D. Hugh Whittaker is a Professor at the University of Auckland Business School. He has written extensively on Japanese and comparative management, entrepreneurship and innovation, most recently Comparative Entrepreneurship: The UK, Japan, and the Shadow of Silicon Valley (with P. Byosiere, S. Momose, T. Morishita, T. Quince and J. Higuchi) and Recovering From Success: Innovation and Technology Management in Japan (co-edited with R. E. Cole), both from Oxford University Press.
Simon Deakin is a Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and director of the corporate governance research programme of the Centre for Business Research, also at Cambridge. He has recently been a visiting professor at Columbia University and at Doshisha University, Kyoto. He published extensively in the fields of corporate governance, labour law and tort law. He was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in 2005.