Alan Benson Illustrator & Author

Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor of Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Daft specializes in the study of organization theory and leadership and is a fellow of the Academy of Management. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management Education. He has been the associate editor-in-chief of Organization Science and served for three years as associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Dr. Daft has authored or co-authored 14 books and written dozens of scholarly articles, papers and chapters in academic books. A noted expert in organization behavior and organization design, Dr. Daft is one of today's most highly cited academics in the fields of economics and business. Alan Benson was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Exeter Business School, where he held module leader responsibilities for Master’s-level modules, such as ‘Managing in a Multinational Context’ and ‘Strategy’, as well as ‘Business Projects’ on the undergraduate degree programmes. He has worked in UK academia for more than 25 years, taught MBA-level modules in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the UK, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia, and supervised numerous Master’s-level dissertations and student internship project reports. Before becoming a full-time academic, Dr Benson worked as a management consultant and gained senior management experience in several industrial sectors, including a number of blue-chip engineering and manufacturing companies. Brian Henry is a full-time Research Fellow at INSEAD and an adjunct professor at a number of private business schools in France, such as ISCOM, ISG and NEOMA. As a Research Fellow, he writes business cases about family-run firms. A versatile instructor, Dr Henry teaches International Business, Supply Chain Management, Marketing Management and European Institutional History. Before becoming a full-time academic, Dr Henry worked as a senior communications and marketing specialist for the financial service industry in New York. Previously, he was a financial journalist for a weekly trade publication in New York and London covering the petrochemical industry.