From the Editor

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Pate, L. (2007), "From the Editor", International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 15 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijoa.2007.34515aab.001

From the Editor

From the Editor

This issue marks a new beginning for the International Journal of Organizational Analysis. My last two editorials (Pate, 2006a, 2006b) discussed the many problems the journal experienced in the past. We are now looking to the future. I am pleased to report that Ken Mackenzie and Mariann Jelinek have agreed to serve as the journal’s two new Associate Editors; Craig Lundberg has joined us as a Consulting Editor and will be writing a regular column entitled “Perplexities” for each issue; Joe Champoux is our new Film Review Editor; and Arthur Wolak is our new Copy Editor. Each of them is well established and well respected, and they are also good and decent people I enjoy working with. Our new Editorial Board includes some of the top people in the field from Harvard, Yale, Wharton, MIT, McGill, Berkeley, INSEAD, Bath, Lancaster, Queensland, Amsterdam, Northwestern, Michigan, Duke, and other leading universities. Biographical information on all our editorial team members is available on our website (www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ijoa/eabinfo.jsp).

We are looking for articles that break new ground, offer a new theory or methodological advance, provide a new synthesis of competing theories, or open up a new area of research. We, therefore, give preference to articles that establish new lines of inquiry, redirect exhausted or unproductive lines to more promising lines, and shut down those heavy on method but light on consequences. Mostly, we prefer vigor over rigor. We expect some of our articles to spark controversy and debate, which is precisely why we publish them. For example, Ken Mackenzie’s opening article in this issue challenges the very logic surrounding the concept of randomness, an obviously key concept in organizational research and analysis. We do not ask that you agree or disagree with Ken; we do ask that you give thought to his argument and that you take his analysis seriously.

I want to thank Kim Foster, the journal’s publisher at Emerald, for giving me the opportunity to serve as the journal’s new Editor-in-Chief. All of us associated with the journal are dedicated to giving you - the reader - valuable, relevant, and timely information on organizational issues from around the world. The quality of the articles we publish will depend upon the quality of the research being conducted, written about, and submitted to the journal for review. Thus, while we are attempting to move the journal closer toward other top journals in the field, we can not get there without good manuscripts. Please send us your best manuscript for publication consideration. We will soon be going to an online submission process, but for now you may submit them to the Associate Editors or me (see www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ijoa/notes.jsp).

This is your journal. Write and let us know how we are doing.

Larry PateRedondo Beach, California, USA