Alan Burton-Jones heads an international management consultancy practice headquartered in Australia and is a senior visiting lecturer at New South Wales, Griffith and Bond Universities. His academic research focuses on the role of knowledge in organizations and the links between strategy, intellectual resources and organizational effectiveness. He is the author of Knowledge Capitalism: Business, Work and Learning in the New Economy(Oxford University Press, (1999) (Nikkei 2002) and his writings have also been published in a number of leading international journals. He contributed to the Australian government report on the knowledge-based economy in APEC countries (DISR 2000) ,the first national Knowledge Management Framework published by Standards Australia and the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Learning and Knowledge Management Council (pan-Pacific industry forum).
J.-C. Spender served in experimental submarines in the Royal Navy, then studied engineering at Oxford (Balliol), worked as a nuclear submarine reactor engineer with Rolls-Royce & Associates, a sales manager with IBM (UK), a consultant with Decision Technology International (Boston), and an investment banker with Slater-Walker Securities. His PhD thesis (Manchester Business School) won the Academy of Management's 1980 A.T. Kearney PhD Research Prize, later published as Industry Recipes (Blackwell, 1989). He served on the faculty at City University, London, York University, Toronto, UCLA, and Rutgers. He was Dean of the School of Business and Technology at SUNY/FIT before retiring in 2003. He now researches, writes, and lectures on organization theory, strategy and knowledge management in the USA, Canada, and Europe, with Visiting Professor appointments at Lund University, ESADE, Cranfield, Leeds, and Open Universities.
Contributors:
Soon Ang, Goh Tjoei Kok Endowed Chair and Professor of Management and Head of the Division of Strategy, Management, and Organization, the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Margaret M. Blair, Economist, Law and Business Faculty, Vanderbilt University
Rocio Bonet, Assistant Professor, IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
Peter Boxall, Professor of Human Resource Management and Associate Dean for Research in the Business School, the University of Auckland
Rhett Brymer, Ph.D. student of strategic management, the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
Alan Burton-Jones, Principal of an international management consultancy practice, and senior visiting lecturer at New South Wales, Griffith and Bond Universities
Andrew Burton-Jones, Assistant Professor, the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management, The Wharton School and Director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources
Thomas Clarke, Professor of Management and Director of the Key University Research Centre for Corporate Governance research, the University of Technology, Sydney
Russ Coff, Associate Professor of Organization and Management, Emory University
Nicolai J Foss, Professor of Organization and Strategy, the Copenhagen Business School and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Robert Grant, Eni Chair in Strategic Management, Bocconi University
James Guthrie, Professor, Bologna University, and Honorary Professor, the University of Sydney
Monika Hamori, Professor of Human Resource Management, IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
James C. Hayton, Associate Professor, L. Bocconi University and Professor at SDA Bocconi
Michael Hitt, Distinguished Professor of Management, Texas A&M University
Thomas Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management
and Professor of Work and Employment Research, the MIT Sloan School of Management
Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, Assistant Professor, Nikos, the Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente
Robin Kramar, Professor and Deputy Dean and Director of Accreditation at MGSM, Macquarie University
David Lepak, Professor of Human Resource Management and Department Chair of the HRM department,the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
Peter Lewin, Clinical Professor of Economics, the University of Texas at Dallas
Adam Seth Litwin, Assistant Professor, the Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
Brian Loasby, Emeritus and Honorary Professor of Economics, University of Stirling
Vijaya Murthy, lecturer and a PhD student, the Discipline of Accounting, University of Sydney
Janine Nahapiet, Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School and Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Kok-Yee Ng, Associate Professor in Management, the Nanyang Technological University, and Director of Research at the Center for Leadership and Cultural Intelligence
Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus of Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, and also First Distinguished Drucker Scholar in Residence at the Drucker School and Institute, Claremont Graduate University
David O'Donnell, Intellectual Capital Research Institute, Ireland
Seán Ó Riain, Professor of Sociology and Department Head, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Vesa Peltokorpi, Assistant Professor in human resource management, HEC School of Management, Paris
Mario Schijven, Assistant Professor of Management, Texas A&M University
Peter D. Sherer, Associate Professor, the Haskayne School of Business,University of Calgary
J.-C. Spender, researcher, writer, and lecturer in organization theory, ESADE/Lund
Juani Swart, Director, the Work and Employment research Centre (WERC), the University of Bath
Riki Takeuchi, Associate Professor, the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Mei Ling Tan, doctoral candidate in management at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
David Teece, Tusher Professor in Global Business, the Haas School of Business, the University of California, Berkeley
Ryoko Toyama, Professor at the Graduate School of Strategic Management, Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan
Jacqueline Vischer, Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Design, the Université de Montréal
Georg von Krogh, Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation and Professor, ETH Zurich
Martin W. Wallin, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
