Niklas Arvidsson is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sustainability and Industrial Dynamics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He has also been working as a management consultant for over five years. His research is focused on innovation, learning and change in organizations and industrial systems, with a particular interest in processes in which currently dominating ideas and practices are replaced by new ones.

Tim Brady is Professor of Innovation in the Centre for Research in Innovation Management at Brighton Business School, the University of Brighton, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering Management at the University of Oulu, Finland. He was a member of the EPSRC-funded Rethinking Project Management network, and Deputy Director of the ESRC-funded CoPS Innovation Centre. His current research interests include the development of new business models for infrastructure, the management of complex projects and programs, and learning and capability development in project-based business.

Eskil Ekstedt is Professor in Business Administration and Associate Professor in Economic History at Uppsala Universitet, Sweden. He was the founding editor of the Scientific Publication series, Work Life in Transition, and the project leader of several major research programs dealing with knowledge formation, and organizational and local economic development. His research has focused on knowledge formation, temporary organizations and structural change of business and work life.

Christophe Midler is Research Director at the French National Research Council (CNRS) and Professor of Innovation Management at École Polytechnique, Paris. He has received many prizes and awards for his research on project organizing, among them Doctor Honoris Causa at Umeå University, Sweden, and the 2013 PMI Research Achievement Award. His research topics include project management and innovation management in relation to organizational theory and strategy, exploring them in various industrial contexts.

Jörg Sydow is Professor of Management and Chair for Inter-firm Cooperation at the School of Business and Economics, Freie Universität Berlin, and a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow. He is a founding co-editor of two leading German academic journals, Managementforschung and Industrielle Beziehungen and is a member of several editorial boards. His current research interests are management and organization theory, interorganizational relations and networks, innovation and project management, and industrial relations.