Robert P. Gephart, Jr. is Professor at the University of Alberta, School of Business. He has served as Associate Editor for Organizational Research Methods, and in 2015, received the Sage Career Achievement Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management.

C. Chet Miller is C.T. Bauer Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Houston. His research focuses on the functioning and effects of executive teams, the design of strategic decision processes within firms, and the use of seemingly impossible organizational goals. His work has appeared in outlets such as Harvard Business Review and Academy of Management Journal.

Karin Svedberg Helgesson is Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. She has published several books, and her work has appeared in journals such as Organization Studies and the Journal of Common Market Studies.