Martin J. Gannon is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Global Business, Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has authored or co-authored 13 books including Managing without Traditional Methods: International Innovations in Human Resource Management (1996), Ethical Dimensions of International Management (1997), Dynamics of Competitive Strategy (1992) and Understanding Global Cultures (2001).

Karen L. Newman is Dean of the School of the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond. She is the co-author of Managing Radical Organizational Change (1998).