Tradeoffs Among Editorial Goals in Complex Publishing Environments

Opening the Black Box of Editorship, co-edited with Yehuda Baruch, Alison M. Konrad, and Herman Aguinis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

34 Pages Posted: 13 Apr 2017

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William H. Starbuck

University of Oregon - Charles H. Lundquist School of Business; New York University (NYU) - Department of Management and Organizational Behavior

Herman Aguinis

University of Colorado at Denver - Health Sciences Center; Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Management & Entrepreneurship

Alison M. Konrad

University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivey School of Business

Yehuda Baruch

Southampton Business School

Date Written: April 2008

Abstract

Editors need to think about their intrinsic rewards, and hence about their motives and goals. Why do you want to serve as an editor? What satisfactions do you hope to receive from the experience? Recognition? Visibility? Methodological change? Establishment of a nascent research domain? Incremental improvement in an established domain? Promote the development of a sub-discipline? This chapter offers an explicit analysis of some central choices that editors can make about their roles. Reflecting on these choices can help editors to use their time and efforts more effectively and to see the advantages and disadvantages of their activities.

Some editors achieve greater success than do others. Circulations, subscription revenues, downloads, and citations offer quantitative evidence. The historical statistics include instances in which citations to a specific journal have risen dramatically, or plummeted, during one editor’s term and then stabilized when that editor left the job.

Keywords: editing, journals, editorial goals, performance

Suggested Citation

Starbuck, William H. and Aguinis, Herman and Aguinis, Herman and Konrad, Alison M. and Baruch, Yehuda, Tradeoffs Among Editorial Goals in Complex Publishing Environments (April 2008). Opening the Black Box of Editorship, co-edited with Yehuda Baruch, Alison M. Konrad, and Herman Aguinis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2950891

William H. Starbuck (Contact Author)

University of Oregon - Charles H. Lundquist School of Business ( email )

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New York University (NYU) - Department of Management and Organizational Behavior ( email )

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Herman Aguinis

University of Colorado at Denver - Health Sciences Center ( email )

4200 E. Ninth Avenue
Denver, CO 80262
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Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Management & Entrepreneurship ( email )

Bloomington, IN 47405
United States

Alison M. Konrad

University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivey School of Business ( email )

1151 Richmond Street North
London, Ontario N6A 3K7
Canada

Yehuda Baruch

Southampton Business School ( email )

Highfield
Southampton S017 1BJ, Hampshire SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

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