Joana Geraldi is associate professor at Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organizations. She studies how projects are shaped and organized in firms and society, with a particular focus on practices, paradoxes and decision-making. Joana’s empirical contexts are in projects and project organizing across different industrial contexts, in particular, large engineering projects, IT, construction and wind industries. Joana is a leading researcher in project studies. Her work received several international research awardsJoana has been published in e.g. Journal of Management Studies, International Journal of Project Management and Project Management Journal, and has led several Special Issues on project studies.

Professor Michael Bourlakis holds the Chair in Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management. He is the Director of Research for Cranfield School of Management and the Director of the Centre of Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management. He was appointed at Cranfield School of Management in 2013. Previously, he worked at Brunel University Business School (Leadership Roles: Director of Postgraduate Studies for 7 MSc programmes, 'Impact' Champion for REF2014, Director of OASIS Research Centre), Kent University Business School (Leadership Roles: Head of Marketing and Supply Chain Management Group, Director of Enterprise), Newcastle University (Leadership Roles: Director of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes), Oxford University Templeton College (Oxford Institute of Retail Management), Leicester University Management Centre.