About the Authors
 
  Professor Jack Wood (PhD, Alberta, Canada) is Associate Dean International, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University. He has published more than eighty articles on management education, and is also the author of and contributor to a number of books in this field. His major research interests are the virtual workplace, work time options, and improvements to the performance of Australian expatriate management, with special reference to Asia. He has been an Australian delegate to Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Osaka, Japan, and has also worked as a consultant for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and ‘New Ways to Work’ in San Francisco. Professor Wood is an executive member of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).

Doctor Joseph Wallace was, until recently, Director of Offshore Regional MBA Programs, Mount Eliza Business School, Monash University. Over the past twenty years he has taught management in universities in Scotland, the South Pacific, South-East Asia and Australia. Dr Wallace has acted as a consultant for private and public organisations, and he is active in research and publishing, focusing on issues relating to managerial practices in multicultural settings, and the development of managerial competencies. He is currently a visiting research associate at Macquarie University.

Doctor Rachid M. Zeffane is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, School of Management, University of Newcastle. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours), a Master of Science in Management and a PhD in Organisational Behaviour. He spent over six years at the Cardiff Business School (Wales). His teaching and academic interests spread across many areas in the field of management and organisational behaviour, including trust, organisational design and change, international human resource management, strategic alliance and networking, and the behavioural and organisational effects of information systems. He has published more than eighty articles in academic and professional journals, and has contributed to several books and monographs.
  
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