New Page 1Loizos Heracleous holds a Chair in Strategy at Warwick Business School. He is also an Associate Fellow of Templeton College and the Said Business School at Oxford University. He has lived and worked in Asia for eight years, in his previous post as associate professor of business policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Dr Heracleous earned his Ph.D. at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Strategy and Organization: Realizing Strategic Management, (2003, Cambridge University Press) and Discourse, Interpretation, Organization (2006, Cambridge University Press) as well as the co-author of Business Strategy in Asia: A Casebook (2004, Thomson Learning). Jochen Wirtz is an associate professor of marketing at NUS, the founding director of the UCLA - NUS Executive MBA Program, and an Associate Fellow of the Sai?d Business School, University of Oxford.Dr Wirtz is a leading authority in the field of services marketing. Services Marketing - People, Technology, Strategy, (2007, 6th edition, Prentice Hall), which he co-authored with Professor Christopher Lovelock, is the best-selling services marketing text book worldwide, and Essentials of Services Marketing (2009, Prentice Hall), which he co-wrote with Lovelock and Professor Patricia Chew, is the worlds first full-colour services marketing text. Nitin Pangarkar is an associate professor of business policy at NUS Business School. Previously, he held academic positions at the University of Minnesota (USA) and the Helsinki School of Economics (Finland). His research interests lie in the areas of strategic management and international business - specifically cross-border strategic alliances and global strategy. Dr Pangarkars research has been presented in several international conferences around the world and published in more than 30 international journal articles, conference proceedings, cases, and books. He is a member of several professional organisations and serves as the vice president of the Asia Academy of Management, the leading regional association for management scholars in Asia. He also serves on the editorial boards of two international journals.
