Jay B. Barney is a Presidential Professor of Strategic Management and the Pierre Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.

R. Edward Freeman is University Professor and Olsson Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia.

Robert A. Phillips is Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy and the George R. Gardiner Professor in Business Ethics at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.