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 (see attached). 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 (http://bas.sagepub.com/) 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)