About the Authors

Liselore Berghman (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Strategy at University of Antwerp/Antwerp Management School.

Ekaterina S. Bjornali is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management (IØT). Her research interests include the role of the board of directors and top management teams in the growth of high-tech start-ups, including clean-tech enterprises, academic spin-offs and venture capital backed firms. Her work appears in Journal of Business Venturing, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Journal of Technology Transfer as well as in the international handbooks of entrepreneurship and corporate governance.

Gregory Bott completed his Ph.D. in the School of Management at Royal Holloway. He holds a BComm and a MSc in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Alberta. Dr Bott has held lecturing positions at the University of Alberta on topics including strategic positioning, economic theory, value chain development, and small business management in both private and nonprofit sectors, and has taught human resources at Royal Holloway. His current research interests are in nonprofit board governance and numerous facets of leadership.

Eduardo Chia is a Research Director at INRA (French National research institute for agriculture), UMR Innovation, where he conducts research of governance mechanisms, the role of instruments and governance apparatus, and learning. He has a strong experience in studying agriculture in Europe, Africa, and Latin-America, where he worked on rural development.

Anna De Toni, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor of Corporate Tax Planning and Visiting Lecturer of Corporate Governance & Compliance at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She is a Certified Public Accountant and Auditor. She is actively involved in continuous professional education of certified public accountants and runs tax planning and corporate advisory services in a professional service firm in Milan. Her research interests are corporate governance, accounting and tax planning, management of professional service firms.

Lode De Waele is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), Faculty of Applied Economics. Before starting his Ph.D. in 2013, he worked several years in various public organizations, such as the United Nations (Geneva), the municipality of Wommelgem and the city of Antwerp. Hereafter, he was also employed as a senior consultant at Deloitte and was specialized in the public sector. His research primarily focuses on hybridization process within public organizations, underlying contingencies of hybridization processes and the performance-effects of hybrid organizations.

Andreas Ellingsen, MSc, is a Senior Consultant at Arkwright Group, Oslo, Norway. While being a MSc student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) his research interests included the development of clean-tech enterprises and clean-tech policies.

Enrico Guarini, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Management at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He also holds an ancillary position as Professor of Public Management & Policy at SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is Co-Chair of the Special Interest Group on Local Governance at the International Research Society for Public Management. His research interests include public financial management, fiscal transparency and accountability, public management, local government and governance.

Linda Höglund (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor at Örebro University School of Business and part of AES (the Academy of Management and Control in Central Government) at Stockholm Business School. In 2013 she wrote a dissertation on the subject of strategic entrepreneurship as the process of organizing renewal in established firms. After her dissertation she has mainly been doing research on non-profit and public organizations and their work with strategic and entrepreneurial processes, but also governance issues of board work.

Mikael Holmgren Caicedo (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University and part of AES (the Academy of Management and Control in Central Government) at Stockholm Business School. Mikael has a published a number of articles and books within the field of management accounting and control and is a project leader of several research projects.

Rainhart Lang, born in 1953, studied Economics and Business Administration at the University of Leipzig. After his Ph.D. in Labor economics, and a habilitation in Management and Organisation studies at the same university, he became Professor in Organisation Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Chemnitz University of Technology. His research interests include cultural change and transformation, organization theory, as well as international and intercultural leadership research. He has published his research results in several books, and book or journal publications in German and English.

Maria Mårtensson (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University and the scientific leader of AES (the Academy of Management and Control in Central Government) at Stockholm Business School. Maria has a published a number of articles and books within the field of management accounting and control and is a project leader of several research projects.

Paul Matthyssens (Ph.D.) is Dean of the Antwerp Management School.

Birutė Mikulskienė is a Professor at the Institute of Management, Faculty of Politics and Management in Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius). Before joining University, she gained administrative experience as research administrator in an agency responsible for EU framework programmes and later worked as head of the Science policy division in the Ministry of Education and Science. Public administrative experience determined research interests. As a researcher, she looks at the role of collectiveness in decision making for policies, citizen empowerment and interest representation within stakeholder networks with the focus on the higher education, health and business sectors.

Theo J. B. M. Postma holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (on strategy in hospitals) from the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen; he was Associate Professor in strategy till 2011 (early retirement) and is currently affiliated to the University of Groningen as freelance researcher. His research concerns boards, strategy, innovation, and technology assessment in health care; he is member of the editorial board of the Dutch journal Goed Bestuur en Toezicht and the Journal of East European Management Studies.

Patricio Rojas is an Assistant Professor of Management Control and Enterprise Risk Management at ESE Business School, University of the Andes, and received a Ph.D. on Strategic Management and Management Control at IESE Business School, University of Navarra. Prior to joining the academia he worked as a senior manager for several years. His areas of research include Strategy Implementation and Management Control Systems, Performance Measurement and Organizational Learning, Organizational Design and Incentive Systems, Enterprise Risk Management, and Public Management.

Irma Rybnikova, graduated in Psychology at Vilnius University, Lithuania, received her Ph.D. in business and administration at Dresden University of Technology, Germany, and is currently preparing her habilitation on solidarity, resistance and participation in organizations. Her main research interests include organization and leadership theories. Her research has been published as textbooks, books, books chapters or journal articles in German, English and Lithuanian.

Diana Šaparnienė, Šiauliai University, Lithuania, Ph.D. is a professor in the Public Administration Department. She received a Ph.D. in Social Science from Siauliai University in 2002. Her main research interests are in the field of Good governance at local self-government as well as questions in e-governance and e-democracy. For nine years, she worked as a senior researcher in the Social Research center. Diana Šaparnienė has been involved in research projects focused on governance and leadership in higher education and local self-government fields. Since 2007, she has been working in the Group of Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government of the Council of Europe.

Rita Toleikienė is a Ph.D. student at Šiauliai University, Lithuania. Her main research interests include public service ethics and business communication. Her research studies have been published as books and journal articles in English and Lithuanian.

Cinzia Vallone, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor of Global Accounting and Research Fellow of Business Administration and Management at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She holds a position as Cabinet Member with responsibility for Accounting, Planning and Finance in a Municipality. Her research interests include corporate governance, accounting and accountability, family business, and tourism management.

Kaspar van den Ham, LL.M, MPM is Director of the Charter Group for Public Accountability. The group promotes good governance principles for public service providers. The group funds research on governance, provides academics access to its members and monitors governance achievements of its members through its governance code and stakeholder centred charter. Members of the group consist of 12 national Dutch public service providers.

Hans van Ees is a Professor in Corporate Governance and Institutions at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen and founding Dean of the University College Groningen. His research concerns comparative corporate governance, business Groups, boards of directors and sustainable corporate governance. He is associate editor at the journal Corporate Governance: An International Review. Hans van Ees is active as contract researcher and consultant in the fields of corporate governance and industrial democracy.

Kees Verschoor is an Independent Consultant specialised in strategy and transition of organizations through stakeholder relationship management.

Chloé Vitry has a Ph.D. in Management, recently graduated from Montpellier SupAgro. Her thesis focused on the learning processes in governance mechanisms in periurban territories, in France and Morocco, with a strong focus on a critical approach to managerial instruments. She is currently working as a Research Assistant at the University of Loughborough, School of Business and Economics, on an ESRC funded project studying the diffusion of technical innovations in the house-building industry.