The future of the Journal of Management History

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Carraher, S.M. (2012), "The future of the Journal of Management History", Journal of Management History, Vol. 18 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmh.2012.15818aaa.001

The future of the Journal of Management History

Article Type: Editorial From: Journal of Management History, Volume 18, Issue 1

Welcome to the eighteenth volume of the Journal of Management History. Professor David Lamond has moved the journal a long way since he assumed the editorship. It has gone from being a section of Management Decision to once again being its own individual journal. This is the first issue that I am putting together as the new editor so I thought that in addition to telling you about the articles I could also tell you something about myself, and what I hope to accomplish with the journal. I received my PhD from the University of Oklahoma where I studied Management History with Daniel Wren back in 1990. I have taught for a variety of universities from coast to coast within the USA and also overseas having done three Fulbright trips. I have been on the editorial board for the JMH since 2004 and served as a guest editor and author. I have published approximately 150 articles and four books which have been cited about 3,800 times according to Publish or Perish [it should be over 4,000 by the time that this is published]. I am a past Division Chair of the Management History and Technology & Innovation Management divisions for the Academy of Management and past President of the SouthWest Academy of Management and the Small Business Institute® I am currently the Hodson Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship & Business and Professor at Indiana Wesleyan University and the current holder of the Oxford Journal Distinguished Research Professorship from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. I have served as an editor since 2004 when I became the founding editor of the International Journal of Family Business which at the time was affiliated with the International Family Business Center/Academy of the Texas A & M University system, the China University of Geosciences at Beijing, and the US Association for Entrepreneurship & Small Business Special Interest group in International Research. I am married to someone with a degree in History [expertise Cold War Russia] and she is a far better editor than I am.

What types of goals do I have for the journal? Well, I think that David has done an excellent job of improving the quality and reputation of the journal and I hope to continue with this forward momentum. In order to do this there are several issues that we need to take a look and consider with articles. In 2013 – one volume away – we hope to begin the process of review for inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index [Thompson ISI]. We need to increase the citation rates for articles from the Journal of Management History and cite more work from SSCI journals – especially those published by Emerald. It is a good idea that no more than 20 percent of the articles cited in submitted manuscripts be from the Journal of Management History. We also shall need to encourage authors, reviewers, and editorial review board members to write letters of support for our application.

In terms of expected changes to the journal, they should be minor. I would like to see more interviews with Academy of Management Fellows in order to help record management history. We’ll be having a group of leading scholars who shall be working on a standardized series of questions in order to allow the interviews to be more scientific. I would also like to see more empirical work done in management history and try to increase our impact on the field and practice of management. I have directed research in 114 countries and would like to see more global research in management history and this issue does a good job of moving us in that direction with papers about China and Canada. It would be nice to have more papers about management history from other cultures as well.

This issue contains seven articles including ones examining the impact of the Hawthorne studies on management scholarship from 1930 to 1958, the importance of the Tang dynasty in branding contemporary Xi’an, gender inequity in Nova Scotia, labour reform in the late 1800s, the letters of Benjamin Montgomery, innovations and the Shaker community, and Peter Drucker as a modern day Aristotle. Enjoy your walk through the latest issue and please consider submitting more of your finest work to the Journal of Management History. While the JMH is the finest journal dealing with management history, with your help we can continue to improve and get even better.

Shawn M. Carraher