About the Authors

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. in business from Stanford. Dr. Pfeffer has served on the faculties at the University of Illinois, the University of California at Berkeley, and as a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School. He has taught executive seminars in 22 countries throughout the world and was Director of Executive Education at Stanford from 1994 to 1996. He serves on the board of directors of Portola Packaging, Resumix, and SonoSite, as well as on numerous editorial boards of scholarly journals. He is the author of The Human Equation, New Directions for Organization Theory, Competitive Advantage through People, Managing with Power, Organizations and Organization Theory, Power in Organizations, and Organizational Design, and co-author of The External Control of Organizations, as well as more than 100 articles and book chapters.

Robert I. Sutton is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization and Research Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. He received his Ph.D. in organizational psychology from The University of Michigan and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983. Dr. Sutton has also taught at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas Business School and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has given many executive seminars, consulted to numerous corporations, and currently directs the Management of Innovation executive program for the Stanford Alumni Association. He has received honors including the award for the best paper published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the McCullough Faculty Scholar Chair from the Stanford Engineering School. He has served as an editor and editorial board member of numerous scholarly publications and currently serves as Co-Editor of Research in Organizational Behavior. He has published more than 60 articles and chapters in scholarly and applied publications.