ABM News: An update on rankings and boards

I am happy to announce that Asian Business & Management is now listed as a level-2 journal in the Academic Journal Guide 2015 by the Association of Business Schools (United Kingdom). This should increase the attractiveness of the journal to UK-based scholars, which in turn should give a boost to the further development of ABM.

I am further happy to announce a new Editorial Review Board and a new International Advisory Board for ABM. The current line-up is listed below, and I would like to thank all the board members for their willingness to support the work of ABM.

A new element introduced in this reform is that the sitting presidents of all our supporting associations are now ex officio members of the International Advisory Board. We also no longer have a special category of Editorial Advisors. As a result, Ray Loveridge and Gordon Redding have transferred to the International Advisory Board.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all scholars who have completed their terms and are leaving our boards. Their service and commitment has helped launch and grow ABM, and I would like to express my gratitude by listing their names below as well.

New Editorial Review Board

• Regina Abrami, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA

• Christina Ahmadjian, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

• Frithjof Arp, Nottingham University Business School, China

• Kazuhiro Asakawa, Keio University, Japan

• Allan Bird, Northeastern University, USA

• N. Sue Bruning, University of Manitoba, Canada

• Pawan Budhwar, Aston University, UK

• Homin Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

• Adam Cross, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

• Philippe Debroux, Soka University, Japan

• Andrew Delios, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Tony Fang, Stockholm University, Sweden

• Gaston Fornes, University of Bristol, UK

• Stephen Frenkel, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Xialan Fu, University of Oxford, UK

• Jos Gamble, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

• Barry Gerhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

• Vipin Gupta, Simmons College School of Management, USA

• Gary G. Hamilton, University of Washington, USA

• Inge Ivarsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Yoo Jung Ha, University of York, UK

• Aneel Karnani, University of Michigan, USA

• Chung-Ming Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Chaisung Lim, Konkuk University, South Korea

• Xiaohui Liu, Loughborough University, UK

• Shige Makino, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Jonathan Morris, Cardiff Business School, UK

• Lutao Ning, Queen Mary University, UK

• Hiroyuki Okamuro, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

• Markus Pudelko, University of Tübingen, Germany

• Elizabeth Rose, University of Otago, New Zealand

• Margot Schüller, GIGA, Germany

• Hinrich Voss, University of Leeds, UK

• D. H. Whittaker, University of Auckland, New Zealand

• Toru Yoshikawa, Singapore Management University, Singapore

• Mingqiong Zhang, Monash University, Australia

• Connie Zheng, Deakin University, Australia

• Cherrie Zhu, Monash University, Australia

New International Advisory Board

• Chair: Gordon Redding, INSEAD, Singapore; University College London, UK

• Tetsuo Abo, Teikyo University, Japan

• Arindam Banik, International Management Institute, India

• Paul W. Beamish, Western University, Canada (joining from Editorial Board)

• Michael Harris Bond, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

• Tain-Jy Chen, National University of Taiwan, Taiwan

• Henri-Claude de Bettingnies, INSEAD, France

• Peter Dowling, La Trobe University, Australia; President, Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy

• Ronald P. Dore, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

• Andrew D. Gordon, Harvard University, USA

• Martin Hemmert, Korea University, South Korea; President, Euro-Asia Management Studies Association

• Glenn D. Hook, University of Sheffield, UK

• Nobuchika Kaido, Kwansei Gakuin University; President, Japan Academy of Business Administration

• Gary Knight, Willamette University, USA; President, Association of Japanese Business Studies

• Jomo Kwame Sundaram, University of Malaya, Malaysia

• Ray Loveridge, University of Oxford, UK

• Klaus Meyer, China Europe International Business School, China

• Yoritoshi Nagai, Ehime University, Japan; President, Japan Academy of Labour and Management

• Joop A. Stam, Erasmus University, The Netherlands

• Yoshiaki Takahashi, Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University, Japan

• Rosalie L. Tung, Simon Fraser University, Canada

• Franz Waldenberger, University of Munich, Germany, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Japan (joining from Editorial Board)

• Eleanor Westney, MIT, USA, and York University, Canada

• Oliver H. M. Yau, Nottingham University Business School, China

Departing Editorial Board Members

• Min Chen, The American Graduate School of International Management, USA

• Anthony P. D'Costa, Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Harald Dolles, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• John Foster, Kingston University, UK

• Hyuk-Rae Kim, Yonsei University, Korea

• Jacob Park, Green Mountain College, USA

• Ki-An Park, Kyung Hee University, Korea

• Fred Robins, Adelaide University, Australia

• Sten Söderman, Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden

• Robert Taylor, University of Sheffield, UK

• Richard A Werner, University of Southampton, UK

Departing Advisory Board Members

• Schon Beechler, INSEAD, France

• David Birch, Deakin University, Australia

• Suthiphand Chirathivat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

• Ian Gow, University of the West of England, UK

• Vedi Hadiz, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Kazuo Ishida, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

• Jaymin Lee, Yonsei University, Korea

• Hafiz Mirza, University of Bradford, UK

• Yoshifumi Nakata, Doshisha University, Japan

• Shane J. Schvaneveldt, Weber State University, USA

• Toshio Takahashi, President of Japan Society of Business Administration

• Tim Wright, University of Sheffield, UK

• Tsunenori Yasui, Former President of the Japan Academy of Labour and Management