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Introduction
This is the very first 2016 issue of Chinese Management Studies (CMS) in the year of the Monkey and heralds within the journal a renewal process. As founding Editor (now Editor-in-Chief), I realized that with almost 300 submissions a year (and the number is still rising), it is timely for us to institute an even more intense and rigorous process of attracting top-quality papers. Quantity does not necessarily mean quality and the kind of papers that will help CMS establish a distinctive identity and making global impacts. In short, CMS needs to be attracting works crafted on the theme of Chinese management, yet of the “best paper” variety.
For this reason, the Editors (the members of editorial board) are encouraged to organize through Sun Tzu Art of War Institute (a Singapore-based and registered supra-university corporation) single-theme conferences. We already have in place a conference (entrepreneurial failures) to be held in Beijing and chaired by Professor Lin Song. In addition to the competitive element, any scholar may propose a thematic conference on an emerging field of research.
Do not misunderstand me, we always value all submissions via Scholar One, and for that reason, we have appointed a Deputy Editor-in-Chief. The goal is to institute a timely yet careful filtering of the submissions. Professor Chris Chan has assumed the role to manage the CMS Editorial Office. Any filtering process ought to be grounded on a given set of criteria. For this, he uses the pre-tested, now widely accepted, bilingual Author’s Guide ([1] for the fast-video version).
To truly understand the culture of research inside China, I will continue visiting universities across China. From my recent 2015 November visit to Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU 东北工业大学: dong-bei-gong-ye-da-xue[2], I realize that more universities in China ought to follow NPU. Figure (1), a photograph showing one of the regular presentations by management scholars working as a team.
The membership of the group should be organized informally on the basis of the commonly shared theme of research. In the case shown above, it is projects. Group interactions in the brain-sharing of ideas may lead to scholars to discover new perspectives. Then, as an extension of these meetings, scholars may then continue pursuing breakthrough thinking. Yes, the dialogues continue over...