About the Authors

James E. Post is a professor of management at Boston University. His primary areas of teaching and research are business and public affairs management, public policy, and corporate citizenship. He is the author or coauthor of such books as Private Management and Public Policy (with Lee E. Preston), Managing Environmental Issues: A Casebook (with Rogene Buchholz and Alfred Marcus) and Redefining the Corporation: Stakeholder Management and Organizational Wealth (with Lee Preston and Sybille Sachs). He has been an adviser to business, nongovernmental organizations, and government agencies on a range of issues involving business practices and responsibilities. He has been an expert witness before the U.S. Congress and regulatory agencies and served as a research director of The Conference Board's business and society program. He has been chairperson of the Social Issues in Management division of the Academy of Management, served as a reviewer and member of editorial boards for many management journals, and published articles in leading business journals. His book Private Management and Public Policy was cited by the Academy of Management for "its lasting contribution to the study of business and society."

Anne T. Lawrence is a professor of organization and management at San Jose State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed two years of postdoctoral work at Stanford University. Her articles, cases, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Education, Case Research Journal, Business and Society Review, and Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy. Her cases in business and society have also been reprinted in many textbooks and anthologies. She has served as associate editor of the Case Research Journal and as president of both the North American Case Research Association and of the Western Casewriters Association. She was the recipient of the outstanding case of the year award from NACRA, and at San Jose State University, she was named Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor in the College of Business and received the Dean's Award for Faculty Excellence.

James Weber is a professor of management and business ethics and the director of the Beard Center for Leadership in Ethics at Duquesne University. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and has taught at the University of San Francisco, University of Pittsburgh, and Marquette University. His areas of interest and research include managerial and organizational values, cognitive moral reasoning, business ethics, ethics training and education, and corporate social audit and performance. He has conducted corporate training workshops in the areas of ethical decision making and corporate-community relations for various businesses and professional associations. He has published works in numerous management and ethics journals, such as Organization Science, Business and Society, Human Relations, the Journal of Business Ethics, Teaching Business Ethics, and Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy. He was recognized by the Social Issues in Management division of the Academy of Management with the Best Paper Award in 1989 and 1994. He is a member of and has served as division and program chair of the Social Issues in Management division of the Academy of Management; he has also served as president and program chair of the International Association of Business and Society (IABS). In addition, he is a member of and has served in various leadership roles in the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) and the Society for Business Ethics.