Introduction

Glenn Morgan is Professor of Management in the School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, UK. He has previously worked at Manchester Business School, Warwick Business School and Cardiff Business School. He has been a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School and a number of other institutions in Europe and North America. His research interests lie in the areas of globalization, financialization, institutions, multinationals, regulations, and elites. As well as studies in Europe, he has written on East Asian and Latin American forms of capitalism. He has published in a wide range of journals, including Organisation Studies, Human Relations, Economy and Society, Socio-Economic Review, Industrial Relations, and Journal of European Public Policy. He was editor of the journal Organization from 2005 to 2008 and serves on a number of editorial boards. Recent jointly edited collections include The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organisation Studies (Oxford University Press, 2014), New Spirits of Capitalism? Crises, Justifications and Dynamics (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press, 2012).

John Campbell is Class of 1925 Professor, Department of Sociology, at Dartmouth College.

Colin Crouch, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick.

Ove Kaj Pedersen, University of Mannheim

Richard Whitley is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Sociology at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He has undertaken extensive work in the sociology of science and the changing organization of higher education. He is also a major founding influence in the comparative study of economic organization and societal business systems. Richard’s publications include: The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences (Oxford University Press, 1984, 2000); Business Systems in East Asia (1992); European Business Systems (1992); The Changing European Firm (1996); Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations (Oxford University Press, 1997); Divergent Capitalisms: The Social Structuring and Change of Business Systems (Oxford University Press, 1999); National Capitalisms, Global Competition and Economic Performance (2000); The Multi-National Firm (Oxford University Press, 2001); Competing Capitalisms (2002); Changing Capitalisms? Internationalization, Institutional Change and Systems of Economic Organization (Oxford University Press, 2005); Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities: The Institutional Structuring of Competitive Competences (Oxford University Press, 2007); The Changing Governance of the Sciences (2007); Reconfiguring Knowledge Production (Oxford University Press, 2010); Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty First Century (Oxford University Press, 2012); Organizational Transformation and Scientific Change: The Impact of Institutional Restructuring on Universities and Intellectual Innovation (2014); and Changing Asian Business Systems (Oxford University Press, 2016). His work on the comparison of higher education systems and the problem of university ‘actorhood’ has been a significant influence on the thinking behind this handbook. In 1998–9 he served as the Chair of the European Group for Organizational Studies and in 1999–2000 was the President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. In 2007 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Current research interests include the study of how the changing governance of public science systems is affecting scientific innovations in different countries and how different kinds of innovations are legitimated and established in different artistic and scientific fields.