About the Authors

Christina L. Ahmadjian is Professor at Hitotsubashi University’s Graduate School of Commerce and Management. Her research focuses on corporate governance in Japanese and Asian firms. This research is grounded in institutional theory, and much of it focuses on how institutional logics affect firm behavior, ranging from the adoption of new practices, to breakage of long-standing relational ties, to creation of identity in new industries. Much of this research examines the effects of the clash between institutional logics of Anglo-American and Japanese capitalism. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Juan Almandoz is Assistant Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. His dissertation focused on the strategic and entrepreneurial implications of community and financial missions in the founding teams of local banks. His research focuses on organizational theory, top management teams, and the governance of organizations with economic and social missions.

Christine M. Beckman is Professor of Management and Organizations at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Her research has focused on organizational learning, interorganizational networks, and entrepreneurship, particularly on how collaborative relationships facilitate organizational change. Recent work examines how new forms of organizational control operate in a technology-enabled world where boundaries between the personal and the professional are blurred. Her research sites are varied and include F500 companies, Silicon Valley start-ups, mutual funds, the U.S. Navy, German football teams, American baseball teams, and urban charter schools. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and was previously on the faculty at UC Irvine.

Anne H. Bowers is Associate Professor of Strategy at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She researches how classification shapes market outcomes, particularly the impact of rating systems, market categories, and social beliefs on organizational performance. She also studies market intermediaries and how their nonmarket strategies affect the level of information available to the market at large.

Jessica Burshell is Doctoral Candidate at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Jessica’s research interests are focused on understanding how organizations that bring novel products to the market try to balance the tensions between being distinctive from other products while also being understood and valued by other actors in the market.

Gina Dokko holds a Ph.D. in Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. of Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon GSIA, and a B.S. of Economics also from the Wharton School. Her research focuses on the consequences of job mobility and careers for individuals and organizations, including its effects on innovation, learning, performance, and social capital. Her research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and the Academy of Management Journal. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis.

Jesper Edman is Assistant Professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics. His primary interest lies in how Japanese firms and markets are responding to pressures for globalization. His most recent work has specifically examined the relationship between organizational identity and strategy in the context of multinational enterprise in Japan.

Mi Feng is Assistant Professor at Peking University, Guanghua School of Management. His research interests include entrepreneurship, emerging technology and industry, organizational ecology, and competitive strategy. He received his Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Henrich R. Greve is Professor of Entrepreneurship, the John H. Loudon Chaired Professor of International Management, and the Academic Director of the Rudolf and Valeria Maag INSEAD Center of Entrepreneurship. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has examined alliance establishment and dissolution and the diffusion of adoption and abandonment of organizational strategies and technologies. His current research is on organization-community relations, organizational performance and aspiration levels, and organizational adaptation to institutional environments.

Harsh K. Jha is Assistant Professor of Management at the Newcastle University Business School, UK and Ph.D. candidate in Organization & Management at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. His research interests include large field changes, socio-politics of market construction, and issue framing. He is especially interested in exploring political and discursive strategies adopted by actors during field changes, using archival work, content analysis, and interviews. His current research is focused on settings in professional services (law), education and sustainability fields.

Matthew Lee is Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, based in Singapore. His research focuses on how organizations and entrepreneurs respond to pressures to address social welfare and environmental sustainability. His current projects relate to hybrid organizations and entrepreneurship, particularly in the settings of social enterprise and corporate sustainability. He received a Doctorate in Management from Harvard Business School.

Christopher Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. His current research is focused on how business can have a positive impact on society and in particular how historical and geographical processes have shaped firms’ and entrepreneurs’ social and environmental strategies and activities. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology and Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

Will Mitchell is Professor of Strategic Management in the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and Commercialization. Will studies business dynamics in developed and emerging markets, investigating how businesses change as their competitive environments change and, in turn, how the business changes contribute to ongoing corporate and social performance. Will is coauthor of “Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma” (with Professor Laurence Capron of INSEAD). He teaches courses in business dynamics, emerging market strategy, corporate strategy, health sector management, entrepreneurship, and pharmaceutical strategy. Will is a faculty associate at Rotman’s Center for Health Sector Strategy. Will is a consulting editor for the Strategic Management Journal and a board member of Neuland Laboratories, Ltd. (Hyderabad).

Hitoshi Mitsuhashi is Professor of Organization and Management Theory at Keio University, Faculty of Business and Commerce. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. His primary research interests concern socio-cognitive factors that limit organizational value creation, with particular interest in social networks, organizational learning, and competitive interactions.

Roy A. Nyberg earned his Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil.) at the University of Oxford. His research interest is mainly in technology-related institutional change, organizational fields, and the “early moments” of change processes. In his doctoral research, he investigated the emergence of “mobile health,” that is how mobile technology is being brought into health care. His latest work has focused on the development of the “smart city” in Japan, while being a Canon Foundation Fellow at the University of Tokyo and a Research Associate of the Institute of Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford. Currently he is Faculty Affiliate at Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

Israr Qureshi is Professor at IE Business School, Madrid. He is currently involved in various projects that investigate social innovation and social entrepreneurship in China, India, and the Philippines. His research examines the role of ICT in social inclusion; social entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid; and the comparative study of the social enterprise sector in Asia. His research has been published in outlets including Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organization Behavior, MIS Quarterly, Organizational Research Methods, and Organization Studies. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey School of Business.

Suhaib Riaz is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is a member of the Organizations and Social Change research group. His current research interests include contestations around long-term and multiple-stakeholder orientation in organizations, alternative organizing under conditions of institutional complexity and constraints, and particularly investigating these aspects in contexts of financialization, debt, and socioeconomic inequality. His research has been published in Human Relations, Journal of World Business, Organization, Critical Perspectives on International Business, and The Leadership Quarterly. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey School of Business.

Marc-David L. Seidel is Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources at the Sauder School of Business and Director of the W. Maurice Young Centre for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research (University of British Columbia). His research focuses on innovation, emergence of organizational structures, and early life factors in workplace outcomes. Current research also examines the emergence of discriminatory network structures, persistence of caste network segregation in India, and the impact of entrepreneurship on family. He received his Ph.D. (Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations) from the University of California at Berkeley.

Sorah Seong is Doctoral Candidate in Management at INSEAD. Her research lies at the nexus of organizational theory, entrepreneurship, and strategy, with particular emphasis on market emergence, entrepreneurial dynamics, collective meaning formation, and cultural strategies. She received her B.A. from Harvard College in Sociology with a secondary field in Visual and Environmental Studies, and her M.Sc. in Theory and History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Jesper B. Sørensen is Jeffe Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business, and (by courtesy) in the Department of Sociology, at Stanford University. He also directs the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies. His research interests are in labor market processes, entrepreneurship and organizational dynamics. Sørensen has most recently published a number of papers on the ways in which work environments shape the decision to become an entrepreneur. He is currently interested in how investors and consumers make sense of new products or ventures that leverage radically new innovations, and the strategic implications of these processes. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University.

Daniel Stewart is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at Gonzaga University. Dan received his Ph.D. (Organizational Behavior) and M.A. (Sociology) from Stanford University. His research has been published in American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal (the premier journal in Native American studies). Much of his recent academic work has been focused on Native American culture and entrepreneurship. In addition to his academic activities, Dan is president and owner of Dardan Enterprises, a commercial construction firm, and serves as a board member for various commercial and non-profit organizations.

Bilian Ni Sullivan is Associate Professor and the Academic Director of CEMS-MIMT at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Bilian received her Ph.D. (Organizational Behavior) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her research has been published in outlets including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Strategic Organization. Her recent academic work has been focused on firm innovation, especially firm innovation in the Chinese context.

Geraldine A. Wu holds a Ph.D. in Management from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics, B.S. in Computer Science, and M.A. in International Policy Studies from Stanford University. Her research interests include technology entrepreneurship, the effects of venture financing, and job mobility. Her work has been published in Organization Science and Management Science. She teaches entrepreneurship and strategy at New York University Stern School of Business and Yale School of Management.

Masaru Yarime is Project Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Innovation Governance (STIG) at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo. He also has appointments as Honorary Reader in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) of University College London and as Visiting Scholar of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute. His research interests focus on public policy, corporate strategy, and institutional design for science, technology, and innovation for sustainability. He is particularly interested in exploring the structure, functions, and evolution of knowledge systems involving various stakeholders in society. He received B.Eng. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tokyo and the California Institute of Technology, respectively, and Ph.D. in Economics and Policy Studies of Technological Change from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Previously he worked as Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy.