Notes on Contributors

Seth Allcorn, PhD, MBA, is the former Vice President for Business and Finance at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. Dr Allcorn has more than twenty years of experience working with physicians, hospitals, and academic medical centres. He has served as a financial and administrative Assistant Dean at the Texas Tech School of Medicine and Associate Dean for the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola-Chicago. He has also managed two departments of internal medicine for the University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Rochester. He has worked for more than twenty years as a part-time and full-time organisational consultant specialising in the management of change, strategic planning, and organisational restructuring. Dr Allcorn is extensively published. He is the author or co-author of a dozen books, a half a dozen chapters and over seventy-five papers that have appeared in scholarly and practitioner journals. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organization.

Philip Boxer brings over thirty years of consulting experience to his work with clients in public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. His practice develops clients' capabilities for competing in highly networked environments and uses approaches that enable client organisations to increase both their agility and their ability to scale learning across networks. He has published in the fields of organisational and social dynamics, management studies, and systems engineering. Philip is a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations and the (Lacanian) Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. He received a BSc in Engineering from London University, an MSc in Business Administration from the London Graduate School of Business Studies, and a PhD from the School of Engineering and Information Sciences at Middlesex University. The focus of his research is on the ways in which unconscious libidinal economies shape what for