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Professor Katherine Stone is a leading expert in labor and employment law in the United States. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2008 and a Russell Sage Fellowship for 2008-2009 for her work on the changing nature of employment and the regulatory implications. Her forthcoming book, Globalization and Flexibilization: The Remaking of the Employment Relationship in the 21st Century, will examine the changing employment landscape in Japan, Australia, and Europe.
Professor Stone's recent book, From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (Cambridge University Press in 2004) won the 2005 Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association for the “outstanding book that best links scholarship to struggles for justice in the real world." The book was also the Finalist (Second Place) for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Another book, Rethinking Comparative Labor Law: Bridging the Past and the Future (with Benjamin Aaron, eds.), was published in the fall, 2007. Earlier books by Professor Stone include Arbitration Law, 2nd edition (Foundation Press, 2009) and Private Justice: Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Law (Foundation Press, 2000).
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Sue Newell, Cammarata Professor of Management, Bentley University, USA and Professor of Information Management, Warwick University, UK.
Research by Sue Newell focuses on innovation, specifically, on understanding how knowledge is transferred and innovation fostered within and across organizations. Much of her work has taken place at ikon, a research unit for innovation, knowledge and organizational networking that she co-founded at the University of Warwick in the U.K.
In addition, Professor Newell pursues research in the design, implementation and use of IT; ethics and social responsibility issues, including equal opportunity; and the evaluation of management development initiatives. Her corporate consulting experience includes engagements in industries from health care to pharmaceuticals to manufacturing. Professor Newell has written on knowledge management and the evolving workplace in two books, Managing Knowledge Work and Creating the Healthy Organization: Well-being, Diversity and Ethics at Work. Other credits include more than 55 articles written for journals such as Organization Studies, Human Relations, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Personnel Review, Communications of the CACM and Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Professor Newell is on the faculty of the Information Management at Warwick Business School, Warwick university, UK and holds a PhD from Cardiff University in Wales.
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Gina Neff is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. She is co-editor of Surviving the New Economy (Paradigm Press, 2007) and author of the forthcoming book Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (MIT Press, 2011), which traces the change in U.S. employment structures through the experience of the early pioneers of the commercial internet. Her research focuses on organizational dynamics in the face of technological change in areas such as green commercial architecture and new media industries. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University, where she is now an external faculty affiliate at the Center on Organizational Innovation.
