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Christopher M. Hartt is an Associate Professor of Management in the Faculty of Agriculture of Dalhousie University. He has published dozens of articles in journals, as book chapters and conference proceedings concerning the importance of actor-networks in decision-making. He has published three books with a new book due in September 2019, “Connecting values to action” (Emerald). This book displays Chris’ work as well as that of others use of the Non-Corporeal Actant in history and current decisions.

Albert J. Mills is a Professor of Management at Saint Mary’s University (Canada) and an 0.2 Professor of Management Innovation at the University of Eastern Finland. He is the Co-Chair of the International Board for Critical Management Studies and co-editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management (QROM). Albert is the author/editor of 46 books and edited collections, including an anthology of his airline gender histories - Insights and Research on the study of Gender and Intersectionality in International Airline Cultures. Emerald (2017); The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History, Routledge (2015) and the forthcoming Management and Organizational History: A Research Overview (Routledge).

Jean Helms Mills is a Professor of Management at Saint Mary’s University, Professor (0.02) at Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics and International Reader at University of Helsinki, Swedish School of Social Sciences. She is Co-Editor of the journal QROM, an Associate Editor for Gender, Work and Organization and she serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals. Jean’s research interests include Gender, Critical Sensemaking, Historiography, Intersectionality and the Sociology of Knowledge and is currently working on three major projects in Canada in Finland.