Authors’ profiles

Pervaiz K. Ahmed currently holds the Chair in Management, at the University of Wolverhampton. Professor Ahmed is based at the University Business School, where he is the Head of the Centre for Enterprise Excellence and Director of the Japanese Management Research Unit. He has published widely in academic and practioner journals. Previously, he was associated with Unilever, working with Birds Eye Walls, Van den Berg Foods, Lever Europe and Elida Faberge. He is actively engaged as an adviser to companies and institutes across Europe and Far East Asia. He is a regular speaker at international venues in the field of Quality, Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Lim Kwang Kok is a graduate with an MBA from the University of Bradford Management Centre. Kwang Kok started his career with Matsushita Electronic Components, Malaysia. There he worked as a Purchasing Engineer transferring manufacturing best practices to suppliers through structured developmental programmes. He then went to the UK to research the field of Knowledge Management. He now works with the PSB Corporation, Singapore, as an Information Manager, implementing key knowledge management initiatives within the organization.

Ann Y. E. Loh holds an MBA from the University of Bradford Management Centre. Originally from a Life Sciences background, her career has spanned advertising to management research. She is currently based in Singapore as Marketing Communications Manager at the PSB Corporation.