Dr Sununta Siengthai has been a full-time associate professor of the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology (A.I.T.) since 1999. Dr John J. Lawler is currently a Full Professor of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Professor Chris Rowley has affiliations at IHCR, Korea University, Korea and IBAS, Griffith University, Australia as well as IAPS, Nottingham University, UK and Cass Business School, City University, London, UK and has been a Korea Foundation Research Fellow. He is Editor of the journals Asia Pacific Business Review and Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management and also Series Editor of the Working in Asia and Asian Studies book series. He has given a range of talks and lectures to universities and companies internationally, with research and consultancy experience with unions, business and government. He has published widely in the area of Human Resource Management and Asian business, with over 500 articles, books and chapters and practitioner pieces as well as being interviewed and quoted in a range of practitioner reports and magazines, radio and newspapers globally. Dr Hiromasa Suzuki is Professor of Labor Economics at the Waseda University, Faculty of Commerce, Tokyo (Japan).