The New JIBS:
r> Implications
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The New JIBS:
Goals
Publish insightful and influential research on
international business (IB)
Move JIBS into the big leagues ranked among
the top-tier journals of business and management
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The New JIBS:
Structure
Editor in Chief
10 Editors
Managing Editor
Consulting Editors Board (CEB) 30 members
Editorial Review Board (ERB) 150 members
Kitchen Cabinet 12 editors
Palgrave Macmillan Journals
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The New JIBS Structure: Editors
Lorraine Eden
Editor in Chief
Srilata A. Zaheer
Reviewing Editor
Anne Hoekman
Managing Editor
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The New JIBS Structure: Area Editors
Daniel C.
Bello
Sea-Jin
Chang
Witold J.
Henisz
Lee H.
Radebaugh
Lemma W.
Senbet
Anand
Swaminathan
Rosalie
L. Tung
Alain
Verbeke
Arjen van
Witteloostuijn
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The New JIBS Structure: Areas
Daniel Bello
International Marketing & Supply Chain Management
Sea-Jin Chang
Managing the MNE
Witold Henisz
Institutional & Political Environment of IB
Lee Radebaugh
Accounting & IB
Lemma Senbet
Finance & IB
Anand Swaminathan
Organization Theory & IB
Rosalie L. Tung
Intl HR, Comparative & Cross-Cultural MGMT
Alain Verbeke
MNE Theory & International Strategy
Arjen van Witteloostuijn
Economics, Ecology & Strategy in IB
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Consulting Editors Board
Guest Edit up to 3 new manuscripts per year and handle each
manuscript through final decision (may be nominated either by
author or by Editor-in-Chief).
Review up to 3 new manuscripts each year and all revise-and-
resubmits.
Provide advice to the Editor-in-Chief and act in an ad hoc
capacity when requested by the Editor-in-Chief.
Selected on the basis of (1) recommendations by the editors, (2)
top scholars in IB and (3) editorial experience.
Serve July 2007 through December 2008. Second board will be
struck for January 2009 through December 2010.
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The New JIBS Structure: Consulting Editors Board
Male 26
87%
Female 4
13%
University Location: USA
21
70%
University Location: non-USA
9
30%
Belgium 1
3.3%
Canada 3
10.0%
France 1
3.3%
Hong Kong
2
6.7%
Netherlands 1
3.3%
United Kingdom
1
3.3%
AIB Fellow
15
50%
Non-AIB Fellow
15
50%
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The New JIBS Structure: CEB Members
Paul Beamish
UWO
* Tarun Khanna
Harvard
Jean Boddewyn
Baruch
* Stephen J. Kobrin
Wharton
*
Peter J. Buckley
Leeds
* Donald R. Lessard
MIT
*
S. Tamer Cavusgil
MSU
* Kwok Leung
CUHK
Joseph Cheng
UIUC
Yadong Luo
Miami
Farok J. Contractor
Rutgers
* Marjorie A. Lyles
Indiana
*
Tina Dacin
Queen's
Thomas Murtha
UIC
Jose de la Torre
FIU
* Kendall Roth
USC
Yves L. Doz
INSEAD
* Myles Shaver
Minnesota
Vihang Errunza
McGill
Stephen B. Tallman
Richmond
Cheol S. Eun
GIT
David Tse
HKU
Pankaj Ghemawat
Harvard * Danil Van Den Bulcke Antwerp
*
Jean-Franois Hennart Tilburg
* Mary Ann Von Glinow
FIU
*
Robert E. Hoskisson
ASU
Bernard Yeung
NYU
*
Geoffrey Jones
Harvard
Shaker Zahra
Minnesota
* AIB Fellow
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Editorial Review Board
Review up to 6 new manuscripts per year.
Review revise-and-resubmits.
Selected on the basis of (1) recommendations by the
editors, (2) publications in JIBS and other A journals,
and (3) quality and frequency of reviewing for JIBS.
Serve July 2007 through December 2008. Second
board will be struck for Jan 2009 through Dec 2010.
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The New JIBS Structure: Editorial Review Board
Male 117
78%
Female 33
22%
University Location: USA
79
52.7%
University Location: non-USA
71
47.3%
Australia
4
2.67% Netherlands
5 3.33%
Austria
1
0.67% New
Zealand
3 2.00%
Belgium
3
2.00% Norway
1 0.67%
Canada
12
8.00%
Singapore
4
2.67%
Finland
1
0.67% South
Korea
2 1.33%
France
2
1.33%
Spain
1
0.67%
Germany
2
1.33% Sweden
4 2.67%
Hong
Kong
5
3.33% Switzerland
2 1.33%
Israel
2
1.33%
Turkey
1
0.67%
Japan
1
0.67%
United Kingdom
13
8.67%
Mexico
1
0.67%
AIB Fellow
6
4%
Non-AIB Fellow
144
96%
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The New JIBS Structure: Lorraines Kitchen Cabinet
Linda Argote, Carnegie Mellon (editor Organization Science)
Paul Beamish, UWO (former editor JIBS)
Jean Boddewyn, Baruch College (editor Intl Studies of Management &
Organization)
Michael A. Hitt, Texas A&M (editor Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, former
editor Academy of Management Journal)
Duane Ireland, Texas A&M (editor elect Academy of Management Journal)
Bruce Kogut, INSEAD (editor European Management Review)
Maasaki Kotabe, Temple University (editor Journal of International
Management)
Jan Leighley, Arizona (former editor American Journal of Political Science)
Arie Lewin, Duke (editor JIBS, former editor Org Science & Management
Science)
Linda Putnam, Texas A&M (editor Organization, former editor Human
Resources)
Anne Tsui, ASU (editor, Management & Organization Review, former editor
Academy of Management Journal)
Richard Woodman, Texas A&M (editor Journal of Applied Behavioral Science)
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The New JIBS:
Processes
Manuscript Central opens July 1, 2007
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jibs
A new peer
review process:
faster
user friendly
info intensive
gets results
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The New JIBS Processes: Peer Review
Managing
Editor
Out for Review
* CEB GE
* Special Issue
Reviewing
Editor
Editor in Chief
Guest Editor
Editors
Author
Desk Reject
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The Reviewing Editors MC Dashboard
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The Reviewing Editors Checklist
Fit - Is the problem addressed an international business problem?
Fit - Is the research likely to be interesting to international business
scholars?
Fit - Does the manuscript have the potential to advance our
knowledge of international business theory, research or practice?
Fit - Is JIBS the most appropriate journal for publication of this
manuscript?
Quality - Does the manuscript conform to generally accepted
standards of scholarship in style and content?
Quality - Does the manuscript have intellectual depth?
Quality - Are the methods/analysis in the manuscript appropriate to the
research question being asked? Do they appear to be reasonably
rigorous?
Quality - Is the manuscript reasonably clearly written?
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The Editor-in-Chiefs MC Dashboard
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The Editors MC Dashboard
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The New JIBS Processes: Office
Transition dates between Editorial Teams:
07/01/07 New team starts handling submissions
01/01/08 Formal transition date from old to new teams
early 2008 - Closure of JIBS Duke Office and movement
of all open files to JIBS MSU Office files to be entered
into Manuscript Central and re-assigned to new editor.
Web-based Intranet & Video-conferencing
linking the Editorial Team.
Twice Annual Closing of JIBS Office
(AIB, Winter Break).
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The New JIBS Processes: Benchmarking
Source: ISI Web of Science data for selected journals (date accessed 6/12/07)
Yr AMR
AMJ
JIBS
JMGMT JMKTG MS OS SMJ
2006 4.52 3.35
2.25
1.95 4.83 1.69 2.82 2.63
2005 4.25 2.20
1.25
1.54 4.13 1.70 1.99 1.90
2004 3.72 2.65
1.29
1.24 3.10 1.93 2.30 1.98
2003 4.42 3.34
1.39
1.65 2.61 1.47 2.37 2.72
2002 3.70 2.54
1.46
1.74 2.29 1.35 1.61 3.09
2001 3.16 2.83
0.87
1.31 2.40 1.50 2.06 2.68
Benchmarking against the big league
journals of business & management
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The New JIBS Processes: Rankings
Source: ISI Web of Science data for selected journals (date accessed 6/12/07)
JIBS</i>s Rank
among ISI
Business
Journals
JIBS</i>s Rank
among ISI
MGMT Jo