Roy Suddaby is the Winspear Chair of Management at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada. Professor Suddaby is an internationally regarded scholar of organizational theory and institutional change. His work has contributed to our understanding of the critical role of symbolic resources - legitimacy, authenticity, identity and history - in organizations and institutions. Roy is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and the Irish Academy of Management and a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.