Royston Greenwood is the Telus Professor of Strategic Management in the School of Business, University of Alberta, Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and a former Chair of the Academy's Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division. In 2013 the European Group for Organization Studies made him an Honorary Member and in 2014 he was the Distinguished Scholar of the Academy of Management OMT Division. His research focuses upon institutional and organizational change and a favored empirical context is that of professional service firms. Recently he has turned to understanding the institutional foundations of corporate fraud. He serves or has recently served on the editorial and/or advisory boards of several leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, the Academy of Management Discoveries and the Academy of Management Annals, of which he is a former editor.
Christine Oliver is the Henry J. Knowles Chair of Organizational Strategy in the Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto, Canada. Christine is interested in institutional processes and research questions that address the interface between strategy and poverty. Christine′s work has appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Management Journal, American Sociological Review, and other outlets. She won the award for Best Paper in Academy of Management Review in 1991 and in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Science in 1993. She is past Division Chair of the Academy's Organization and Management Theory Division and past Representative-At-Large on the Academy of Management Board of Governors. Christine is past Associate Editor (1993-1996) and Editor (1996-2003) of the Administrative Science Quarterly. She won the Organization and Management Theory Distinguished Scholar Award in 2009. In 2013 she was elected to the Fellows of the Academy of Management in Recognition of Distinguished and Scholarly Contributions to the Profession of Management.
Thomas B. Lawrence is a Professor of Strategy at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He received his PhD in organizational analysis from the University of Alberta. His research focuses on the dynamics of agency, power, and institutions in organizations and organizational fields. It has appeared in such journals as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and the Journal of Management. He is a co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Organization Studies, Second Edition, and Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations.
