Although Organization Management Journal (OMJ) was first published as an Eastern Academy of Management (EAM)-sponsored journal in 2004 after a 2-year planning phase, this first issue of 2008 marks the advent of our Palgrave Macmillan period. Of course, we are still sponsored by the EAM, but we have now signed a 10-year contract with Palgrave Macmillan to join their journals group and take advantage of their marketing and publishing expertise for purposes of increased efficiency in preparing our content, improved presentation of that content, and a much widened distribution of the journal throughout the world.
If you like the articles you see here, please help by encouraging your library to obtain an institutional subscription of OMJ and other Palgrave journals with which it might be bundled. Individual subscriptions are available by being or becoming an EAM or EAMI member. Who is the EAM? EAM is one of five regional management academies in the US that are affiliated with the international Academy of Management headquartered in the US. EAM has international meetings (EAMI) every other year throughout the world and counts many international members among its membership. If you attend a meeting, you are automatically enrolled as a member, and thus an OMJ subscriber, until the next meeting. If you have not attended, but would like to be a member, simply click on the EAM link on our home page on this site, and for a modest fee you will be enrolled as a member and an OMJ subscriber in that way.
We are very pleased to offer a Special Issue in our White Paper Series to kick off our relationship with Palgrave Macmillan. Our four papers in the Series have either an author or co-author who has been very active in the EAM, but that is not a pre-requisite for authorship in the Journal! In fact, we are very interested in soliciting manuscripts from throughout the world.
Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, EAM's immediate past President and a new member of the OMJ Journal Advisory Board, has introduced the four manuscripts with a very informative Editor's Introduction, so I will only take a sentence apiece on them before I send you on to her. For the second year in a row, all the White Papers have been written in a way to make them easily accessible to practitioners, and all have attempted to close the gap between theory and practice in business. Professor Jean Bartunek of Boston College is a past President and a Fellow of the international Academy of Management; her paper deals with how the work of organizational development specialists and academics can be mutually informing if we only encourage the forums to allow that to happen. Professor Emerita Frieda Reitman of Pace University and Professor Joy Schneer of Rider University have been researching and writing about career development for over 25 years; they chronicle the twists and turns in thinking about careers over those years and suggest ways that companies need to adjust to the career expectations of their employees. Professor Sandra Waddock, also of Boston College, has written several books and a myriad of articles on issues of corporate social responsibility and ethics; in her White Paper, she suggests that companies, driven by their stakeholders as well as the public and the government, are becoming increasingly cognizant of their corporate citizenship image and reputation, and she goes on to describe how they are voluntarily offering themselves to monitoring associations and other objective agencies for feedback and assessment. In the final White Paper, Professor Dilip Mirchandani of Rowan University, President-Elect and a Fellow of EAM, collaborates with Professor Emeritus John Ikerd of the University of Missouri, author of Sustainable Capitalism: A Return to Common Sense; their article deals with how companies are greeting and meeting the necessities of sustainability. These four articles could not be more timely and up to date with regard to corporate challenges of the first part of the 21st century, and I am sure readers will be much more informed and stimulated for having read them.
