John Wilson is Director of Newcastle University Business School‎,‎ where he is also professor of strategy‎.‎ He has published extensively in the field of international business history‎,‎ knowledge transfer‎,‎ and the history of management education‎,‎ including a dozen monographs and over fifty articles and chapters‎.‎ As executive editor of Business History and a former President of the Association of Business Historians‎,‎ he has played a major role in developing the discipline‎.‎ Anthony Webster is a graduate of the University of Birmingham UK‎,‎ where he won the Ashley Prize for best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science in 1985‎.‎ In his career he has been a tax inspector and has lectured at three universities in the North West of England‎.‎ He is currently Head of History at Liverpool John Moores University‎.‎ He has published extensively on business in the British empire and co‎-operatives‎,‎ producing four major books and numerous articles in leading international journals ‎(‎including Enterp‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎