ARIE Y. LEWIN is Professor of Business Administration and Sociology at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He is the Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). He leads a cross-national research collaboration (Denmark, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States) research consortium - New Organization Forms for the Information Age (NOFIA) - involving a longitudinal comparative study of strategic re-orientations and organization restructurings and international competitiveness.