Matthias Kipping is Professor of Strategic Management and the Richard E. Waugh Chair in Business History at the Schulich School of Business, York University. He edited (with T. Clark) The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting. He has contributed to promoting the relevance of history and historical methods in management and organization studies.Takafumi Kurosawa is Professor of Economic Policy at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University. He edited Industries and Global Competition (with B. Bouwens and P. Y. Donze) and Multinational Enterprise, Political Risk and Organisational Change (with N. Forbes and B. Wubs). He serves as president of the Business History Society of Japan.D. Eleanor Westney is Professor Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at the Schulich School of Business. She is the author of Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Forms to Meiji Japan and a former Dean of the Fellows of the Academy ofInternational Business.