Michael Auinger is a Doctoral Student at Johannes Kepler University Linz.

a. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Bauer is Professor of Organization Theory at Johannes Kepler University Linz. His current research revolves around innovation and creativity and he is an expert on design thinking.

Nora Gatewood is a Doctoral Student at the Hertie School of Governance.

Thomas Gegenhuber is a Doctoral Student at Johannes Kepler University Linz. His research focuses on innovation, crowdsourcing and entrepreneurship.

Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher is Professor of Urban and Regional Economic Studies at HafenCity University Hamburg. He is editor of the Economic Geography - an internationally peer-reviewed journal, committed to publishing cutting-edge research that makes theoretical advances to the discipline.

Prof. Johanna Mair, PhD is Professor of Management, Organization and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance. She is also the Hewlett Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and the Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Dania Marzo is an Architect and a PhD student in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy.

Alice Melchior is a Doctoral Student at HafenCity University Hamburg and employed in the context of the DFG-Research Unit "Organized Creativity". 

Heli Nissilä, PhD Candidate, Department of Management Studies, Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland. Her research focuses on Emergence and Creation of Organizational Fields, New Sustainable Energy Technologies, Sociology of Expectations, Field-configuring Events, Sustainability Transitions and  Building Demonstrations.

Dr. Simone Ostermann was a doctoral student at the Management Department, Freie Universität Berlin. 

Dean Rockwell, PhD Candidate in Organization Studies, Caroll School of Management, Boston College. His research is focused on Creativity & Innovation and Culture.

Prof. Charles-Clemens Rüling, PhD is Professor of Organization and Management Theory. He holds a "habilitation à diriger des recherches" (Université de Savoie) and a doctorate in social and economic sciences (University of Geneva). His academic background is in organization theory (University of St. Gallen) and sociology (University of Geneva). He teaches management, organization theory, and research methods in the school's French and international programs, and his current research focuses on institutional dynamics, field configuring events and business model innovation in cultural industries and science-industry collaboration.

Benjamin Schiemer is a Doctoral Student at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and employed in the context of the DFG-Research Unit "Organized Creativity". 

Prof. Dr. Georg Schreyögg holds the Chair of Organization and Leadership at Freie Universität Berlin. His current research revolves around path dependence, organizational competences and organizational routines. 

Dr. Anja Schröder, Post-Doc at the Chair of Strategic Management, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Kaiserslautern. 

Nona Schulte-Römer, Research Fellow of the Research Unit Cultural Sources of Newness at WZB, Berlin Social Science Center. 

Dr. Helge Svare, Senior Researcher and Research Director at the Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, Work Research Institute, Oslo.

Prof. Dr. Jörg Sydow is Professor of Inter-firm Cooperation at the Management Department at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a member of scientific advisory board, Soziologisches Forschungsinstituts and a member of scientific advisory board, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung. He is founding Co-Editor of the Journal Management Research.

Jan-Henrik Voß, Doctoral Student, Technische Universität Berlin.His research focuses on Strategic Management in Metro-Regions:Cities as Organizational Fields, Field Configuring Events in the City-Context, Capabilities of Cities - The City's Capacity to Act, City Specific Business Models, Strategic Decision Making in Complex Project Initiatives.

Miriam Wolf, PhD is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. Her research cluster is Organization, Management and Leadership. Her research is concerned with new forms of organizing that cut across policy, business and society and address societal or environmental challenges.

Katharina Zangerle is a Doctoral Student at the University of Innsbruck. She is employed in the context of the DFG-Research Unit "Organized Creativity". 

Chenjiang Zhang, Postdoc at Jacobs University Bremen. His research interests are Strategic management, Entrepreneurship,Organizational study, Social Networks, Institutional theory, International business and Corporate Social Responsibility.