Edited by Wendy K. Smith, Associate Professor of Management, the Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, Marianne W. Lewis, Dean and Professor of Management, Cass Business School City, University of London, Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor of Strategic Management, Cass Business School, City University London, and Ann Langley, Professor of Management, HEC Montréal, Canada

Wendy K. Smith is Associate Professor of Management in the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware, and Research Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation. Her research explores how leaders and their organizations manage strategic paradoxes. She has published articles on strategic paradoxes in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Harvard Business Review, and is cofounding a blog on paradox www.leveragingtensions.com. Her missions is to help create a better world through 'and' thinking.

Marianne W. Lewis is Dean of the Cass Business School, City University of London Her research explores leadership paradoxes in managing tensions, conflicts, and contradictions. Her paper, "Exploring Paradox: Toward a More Comprehensive Guide" received the Academy of Management Review Best Paper Award in 2000. Her work also appears in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, the Journal of Operations Management, and Harvard Business Review. As a dean, she consistently applies her theories and theorize the applications.

Paula Jarzabkowski is a Professor of Strategic Management at Cass Business School, City University London. Her research focuses on strategy-as-practice in complex contexts, such as regulated firms, third sector organizations and financial services, particularly insurance and reinsurance. Her work has appeared in a number of leading journals including Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies. Her most recent book, Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk-Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.

Ann Langley is Professor of Management at HEC Montréal, Canada and holder of the Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings. Her research focuses on strategic change, inter-professional collaboration and the practice of strategy in complex organizations. In 2013, she was co-guest editor with Clive Smallman, Haridimos Tsoukas, and Andrew Van de Ven of a Special Research Forum of Academy of Management Journal on Process Studies of Change in Organizations and Management. She is also coeditor of the journal Strategic Organization, and co-editor with Haridimos Tsoukas of a book series Perspectives on Process Organization Studies published with Oxford University Press. She is Adjunct Professor at Université de Montréal, and University of Gothenburg.

Ajit Nayak, University of Exeter
Alexander Zimmermann, University of St. Gallen
Andre Spicer, City University, London
Ann Langley, HEC Montreal
Anne Kegan, University of Amsterdam
Barry Johnson, Polarity Partnerships
Ben Golant, University of Edinburgh
Bob Quinn, University of Michigan
Christiane Demers, HEC Montreal
Cliff Kayser, Polarity Partnerships
Costas Andriopoulos, City University-London
Doug Creed, University of Rhode Island
Eliana Crosina, Boston College
Ella Miron-Spektor, Technion
Eric Knight, University of Sydney
Erica Wen Chen, Nanyang Technological
Gabriel Grant, Yale University
Gail Fairhurst, University of Cincinnati
Garima Sharma, University of Western Ontario
Glen Kreiner, Pennsylvania State
Hari Tsoukas, University of Strathclyde
Ina Aust, University of Louvaine
Jane Le, University of Sydney
Jason Jay, MIT
Jean Bartunek, Boston College
Jean-Louis Denis, Université de Montréal
Jean-Pascal Gond, City University London
John Sillince, Newcastle University
Jonathan Schad, University of Geneva
Josh Keller, Nanyang Technological
Julia Brandl, University of Innsbruck
Julie-Maude Normandin, ENAP
Karen L. Ashcraft, University of Colorado
Kim Cameron, University of Michigan
Koen van Bommel, VU Uniuversity
Linda L. Putnam, UC Santa Barbara
Manto Gotsi, Westminster Business School
Marcia Lensges, Xavier University
Margaret Seidler,Polarity Partnerships
Maria Bengtsson, Umeå School of Business and Economics
Marianne Lewis, Cass Business School
Marie-Christine Therrien, ENAP
Mariline Comeau-Vallée, École nationale d'administration publique
Marya Besharov, Cornell
Matthew Sheep, Illinois State
Michael Jarrett, INSEAD
Miguel Pinha de Cuhna, Nova School of Business and Economics
Mike Zundel, Liverpool
Miriam Erez, Technion
Mrudula Nujella, University of Michigan
Natalie Slawinski, Memorial University
Paul Tracey, Cambridge University
Paula Jarzabkowski, Cass Business School
Rebecca Bednarek, University of London
Richard Badham, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
Robert Chia, University of Glasgow
Robin Holt, Copenhagen Business School
Sara Soderstrom, University of Michigan
Sebastian Raisch, Geneva
Sotirios Paroutis, University of Warwick
Stewart Clegg, University of Technology Sydney
Tatbeeq Raza-Ullah, Umeå School of Business and Economics
Tima Bansal, University of Western Ontario
Valerie Michaud, Université du Québec à Montréal
Wendy Smith, University of Delaware
Russ Vince, University of Bath