2012 has been an exciting year for JMS: we have achieved an impact factor of 4.255 — our highest ever — and kicked off celebrations for our 50th anniversary. In 2013 we will publish two commemorative issues of the journal: one reviewing how management scholarship has changed over JMS’ history, and the other looking forward to emerging issues in the field. Be sure to sign up for JMS content alerts to be notified as soon as these exciting issues are published.
We hope that you find the news and research in this bulletin an interesting read. Remember that you can stay up to date with the latest JMS content on our website: www.journalofmanagementstudies.com. If you would like to discuss your idea for a paper, or a special issue, you can email Managing Editor, Jo Brudenell, at j.m.brudenell@durham.ac.uk.
Bill Harley, Andrew Corbett, and Andrew Delios
Celebrating Classic JMS
The JMS Classic Article series is a twice-yearly feature, where we celebrate some of the landmark papers published in the journal, by asking a new generation of scholars to reflect upon the modern legacy of this research.
Petrigrew critically examines the strengths and limitations of his own work. He then compares the methods of five other process scholars – Mintzberg, Burgelman, Langley, Van de Ven, and Eisenhardt – to highlight developments in process research since the 1980s, and to identify future research directions.
Harry Sminia and Mark de Rond work with the ideas contained in Pettigrew's original article alongside insights from institutional entrepreneurship, to make a case for the processualization of strategy content research, and for a further humanization of strategic management.
Point Counter-Point
The JMS Point Counter-Point series invites differing perspectives on topical issues in management studies. The latest Point-Counterpoint debates are free in volume 49, issue 1, and deal with one of the richest theoretical traditions in the management literature: agency theory.
Robert M. Wiseman et al. open this Point–Counterpoint by challenging the traditional critique of agency theory — that it is limited because it reduces human behaviour to a simple pursuit of self-interest. They assert that because goals vary by institution, once one has mapped the institutional context, it becomes possible to understand how the varying goals between principals and agents will be manifest as typical agency problems.
Loizos Heracleous, and Luh Luh Lan approach this debate from a completely different angle. They agree that agency theory should be institutionally sensitive, but argue that the institutional sensitivity or variability of agency theory is not the point that should be under debate. Instead, they contend that the very precepts of agency theory need to be revisited.
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