In order to establish an appropriate management structure within the programme the number of partners has been limited to four: Uppsala University, Sweden; the Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway; IESE, the International Graduate School of Management of the University of Navarra at Barcelona, Spain; and the University of Reading, the United Kingdom. In each of the partner institution there is a responsible co-ordinator . Together the co-ordinators form an Executive Group of the programme with professor Lars Engwall as chairman. The work within themes are managed by theme steering groups with the theme co-ordinators as chairmen. The Executive Group and the Theme Steering Groups communicate basically through Internet

In addition to the four partners several other institutions are minor subcontractors to the project through researchers collaborating with the co-ordinating institutions on the different research issues. In each of the institutions there are researchers associated with the programme who will provide input to the sub-themes.