Capacity building at the Asia Pacific Journal of Management

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This is my final editorial as editor-in-chief of Asia Pacific Journal of Management, a position I have held since January 2013, and I would like to take the opportunity to reflect upon my association with the Journal. Prior to my appointment as editor-in-chief I previously served a 5-year term as a senior editor having been an editorial review board member for several years before that. However, my first association with the Journal was through an APJM special issue conference on the Asian Multinational Corporation organized by former APJM editor Kulwant Singh at the National University of Singapore in February 1997, just as the Asian financial crisis was breaking throughout the region. The conference resulted in the publication of a 1998 APJM special issue dedicated to what is now referred to as emerging economy multinationals and to my knowledge APJM was the first journal to identify the now much researched phenomena (e.g., Carney, 1998; Makino & Beamish, 1998; Wan, 1998). …