Thomas Mellewigt holds the Deutsche Telekom Foundation Distinguished Chair in Strategic Knowledge Management at the Freie Universität of Berlin (Germany). His research interests include contractual design and governance mechanisms of strategic alliances, determinants and management of outsourcing relationships, and organizational economics. His research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Managerial and Decision Economics and other journals and has been presented at many meetings of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Strategic Management Journal.