Staffan Åkerblom is a program director and head of the International Management Program at the Swedish Institute of Management. He is also a doctoral candidate (Ph.Lic) at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research interests and previous publications are focused around conceptions of managerial leadership in various industrial and social contexts.
Carlos Altschul teaches international negotiation at FLACSO/Universidad de San Andrés; negotiation in School of Economics at Buenos Aires University; and organization change at Buenos Aires University and Universidad Siglo XXI, Córdoba. He has directed major consulting projects for AngloGold, DaimlerChrysler, EXXON, Scotiabank, Goodyear, and directed training for Novartis, American Express, Cargill, Bayer, Shell, and Scania. He studied chemical engineering at Buenos Aires University and was awarded MS and PhD degrees from Iowa State University. He recently published Estar de Paso: Consultant roles and Responsibilities (Granica) and Transformando: Prácticas de Cambio en Empresas Argentinas (University of Buenos Aires Press). Address: Urquiza 1835, (1602) Florida, PBA, Argentina. Telephone: 54 011 4 797 8737. Fax: 54 011 4 797 8745. E-mail: [email protected].
Marina Altschul is assistant professor in organization development at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and is a consultant on group dynamics, coaching, and leadership issues. She designs and coordinates multiyear training projects for leading national and international corporations, such as American Express, Bayer, BankBoston, Banco de Galicia, Cerro Vanguardia, OSDE, Telecom Personal, and Unilever. She graduated from the School of Agronomics, University of Buenos Aires. Address: General Lavalle 2035, (1602) Florida, PBA, Argentina. Telephone: 54 011 4 718 0595. E-mail: [email protected].
Neal Ashkanasy is professor of management in the UQ Business School, University of Queensland. He came into academic life after an 18-year career in professional engineering and management, and has since worked in the schools of psychology, commerce, engineering, management, and business. He has a PhD (1989) in social and organizational psychology from the University of Queensland, and has research interests in leadership, organizational culture, and business ethics. In recent years, however, his research has focused on the role of emotions in organizational life. He has published his work in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Executive, Accounting, Organizations and Society, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is coeditor of three books: The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate (Sage), Emotions in the Workplace; Theory, Research, and Practice (Quorum), and Managing Emotions in the Workplace (M. E. Sharpe), with a fourth under contract with Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. In addition, he administers two e-mail discussion lists: Orgcult, the Organizational Culture Caucus list; and Emonet, the Emotions in the Workplace list. He has organized three gatherings of the International Conference on Emotions in Organizational Life and planned the fourth conference that was held in England in July 2004. Professor Ashkanasy is also on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Applied Psychology: An International Review, and the Journal of Management. He is a past chair of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management.
J. Arnoldo Bautista has an Engineering Interdisciplinary PhD (civil engineering, industrial engineering, crop and soil sciences) from New Mexico State University and a Master of Science, Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University. His work experience includes director, Research and Technology Development National Center (CENIDET), 2000–present; academic dean, Research and Technology Development National Center (CENIDET), 1998–2000; executive director, Solar Energy National Association (ANES), 1998–2000; vice-minister, Ministry of Agriculture Development, Chihuahua state government, 1996–1998; office head, Office of Agriculture Marketing, Ministry of Agriculture Development, Chihuahua state government, 1993–1996; general coordinator, Campus Nuevo Casas Grandes of Ciudad Juarez Institute of Technology, 1990–1993, strategic planning, financial and computer systems advisor, 1990–2002; associate professor, New Mexico State University, 1989–1990; assistant professor, New Mexico State University, 1987–1989; manufacturing superintendent, Automatic Insertion Department, R.C.A., 1978–1980; industrial engineer, Time and Standards Department, R.C.A., 1977–1978; and manufacturing supervisor, Manufacturing and Testing Department, R.C.A., 1975–1977. He is the author of several international and local publications. Contact information: J. Arnoldo Bautista, Director, Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Interior Internado Palmira S/N–Complejo CENIDET, Col. Palmira, Cuernavaca, Morelos CP 62490 México. Phones: 011 52 777 318 7741 & 011 52 777 326 3842. Fax: 011 52 73 12 2434. E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected].
Muzaffer Bodur is a professor of marketing at Management Department of Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her DBA from Indiana University in 1977 and acted as a visiting assistant professor at George Mason University upon graduation. In 1979, she joined Bogaziçi University faculty where she teaches global marketing management course to MBA students and research methods courses to doctoral students. She has organized training programs and seminars for executives and had served as the department head.
She is a member of Academy of International Business (AIB) and Consortium for International Marketing Research (CIMAR). Currently, she is the editor of the Bogaziçi Journal: Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Marketing. She has visited Uppsala University of Sweden and Odense University of Denmark to teach international marketing courses and conducted cross-cultural research on the implications of business culture for internationalization of firms. Her publications focus on marketing strategies of multinational firms in emerging markets, export marketing management, expatriate managers, and consumer satisfaction, dissatisfaction, and complaining behavior with services and intangible product.
Simon Booth is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management, University of Reading Business School. He is the author of Crisis Management Strategy, and coauthor of Managing Competition and more than 30 research articles on strategy. His main research interests currently concern business sustainability, leadership behavior, and organizational change. Full address: Department of Management, University of Reading Business School, PO Box 218, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA, Berkshire, UK.
Lize Booysen is a professor of Leadership at the Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa. She holds a masters degree in clinical psychology cum laude (Rand Afrikaans University), a masters degree in research psychology cum laude, and a masters degree in criminology cum laude (University of Pretoria). She completed her doctorate in business leadership at UNISA in 1999 on the influence of race and gender in leadership in South Africa.
She participated in the GLOBE study, and is involved in the Leadership Across Differences (LAD) study steered by the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Felix C. Brodbeck (born 1960) is professor of organizational and social psychology and director of the Aston Centre for Leadership Excellence (ACLE) at Aston Business School, Aston University, UK, and a member of the GLOBE Coordination Team. He conducted applied research in more than 50 organizations in several countries. He has published eight books and more than 100 scholarly articles in national and international journals, such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive/Perspectives, Applied Psychology: An Introduction Review, European Journal of Social Psychology, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Journal of World Business, Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, in areas such as leadership, cross-cultural psychology, diversity, HRM, team effectiveness, human–computer interaction, innovation, decision making, and applied research methods. His repertoire of experience and practice comprises experimental, applied, and field research, development of theory and practical tools, as well as training, coaching, and consulting in the aforementioned domains.
Philippe Castel is a full professor at the University of Burgundy where he teaches and coordinates courses in social psychology, and recently launched a master's degree in work psychology. He is the codirector of a Clinic and Social Psychology Laboratory (LPCS), whose work focuses on social categorization, social representations, and their linguistic markers. His main publications concern discrimination in the workplace in intercultural situations.
Jagdeep S. Chhokar is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, where he has also been Dean and Director In-charge. He earned his PhD in management and organizational behavior from Louisiana State University. He is also a graduate in mechanical engineering and in law. He is also a citizen-activist for improving democracy and governance in the country; a bird watcher and conservationist. Before becoming an academic, he worked actively with the Indian Railways for 13 years.
He has taught in several countries including Australia, France, Japan, and the United States. His professional interests are eclectic, covering all aspects of organizational functioning such as behavior, structure, design, and effectiveness of organizations, and of people in organizations. The main thrust of his work in the last few years has been cross-cultural management.
His research has appeared in several international journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Columbia Journal of World Business (now called the Journal of World Business), International Labor Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Safety Research, International Journal of Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Review, International Journal of Management, Management International Review, Educational and Psychological Measurement, American Business Review, and American Journal of Small Business. He has also contributed chapters to edited books and has written several teaching cases. He is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Management and of Insight, a publication of the Academy of International Business. His writings have also appeared in the Indian business and popular press such as The Economic Times, The Times of India, The Hindu, The Indian Express, The Financial Express, and The Tribune. His writings on political and electoral issues have appeared in journals in India such as the Economic and Political Weekly and Seminar. As conservationist, he has published in the National Geographic Birdwatcher, among other journals. He has been a member of the GLOBE Coordination Team.
Irene Hau-Siu Chow (MBA and PhD, Georgia State University) is a professor in the Department of Management, The Chinese University of Hong-Kong. Her academic experience includes appointments in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. She published widely in international journals. Her current research interests include gender and cultural issues in Chinese societies, Chinese networks, and comparative human resources management practices.
Jose DelaCerda is a consultant and researcher of business and public organizations. He is currently the chief administrator of Zapopan county, Mexico. He has held executive positions related to organizational development and human resources in government, education, and consulting firms in Mexico. Mr. DelaCerda has an MA in industrial relations and labor sciences (Michigan State University) and a diploma in economics and business (The Economics Institute, University of Colorado, 1980). He has taught in several MBA programs, mainly at ITESO University. His professional projects have dealt with business process reengineering, work redesign and organizational downsizing, ISO 9000 quality management systems, managerial development, human resources management systems, and, more recently, whole-systems change interventions for strategic planning, participative work and organization redesign, and supply chain integration. His work as consultant has included firms in construction and urban development, public services, logistics and warehousing, manufacturing, and universities. As a researcher he has published several books and articles. Contact information: Jose DelaCerda, Compositores 4667, Fraccionamiento Los Pinos, Zapopan, Jalisco 45120, MEXICO. Phone: (33) 3684–2278 (33) 3944–2459. E-mail: [email protected].
Deanne N. den Hartog is full professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Amsterdam Business School in the Netherlands. She is director of the Business Studies bachelor and master's programs at the Business School and teaches OB and leadership. Her research interests focus on cross-cultural and inspirational leadership and also include team processes and human resource management issues. Among other things, she studies leadership among cultures, leader personality, and the impact of leadership on employees’ learning, affect, cooperation, and innovative work behaviors.
Marc Deneire holds a PhD in second-language acquisition from the University of Illinois— Urbana-Champaign. He's been an associate professor of English linguistics at the University of Nancy 2 since 1998 where he teaches linguistics, discourse analysis, and intercultural communication. His research focuses on sociolinguistics and intercultural relations.
Peter W. Dorfman is a full professor and the department head of the Department of Management, New Mexico State University. His master's and PhD degrees are from the University of Maryland. His articles on leadership, cross-cultural management, and employee discrimination have appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Advances in International Comparative Management, and Advances in Global Leadership, among others. Dr. Dorfman's current research involves investigating the impact of cultural influences on managerial behavior and leadership styles. He has been a coprincipal investigator of the decade-long Global Leadership and Organizational Behavioral Effectiveness (GLOBE) Research Project. As part of GLOBE, he has been a cocountry investigator for Mexico, a member of the GLOBE coordinating team for overall coordination of the project, and is now an executive committee member. Contact information: Peter W. Dorfman, Department of Management, College of Business Administration and Economics, PO Box 30001, MSC 3DJ, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003–8001. Voice: 505.646.1201. Fax: 505.646.1372. E-mail: [email protected].
Michael Frese (born 1949) is professor at the University of Giessen and Visiting Professor at London Business School. He also lectured in the United States, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Zimbabwe, China, and elsewhere. He was editor of Applied Psychology: An International Review and is on the editorial board of several journals. He is the author of approximately 200 articles and editor/author of more than 20 books and special issues. His research has been on the effects of unemployment, impact of stress at work, shiftwork, training, errors and mistakes, predictors of personal initiative in East and West Germany, psychological success factors in small-scale entrepreneurs (particularly in developing countries), and cross-cultural factors.
Ping Ping Fu, associate professor of management in the School of Business of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has been a member of the Global Leadership research project team since 1997. Her current research includes studies of top-management teams, Chinese CEOs, citizenship behaviors, as well as cross-cultural influence tactics. Her work has been published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of International Business Studies, Advances in Global Leadership, Journal of Asian Businesses, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, European Review of Applied Psychology, International Journal of Human Resources Management, and Asian Pacific Journal of Management.
Mikhail V. Grachev (PhD) is associate professor of management at Western Illinois University.
He served as university faculty in the United States, France, Japan, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Russia. His research is focused on strategy and international human resource management.
Mikhail V. Gratchev served as International Leadership Association (ILA) board member. Contact information: Mikhail V. Grachev, Associate Professor of Management, Western Illinois University, 3561 60th Street, Moline, Il 61265. Tel: (309) 762–9481. Fax: (309) 762–6989. E-mail: [email protected].
Dr. Celia Gutierrez has a varied background and training experience. Currently she is corporate manager of a Spanish business group dedicated to the formation of professionals in many sectors, including computer technology, chemical laboratories, food processing, and the development of leisure-time activities.
As an applied psychologist, she has coordinated the activities for extended culture programs and counseled students at the University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares. As a corporate psychologist, she has created an internship program for students from Syracuse for practicums in the fields of international finance, applied psychology, corporate strategy, organization behavior, and cross-cultural administration and management. As a business administrator, Dr. Gutierrez has coordinated the housing department for exchange programs for American universities and for the Bilbao-Viscaya Bank in Madrid. She has also been visiting professor in various Madrid universities, business schools, and corporations for courses on organizational behavior, global leadership, and cross-cultural management.
Specifically Dr. Gutierrez has published and coauthored in the fields of applied psychology and organization behavior. Also, she has created the first CD-ROM in Spain with the GLOBE (Phases 1 and 2) data.
Ingalill Holmberg is associate professor in organization and management and director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Stockholm School of Economics. She received her PhD on a study of managerial succession in large corporations. Her current research focuses on managerial leadership in different organizational contexts, the ideology of leadership in the network society, and brands, identity, and leadership. She has published various books and articles on these subjects. She is an adviser to the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and the chief editor of the Swedish leadership journal Ledmotiv. She has also been an adviser to the Swedish Ministry of Industry.
Michael H. Hoppe, PhD, is a senior program and research associate at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. He conducts leadership development programs worldwide and researches and designs modules on effective leadership in a “global” world.
Dr. Hoppe, born and raised in Germany, also lived and worked in Austria, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands. He holds an MS in clinical psychology from the University of Munich, Germany, an MS in educational psychology and statistics from State University of New York–Albany, and a PhD in adult education and institutional studies from University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.
Robert J. House received his PhD degree in management from the Ohio State University, June 1960. He was appointed the Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor Endowed Chair of Organization Studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He has published 130 journal articles. In total, his articles have been reprinted in approximately 50 anthologies of reading in management and organizational behavior.
He recevied the Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contribution to Management, and four awards for outstanding publications. The awards were conferred by the Academy of Management and the Canadian Association of Administrative Sciences. He has also authored two papers that are Scientific Citations Classics.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, and Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He has served as chairperson of the Academy of Management Division of Organizational Behavior (1972–1973) and President of the Administrative Science Association of Canada (1985–1986).
He was the Principal Investigator of the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program (GLOBE) from 1993 through 2003. In this capacity he visited universities in 38 countries. He has also been a visiting scholar or visiting professor at 14 universities, most of which are in Europe or Asia. He is the senior editor of the following book Culture, Leadership and Organizations, edited by Robert J. House, Paul J. Hanges, Mansour Javidan, Peter W. Dorman and Vipin Gupta, Sage Publications, 2004. This book reports the result of the first two phases of GLOBE.
His major research interests are the role of personality traits and motives as they relate to effective leadership and organizational performance, power, and personality in organizations, leadership, and the implications of cross-cultural variation for effective leadership and organizational performance.
Jon P. Howell is professor of management and organizational behavior in the College of Business Administration and Economics at New Mexico State University. His MBA is from the University of Chicago and his PhD from the University of California at Irvine. Professor Howell has published book chapters as well as research articles in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, Organizational Dynamics, and other management journals. His primary research interests are leadership, substitutes for leadership, and international management. He is currently working on the second edition of his book Understanding Behaviors for Effective Leadership (Prentice Hall). Contact information: Jon P. Howell, Department of Management, College of Business Administration and Economics, PO Box 30001, MSC 3DJ, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 880038001. Voice: 505.646.4900. Fax: 505.646.1372. E-mail: [email protected].
Jorge Correia Jesuino holds a PhD in sociology from the Technical University of Lisbon. He is professor emeritus at Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) in Lisbon, Portugal. His teaching and research activities focus on organizational behavior and social representations. He has published a number of texts on leadership and group processes. He joined the GLOBE project from its inception as CCI for Portugal.
Hayat Kabasakal is professor of management and organization studies at the Management Department of Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. She received her PhD in 1984 in strategic management and organizational behavior from the University of Minnesota. In 1984, she joined Bogaziçi University faculty where she teaches management and organizational behavior courses to undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students. She has served as the associate dean of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences and department head of the Management Department. She is currently the co-director of the Center for Disaster Management.
Her research interests center on organizational behavior, with a focus on leadership, culture, and gender in organizations. She has published in the Journal of Strategic Management, Organizational Behavior Teaching Review, Journal of Applied Psychology: An International Journal, Journal of World Business, International Journal of Social Economics, and Bogaziçi Journal: Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies.
She is a member of the Academy of Management, Turkish Faculty Members’ Association, and GLOBE Foundation. She has served as the editor of Bogaziçi Journal: Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies and on the editorial boards of several international and national journals focusing on management and organizational studies.
Mary A. Keating lectures in human resource management in Trinity College, Dublin, where she is director of undergraduate studies at the School of Business Studies. She is a research associate in the Institute of International Integration Studies (TCD), a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, and a member of the worldwide research network GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) program. She previously lectured at University College, Dublin. She has published and contributed to national policy in the area of human resource management. Her research interests include international human resource management, strategies, and practices, and cross-cultural management and leadership. She is involved in executive education at the Irish Management Institute and has extensive consulting experience.
Jeff Kennedy teaches organizational behavior and international human resource management at both the undergraduate and MBA levels. His research on cross-cultural leadership and management has been published in a variety of journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Executive, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Organizational Dynamics. Prior to joining the Nanyang Business School in Singapore, he worked as an industrial/organizational psychologist for the Royal New Zealand Navy, a senior HR consultant for Ernst & Young (specializing in executive recruitment and management development), and a senior lecturer at Lincoln University, New Zealand.
Paul Koopman (1946) is professor of the psychology of management and organization at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 1980, he finished his PhD study on decision making in organizations. Since then, he studied different types of processes of management and decision making on the organizational level (industrial democracy, reorganization, turnaround management, privatization in Eastern Europe) and the departmental level (leadership and motivation, quality circles, teamwork, ICT, innovation management). At this moment, he is interested and actively involved in cross-cultural research, in particular in relation to issues of HRM, leadership, trust, and organizational culture.
Alexandre Kurc is an associate professor in social psychology at the University of Nancy 2 where he created an advanced professional degree in cross-cultural psychology. As a member of the communication and social psychology research team (GRC), his research focuses on intercultural situations, and, more recently, on sanitary and social problems. He has been a member of the ARIC Board (Association for Cross-Cultural Research) since 2001.
Marie-Françoise Lacassagne is a full professor of social psychology at the University of Burgundy where she created a university degree in coaching and mental performance. She is the director of the ISOS (Social Interaction and Sports Organisation) laboratory. Her current research is in sports management with a special focus on social interaction in sport marketing and in sports coaching. She is also interested in fans’ behavior.
Christopher Leeds is a member of the council of Conflict Research & Society, London, a visiting research fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and a researcher at the University of Nancy 2 where he taught British studies and humor studies as an associate professor until 2002.
Ji Li, PhD, University of Toronto, 1993, is currently an associate professor in the Department of Management, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include the effects of culture or other institutional factors on firm behavior and firm performance.
Martin Lindell is professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration. His main research interests are innovation, leader behavior, strategy development, and acquisitions. He has written articles in journals such as Technovation, Leadership Quarterly, Scandinavian Journal of Management, International Strategic Management and Organization, Journal of Small Business Management, and Business Strategy and the Environment. He has recently chaired the Scandinavian Academy of Management. Contact information: Martin Lindell, Professor, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, P.O.Box 479, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland. Phone: 358 9 43133274. Fax: 358 9 43133275. E-mail: [email protected].
Mercedes López teaches and researches in the School of Psychology at Buenos Aires University. She consults on qualitative research and directs research and training on interpersonal behavior in organizations for leading national and international organizations: Burke, Business Bureau, “a & c” for Metrogas, Alico, BNP, Cinzano-BAMSA, Coca Cola, Liberty, Jumbo, BankBoston, Psyma, Sky, Guby, Telecom. ASECOM for Travelpass, Aquafresh, St. Ives, Boomerang, ABN AMRO, and Princeton Gallup for Toyota. Holds a master of science degree in Sociology (FLACSO) and her doctorate is in psychology, Buenos Aires University. She has published several academic papers. Address: Pje. Pedro López Anaut 4072, (1228) Capital federal, Bs. As., Argentina. Telephone: 54 011 4 931 4770. E-mail: [email protected].
Gillian S. Martin lectures in business German in Trinity College, Dublin. She holds a PhD in applied linguistics, is a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and a research associate at the Institute of International Integration Studies (TCD). She previously lectured in the University of Limerick. Her research interests include cross-cultural negotiation and leadership, organizational communication, and doctor–patient interaction. She is a member of the worldwide research network GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) program. She has been a guest lecturer at universities in Düsseldorf, Linz, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Bonn.
Sandra M. Martínez is an assistant professor of management at the Widener University School of Business Administration. She formerly held positions as an adjunct instructor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Fox School of Business at Temple University. As a recipient of the National Security Education Program Doctoral Fellowship, she conducted an ethnographic study of elite Mexican managers from 1995 through 1998, which became her dissertation. She is a member of the GLOBE Mexican team. Her research is guided by an interest in the impact of cultural and institutional forces on leadership and managerial processes, such as strategic planning. She is a senior consultant with Decision Strategies International, Inc., where she works with nonprofit organizations. Contact information: Sandra Martínez, 274 Hathaway Lane, Wynnewood, PA 19096. Phone: 610–6499652. E-mail: [email protected].
Phyllisis M. Ngin, PhD, University of Michigan, 1994, taught organizational behavior at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Business Administration, Singapore, and the Melbourne Business School, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are in managing technical professionals and sociology of work. She has taken a temporary leave of absence from academe and currently resides in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
Dr. Jeremiah J. O'Connell is emeritus professor of management at Bentley College where he earlier spent 10 years as the dean of the Graduate School and 12 years as professor of management. His career began at the Wharton School where he earned his tenure. He spent the 1970s at an institute of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In the last quarter of the 21st century he worked in 20 countries, often spending a month or more per year in Spain. His publications have been in the fields of corporate governance, corporate strategy, organization change, and cross-cultural management.
Enrique Ogliastri is a professor in the INCAE Business School (Costa Rica). A PhD in organization theory from Northwestern University, he teaches negotiations, strategy, social enterprise, and organizations. He has published 15 books, the last one coauthored with Austin et al. Social Partnering in Latin America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. He was a professor at University of the Andes (Bogotá) for 25 years and was visiting faculty at Harvard (1980–1984), Ajiken (Tokyo, 1989), Toulousse ESC, and Nancy University (France, 1997, 1999) and Instituto de Empresa (IE, Spain). He is presently completing books about intercultural negotiations, leadership, and social enterprise.
Nancy Papalexandris is professor of human resources management and vice-rector of academic affairs and personnel at the Athens University of Economics and Business. She also is director of the MSc in Human Resource Management of her university. She has studied business administration and obtained her MA from New York University and her PhD from the University of Bath in the UK. She teaches management theory, human resources management, organizational behavior, public relations, and business communications. She has also taught in various EU universities and in post-training and management development seminars in Greece and abroad.
Her research interests include human resource management, organizational behavior and culture, leadership, small to medium enterprises, issues in public administration, public relations, corporate communications, and women in management. She has published various books and articles in international journals and has participated in a number of international conferences. She is member of the editorial team of Employee Relations. She represents Greece in CRANET, a research network on comparative European human resource management, and GLOBE, an international research network on organizational culture and leadership. She is vice president of the Institute of Human Resource Management of the Greek Management Association.
Maria Marta Preziosa teaches business ethics at the Argentine Catholic University Business School. She has a graduate degree in philosophy and an MBA, and is a PhD candidate (philosophy) at Navarra University (IESE Business School). She conducts long-term training projects in business ethics and social responsibility for Novartis, Shell, and DirecTV. She is a member of ALENE and ISBEE (Latin American, and International Society for Business Ethics and Economics). Address: F. J. S. M. de Oro 3065, 1°6, (C1425FOU) Buenos Aires, Argentina. Telephone: 54011–4773-3807. E-mail: [email protected].
Dr. Jose M. Prieto is senior professor of personnel psychology at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. His areas of expertise are personnel assessment and training, as well as information and communication technologies in applied psychology. His present focus is the psychological basis for trust among employees as well as in online communication and Web-based training. He is secretary general of the International Association of Applied Psychology, and a member of the European Network of Organizational Psychology. He is also a member of the editorial board of international journals such as Applied Psychology: An International Review, British Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, European Psychologist, and Psycothema. He has written about 150 articles and chapters in English, French, Italian, and Spanish and is an invited lecturer using these languages in universities around the world.
Leonel Prieto obtained his BS in agricultural engineering from the Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico; his MS and PhD in production systems from the University of Reading, United Kingdom; and his MBA from the University of Texas at El Paso. His work experience includes the Research Center for Demographic and Urban Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico; and research scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. He is currently a graduate student in the Department of Management at New Mexico State University. His research interests include cross-cultural leadership and strategy. Contact information: Leonel Prieto, Department of Management, College of Business Administration and Economics, PO Box 30001, MSC 3DJ, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003–8001. Voice: 505.646.1201. Fax: 505.646.1372. E-mail: [email protected].
Boris V. Rakitski (PhD) is the leading Russian social scholar with exemplary academic contribution to philosophy, sociology, labor economics, and political science. He is acting member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science. Rakitski served as member of the Russian President's Council on Social Policy, as director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Labor and Institute of Employment and as vice-president of the USSR Sociology Association. He is the founder of the Institute of Perspectives and Problems of the Country and the School of Worker Democracy. Rakitski is professor of the Academy of Public Policy under the President of the Russian Federation. Contact information: Boris V. Rakitski, 113 Vernadskogo Prospekt Suite 244, Moscow 119571, Russia. Tel: (7–095) 931–4260. Tel: (309) 931–4260. E-mail: [email protected]
Gerhard Reber’s teaching and research area is organizational behavior. He pursued his academic career in Austria and has taught in various countries and institutions, such as the University of Dallas, the University of Toronto and York University (Toronto), Emory University (Atlanta), Turku School of Business and Economics (Finland), and numerous universities in German-speaking countries (St. Gallen, Heidelberg, Regensburg, Leipzig, Vienna). Currently he is department head of the Institute for International Management Studies and the Institute for Business Languages at Johannes Kepler University–Linz. His academic career has been accompanied by more than 100 publications, intensive consulting, and in-company as well as executive training activities. He has been coeditor of the journal Die Betriebswirtschaft since 1977 and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Human Resource Management. Contact information: Institute for International Management Studies, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69, A-4040 Linz / Austria, tel. +43 70 2468 9469, fax. +43 70 2468 8418, e-mail: [email protected].
Nikolai G. Rogovsky (PhD) is senior specialist at International Labor Organization in Switzerland. His research focus is on international human resource management and social aspect of business. Rogovsky contributed to the GLOBE chapter when he served on the faculty of California State University–Hayward. Contact information: Nikolai G. Rogovsky, Senior Specialist, International Labor Office, 4, route des Morillons, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland. Tel: (41–22) 799–6116. E-mail: [email protected].
Flavio Ruffolo is adjunct professor of economic & business history in the School of Economics at Buenos Aires University. He completed coursework at the University of Bari, Italy, and at the University of Wisconsin. He has a master's degree in human resources from Buenos Aires University. He is a consultant for SMBs, public agencies, and educational institutions. He is a researcher and author of papers on public administration and program implementation, Argentine Institute for Public Administration. Address: Industria 3136, 1653 – Villa Ballester, Pdo. San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Telephone: 54 011 4 768 – 7310, E-mail: [email protected].
Camilla Sigfrids is partner and managing director for the Center for Leading Competence. Up until cofounding the company in late 2000, she was a member of the faculty and director of MBA programs at the Department of Management and Organisation at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki. Her current research focuses on applying approaches of problem-based learning to corporate leadership development needs. Contact information: Camilla Sigfrids, Chief Sense Maker, Managing Director, CLC Center for Leading Competence Oy, Fredrikinkatu 34 A 12, FIN-00100 HELSINKI. Phone: +358 9 5657 6262. Fax: +358 9 5657 6260. Mobile: +358 5 0530 8327. E-mail: CamillaSigfrids@clchelsinki.
Erna Szabo is Assistant Professor of Social and Economic Sciences at the Institute for International Management Studies at Johannes Kepler University–Linz in Austria. She received her doctorate from Johannes Kepler University and her MBA from the University of Toronto. Her current research interest includes cross-cultural leadership and the combined use of qualitative and quantitative methods to study participation in managerial decision making. She teaches organizational behavior and cross-cultural management at Johannes Kepler University and cultural awareness at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen in France and at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration in Finland. She is the proud mother of a little girl, Lea Johanna. Contact information: Institute for International Management Studies, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstr. 69, A-4040 Linz/Austria, tel. +43 70 2468 9126, fax. +43 70 2468 8418, e-mail: [email protected].
Albert C. Y. Teo, PhD, University of California–Berkeley, 1993, is currently an associate professor in the Department of Management & Organization, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He concurrently holds a joint appointment in the University Scholars Program, National University of Singapore.
Prof. Dr. Henk Thierry (1938) is professor emeritus in work and organizational psychology. He got his degree in psychology at the Free University in Amsterdam. In 1971, he joined the University of Amsterdam in a new chair in work and organizational psychology. In 1993, he joined the Human Resource Science Department at Tilburg University and in 2000 he became full professor in work and organizational psychology at that university.
His current research interests cover compensation at work, work motivation, and strategic human resource management. He coauthored and coedited two editions of the Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology. His most recent publications stem from 2002 and 2005.
Juan Antonio Ortiz Valdés, PhD, is a professor and researcher in organizational behavior in the Economic, Business and Finances Department at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. He obtained his MS and PhD degrees at Vanderbilt University. His current academic activities involve organizational change, quality of work life and stress management and their relationship with job satisfaction, organizational commitment, team building, leadership, and organizational culture in Mexican business. Contact information: Juan Antonio Ortiz Valdés, Jardín de los Tulipanes Sur # 36, Frc. Jardín Real, Condominio (6), Zapopan, Jal. CP 45019 Mexico. E-mail: [email protected].
Jürgen Weibler, PhD, is full professor of business administration, leadership, and organization at the University of Hagen (FernUniversität in Hagen), Germany. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Cologne with a specialization in organizational behavior. For many years he was the research director of the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and was professor for management at the University of Constance, Germany. Dr. Weibler has extensive research experience in the areas of leadership, human resource management, and organizational change. He has developed an approach for theorizing leadership at a distance. Dr. Weibler has been co-editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (German Journal of Human Resource Research), and served on the review boards or as an advisory reviewer of the MIR (Management International Review) and the Encyclopedia of Leadership (editorial board) among others. He is the (co-)author of three books and over 80 (inter)national articles or book chapters. Dr. Weibler has broad experiences in teaching and served as a consultant to numerous organizations.
Celeste P. M. Wilderom (1956) is a full professor in management and organizational behavior (University of Twente, the Netherlands). She obtained a PhD from the State University of New York (Buffalo) in 1987. Her main research focus is on effective organizational change, including leadership and culture. She is one of the three editors of the award-winning Handbook of Organizational Culture & Climate (2000 & 2004, Sage). She is publishing in a variety of outlets and serves as an associate editor of the Academy of Management Executive, British Journal of Management, and International Journal of Service Industry Management.
Rongxian Wu is an associate professor of psychology in the Psychology Department of Suzhou University, China. His main research interests include industrial/organizational psychology, Chinese indigenous psychology, and cross-cultural psychology. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School of Business and worked with Professor Robert House between July 1997 and August 1998, and again, between July 2002 and July 2003. He is also a consultant for multiple firms, including Unilever. Contact: Wu Rongxian, Psychology Department, East Campus Box 537, Suzhou University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021, China. E-mail: [email protected].
Rolf Wunderer, PhD, is emeritus professor of business administration, leadership, and HRM at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he served as a full professor of business administration from 1983 to 2001. He was founder and until 2001 director of the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the same university. Prior to that, he was a full professor of business administration, entrepreneurship, and leadership at the University of Essen (Germany) and an appointed lecturer at the German Military University of Munich and at the University of Munich, where he received his doctoral degree in management. He was a visiting professor at the University of California (Los Angeles and Berkeley), Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo), and Ludwigs-Maximilian-Universität München.
Dr. Wunderer is coeditor of the Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (German Journal of Human Resource Research), the Handwörterbuch der Führung (Handbook of Leadership), member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie (Personnel Psychology), and reviewer of numerous journals. He is the author of more than 200 articles and book chapters. He published 43 books as (co-)author or (co-)editor—a lot of them in high editions. Dr. Wunderer has experiences in teaching for 40 years. He served as a consultant to governments and global companies, and was president or board member of various institutions. His main emphasis in research, teaching, and consulting has been personnel management, promoting cointrapreneurs, cooperation between organizational units (lateral cooperation), development of human resources, personnel controlling, and quality management.
Yongkang Yang is a professor of management and director of the Training Department in the School of Business in Fudan University. For the past 25 years, he has been teaching and doing research in the organizational behavior area, and has completed many research projects supported by the Chinese National Science Foundation, Ministry of Education or various business organizations. He has published more than 30 papers in the area.
Jun Ye has a PhD in history from Fudan University. She is currently serving as a commentator for “Daily Economic News” in Shanghai, mostly on economics. She has written over a hundred commentaries, which appeared in various newspapers in Shanghai.