Citation
Healy, N.A. (2010), "Editor’s note", Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 31 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/jbs.2010.28831baa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Editor’s note
Article Type: Editor’s note From: Journal of Business Strategy, Volume 31, Issue 2
Most readers of JBS are probably quite familiar with the practitioner-academic debate as it pertains to publishing and management education. Practitioners do not read scholarly journals and generally make their decisions without advice from academics on the latest research. Academia continues to educate future managers but has little contact with the business world those managers will enter. All of this is simplified and rife with exceptions, but the gist is accurate.
Everyone agrees that the chasm between academia and business still exists and may even be widening. There is much discussion but the problem continues unabated. Therefore, it took a certain amount of courage for John Humphries and his colleagues from Texas A&M to weigh in on this great divide. Their paper is crisp, candid and should encourage dialogue between the two camps. I would be delighted to receive comments from readers on the subject.
One of the features that make JBS appealing to business people (we think) is our three columnists, shown to advantage in this issue. Each is remarkably different from the other yet they are routinely on target with commentary and insight. Our columnists are all consultants as well as practitioners, and they carve out time (usually late at night!) from frantic schedules to write about topics that interest them as well as readers. As an editor, I consider myself and the publication fortunate that these original thinkers regularly contribute to the content.
JBS has several changes to the Editorial Advisory Board. Robert J. Thomas, Executive Director of Accenture’s Institute for High Performance and a professor at Tuft’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy has joined the board. His newest book, Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to be a Great Leader, joins a number of other books he has written or co-authored, along with many articles in leading journals. The Accenture Institute is a global “think and act tank” whose members also serve as subject matter experts to clients throughout the world.
Dwight Gertz, a long-standing board member, has joined Babson College as a full-time lecturer in management. Betty Vandenbosch has left Case Western to join Kaplan University as Vice President for Business and Technology. Catherine Dalton, also a long-time board member and former columnist for JBS, has decided to withdraw from the board and concentrate on other pursuits.
We hope you enjoy the diversity of this issue and welcome comments.
Nanci A. Healy