Growth and continuity at APJM

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These are auspicious times for the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM). Over the last decade or so APJM has firmly established itself as the leading general management journal focused upon Asian organizations and their relationship to the global economy. All indicators point to continuing growth and development: submissions to the journal have doubled over the past 3 years from 345 in 2009 to over 700 in 2012. Readership, as measured by full text downloads, has increased dramatically from some 66,000 in 2008 to almost 120,000 downloads in 2011. Moreover, this readership is geographically diverse, in percentage terms the readership is very healthy in the UK (which accounts for 14 % of full text downloads), followed by China (13 %), Australia (10 %), the USA (9 %), and Germany (6 %). Since its recent inclusion in the Social Sciences Citation Index, APJM has received two very respectable impact factors: 3.35 in 2010 (reported in 2011) and 3.06 in 2011 (reported in 2012). These impact factors rank us in the top 20 management journals worldwide and the first among all management journals with a declared regional focus. All of these are very encouraging. I can say I am delighted to begin my term as APJM’s Editor-in-Chief in this journal’s 31st year of publication. …