This capstone issue of volume 13 of Management and Organization Review is a poignant moment for me, and at the same time inspiring, as we remember, celebrate, and honor our colleague, friend, and intellectual giant Kwok Leung. He was my friend, mentor, and teacher, who introduced me to the literature and controversies crisscrossing the landscape of cross-cultural research as I learned the ropes of leading the Journal of International Business Studies. He was eloquent and persistent in persuading me to accept the challenge of following Anne Tsui as Editor-in-Chief of Management and Organization Review, which at age eighty opened up for me exciting new intellectual horizons for which I am profoundly grateful. Kwok has been a prolific scholar with over two hundred peer-reviewed publications that collectively have received over 20,000 citations. I know that we will always miss Kwok, but his legacy will continue to shine and remind us of him.
The call for papers celebrating and advancing the scholarship of Kwok Leung attracted twenty-two submissions of which seven papers makeup this special issue. I wish to express my deep appreciation and thanks to the guest editors – Michael W. Morris, Zhen Xiong (George) Chen, Lorna Doucet, and Yaping Gong – whose dedication to guide the authors and craft this special issue can only be described as exemplary and truly a work of love. To further attract attention to the special issue and to Kwok's scholarship, MOR and Cambridge University Press have assembled a collection of cross-cultural papers that appeared in MOR. This collection can be downloaded at no cost here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/management-and-organization-review/crossculturalcollection. The collection is introduced by MOR Deputy Editor Chi Yue Chiu's editorial essay ‘Culture Matters: A Perspective on Advancing Cross-Cultural and Indigenous Research’, which follows this letter. Lastly, I wish to note that Professors and MOR Senior Editors Chao C. Chen and Zhi-Xue Zhang have co-edited, with Xiao-Ping Chen, a collection of papers by Kwok Leung that was published by Peking University Press in June 2017.
