Steve Cropper is Professor in Management at the Centre for Health Planning and Management and first Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Management at Keele University, UK. His research concerns strategy making, decision support and inter-agency collaborative working in health and public services, working closely with policy makers and practitioners. He is inaugural chair of an advisory committee for the National Health Service's 'Research for Patient Benefit' programme. Current research projects are tracing the formation and development, over time, of partnerships and networks in community and health care settings using ethnographic, process evaluation and action research. He is co-editor of three other books and author of a series of papers on collaborative inter-organizational processes. He is a steering group member and former convenor of the Special Interest Group on Inter-Organizational Relations of the British Academy of Management. Mark Ebers is Professor of Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization, at Cologne University, Germany, since 2004. He has been International Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM, UK) in 2006, visiting professor at Tilburg University (2004), Harvard Business School (2002), Harvard University (1997), and Bocconi University (1996). In 1989/90 he was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University. He has edited The Formation of Inter-Organizational Networks (OUP, 1997), co-edited a Special Issues of International Studies of Management & Organization on industry networks (vol. 27, no. 4, 1997-98), and has published a number of articles on inter-organizational relations. He is co-founder and co-organizer of the EGOS Standing Working Group on Business Networks, and has convened sub-themes on inter-organizational relations at five EGOS colloquia. Chris Huxham is a Senior Fellow of the ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research, Professor of Management at the University of Strathclyde Business School and Chair of the British Academy of Management. She has been researching in this area for more than 17 years and has a large number of publications in the area. She has three times received awards from the Academy of Management for articles based on this work. This work is brought together in her book, Managing to Collaborate: the Theory and Practice of Collaborative Advantage (Routledge, 2005). She is editor of Creating Collaborative Advantage (Sage, 1996), which brought together contributions from authors in the United States and Europe. She was Founding Convenor of the British Academy of Management's Special Interest Group on Inter-Organizational Relations and co-founder of the annual International Conference on Multi-organizational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks (MOPAN), now in its fourteenth year. Peter Smith Ring has been a faculty member at Loyola Marymount University since 1990, and Professor of Strategic Management since 1994. Previously, he was an Associate Professor on the faculty at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Professor Ring has been engaged in the study of cooperative inter-organizational relationships since 1984. His research focuses on networks and strategic alliances, the processes for managing strategic alliances, the role of trust in inter-organizational relationships, and public sector-private sector collaboration. The results of this research have been published in a number of leading journals as well as in a number of chapters in research monographs. Professor Ring has been a Fulbright Scholar at Nanyang Business School, Republic of Singapore and a visiting research scholar and/or visiting professor at a wide range of leading international universities.

Reinhard Bachmann, Reader (Associate Professor) in Management, University of London, Birkbeck College,
Cynthia M. Beath, Professor Emerita of Information Systems, University of Texas at Austin,
Nic Beech, Professor of Management, St Andrews University, Scotland,
Xinxiang Chen, Ph.D. Candidate of Sociology, University of Minnesota,
Steve Cropper, Professor of Management, Centre for Health Planning and Management, and Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Management at Keele,
Tina Dacin, E. Marie Shantz Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behaviour, Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Canada,
Mark Ebers, Professor of Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization, Cologne University, Germany,
Nils Olaya Fonstad, research scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research,
Fabio Fonti, Assistant Professor, Organization Studies Department, Boston College,
Mike Geddes, Professorial Fellow, Local Government Centre, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick,
Barbara Gray, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Director, Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation, The Pennsylvania State University,
Cynthia Hardy, Professor of Management, and co-director of the International Centre for Research on Organizational Discourse, Strategy & Change, University of Melbourne, Australia,
Christine Harland, Co-Director, research partnership with the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency, and co-founder of the International Research Study on Public Procurement,
Jean-François Hennart, Professor of International Management, and Director of Graduate Studies in Business, Tilburg University,
Paul Hibbert, Lecturer in Management, University of Strathclyde,
Pamsy P. Hui, assistant professor of Strategic Management, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Chris Huxham, Professor of Management, University of Strathclyde Business School, and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research, Thomas Johnsen, Lecturer in Purchasing and Supply Management, University of Bath School of Management,
Candace Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Organization Studies, Boston College,
Thomas E. Johnsen,
Robyn Keast, Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Queensland University of Technology,
Patrick Kenis, Professor at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Head of the Department of Organisation Studies, Tilburg University, the Netherlands,
Erik-Hans Klijn, professor, Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and visiting professor, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham,
David Knoke, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota,
Richard Lamming, Professor and Director, University of Southampton School of Management,
Mark Lazerson, visiting professor, Department of Management
Sciences, University of Bologna, and Faculty of Management and
Economics, Catholic University of Oporto, Portugal,
Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship, University of Massachusetts, Boston,
Alessandro Lomi, Professor of Economics and Management, Faculty of Economics, University of Lugano (CH), and Professor of Organization Theory and Behavior, Department of Management Sciences, University of Bologna (Italy), and Senior Research Fellow, School of Behavioral Science, University of Melbourne (Australia),
Gianni Lorenzoni, Professor of Strategic Management, Bologna University,
Thomas E. Johnsen,
Nuzhat Lotia, Manager, Islamic Women's Welfare Council of Victoria Inc.,
Myrna P. Mandell, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Northridge, and an Adjunct Faculty, School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia,
H. Brinton Milward, Providence Service Corporation Chair in Public Management, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona,
Janine Nahapiet, Associate Fellow of Templeton College, University of Oxford,
Giacomo Negro, Senior Lecturer of Strategy, Durham Business School, Durham University (UK),
Bart Nooteboom, Professor of Innovation Policy, Tilburg University,
Leon Oerlemans, Professor of Organisational Dynamics, Department of Organisation Studies, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Extraordinary Professor, Economics of Innovation, Department of Engineering and Technology Management, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and research fellow, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies,
Ian Palmer, Associate Dean, (Research) and Professor of Management, University of Technology, Sydney,
Keith G. Provan, McClelland Professor, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona,
Douglas Reid, Assistant Professor, Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada,
Jodi Sandfort, Associate Professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota,
Peter Smith Ring, Professor of Strategic Management, College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University, and International Visiting Fellow, ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research,
Sandra Schruijer, Professor of Organization Sciences, Utrecht School of Governance, University of Utrecht, and Professor of Organizational Psychology, TiasNimbas Business School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands,
Jörg Sydow, Professor of Management, Free University of Berlin,
Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Professor of Economic Geography, National University of Singapore,
Akbar (Aks) Zaheer, Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Strategic Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.