William Lazonick is Professor in the Department of Regional Economic and Social Development at University of Massachusetts Lowell and Director of the UMass Lowell Center for Industrial Competitiveness. He is also affiliated with the CNRS Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée of Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Competitive Advantage of the Shop Floor (Harvard University Press, 1990) and Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1991), and some 100 academic articles.
David J. Teece is Thoma W. Tusher Professor in Global Business at the Hass Business School, University of California, Berkeley, where he is also Director of the Center for Global Strategy and Governance. He is listed as one of the World's Top 50 Leading Business Intellectuals by Accenture, and also listed by ScienceWatch as a top 10 scholar worldwide in economics and business for the decade 1995-2005, based on citation counts.