Edited by David Faulkner, Dean of Magna Carta College, Oxford, Satu Teerikangas, Lecturer, University College London, and Richard J. Joseph, Hult International Business School, Boston
Professor David Faulkner is Dean of Magna Carta College, Oxford, a private business school that he co-founded in 2007. He is also Professor at Hult International Business School and Professor Emeritus of Strategy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly official Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford and Deputy Director of the Saïd Business School, Oxford University. He is an Oxford-educated economist by background, who has spent much of his early career as a strategic management consultant with McKinsey and Co and Arthur D. Little. He gained a Doctorate from Oxford University (D Phil), researching into conditions for success in International Strategic Alliances. He has written and edited thirteen books including, The Oxford Handbook of Strategy (OUP).
Dr Satu Teerikangas is Lecturer in Management at University College, London. She received her PhD from Helsinki University of Technology. Her research centres on the management of M&A, and has been published in several journals, including the Journal of Management, Human Resource Management and the British Journal of Management. She co-edits Special Issues on M&As for the Scandinavian Journal of Management and the European Journal of International Management, and co-chairs the M&A track at the European Academy of Management annual conference since 2008. Prior to an academic career, Dr Teerikangas worked for Shell in the Netherlands and the UK. She is on the editorial review board of the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management.
Richard J. Joseph is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Hult International Business School, Boston, London, Dubai, Shanghai, and San Francisco. Previously he served on the faculty and administration of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to his academic career, he worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, a securities trader at Bear Stearns, an international banker at Citibank, and a mergers and acquisitions lawyer for the Bass Group, Fort Worth. A graduate magna cum laude of Harvard College (B.A.), Oxford University (M.Litt.), and the University of Texas at Austin School of Law (J.D.), he is co-editor of Prentice Hall's Federal Taxation Series and has written numerous commentaries in the Financial Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Tax Notes International. His book, The Origins of the American Income Tax (Syracuse University Press), explores the original intent, rationale, and effect of the early American income tax.
Contributors:
Professor Duncan Angwin, Professor of Strategy, Oxford Brookes University, ENPC, Paris and Associate Fellow, Warwick Business School
Maria Carapeto, Senior Lecturer in Finance and Deputy Director of the M&A Research Centre, Cass Business School, City University London
Professor Susan Cartwright, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Well-Being, Lancaster University, and Director of the Centre for Organizational Health and Well Being
Professor John Child, Emeritus Professor, Birmingham Business School and Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong
Professor Viktoria Dalko, Global Professor of Finance, Hult International Business School
Professor Rolf van Dick, Professor of Social Psychology, the Department of Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Professor Gary Dymski, Professor of Economics, the University of California, Riverside
Dr Samantha Fairclough, the Deloitte & Touche Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Strategic Management and Organization, the School of Business, the University of Alberta, and Associate Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms, Saïd Business School, the University of Oxford L Nicholas Fairclough, doctoral candidate, the Department of Strategic Management and Organization, the University of Alberta
Dr Steffen R. Giessner, Associate Professor, the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Dr Jerayr Haleblian, Associate Professor of Management, University of California-Riverside
Elina Happonen, Analyst at Nordea Finland
School of Professor Michael Hitt, Distinguished Professor of Management, Texas A&M University and the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership
Dr Sajjad M. Jasimuddin, Lecturer, the School of Management and Business, Aberystwyth University, Associate Professor, the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), and Visiting Professor, Dalian University of Foreign Languages (China)
Professor Prashant Kale, Professor of Strategic Management, the Jones School of Management, Rice University
Professor Thomas Keil, Professor of Strategic Management, Aalto University, Finland
Dr Adelaide Wilcox King, Associate Professor, the McIntire School of Commerce, the University of Virginia
Dr David R. King, Associate Professor, the College of Business Administration, Marquette University
Kalin Kolev, doctoral student in strategic management, Michigan State University
Professor Hema Krishnan, Associate Dean and Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, Xavier University, Cincinnati
Professor Tomi Laamanen, Professor of Strategic Management, University of St Gallen, Switzerland
Aino Mäkisalo, Analyst at Roschier
Dr Marianna Makri, Associate Professor, the School of Business Administration, the University of Miami
Professor Gerry McNamara, Professor of Management at Michigan State University
Professor Brendan McSweeney, Professor of Management, Royal Holloway University, London and Visiting Professor, Stockholm Business School, University of Stockholm
Professor Scott Moeller, Director and Founder of the M&A Research Centre and Professor in the Practice of Finance, Cass Business School
Professor Vassilis M. Papadakis, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Business Administration, the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece
Dr Robert Pitkethly, Fellow and Tutor in Management, St. Peter's College, Oxford
Professor Annette L. Ranft, the Jim Moran Professor of Management, Florida State University
Professor Bill Ryan, Professor of Accounting, Hult International Business School, London
Dr Mario Schijven, Assistant Professor of Management, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
Professor Lars Schweizer, the UBS-Endowed Professor for Management, Goethe University Frankfurt, and Associate Dean of Goethe Business School
Jennifer C. Sexton, Doctoral Candidate, Florida State University
Professor Katsuhiko (Katsu) Shimizu, Professor of Organization Theory and Strategic Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University, Japan
Professor Harbir Singh, the William and Phyllis Mack Professor of Management and former Chair of the Management Department, the Wharton School of Business Professor Sudi Sudarsanam, Emeritus Professor of Finance and Corporate Control, Cranfield School of Management
Ioannis C. Thanos, PhD, the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece
Professor Janne Tienari, Professor of Organizations and Management, Aalto University, School of Economics, Finland
Dr Johannes Ullrich, Privat dozent in the Department of Psychology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Professor Eero Vaara, Professor of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, and permanent Visiting Professor at EM Lyon Business School, France
Professor Philippe Very, Professor of Strategic Management, EDHEC Business School, France
Dr Hong Zhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
