In reaching a milestone in the journal's life, it is a great pleasure to write this editorial celebrating the publication of the 30th Volume. What better way to celebrate than to draw upon those at the helm to document the beginning and the development of the journal-with some thoughts as to where the journal is going. To this end, Cary L. Cooper provides a rich description of the journal's early years as Founding Editor. Denise Rousseau took over the editorship in 1997 and gives her reflections on the challenges and subsequent changes in the journal to stimulate a broader focus on human behavior in organizations. Finally, Neal Ashkanasy the current Editor outlines a roadmap for the future to ensure that Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB) continues to have impact and capitalizes on innovative developments in the field.
As Cary Cooper attests, the initial focus of the journal on the quality of working life was short lived as special issues introduced new topics and areas of research. The inclusion of special issues provides a point of continuity throughout the different editors as a way of stimulating research on embryonic topics but also redirecting research on long standing areas of interest (for example the forthcoming special issue on job design). The first special issue on ''the career and life experiences of black professionals'' edited by Ella Louise Bell (1990) reflected the journal's willingness to publish papers on emerging and new areas of research. This has continued, however, the novel and emerging areas have changed-a case in point is the forthcoming special issue on Terrorism, disaster, and organizational management edited by Keith James.
Under Denise Rousseau's editorship, there was a continuation of the broadening the domain of the journal to reflect the diverse nature of organizational behavior (OB) research. Building upon Cary's work at creating an international journal, Denise continued this endeavour with a great deal of enthusiasm. Through her editorial and board appointments Denise made JOB inclusive in terms of capturing research and researchers around the world. On the horizon was a change that was to become a distinguishing feature of JOB for nearly a decade, the ascendency of CONTEXT. This was a poignant reminder to researchers that context was important in understanding the boundary conditions of a particular phenomenon and also gave researchers the opportunity to promote novel cultural, organizational, temporal, and occupational contexts in which phenomena were investigated.
Turning to the future of JOB-both continuity and change are apparent. As you will read from Neal Ashkanasy's vision for the future, the journal will continue to be inclusive. To achieve this, the mission of the journal has been revised (Ashkanasy, 2008) to reflect the domain of a mainstream OB journal that