John Child is Chair of Commerce at the Birmingham Business School and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He was the Founding Director of both the Centre for International Business and Management, University of Cambridge, and of the Chinese Management Centre, University of Hong Kong. He consults for major corporations in the areas of strategic alliances, organizational design, organizational learning, and business operations in China, and is the author of numerous publications including Strategies of Co-operation (with David Faulkner, OUP 1998). David Faulkner is University Lecturer in Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School and Tutorial Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. He spent much of his career as a strategic management consultant with McKinsey and Co. and Arthur D. Little before moving into academic life. He has been Deputy Director (undergraduate courses) and Deputy Director (MBA) of the Saïd Business School. His publications include Strategies of Co-operation (with John Child, OUP 1998) and Co-operative Strategies: Economic, Business, and Organanizational Issues (edited with Mark de Rond, OUP 2000). Robert Pitkethly is a Departmental Lecturer in Management Studies at the Saïd Business School, teaching strategic management and management of technology and intellectual property. He is also a Senior Fellow of St Peter's College, University of Oxford. Previous appointments have included Visiting Fellow at both the Institute of Intellectual Property and the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy in Tokyo, and Research Fellow at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge.