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He is Professor for "Leadership and Labour Relations" at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg and Research Professor a the German Institut of Economic Research/Socio Economic Panel (DIW/Soep) Berlin. His research interests include national and international patterns of employment, management and innovation, organizational theory and research methods.

She is a senior researcher at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg. An economist by training, her research interest lies in the overlap of economics, philosophy, philosophy of education and sociology. Currently she is conducting a research project on the conception of justice and sustainability on the basis of the Capability Approach.

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He is a senior researcher with the Soziologische Forschungsinstitut (SOFI) at Goettingen University (www.sofi.de), Peter Bartelheimer is responsible for research projects on poverty and social exclusion, labour market policies and social reporting. He is coordinator of the German Socio-Economic reporting network (www.soeb.de) and part of the SOFI team in the EU Integrated Project CAPRIGHT (Capabilities and Social Rights in Europe).

She is assistant professor of management at the University of Rhode Island. Her research addresses the development of organizations and interorganizational arrangements involving multiple goals, e.g. profit and service, or learning and serving. Silvia received her B.A. degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, her M.A. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. from McGill University. She has published in Academy of Management Journal, Nonforprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Journal of Development Entrepreneurship, Organization Studies, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Public Administration and Development, and International Review of Administrative Science.

He is the TELUS Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Dean (Research) at the University of Alberta, and a Visiting Professor at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He received his PhD from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. His research interests include the management of organizational design and change, usually from the perspective of institutional theory, and his favoured empirical settings involve professional service firms. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management. He is the current Chair-Designate of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management.

He is Chair of the Management and Organization Department, at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Professor Hirsch was among the first to note changes in the organization of employment (in the 1980's) when he wrote that employers no longer reward loyalty, and predicted managers would soon act like "free agents" not bound by contracts. The changes in employment relationships, to temporary work contracts and fewer benefits for employees are consistent with this prediction. Hirsch is currently monitoring how employment relationships are changing in newly capitalist settings, in Eastern Europe and China.

He is Assistant Professor of Organization Theory and Human Resource Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. His research interests lie in the area of human agency and leadership in processes of institutional change and Organizational Development, with a specific interest in the evolving organization of work and management of employment. Recent projects focus on management & organization of flexible employment and the role of the HR Department in processes of Organizational change. He has published in journals such as Leadership Quarterly, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Personnel Review and Human Relations.

He is "directeur de recherches émérite" in the French CNRS (Centre national de la Recherche scientifique) and member of the CES (Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, University of Paris-1 France). He is director of Socio Économie du Travail (Économies et Sociétés) and coordinator of REI-net, an electronic information list in the field of Industrial Relations. His last research programs have focused on working time and on non standard employment. He recently co-edited and co-authored a book on Temporary Work Agencies, "L'intérim dans tous ses états" (L'Harmattan, Paris, 2010).

He is is Professor of Socio-Economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He studied economics and political science at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he also received his Ph.D. in economics, followed by a habilitation at the University of Erfurt. Subsequently, he held professorships at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany as well as Grenoble Ecole de Management in France. International research affiliations include the University of California at Berkeley and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. Prof. Ebner's main research interests in the fields of economic soiology and political economy address the matter of innovation, governance and public policy. His scientific contributions include numerous articles in international social science journals and edited volumes. His most recent monograph "Embedded Entrepreneurship" is forthcoming with Routlegde Publishers in 2011.

He is a Research Associate at the Chair in Socio-Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne during the academic year 2009/2010. His research interests include social inequality, comparative welfare state research, and economic sociology. Currently, he is pursuing two lines of research: (a) the popular legitimacy of inequality, and (b) the emergence of welfare markets and their implications for stratification in different welfare regimes.

He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Management at King's College, University of London. His research focuses on technology management and the political economy of development in Asia. He has previously taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the School of International Service at American University.

He is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and serves as executive director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP), a university consortium which administers an advanced Chinese language program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was founding director of the Berkeley China Initiative, and chair of Berkeley's Center for Chinese Studies. His research focuses on many aspects of the societies of East Asia, particularly mainland China and Taiwan. His publications on mainland China have covered numerous topics, including youth, popular culture, personal relations, civil society, and private business.

He is the director of the CEFC (Hong Kong and Taipei Branch) as well as the director of publication of China Perspectives and Perspectives chinoises since 2006. He is a senior researcher at the China Centre (EHESS), Paris. His research topics include economic reform in China, reform of state-owned enterprises in China, the impact of globalisation on Chinese and Indian Firms, the multinationalisation of Chinese firms, sustainable development in China, and corporate social responsibility in China

He is the Director of the Center for China Studies at the National Chengchi University, Taiwan, and a Chair Professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University. He has published broadly on a variety of topics, including innovation and technology in Taiwan, South Korea and China, as well as globalization and financial capitalism in East Asia.

He is a political economist studying the interests, institutions, and ideas underlying formations of capitalism and a fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA. At present, his research focuses on contemporary varieties of capitalism, in particular the nature and logic of China's capitalist transition. He is also working on a book project that studies the implications of China's capitalist renaissance on the global order.

She is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Her research interests include organizational and institutional innovation, networks and innovation, local innovation clusters, multinationals and globalization, comparative capitalism. Her current research focus is on German firms in China.

He teaches at the University of Frankfurt and is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. He has published on issues of Comparative and International Political Economy. He has authored, among other publications, the monograph Geopolitik. Geschichte und Gegenwart kapitalistischer Staatenkonkurrenz, and edited the previously unpublished Adorno lecture Philosophische Elemente einer Theorie der Gesellschaft. His current research focuses on the political economy of China.

She is Professor Emeritus of Economic Sociology in the Department of Sociology of the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St. John's College. Christel was president of SASE in 2006 and has sat on its Executive Council since 2003. Her current research focuses on the high-end restaurant industry in Britain and Germany, viewed as a cultural industry. It explores chef patrons' cultural and economic values and practices and any tensions between them, also seeking to explain any divergences between the two national restaurant sectors from a Varieties of Capitalism perspective.

She is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Management, Birkbeck College, University of London. She has developed and taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Strategic Management, Management of Innovation, Research Methods and the Creative Industries. She is broadly concerned with strategic innovation and the adaptation and evolution of firms in highly uncertain environments, and is currently working on a specialist textbook, Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries to be published by Oxford University Press next year.

He is associate professor of economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). He is a specialist of the Japanese economy, with a particular focus on diversity of capitalism, inequalities, innovation, and determinants of firms' performance.

She is professor for Japanese Economy and Academic Director of Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and is affiliated to the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies(IZO). Her research focuses on the innovation in distinct political economical regimes, comparative institutional analysis, institutional change, (non-)compliance and and industry emergence with specific attention to Asian regimes. Recent papers have been published in Research Policy.

He is associate professor at the School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a founding editor of Regulation & Governance, a Willey-Blackwell's journal, that aims to serve as a leading platform for the study of regulation and governance in the social sciences. He held research and teaching positions at the University of Haifa, the University of Oxford, the Australian National University and the University of Manchester.

He is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde. Widely known for his writings on propaganda, spin and lobbying, as well as his expertise on 'terrorism', conflict in Ireland and Iraq, global power-politics and the Scottish political scene, he is often called upon by the broadcast media as a commentator on media issues and regularly writes for popular media outlets. His current research interests include propaganda and the 'war on terror', corporate communications, corporate power, lobbying, the strategic use of science, corporate influences on academic work, spin and the decline of democratic governance.

He is a senior fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin department 'Internationalization and Organization'. He holds a Ph.D. from Philipps-University Marburg and has conducted research in the fields of International Political Economy, regional integration in North America and Western Europe, and the history and globalization of Neoliberalism. His current research focus is on the rise of European and global think tank networks and the politics of expertise. Among his publications in English language are The Road from Mont Pèlerin (2009) (co-edited with Phil Mirowski) and Neoliberal Hegemony: A Global Critique (2006) (co-edited with Bernhard Walpen and Gisela Neunhöffer).

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea is a University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America and a Fellow at St Antony's College. His research concentrates on state-society relations, income distribution and industrial upgrading in small Latin American countries. He is currently working on a book that analyses the opportunities and constraints for the creation of a more equal development model in Central America in the current global era.

He teaches sociology at the University at Albany, United States. His research focuses on the international institutions and organizations of economic cooperation and their effect on the economic policies of national states. He is particularly interested in understanding the kinds of organizational rules, institutional configurations and structural forces that give international investors and other financial interests the capacity to shape the development process.