Apologies for cross-postings
As some of you might have noticed, Business & Society is under the
supervision of a new team of editors. We would like to take this
opportunity to briefly introduce ourselves and to invite you to take a look
at some of the changes that are happening at the journal.
We sketched out our vision and some of our goals in an Editor’s Insight
piece in the January issue. We took over the editorship from Duane Windsor
who did a phenomenal job as editor over the last years and has left us some
pretty large shoes to fill. Under Duane the review process of the journal
was moved fully online, the journal became listed on the SSCI, and it
continuously improved in the various journal quality rankings. We would
like to express our sincere thanks to Duane for his hard work in bringing
the journal along this upward trajectory.
Going forward, there are a number of significant changes that we would like
to alert you to:
We have commissioned several new Special Issues with submission
deadlines throughout 2015. These are on: economic inequality; methods
and methodologies in business and society research; the governance of
digital technology, big data and the internet; and social innovation and
institutional theory. Please check them out and we encourage you to
think about whether some of your work might be a good fit for
submitting.
We are delighted to announce a number of new Associate Editors who have
joined our already impressive team during the past 6 months. These are
Frank de Bakker (VU Amsterdam), Harry J. Van Buren III (U of New
Mexico), David Levy (UMass Boston), Jennifer Oetzel (American U),
Stephen Pavelin (U of Bath) Rob Phillips (Richmond U), Aseem Prakash
(Washington U), and Mark Sharfman (U of Oklahoma).
We have been working on an improved, more streamlined review process.
Authors can still expect a very high quality, double-blind review
process, but with a much speedier decision from the time of first
submission. If you haven't submitted to Business & Society for a while,
or have never submitted to the journal, now is the time to try us out
and see the difference.
We have revised the content of the Business & Society website to include
a new vision for the journal, revised submission guidelines, guidelines
for special issue proposals, and a new feature, the “Editors Choice
Collection”, which highlights some of the journal’s most noteworthy
articles. We will be adding to this collection over the next few months.
The journal now has a Twitter feed featuring news and opinion from the
editorial team. If you are interested please follow us at @baseditors.
With an ever-growing number of submissions we are also keen to enlarge
the circle of reviewers for Business & Society. If you are interested,
just go to the journal’s online submission site and sign up today as a
reviewer!
Part of our mission is to continue Business & Society’s role in
developing authors’ work prior to submission. To this end we will be
supporting manuscript development workshops and other developmental
events either at major international conferences (IABS, Academy of
Management, etc.) or within smaller regional conferences. Please contact
us if you would like to discuss our involvement at these or any
additional events that you would like us to contribute to.
You can also, as before, continue to get automatic alerts from the
journal about new articles and issues, by signing up on the website.
We welcome you all to this new phase of the journal and express our sincere
hope that if you are a current member of the Business & Society community,
you will stay engaged with the journal, and if you are not, you will take
this opportunity to join us, be it as an author, reviewer or reader. Should
you have any thoughts and suggestions regarding the further development of
the journal, we would love to hear from you.
All our best,
The new Co-Editors of Business & Society:
Andrew Crane (York U)
Irene Henriques (York U)
Bryan Husted (York U and ITESM)
Dirk Matten (York U)
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