Jeffrey Reuer is the Blake Family Endowed Chair in Strategic Management and Governance at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He in an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and was a program chair of the 2009 SMS Conference in Washington, DC. He has also been active in the SMS as a member of the Conference Program Review Committee, chair of the Doctoral Workshop, an organizer of pre-conference sessions for the corporate strategy interest group, and a judge for the SMS Best Conference Paper Prize. His research is in the area of corporate strategy, and his current work examines external corporate development activities and alliance governance. He was the recipient of the 2007 SMS Emerging Scholar Award.

Yan (Anthea) Zhang is Professor of Strategic Management in the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. She has been a highly prolific scholar in the profession with a number of publications appearing in top scholarly journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Intrenational Business Studies, among others. Her research has focused on CEO leadership, with an emphasis on CEO succession and dismissal in major organizations. She has also made contributions to research on foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship in emerging markets, notably China. The influence of her research is also shown by the citations in many top business media outlets such as the Economist, Business Week, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. Currently, she is an associate editor of Academy of Management Journal and a consulting editor of Management and Organization. She is on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal. She is the recipient of the 2010 SMS Emerging Scholar Award.

Jay Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah. He previously served as the Professor of Management and held the Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. His research focuses on the relationship between costly-to-copy firm skills and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Management and senior editor for Organization Science and has been published in numerous leading publications. In addition to his teaching and research, he presents executive training programs throughout the US and Europe. His consulting work focuses on large-scale organizational change and strategic analysis. Jay Barney is an SMS Fellow as well as a fellow of the Academy of Management. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Lund, the Copenhagen Business School, and Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid), and has honorary visiting professor positions in New Zealand and China.

Ming-Jer Chen is the Leslie Grayson Professor at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. A pioneer in competitive dynamics and ambicultural management, he has written two books and published in Academy of Management Review (AMR) and Strategic Management Journal (SMJ), among others. He has received numerous awards including the AMR (1996) and Journal of Management Inquiry (2008) Best Paper Awards. A Fellow and President of the Academy of Management and Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, he has served as AMR’s associate editor and chair of the Academy’s Business Policy and Strategy Division. Before Darden, he was on the faculties of Columbia and Wharton/Penn. He has held honorable or visiting appointments at universities in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has contributed to the East-West dialogue through keynote speeches at forums hosted by the World Economic Forum and HSM, and as a columnist for Harvard Business Review (Chinese).

Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He has authored or co-authored many journal articles published in leading journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, among others. Mike Hitt is a Founding Editor of the SEJ, a former editor of the Academy of Management Journal, and former president of the Academy of Management. His involvement in the SMS runs deep with recently serving as the President of the SMS. He is a member of the SMS Fellows and is the former Deputy Dean of this organization. He has received awards from the American Society of Competitiveness for Outstanding Academic Contributions (1996) and Outstanding Intellectual Contributions (1999) to Competitiveness.

Marshall Meyer was named Tsai Wan-Tsai Professor in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in July 2010, where he is also Professor of Management, Professor of Sociology, Associate Member of the Center for East Asian Studies, and a member of the Executive Committee of the newly formed Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Marshall Meyer has held the Anheuser-Busch and Richard A. Sapp Professorships of Management at Wharton. Marshall Meyer has taught at Harvard University, Cornell University, the Riverside, Irvine, and Los Angeles campuses of the University of California, and Yale University, and was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, and the School of Business and Management at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Marshall Meyer is currently conducting several research projects in the People’s Republic of China.

Jeffrey Reuer is the Blake Family Endowed Chair in Strategic Management and Governance at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He in an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and was a program chair of the 2009 SMS Conference in Washington, DC. He has also been active in the SMS as a member of the Conference Program Review Committee, chair of the Doctoral Workshop, an organizer of pre-conference sessions for the corporate strategy interest group, and a judge for the SMS Best Conference Paper Prize. His research is in the area of corporate strategy, and his current work examines external corporate development activities and alliance governance. He was the recipient of the 2007 SMS Emerging Scholar Award.

Sea-Jin Chang is a Provost’s Chair Professor of Business Administration, National University of Singapore. Sea-Jin Chang received his Ph.D. in management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at Korea University and NYU Stern School. He also had visiting appointments at Stanford, INSEAD, London Business School, and Hitotsubashi University. Sea-Jin Chang is primarily interested in the management of diversified multinational enterprises. His research interests include diversification, corporate restructuring, foreign direct investment, and comparative management studies of Japan, Korea and China. His research has been published in premier academic journals. He sits on the editorial boards of several other leading journals. His recent book, Sony vs. Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics’ Giants Battle for Global Supremacy (Wiley, 2008) was selected as one of the best books for the year by BCG.

Yadong Luo is the Emery M. Findley Distinguished Chair of Graduate Business Studies and Professor of Management at University of Miami. He is also an elected Fellow of Academy of International Business. Yadong Luo has emerged as the world's top research scholar in international management since the mid-90s. He has published over 150 articles in major refereed journals in international business and management, including AMJ, ASQ, AMR, SMJ, JIBS, JAP, Org. Science, among others. He also authored more than a dozen books and about a hundred other publications. His research interests include global corporate strategy, global corporate governance, international joint ventures, and management in emerging economies, among others. Yadong Luo's research record includes seminal pieces on important and timely topics, such as co-opetition in international business, business-government relationships, cross-cultural cooperative strategies, multinational enterprises in emerging markets, and international expansion of emerging market enterprises. He currently is a consulting editor of JIBS, editor of JWB, and senior editor of MOR. He is the recipient of a dozen research and teaching awards at University of Miami and University of Hawaii, where he taught before joining University of Miami.

Marjorie Lyles is OneAmerica Chair in Business Administration and Professor of International Strategic Management at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Marjorie Lyles’ research addresses organizational learning and innovation, international strategies, joint ventures, and alliances, particularly in emerging economies. She has over 100 articles and chapters. Her work has appeared in top academic journals such as SMJ, SEJ, ASQ, JIBS, OSci, AMR, JMS and AMJ. She is a SMS and AIB Fellow. Lyles & Salk (1996) on learning in IJVs won the JIBS Decade Award 2006. She has also received two NSF grants. She has consulted with USIA, World Bank, USAID, UNDP and private firms in Malaysia, Hungary, Vietnam, Poland, China and Indonesia on international strategies, educational projects, and needs assessment for management. Marjorie Lyles has served SMS in many roles: 2009 Program Co-Chair of the Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., Board of Trustees of the Strategic Management Foundation; Consulting Editor for Global Strategy Journal; co-founder and Chair for the Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group, and over twenty years of attending and reviewing for the Annual Conference and the Strategic Management Journal.

Laura Poppo is the Edmund P. Learned Professor in Business at the University of Kansas. She received her PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and has been on the faculty of Washington University and Virginia Tech. Her academic interests include empirical tests of transaction cost economics, knowledge-based perspectives, and social processes. Researched phenomenon has focused on outsourcing, alliances, vertical integration, contracting, trust, the multi-divisional corporation, including the context of doing business in China. Laura Poppo has published primarily in management journals including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science,Journal of International Business Studies, and Administrative Science Quarterly. She is currently on the editorial boards of Strategic Management, Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Trust Research, and is a former Associate Editor of Journal of Management.

Yan (Anthea) Zhang is Professor of Strategic Management in the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. She has been a highly prolific scholar in the profession with a number of publications appearing in top scholarly journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Intrenational Business Studies, among others. Her research has focused on CEO leadership, with an emphasis on CEO succession and dismissal in major organizations. She has also made contributions to research on foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship in emerging markets, notably China. The influence of her research is also shown by the citations in many top business media outlets such as the Economist, Business Week, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. Currently, she is an associate editor of Academy of Management Journal and a consulting editor of Management and Organization. She is on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal. She is the recipient of the 2010 SMS Emerging Scholar Award.

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Anja Tuschke is Professor of Strategic Management at the Munich School of Management at the University of Munich. Prior to joining the Munich School of Management, Anja Tuschke held the position of a director at the Institute of Organization and HR Management at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Anja Tuschke’s research interests revolve around the link between corporate governance and executive leadership. She is particularly interested in how the selection, compensation, and networks of directors affect strategic decisions and outcomes. Her main teaching interests are in the field of Strategic Management. Anja Tuschke is an active member of the academic community. She was a Representative-at-large for the Corporate Strategy and Governance Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society (2008-2011) and serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal and Business and Research.

Margarethe F. Wiersema holds the Dean’s Professorship in Management at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Her research underscores the importance of senior management and especially the CEO in influencing the strategic direction of an organization. She is a member of the SMS Board of Directors and served as the Chair for the SMS Corporate Strategy and Governance Interest Group. In addition, she is on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal and has published in numerous leading publications. In 2005, she co-chaired the 2nd Annual Doctoral Workshop at the SMS conference in Orlando, Florida. Margarethe Wiersema received an MBA in 1977 from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Michigan in 1985.

Xin-chun Li is Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and director of the Chinese Family Firm Research Centre at Sun Yat-sen University, China. He is an advisory board member of the IACMR, and a member of the editorial advisory board for several Chinese Journals. He was Dean of the Sun Yat-sen Business School between 2004~2010. His research has focused on strategic alliance, family business and entrepreneurship. He has published over 60 academic papers in Chinese and in international journals such as the Management and Organization Review and the Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

Yan (Anthea) Zhang is Professor of Strategic Management in the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. She has been a highly prolific scholar in the profession with a number of publications appearing in top scholarly journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Intrenational Business Studies, among others. Her research has focused on CEO leadership, with an emphasis on CEO succession and dismissal in major organizations. She has also made contributions to research on foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship in emerging markets, notably China. The influence of her research is also shown by the citations in many top business media outlets such as the Economist, Business Week, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. Currently, she is an associate editor of Academy of Management Journal and a consulting editor of Management and Organization. She is on the editorial board of Strategic Management Journal. She is the recipient of the 2010 SMS Emerging Scholar Award.

Garry Bruton is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University where he holds Fehmi Zeko Faculty Fellowship. He was one of the founders of the entrepreneurship program at TCU which was recently selected as the top model program for undergraduate entrepreneurhip by USASBE and was ranked as one of the top 20 entrepreneurship programs in the United States by US News & World Report - 2009. Garry Bruton’s research focuses on entrepreneurship in emerging economies and he has published or has forthcoming over 75 academic articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. In 2005 Garry Bruton was the first holder of the Hall Chair in Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies offered by the Fulbright Foundation. He is immediate past president of the Asia Academy of Management and is currently editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives. In addition he serves on the editorial board of five other academic journals. Garry Bruton is currently representative at large for the Entrepreneurship Interest Group of SMS and he served in a similar role for the interest group 2004-2006.

Haiyang Li is Associate Professor of strategic management and innovation at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University. His research interests focus on technology entrepreneurship and innovation (particularly in China’s transition economy), strategic alliances and multinational firms’ innovation in emerging markets, as well as the growth of China's technology clusters. His articles on the above issues have appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Marketing, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Management and Organization Review, Journal of High Technology Management Research, and others. Haiyang Li has served on the editorial review boards of multiple journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of High Technology Management Research, International Journal of Emerging Markets, and Multinational Business Review. He is the Representative-at-large for the America for both the International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR) and Asia Academy of Management (AAOM).

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Shige Makino is Professor of Management and Chairman of the Department of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is an Academy of International Business (AIB) Fellow and has served as a Vice President of AIB (2010-12) and a Program Chair for the AIB conference in Nagoya in 2011. He is also a past president of the Association of Japanese Business Studies. Shige has a remarkable publication record, is widely cited, and was ranked by the International Journal of Business as one of the 20 most prolific academics in international strategic management research. He has won numerous awards for both research and teaching, including the Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar from the AIB in 2002, and focuses on studying foreign firms and their subsidiaries in overseas markets, particularly their performance, mode of market entry, entry timing and the structure of their joint ventures.

Justin Tan is a professor and the Newmont Endowed Chair in Business Strategy in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Canada. He also holds a Distinguished Honorary Professorship in the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, as well as visiting professorship in leading universities in China. From 2005-2006, he was awarded the U.S. Fulbright Distinguished Chair designation, the first of its kind in business/economics under the China program. He has published over 100 papers and 8 Harvard/Ivey business cases. His public services in North America included advising U.S. senators and congressmen, as well as the World Bank and Canadian International Development Agency, on Sino-U.S. diplomatic and trade issues. He has also advised a number of Chinese government agencies and leading multi-national corporations in the U.S., Canada, Japan, India and China. His research interests include strategic management, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility.

George Yip is Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Centre on China Innovation at China Europe International Business School in Shanghai; and also Visiting Professor at Imperial College Business School in London and Fellow of Academy of International Business. He is Co-Executive Editor of Chinese Management Insights. His current research concerns innovation, strategic transformation, and managing global customers. Prior academic positions include Dean of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and professorships at London Business School, Cambridge University and UCLA. Business experience includes VP and Director of Research & Innovation at Capgemini Consulting and product manager at Unilever. His next book will be Strategic Transformation (Palgrave Macmillan 2013); his latest book is Managing Global Customers (Oxford University Press, 2007). Total Global Strategy (Prentice Hall, 1992) was selected as one of the 30 best business books of 1992, has been published in ten languages, and a 3rd edition in 2012.

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Kathy Zhang is Senior Director for Philips Corporate Research, heading strategy and new business development for its Asia labs. Her primary responsibilities are shaping research innovation portfolio based on market insights and technology trends, identifying potential business opportunities, and assisting corporate strategy with local inputs. Kathy started her career in Bell-labs research center in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Lucent Technologies, in which Kathy Zhang held several positions in research and development, marketing, and product management. From 2004 to 2007 Kathy Zhang was leading the Program Management department in Dell China Design Center. Kathy Zhang studied in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, continued her advanced study in University of Akron, Ohio, where she received Master’s degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Later she attended EMBA program of Rutgers University, NJ.