Mike Wright is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School and Visiting Professor at Erasmus University and University of Ghent. He is Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research, which he founded in 1986. He was conferred with the Award of Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in March 2011. He has published 50 authored/edited books and over 300 academic papers on corporate governance, academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer, venture capital, private equity, and related topics in leading international journals. He is currently an editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. His latest books include Private Equity Demystified (with John Gilligan, 3rd edition, 2012) and Entrepreneurship: Perspectives & Cases (with Paul Westhead, 2011). He was ranked #1 worldwide for publications in academic entrepreneurship 1981-2005 and for entrepreneurship 1995-2006.
Donald S. Siegel is Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Management at the University at Albany, SUNY. He received his bachelor's degree in economics and his master's and doctoral degrees in business economics from Columbia University. Dr. Siegel is editor of Academy of Management Perspectives and the Journal of Technology Transfer, an associate editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Corporate Governance: An International Review, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He has also co-edited 31 special issues of leading journals in economics, management, and finance, and published 6 books, including most recently Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change and the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (both Oxford University Press).
Kevin Keasey is Head of the Accounting and Finance Department and Director of the International Institute of Banking and Financial Services, the University of Leeds. He is the author of 11 books, monographs, and edited volumes on corporate governance, financial regulation, financial services, and financial markets, and is the author of over 115 refereed articles in leading international journals and over 80 other publications (such as book chapters, reports).
Igor Filatotchev is Associate Dean and Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategy at Cass Business School, City University London, and Director of Centre for Research on Corporate Governance at Cass. He has published more than one hundred refereed academic papers, in addition to numerous books and book chapters, in the fields of corporate governance and strategy including publications in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, California Management Review, and Journal of Management. He is an Associate Editor in Corporate Governance International Review and Journal of Management and Governance. His most recent book is Corporate Governance and the Business Life-cycle (Edward Elgar, 2010).
Contributors:
Ruth V. Aguilera, Department of Business Administration and a Fellow at the Center for Professional Responsibility of Business and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Deborah Allcock, Bradford University School of Management
Kevin Amess, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham
Jonathan D. Arthurs, Department of Management, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship, Washington State University
Fabio Bertoni, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Christof Beuselinck, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University
David S. Boss, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
Stephen J. Brammer, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Pamela Brandes, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
Brian R. Cheffins, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University
Xing Chen, Department of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong?
Massimo G. Colombo, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Brian L. Connelly, College of Business, Auburn University
Annalisa Croce, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Douglas Cumming , York University Schulich School of Business
Na Dai, Suny, Albany
Luiz Ricardo Kabbach De Castro, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Palash Deb, Management and marketing department, California State University San Marcos
Marc E. Deloof, Antwerp Management School, University of Antwerp,
Igor Filatotchev, Sir John Cass Business School, City University London.
Veljko Fotak, Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma
Jie Gao, University of International Business and Economics (Beijing) and University of Oklahoma
Howard Gospel, Kings College London
Michel Goyer, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Jenny Harrow, Cass Business School, City University London
Robert E. Hoskisson, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Edith S. Hotchkiss, Carroll School of Management, Boston College
Sofia Johan, Schulich School of Business, York University
Kevin Keasey, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.
Sophie Manigart, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, University of Ghent
Marina Martynova, Management School, University of Sheffield
Terry McNulty, Management School, University of Liverpool
William L. Megginson, University of Oklahoma
Andrea Mennicken, Department of Accounting, London School of Economics
Miguel Meuleman, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, University of Ghent
Stephen Pavelin, School of Management, University of Bath,
Andrew Pendleton, York Management School, University of York
Mike W. Peng, Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas
Susan D. Phillips, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carlton University
Michael Power, Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics
Annie Pye, Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter
Luc Renneboog, Department of Finance and Center, Tilburg University
Mark J. Roe, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
Steve Sauerwald, Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas
Donald S. Siegel, School of Business, University of Albany.
Philip Stiles, Centre for International Human Resource Management, University of Cambridge
Laszlo Tihanyi, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
Karin S. Thorburn, Department of Finance and Management Science, Norwegian School of Economics
Steve Toms, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
Lorraine M. Uhlaner, Center for Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode Business Universiteit
Robert Watson, IE Business School, Madrid
Charlie Weir, Institute for Management Governance and Society, Robert Gordon University
Robert E. White, College of Business, Iowa State University
Geoffrey Wood, School of Management, University of Sheffield
Mike Wright, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College
Nai H. Wu - Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
Chelsea Wyatt, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Daphne W. Yiu, Department of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yuehua Xu, Department of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yang Zhao, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
