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John Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle. He has published widely in the fields of business, management and industrial history, including ten monographs, six edited collections and over seventy articles and chapters. Most notably, his British Business History, 1720-1994 is still being used in UK universities. He was also the founding editor of the Journal of Industrial History, as well as co-editor of Business History for ten years.

Nicholas D. Wong is Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at Newcastle

Business School, Northumbria University. His research areas cover historical

organisation studies and uses of the past, family business studies and

entrepreneurship. He has published in Business History , International Journal

of Contemporary Hospitality Management and Entreprise et Histoire . Nicholas

won the John F. Mee Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management in 2018

for his contribution to the Management History Division.

Steven Toms spent fifteen years in senior management at Nottingham University

as head of the undergraduate programme, chair of teaching committee and

research director before becoming Head of York Management School in 2004.

Professor Toms's research interests cover the role of accounting, accountability

and corporate governance in the development of organisations, particularly from

a historical perspective. He is interested in perspectives that integrate financial

models with economic and organisational theory and corporate strategy. Specific

applications range from business history - in particular cotton and other textiles

trades - to capital markets and social and environmental accounting. He was

Editor of the journal Business History from 2007 to 2013.