Editorial

Citation

(2007), "Editorial", Personnel Review, Vol. 36 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/pr.2007.01436aaa.001

Editorial

From this issue onwards a new editorial team is now responsible for Personnel Review. Based at Newcastle University and led by John Leopold, Professor of HRM and Deputy Director of the Business School, the Newcastle based team comprises Stephen Procter, Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB), with John Blenkinsopp and Simon Down as Associate Editors. In order to enhance the journal’s ability to source and review articles from different parts of the world, we have brought two new regional editors on board. Julian Teicher, who is Head of the Department of Management at the Graduate School of Business at Monash University, will cover the Asia Pacific region and Paul Boselie of Tilburg University will cover continental Europe. We are actively seeking a Regional Editor for North America. Mark Saunders of Oxford Brookes University continues as Book Reviews Editor and our team is completed by Paula Fernandez, our Publisher at Emerald. Paula replaces Lucy Sootheran, whom we thank for her contribution to Personnel Review.

The transfer of the journal a mere 14 miles up the motorway from Durham to Newcastle represents an opportunity for both continuity and gradual change. We pay tribute to the work Tom Redman has done in his decade of editorship. Tom has solidly established the journal in the firmament of HR journals so that it attracts a substantial number of articles, but only the very best of these make it through to publication. Tom has also managed to attract submissions, reviewers and member of the EAB from across the globe. These are achievement we intend to build on. We want to enhance the international standing of the journal both in terms of where we attract submissions from, but also in terms of the standing of the journal in every continent. To that end Stephen Procter will be leading a review of the Editorial Advisory Board and we will also be working closely with our expanded network of Regional Editors. The new EAB will be asked to reflect on and offer suggestions about the scope and direction of the journal.

We have inherited from Tom a significant number of accepted articles and articles in review. In order to progress these articles more quickly to publication so that our editorial influence may be seen sooner, Emerald have agreed to increase the size of each issue for volume 36, meaning that all articles currently in the final stages of the review process should be published by the end of 2007.

Articles should now be submitted to john.leopold@ncl.ac.uk. Following initial review by the editor, suitable articles will be sent for double blind review and this process will be managed by one of the Associate Editors who will then be in touch with the authors. We continue to welcome your submissions and to further developing the success of Personnel Review.