I wish to announce some comings and goings in the journal’s leadership.
Changes to the Existing Team
This issue marks the final one that lists Elizabeth Scott—Libby, to all who know her—as managing editor of BEQ. Libby’s name first appeared on the journal’s masthead in the July 2007 issue, and she has held down the fort for an amazing fourteen years. Her time in the role has spanned the tenures of three editors in chief and included BEQ’s challenging transition to a new publisher and a new online submission processing system. Libby is not just an efficient and effective steward of the journal’s administrative processes; she is a valued colleague within the Society for Business Ethics (SBE) community whose work with editors, authors, and reviewers always blends professionalism and compassion. Her departure from BEQ’s leadership team coincides with her forthcoming professional retirement from her longtime position on the faculty of Eastern Connecticut State University. We wish Libby all the best in future endeavors, and we miss her already. A new managing editor will be announced in the next issue.
Also worthy of mention is the conclusion of Guido Palazzo’s long service as an associate editor of BEQ. Guido was first appointed as an AE in 2009 by then-editor Gary Weaver, and he has served the journal with distinction in the many years since. During my time as editor, he has played a critical role performing initial review and triage (as we call it) of all qualitative empirical papers—a submission category that has grown and has produced some of the best work we have published in recent years. The journal is unmistakably better for having had Guido as part of our leadership team, and I thank him for his dedicated service to BEQ.
New Editors in Chief Named
With the conclusion of my five-year term as editor in chief approaching later this year, the board of directors of SBE recently announced that the next editor will be a pair of editors: Mollie Painter and Frank den Hond have been named incoming coeditors in chief.
Mollie Painter leads the Responsible and Sustainable Business Lab at Nottingham Trent University. She is also affiliated with the Center for Business Ethics at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria in South Africa. Mollie’s scholarship involves extensive published work in business ethics, continental philosophy and moral theory, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. She served previously as editor in chief of the Business and Professional Ethics Journal.
Frank den Hond is the Ehrnrooth Professor in Management and Organisation at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki and is affiliated with the Department of Organization Sciences in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Frank’s widely published scholarship addresses corporate social responsibility, social movements, and corporate political activity. He served previously as a coeditor in chief of Organization Studies.
The volume of submissions to BEQ has grown prodigiously over the last decade, which helps make the concept of coeditors in chief an idea whose time has come. I look forward to watching Mollie and Frank as they work not only to advance the journal’s quality and reputation but also to expand and diversify its perspective.
