Editorial

• Date: 01 September 2007
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.20
• Author: Rick D. Hackett
• Published date: 01 September 2007

Can J Adm Sci

Copyright © 2007 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 147 24(3), 147–148

Editorial

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Revue canadienne des sciences de l’administration

24: 147–148 (2007)

Published online in Wiley Interscience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/CJAS.20

*Correspondence to: Rick D. Hackett, DeGroote School of Business,

McMaster University, Canada

Another ASAC conference has come and gone and

this year’s meeting in Ottawa was surely one of the best,

with apparent record attendance. Congratulations to all

the “Best Paper” award winners; please do consider

CJAS as a viable outlet for your work! It was with

considerable pleasure that I made presentations at the

conference for the two papers that shared the Verity

International Award for Overall Outstanding Paper

in Management published in CJAS in 2007. As men-

tioned in my June editorial, winning authors were: Tania

Saba (University of Montréal), Mathieu Blouin (Univer-

sity of Montréal), Louise Lemire (Université de Quebéc)

for their paper entitled Modalités de travail à temps

plein ou partiel et son inf‌l uence sur les attitudes et com-

portements au travail: L’effet médiateur de la violation

du contrat (Volume 23, number 4); and Ali Danisman

(Cukurova University, Turkey), C.R. Hinings (Univer-

sity of Alberta) and Trevor Slack (University

of Alberta) for their paper entitled Integration and

Differentiation in Institutional Values: An Empirical

Investigation in the Field of Canadian National

Sport Organizations (Volume 23, number 4). I thank this

year’s Verity Award adjudication committee, which

consisted of Stéphane Coté (Rotman School of Busi-

ness), Ann Langley (HEC Montréal) and Jean McGuire

(Louisiana State University). Of course, I extend my

gratitude to Verity International for their sponsorship of

this award. One of my most rewarding experiences as

Editor-in-Chief of the journal is sharing in these celebra-

tions of excellence.

I announced in my March 2007 editorial that we

have entered into a ten year partnership with Wiley &

Sons. Since then, Wiley & Sons purchased Blackwell,

and so our partnership is more precisely with Wiley-

Blackwell. All articles published in CJAS will be acces-

sible in hard print and from Wiley InterScience (www.

interscience.wiley.com). Papers will appear here even

before they appear in hard print, under their Early View

feature.

I have worked closely with Wiley-Blackwell in

evolving a policy for printing manuscripts submitted in

French accessible in the two off‌i cial languages of Canada

– both French and English. Authors submitting in French

will have their papers reviewed and adjudicated in

French. These manuscripts will be translated into English,

with CJAS absorbing the cost of this translation. Both

the French and English copies of the paper will be posted

on Wiley InterScience. Authors will then decide whether

they wish to have the hard-copy appear in French or in

English. Our decision to make the French manuscripts

accessible in English is motivated by a strong desire to

make the papers more widely accessible and thereby

enhance their citation impact. An impact analysis of all

papers published in CJAS clearly shows that French

manuscripts are virtually uncited; with English papers

receiving signif‌i cantly more citations. I do not believe

that this difference in citation rates ref‌l ects differences in

the scholarly contributions of the papers. Rather, it is

much more likely that French papers reach a much

smaller audience. I sincerely believe that these latest

changes will – over the longer term – be of tremendous

benef‌i t to both the journal and its authors. I do hope you

agree, as I have gone to great lengths to do what

I believe to be in the best interest of all stakeholders

(authors, subscribes, the ASAC Executive, and

Wiley-Blackwell).

In the coming months you can look forward to a

change in the cover of the journal, which will entail a

new CJAS logo, a new website, and a new electronic

infrastructure for accepting submissions, assigning manu-

scripts to reviewers, and enabling authors to track the

progress of their papers through the review cycle.

I am constantly looking for ways to increase the

international reach and overall stature of CJAS and

welcome your ideas. You may send your comments to

cjas@mcmaster.ca