Geoffrey Wood is Dean and Professor of International Business at Essex Business School. Previously he was Professor of International Business at Warwick Business ↵School, UK. He has authored/co-authored/edited 16 books, and over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Previously he was Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, UK. He holds honorary positions at Griffith and Monash Universities in Australia, and Witwatersrand and Nelson Mandela Universities in South Africa. His research interests center on the relationship between institutional setting, corporate governance, firm finance, and firm level work and employment relations. Geoffrey is Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Management, the official journal of the British Academy of Management (BAM). He also serves on the BAM. Council. He is also Editor of the ABS Journal Ranking list. He has had numerous research grants, including funding councils (e.g. ESRC), government departments (e.g. US Department of Labor; UK Department of Works and Pensions), charities (e.g. Nuffield Foundation), the labor movement (e.g. the ITF) and the European Union.

Noel O’Sullivan is Professor of Accounting at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University. His main research interest is corporate governance, including boards of directors, the market for non-executives, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, sovereign wealth funds, and various aspects of auditing. His research has been published in leading journals such as the British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Management Reviews, Accounting and Business Research, British Accounting Review, European Economic Review, among others.

Marc Goergen holds a Chair in Finance at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. His previous appointments include various positions at UMIST and the Universities of Manchester, Reading, and Sheffield. He is a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). His research interests are in corporate governance and corporate finance, including boards of directors, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and private equity. He has published extensively, including in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance and Journal of Financial Intermediation. He has also written four books on corporate governance, including a textbook.

Marijana Baric is Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the University of Buckingham. Broadly, she is interested in social exchange theory and how it can be reconceptualized and used to study a variety of work-based and social situations. Although her work focuses mainly on undeclared work and policy, she is also interested in many aspects of organizational behavior and HRM research. Marijana has been involved in research funded by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions as well as Marie Curie Industry-Academic Partnerships and Pathways.