Maria Goranova (Goranova@uwm.edu) is an Associate Professor, Organizations and Strategic Management at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Her research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Research, and Academy of Management Proceedings. She has received Distinguished Paper Award, as well as Outstanding Reviewer Awards from the Academy of Management. Goranova is member of the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Management, and the International Association for Business and Society. She also serves on the editorial board of Journal of Management.
Lori Verstegen Ryan (Lori.Ryan@sdsu.edu) is Professor of Management at San Diego State University. She is the Director of SDSU’s Corporate Governance Institute, a research and education center dedicated to the study and application of responsible corporate governance principles worldwide. Ryan is Past-President and Fellow of the International Association for Business and Society and is on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Management’s Social Issues in Management Division. She is also a Senior Research Fellow of the National Center for Business Ethics based at Loyola University – New Orleans. Having just completed six years on the editorial board of the top-rated Academy of Management Review, she is currently on the editorial board of Business Ethics Quarterly and is Associate Editor for Corporate Governance of Business & Society. Her research focuses primarily on the intersection of ethics and corporate governance, with a special emphasis on the roles, characteristics, and responsibilities of institutional investors. Her work has appeared in such journals as Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business & Society, Educational & Psychological Measurement, and Corporate Governance: An International Review.
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