R. Duane Ireland holds the Foreman R. and Ruby S. Bennett Chair in Business Administration in the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. Previously, he has served on the faculties at University of Richmond, Baylor University, and Oklahoma State University. His research interests include strategic alliances, the effective management of organizational resources, corporate entrepreneurship, and strategic entrepreneurship. His work has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management, Human Relations, British Journal of Management, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He is a co-author of both scholarly books and textbooks. He has served or is serving on the editorial review boards for the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, European Management Journal, and Journal of Business Strategy. He has completed terms as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Executive and as a consulting editor for Entrepreneuship Theory and Practice and has served as a guest co-editor for special issues of the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, and Journal of Business Venturing (forthcoming). He has been a member of the executive committee for the Business Policy   Strategy division and served as the division's newsletter editor. Currently, Duane is serving as a member of the Academy's board of governors (as a representative-at-large). His outside interests include running, reading, and music. Ireland's e-mail is: amj@mays.tamu.edu.

Bradley Kirkman (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is an associate professor of management and Mays Research Fellow in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He most recently served on the faculty in the College of Management at The Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary research interests include work team effectiveness, cross-cultural management, and organizational justice. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Group & Organization Management, Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, Organizational Dynamics and others. He has conducted research and presented papers in several countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Finland, France, Mexico, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, Turkey, and the United States. He received the Outstanding Reviewer Award from AMJ in 2002, 2003, and 2004. In his spare time, he enjoys live music, traveling, watching sports (live and in HDTV), exercising, and grilling and dining out (thus, the exercising). Kirkman's email is: amjbk@mays.tamu.edu.

Kenneth Law (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is a professor in the Management Department of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. His areas of expertise are Human Resource Management and Research Methodology. His research interests include personnel selection, human resource research methods, organizational citizenship behaviors, compensation management, and HRM and OB issues of Chinese Management. He has served on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal for three consecutive terms since 1996. This year (2004) he was appointed a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. He has published a book "Translating questionnaires and other research instruments -- Problems and solutions" (Sage Publication). Kenneth is married to Alice, with two sons, Hubert and Matthew. Law's e-mail is amjlaw@ust.hk.

Chet Miller (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin)is a member of the faculty at the Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University. He is also the Academic Director for Babcock's Executive MBA Program and the Associate Dean for Faculty. Prior to moving to Wake Forest, he served on the faculty at Baylor University and was a visiting faculty member at Cornell University. Awards and honors include the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Baylor University) and teaching awards from Wake Forest University and Duke University. His current research interests include the functioning of management teams, the design of strategic decision processes, and the design of organizational structures and systems. Published work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal. In addition to his post at the Academy of Management Journal, he currently serves on the editorial board of Organization Science. He has worked with a number of managers and executives in development venues, including individuals from ABB, Bank of America, Krisp Kreme, LaFarge, Red Hat, State Farm Insurance, and the United States Postal Service. His hobbies include hiking, reading, and playing golf. He has been married for more than two delightful decades to Laura Cardinal of Tulane University. Miller's e-mail is: amj.ccm@mba.wfu.edu

Nandini Rajagopalan (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business and Faculty Fellow, Center for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Southern California. Her current research interests include CEO succession, executive compensation, corporate governance, top management teams, strategic change, and global strategic alliances. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of International Business Studies among others. She has served three prior terms on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal, and is currently on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Business Horizons and Journal of World Business. Her academic awards include the Western Academy of Management’s Ascendant Scholar Award in 1996, AMJ's Outstanding Reviewer Award in 1999, the BPS Division's Outstanding Reviewer Award in 1995 and 2002 and several awards for outstanding teaching at the University of Southern California. She was a guest co-editor for AMJ’s Special Issue on Governance through Ownership (April 2003). Her service to the Academy includes membership on the Business Policy & Strategy Division’s Executive Committee (1998-2000); participation as faculty panelist and presenter at Doctoral (1994; 1999) and Junior Faculty (2003) Consortiums, and service as the Western Region Representative for the BPS Division (1994-96). Her outside interests include cooking, reading, travel, and music. She has been married for twenty-two years to Sampath Rajagopalan of the University of Southern California and they have a daughter (Priyanka – 18 years) and a son (Krishna – 13 years). Rajagopalan's e-mail is: nrajagop@marshall.usc.edu

Debra L. Shapiro (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is Clarice Smith Professor of Management & Organization at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Previously, she was the Willard J. Graham Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School (where she was on the faculty from 1986-2003). An author of over 60 journal articles and book chapters, Debra's work generally focuses on the topics of managing conflict (e.g., employee perceptions of injustice, resistance to organizational change), negotiations, and cross-cultural challenges associated with conflict management issues. Her work appears in many of the premier scholarly journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, among others. While at UNC, Debra received the 1997 Ph.D. Teaching Award and was Associate Dean for Ph.D. Programs from 1998-2001 and an elected member of the University's 9-member Chancellor Advisory Council (from 2001-2002). Debra is a three-time recipient of Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management's (AOM) Conflict Management Division (in 1991, 1992, and 1996), and the 1999 recipient of the Best Empirical Paper Award from the International Association for Conflict Management. Debra has served in all executive board positions, including Chair, of the AOM's Conflict Management Division and has served/is serving on several editorial boards, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of International Business Studies, and the International Journal of Conflict Management. Past AOM Committees on which Debra has served include: the Human Resource Division's Scholar Achievement Award Committee, the Newman (Best Dissertation-based) Award Committee, and the Best AMR Publication Award Committee. Currently, Debra is serving on the All-Academy's Career Achievement Award Committee and the Terry Book Award Committee. She is also serving as a Representative-at-Large of the AOM's Board of Governors, and is an elected member of the Society of Organizational Behavior. In her free time (ha), Debra enjoys playing jazz- and classical-piano, and taking in the many sights, tastes, musical venues, and shopping-options of the metropolitan Maryland/Washington D.C. area with her family, including her pups Champagne and Tuxedo (Tux). Shapiro's e-mail is: dshapiro@rhsmith.umd.edu

Kathy Escher is managing editor of AMJ. Escher's e-mail is: amj-srynes@Uiowa.edu

Persephone Joyce Doliner (A.B., Harvard University) has been AMJ's copy editor since 1983 and its copy editor and production manager since 1997. She lives with her husband and two sons in Ithaca, NY.

Martin G. Evans is Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School at the University of Toronto. In his retirement, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he is currently a Board Member of Common Cause, Massachusetts and volunteers in Reading to the Blind and various political campaigns. His hobbies are reading. photography, and writing letters-to-the-editor.
He has served on the Editorial Boards of this journal, Leadership Quarterly, and the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. He was co-editor of the electronic journal M@n@gement. He is co-webmaster of the Research Methods division website and is moderator of a leadership listserver.
His research has focused on the Path-Goal Theory of Leadership, of which he was co-developer, Quality of Working Life, Downsizing and Careers, and the assessment of interactions in multiple regression.
He was co-recipient of the Academy's Distinguished Educator award in 2001.
He is married to Nancy Remage Evans, an astrophysicist; they have two grown daughters, Lisa and Katherine and one grandchild, Liam. Evans' e-mail is: evans@rotman.utoronto.ca.