Gareth Jones is a Professor of Management in the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University. He received both his BA and PhD from the University of Lancaster, UK. He previously held teaching and research appointments at the University of Warwick, Michigan State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

He specializes in both strategic management and organizational theory and is well known for his research that applies transaction cost analysis to explain many forms of strategic behaviour. He is currently interested in strategy process and issues concerning the development of trust and the role of affect in the strategic decision-making process. He has published many articles in leading journals of the field and his recent work has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, and the Journal of Management. One of his articles won the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award, and he is one of the most prolific authors in the Academy of Management Review. He is serving or has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and Management Inquiry. In addition to his academic achievements, Gareth is co-author of three other major textbooks in the management discipline, including organizational behaviour, organizational theory, and strategic management.

Jennifer George is also a Professor of Management in the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University. She received her BA in Psychology/Sociology from Wesleyan University, her MBA in Finance from New York University, and her PhD in Management and Organizational Behavior from New York University.

She specializes in organizational behaviour and is well known for her research on affect and mood, their determinants, and their effects on various individual and group-level work outcomes. She is the author of many articles in leading peerreviewed journals, and her recent work has appeared in the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and Human Relations. One of her papers won the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Division Outstanding Competitive Paper Award. She is, or has been, on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Managerial Issues, and was a consulting editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
With her husband, Gareth Jones, she has written a leading textbook in organizational behaviour. They have also collaborated on two children, Nicholas, who is nine, and Julia, who is eight.

Nancy Langton received her PhD from Stanford University. Since completing her graduate studies, Professor Langton has taught at the University of Oklahoma and the University of British Columbia. Currently a member of the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources division in the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, and academic director of the Business Families Centre at UBC, she teaches at the undergraduate, MBA and PhD level and conducts executive programs on family business issues, time management, attracting and retaining employees, as well as women and management issues.

Professor Langton has received several major three-year research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and her research interests have focused on human resource issues in the workplace, including pay equity, gender equity, and leadership and communication styles. She is currently conducting longitudinal research with entrepreneurs in the Greater Vancouver Region, looking specifically at their human resource practices. Her research has appeared in such journals as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organizational Studies, Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Management Education, and Gender, Work and Organizations. She has won Best Paper commendations from both the Academy of Management and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, and in 2003 won the Best Women’s Entrepreneurship Paper Award given by the Washington, DC-based Center for Women’s Business Research for work with Jennifer Cliff (University of Alberta) and Howard Aldrich (University of North Carolina). She has also published two textbooks on organizational behaviour.

Professor Langton routinely wins high marks from her students for teaching. She has been nominated many times for the Commerce Undergraduate Society Awards, and has won several honourable mention plaques. In 1998 she won the University of British Columbia Faculty of Commerce’s most prestigious award for teaching innovation, The Talking Stick. The award was given for Professor Langton’s redesign of the undergraduate organizational behaviour course as well as the many activities that were a spinoff of these efforts. In 2001 she was part of the UBC MBA Core design team that won the national Alan Blizzard Award, which recognizes innovation in teaching. At heart, Professor Langton enjoys being a teacher. But she also is a quilter and an accomplished pizza maker. She wishes she had more time for these latter two activities.