, and the impact of occupations on organizational structures. Her current research includes studies of the use of tenure systems by higher education organizations, the effects of social movements on organizational foundings and failures, sources of variations in the organizational features of hedge funds, and the effects of earnings differences within dual‐career couples on spousal relationships.