Note from the publisher

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(2001), "Note from the publisher", Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 29 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/sl.2001.26129faa.002

Note from the publisher

Emerald, the new name and vision for MCB UP Ltd

From 2002, the publishers of this journal will be changing their trading name from MCB UP Ltd to Emerald. In doing so, we shall be building on the success of the Emerald Fulltext database – the on-line database which contains the current and archival content of Strategy & Leadership and many other journals besides. You will see some very clear changes in 2002: this journal will feature a new logo and an entirely new cover design, both reflecting the Emerald brand.

It is very likely that you already know the Emerald name because electronic usage of our journal content has doubled every year since 1996 and the trend continues. Here are some interesting statistics about the Emerald database:

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  There were nearly 1 million user sessions in 2000.

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  Over 5.5 million articles were delivered to users in 2001 (more than 16,000 per day).

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  Of the world's top business schools, 92 percent choose Emerald journals and 93 percent of them have contributed articles to Emerald journals ("top" business schools based on Financial Times business school rankings 2000).

Why is this such important news for all potential authors amongst this journal's readership? Simply because any paper published in this journal in 2002 ultimately will be disseminated to a vast, global audience of both academics and practitioners. What better incentive could there be for submitting your work to Strategy & Leadership in 2002?

A new Editor for Strategy & Leadership

Long-time readers of this publication will recognise a familiar figure in charge in 2002 when Robert M. Randall takes over from Marilyn Norris as Editor of Strategy & Leadership. The editorship is a homecoming of sorts for Robert, who served until 1995 as managing editor of Strategy & Leadership when it was published by The Strategic Leadership Forum, an organisation for management professionals that dissolved in 1998.

Ever since the publication was founded in the 1970s it has been known as the idea exchange for the whole strategic management community. Robert plans to continue this tradition of offering an exciting opportunity to learn and a great place to publish for corporate and not-for-profit practitioners, academics, and consultants.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by senior practitioners and leading academics working together to select articles by practitioners and academics that are innovative, practical, and well researched. Issues will also contain a mix of how-to articles, case studies, senior management interviews, research summaries, conference reports, book reviews, and letters to the editor.

Robert has extensive experience editing business publications and writing books, white papers, and articles about corporate strategy and management tools. His two latest books are The Portable MBA in Strategy, 2nd ed. (Wiley, 2001) and Learning from the Future: Competitive Foresight Scenarios (Wiley, 1998), both collaborations with Professor Liam Fahey, a competitive strategy expert.

Everyone involved in publishing Strategy & Leadership would like to thank Marilyn Norris, the outgoing Editor, for her energy, creative input and unstinting professionalism in editing the journal since its acquisition by Emerald in 1999. We wish her all the very best for her retirement.

Liberal copyright principles

Emerald seeks to retain copyright of the articles it publishes, without authors giving up their rights to use their own material. This enables Emerald to:

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  Work unencumbered in its development of electronic publications and their delivery to meet customer and end user needs and to create maximum dissemination of authors' work.

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  Protect authors' moral rights and their work from plagiarism and other infringement.

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  Recoup 100 percent of copyright fees from reproduction rights organisations to reinvest in new initiatives (dependent upon 90 percent or more of copyrights being assigned to Emerald in 90 percent of journals).

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  Provide an efficient "one-stop-shop" for permissions.

The Authors' Charter – Emerald's unique Charter explaining authors' rights – can be found at http://www.literaticlub.co.uk/writing/charter.html