Michel Avital is an Associate Professor of Information Management at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on information and organisation with an emphasis on the social aspects of information technologies. He has published articles on topics such as information sys- tems design, creativity, knowledge sharing, social responsibility and Appreciative Inquiry.

Contact: avital@uva.nl

Danielle Zandee is an Associate Professor at Nyenrode Business Universiteit. She studies and facilitates organisational development and change from an affirmative, discursive and collabo- rative perspective. She writes about organisational generativity, the poetics of organisational design, positive textual deviance as a vehicle for change, and the generative dimensions of Appreciative Inquiry.

Contact: d.zandee@nyenrode.nl