This is my ยฎrst commentary as the new Editor of Strategic Change and probably one of the hardest that I have had to write. I am well aware of the considerable legacy that the founding Editor, Professor David Hussey, has left to me and the accompanying responsibilities of my stewardship of the Journal for the future.
The Journal is now in its ninth year and I feel that I should begin by thanking and congratulating all those concerned for the many ยฎne contributions and achievements made to date. Over those nine years, the Journal has published many excellent original and pioneering articles, cases, industry analyses and reviews from many prominent academics, management practitioners and consultants on a truly international basis. Readers will no doubt remember the prestigious Igor Ansoff Award from the Japan Strategic Management Society given to the Journal for its attainments in the development of Strategic Management which was mentioned in the last edition. I am conยฎdent that over the next nine years such achievements will be both repeated and expanded as the reputation and status of the Journal is enhanced and consolidated.
In acknowledging the accomplishments of the past and looking forward to those anticipated in the future, I would like to thank those retiring members of the Editorial Board for all their hard work and dedication and to extend a very sincere welcome to the new members that have recently joined. The new Editorial Board has been carefully selected to reยฏect and acknowledge the eclectic nature and diverse contributions invariably required in the analysis and attainment of successful strategic change. To that end, there is considerable expertise and experience in, inter alia, marketing, ยฎnance, production, information technology, organisational behaviour and enterprise development among those present. The intellectual, managerial and professional capabilities of the new members will be invaluable in determining and selecting those articles and papers which I hope will have something to say about best practice and the role and contribution of contemporary strategic management developments in attaining and sustaining organisational change.
In recognising the value of such an objective, it has been decided, in collaboration with John Wiley & Sons, to sport a tag line on the newly redesigned front cover, which recognises and caters for the needs and demands of both the academic and practitioner communities that the Journal is designed to appeal to. `Management Strategic Change