Rick Delbridge is professor of organizational analysis at Cardiff Business School and co-convenor of the Centre for Innovation Policy Research at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Previously, he was University Dean of Research, Innovation & Enterprise, during which time he led the development of the Social Science Research Park. Rick is an acknowledged expert in organization and management theory, with particular research interests in the management and organization of innovation and has published widely on these topics. He has been Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review and was co-founding editor of JMSSays in Journal of Management Studies. He is currently editor-in-chief of Research in the Sociology of Work and Associate Editor of Organization Theory. He has earned Best Paper awards from Academy of Management Review and Organization Studies and has been elected to Fellowships of the Academy of Social Sciences, the British Academy of Management, and also the Learned Society of Wales, for whom he is special advisor for innovation to the president.

William M. Foster (PhD, University of Alberta). A long-standing interest in how organizations remember, forget, and rewrite their pasts shapes the research of William (Bill) M. Foster, professor of management at the University of Alberta. His work examines rhetorical history, stakeholder sensemaking, and the politics of memory, with particular attention to Indigenous organizing and historical consciousness. Bill’s publications span journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, and Organization Studies. He is a recipient of multiple SSHRC grants and best paper awards. He is also the co-editor of the Handbook of Historical Methods for Management and former EIC of Academy of Management Learning and Education.

Roy Suddaby is the Winspear Chair of Management at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Carson College of Business, Washington State University, USA. Professor Suddaby also holds adjunct positions at IAE Business School, Argentina, Ritsumeikan University, Japan and the University of Liverpool Management School, UK. His research focuses on the critical role of symbolic resources—legitimacy, authenticity, identity and history—in processes of entrepreneurial change and innovation. Roy is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and is a past editor of the Academy of Management Review.