Editor-in-chief role comes to Massey

Associate Professor Craig Prichard of the School of Management has been appointed incoming editor-in-chief of the bi-monthly academic journal Organization http://org.sagepub.com/

Dr Prichard has been one of 10 associate editors of the journal for the past three years and will next year take up one of its two editor-in-chief positions, alongside Professor Robyn Thomas of Cardiff University. He replaces Professor Martin Parker of Warwick University. Dr Prichard’s five-year term as editor-in-chief will be funded by the journal, which will buy-out 20 percent of his university workload.

“It’s humbling to be asked to take on this job," he says. "It comes with responsibilities not just to my academic colleagues and the publisher but also to the wider community. Organization is a critical journal. It’s a flag-bearer for research that’s innovative, provocative and deeply challenging of conventional management knowledge and practice. So the job is to keep this flag held high.

“I also see the appointment as a sign of changes afoot. Traditionally the key jobs with leading journals were pretty tightly held by those in European and US universities. It’s encouraging that Organization’s previous editors, who obviously make such appointments, have looked over their horizon to someone in our part of the world to make a contribution.”