Biographical note

Christine McLean is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Business School and a member of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). She has been involved in a variety of empirical research projects using an ethnographic style of investigation and she is currently undertaking a study which seeks to explore the role of visual management in the newspaper printing industry. François-Régis Puyou is assistant professor in management accounting and member of the Centre for Organisation and Strategy Studies at Audencia Nantes Management School. He is also associate researcher to the "Centre de Sociologie des Organisations" at Sciences-Po. His research is mostly concerned with organizing processes in business groups. Paolo Quattrone is Professor of Accounting and Management Control at IE Business School, Madrid and hold academic posts at the Universities of Manchester, Carlos III (Madrid), and Oxford. His research spans from the history of administrative practices in religious Orders to information and management control technologies in large organisations. Professor Thrift is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick since July 2006 and one of the world’s leading human geographers and social scientists. He is academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy.