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Professor Jar-der Luo is a professor of sociology and director of Center for Social Network Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is also a joint professor in the Management School of the Tsinghua University in Taiwan. He got his bachelor degree in 1982 from National Taiwan University, master and PHD from State University of New York at Stony Brook. His teaching focuses on theory of social capital, social network analysis, and organizational theory. He also teaches management courses in many other oversea and domestic business schools. Professor Luo's research endeavors to bring social network, especially Chinese Guangxi, into analysis of economic behaviors and business management. With others, he is trying to set up a research committee on social network analysis. Professor Luo has published widely in oversea and domestic academic journals. He has written The Chinese Trust Game, Textbook of Social Network Analysis and other books. Professor Luo's main research interests include organization research, social network analysis, and economic sociology.

Margarete Boos is professor and head of the Department of Social and Communication Psychology at University of Göttingen, Germany. She got her PhD on sociology from University of Bonn, Germany, in 1983. Her research interest include Social-psychological group research, Methods for the analysis of interactions and communication, Computer-based communication in groups and organizations, and Group coordination, etc.