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Tom Andrews, PhD, is a Lecturer in Nursing at Brookfield Health Science Complex, University of Cork, Ireland, specialising in critical care. Andrews lectures in research methods on post-graduate courses and currently supervise a number of PhD students using classic GT. He has conducted a number of classic grounded theory troubleshooting seminars alone and in collaboration. He is a fellow of the GT Institute and publishes in a number of journals. He is currently involved in two grounded theory projects. His research interests are around worsening progressions whatever the context. Email: t.andrews@ucc.ie Barry Chametzky, PhD, is an active researcher in the fields of andragogy, e-learning, and classic grounded theory with numerous peer-reviewed publications. He is also one of the reviewers and the copyeditor for the Grounded Theory Review, an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the classic grounded theory research design. In addition, he offers editing and consulting services through EditNow.Org, his editing company. He lives in Pennsylvania and teaches as a part-time adjunct instructor at Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, at Ozarks Technical Community College in Missouri, and at City University of Seattle in Washington. Ólavur Christiansen, PhD, is candidate in economics (cand. polit.) from the University of Copenhagen in 1977, and candidate in sociology (cand. scient. soc.) from the University of Copenhagen in 1983. He received his PhD from Aalborg University in 2007 (a study of “opportunizing” in business). He has mainly had a career within the governmental sector, but also within the private sector (bank auditing, market analysis). He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Faroe Islands, as well as General Secretary of the Economic Council of the Government of Faroe Islands. The latter is a full-time job. Email: OlavurC@setur.fo Gary Evans, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Canada at the University of Prince Edward Island Faculty of Business. Gary holds five degrees including a PhD in Business from the UK with a focus on Corporate Governance. His research includes: corporate governance, gender diversity, culture, and disruptive technologies. Dr. Evans has used classical grounded theory in a number of research areas and continues to learn of its power as a research tool with each experience. Prior to joining the academic world Gary was the CEO and senior partner for KPMG Consulting for Central Eastern Europe. Previous to this positing he was the managing partner of Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Energy for KPMG UK. Gary has worked with clients around the globe in over 30 countries. Email: gevans@upei.ca Bengt Fridlund, PhD, Professor, is the Director at the School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Sweden, and focuses on the care of chronically and critically ill patients and their partners, such as in cardiovascular care, in cancer and palliative care, as well as psychiatric and mental health. The clinical research perspectives can be summarized as epidemiological studies, evaluation studies, gender studies, intervention studies, methodological studies, pedagogical studies, and pair relation/family studies, theoretically grounded in social support and social networks, coping, stress, autogenesis, and QOL. Methodologically he is conversant with quantitative and qualitative analyses. Email: Bengt.Fridlund@ju.se Barney G. Glaser is the cofounder of grounded theory (1967). He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1961. He then went to University of California San Francisco, where he joined Anselm Strauss in doing the dying in hospitals study and in teaching PhD and DNS students methods and analysis. He published over 20 articles on this research and the dying research. Since then, Glaser has written 14 more books using and about grounded theory...