JOCM - Journal of Organizational Change Management

JOCM - Journal of Organizational Change Management

JOCM is definitely more innovative, more inclusive (postmodern, environmental entrepreneurship , spirituality to critical theory and everything in between), and of course constantly challenging status quo-- Ram Tenkasi, JOCM Editorial Board

New Editorial team of JOCM: Editor "Slawomir Magala" <slawomirm@hotmail.com>: Articles are submitted to the regional editors:
"Dr Adrian Carr" <a.carr@uws.edu.au> Asia and down under region
"Hugo Letiche --- Den Haag / Utrecht" <h.letiche@uvh.nl> & "Cliff Oswick" <cliffoswick@aol.com> for European region
"Alexis Downs" <downsale@emporia.edu> and "David Boje" <dboje@nmsu.edu> for U.S. submissions

"Nike, Greek goddess of victory or cruelty? Women’s stories of Asian factory life" Vol. 11 (6) by David M. Boje (html version). PDF version (PDF version). pre-publication html version.

Crafted culture: governmental sculpting of modern Singapore and effects on business environments by Usha C.V. Haley, Linda Low (press here).

Electricity industry reform: a case analysis in Australia by Lindsay Nelson, Peter J. Dowling (press here).

Informational network industrialization and Japanese business management by Sam K. Steffensen (press here).

International strategies of corporate culture change: emulation, consumption and hybridity by R.I. Westwood, P.S. Kirkbride (press here).

Transforming the tax collector: reengineering the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore by Siew Kien Sia, Boon Siong Neo (press here).

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JOCM Vol 10 1997 (press here) for index.
JOCM Vol 10 1997 Issue 1 (press here) - Storytelling Special Issue

Journeys in a declining industry: stories of footwear manufacturing by Toby Harfield, R.T. Hamilton (press here).

Pairing myth with type of change: implications for change communication by Muayyad Jabri (press here)

Rhetoric and action: when a literary drama tells the organization's story by Nanette Monin, D. John Monin (press here).

Telling changes: from narrative family therapy to organizational change and development by David Barry (press here).

Towards demokratia - myth and the management of organizational change in ancient Athens by Stephen Cummings, John Brocklesby (press here).

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JOCM Vol 10 1997 Issue 2 (press here) - Spirituality and New Designs of Work Issue

A postmodern spiritual future for work by Jerry Biberman, Michael Whitty (press here).

Improving organizational health by addressing organizational trauma by Enid Hilton Brown (press here).

Joblessness, pain, power, pathology and promise by Dan Butts (press here).

The future of work in the digital diaspora: economic restructuring and education by David N. Cooper (press here).

Work, authority and participation: the scenario of circular organizing by A. Georges L. Romme (press here).

Work, gender and the future by Øystein Gullvåg Holter (press here).

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JOCM Vol 10 1997 Issue 3 (press here) - Consultation Special Issue

Collective construction changes organizational reality: An illustration of the relative influence of both consultants and organizations by Christof Baitsch, Frank Heideloff (press here).

Consulting in mergers and acquisitions: Interventions spawned by recent trends by Mitchell Lee Marks (press here).

Enhancing strategic partnerships: Intervening in network organizations by Anthony F. Buono (press here).

Intervening in the shadow systems of organizations: Consulting from a complexity perspective by Patricia Shaw (press here).

The concept of "client" from a process consultation perspective: A guide for change agents by Edgar H. Schein (press here).

Towards a general model of consultancy: Foundations by Craig C. Lundberg (press here).

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JOCM Vol 10 1997 Issue 4 (press here)

An inter-gender dialogue regarding inter-gender relationship development in organizations by Terence C. Krell, Joan Winn (press here).

Dynamic management of the environmental enterprise: a qualitative analysis by Lorraine Uhlaner Hendrickson, Dale B. Tuttle (press here).

Employee ownership as catalyst of organizational change by Barbara R. Bartkus (press here).

The functions of methods of change in management consulting by Andreas Werr, Torbjörn Stjernberg, Peter Docherty (press here).

The stress factor: another item for the change management agenda? by Marie McHugh (press here).

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JOCM Vol 10 1997 Issue 5 (press here)

Critical management studies in postmodernity: oxymorons in outer space? by Shayne Grice, Maria Humphries (press here).

Grace, magic and miracles: A "chaotic logic" of organizational transformation by Benyamin M. Lichtenstein (press here).

Organizational learning mechanisms and continuous improvement: A longitudinal study by Yoram Mitki, A.B. (Rami) Shani, Zvi Meiri (press here).

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JOCM Vol 10 1997 Issue 6 (press here)

Does the implementation of total quality management (TQM) change the wellbeing and work-related attitudes of health care personnel?: Study of a TQM prize-winning surgical clinic by Mika Kivimäki, Eerikki Mäki, Kari Lindström, Arto Alanko, Sanna Seitsonen, Kirsi Järvinen (press here).

Feelings and interpretations during an organization's death by J. Barton Cunningham (press here).

The new AACSB accreditation standards: a prospect of tiering? by John F. McKenna, Chester C. Cotton, Stuart Van Auken (press here).

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JOCM Vol 9 1996 (press here) for index.
JOCM Vol 9 1996 Issue 1 (press here) - Organizational Learning Special Issue

Conviction and doubt in organizational learning by Param Srikantia, William Pasmore (press here).

Exploring knowledge diversity in knowledge intensive firms: a new role for information systems by Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi, Richard J. Boland Jr (press here).

Organizational knowledge, learning and memory: three concepts in search of a theory by J.-C. Spender (press here).

Resolving the spirit and substance of organizational learning by Mark Addleson (press here).

The role of creative action in organizational learning and change by Cameron M. Ford, dt ogilvie (press here).

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JOCM Vol 9 1996 Issue 2 Index (press here)

A management communication strategy for change by Stuart M. Klein (press here).

An international comparison of organization development practices The USA and Hong Kong by Chung-Ming Lau, Gary C. McMahan, Richard W. Woodman (press here).

Mental imagery: An alternative to top management team replacement for declining organizations by Peter A. Stanwick (press here).

Preventing workplace harassment: an organizational change perspective by Diana L. Deadrick, R. Bruce McAfee, Paul J. Champagne (press here).

Qualitative research and reflexive faculty change potentials by Stephen L. Payne (press here).

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JOCM Vol 9 1996 Issue 3 (press here) - Globalization, Toyotaism and Asian Management

A comparison of the modernistic Toyota model of greenfield start-ups with a pre-modern Chinese family business transplanted to the USA by Cliff Cheng (press here).

As they see US: the Americanization of a Japanese multinational in the USA by Tomoko Hamada (press here).

Filmic representations for organizational analysis: the characterization of a transplant organization in the film Rising Sun by Joel Foreman, Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery (press here).

Maintaining Yoshino's traditional hierarchy: the roles of gender and race in Japanese transplant management by Sara Clark (press here).

Managing changes in globalizing business: how to manage cross-cultural business partners by George Graen, Chun Hui (press here).

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JOCM Vol 9 1996 Issue 4 - Missing from MCB archives

JOCM Vol 9 1996 Issue 5 (press here) - Boyce Storytelling Special Issue

Critical incident story creation and culture formation in a self-directed work team by Ann T. Jordan (Press here)

Flowering feminism: consciousness raising at work by Amy Segal (press here).

From integration to racial justice: Organizational learning in the YWCA byMary E. Boyce, Carol Ann Franklin (press here).

From theory to practice: research territory, processes and structure at an organizational learning centre by George L. Roth, Peter M. Senge (press here).

Historical foundations of organization learning by Philip H. Mirvis (press here).

Organizational learning research profile by Mary Crossan, Tracy Guatto (press here).

Organizational story and storytelling: a critical review by Mary E. Boyce (press here).

Stories for executive development: An isotonic solution by Janet Greco (press here).

"The 250lb man in an alley": Police storytelling by Connie Fletcher (press here).

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JOCM Vol 9 1996 Issue 6 (press here)

Co-management for workplace democracy by Michael Whitty (press here).

Organizational learning and resource-based theory: an integrative model by Ken A. Smith, Satish P. Vasudevan, Mohan R. Tanniru (press here).

Organizations as places: a metaphor for change by Christa L. Walck (press here).

Reframing and organizational action: the unexplored link by Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford (press here).

Understanding the management of change: An overview of managers' perspectives and assumptions in the 1990s by Wes Siegal, Allan H. Church, Miriam Javitch, Janine Waclawski, Steffani Burd, Michael Bazigos, Ta-Fu Yang, Kate Anderson-Rudolph, W. Warner Burke (press here).

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JOCM Vol 8 1995 Index (press here)
JOCM Vol 8 1995 Issue 1 (press here) - 1st JOCM Women and Change Issue

Characterizing accounting consultants: gender does make a difference by Bonnie P. Stivers, Jane E. Campbell (press here).

The role of women in workplace diversity consulting by Donna M. Stringer (press here).

Viewpoint: perspectives on women in consulting by Teresa Joyce Covin, Marilyn E Harris (press here).

What has it been like to be a woman consultant over the last two decades? by Marilyn E Harris (press here).

Women in organization development: A profile of the intervention styles and values of today's practitioners by Janine Waclawski, Allan H. Church, W. Warner Burke (press here).

Women's voices in organizational development: questions, stories, and implications by Kathy L. Kaplan (press here).

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JOCM Vol 8 1995 Issue 2 (press here) - AACSB plus Postmodern Change topics

Business school emphasis on teaching, research and service to industry: does where you sit determine where you stand by John F. McKenna, Chester C. Cotton, Stuart Van Auken (press here).

Evaluation of team-based management: a case study by J. Michael Whitfield, William P. Anthony, K. Michele Kacmar (press here).

Gender, voice, electronic communication and postmodern values: beyond e-mail to e-talk by Janet Gillespie, Gordon Meyer (press here).

Operationalizing the postmodernity construct for efficient organizational change management by Robert F. White, Roy Jacques (press here).

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JOCM Vol 8 1995 Issue 3 (press here) - Consultation Special Issue

Consulting for real transformation, sustainability, and organic form by Dianna R. Old (press here).

Internal consulting: perspectives on the process of planned change by Miriam Y. Lacey (press here).

Management consulting in the schools: lessons from a system-wide intervention by Anthony F. Buono, Aaron J. Nurick, Alan N. Hoffman (press here).

Strengthening corporate governance through board-level consultants by William B. Werther, Jeffrey L. Kerr, Robert G. Wright (press here).

The impact of third parties on strategic decision making: Roles, timing and organizational outcomes by Todd Saxton (press here).

The implementation game by Willem J. Vrakking (press here).

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JOCM Vol 8 1995 Issue 4 (press here) - JOCM's 1st Anti-Globalization Special Issue

Challenging the juggernaut of globalization: a manifesto for academic praxis by David S. Steingard, Dale E. Fitzgibbons (press here).

Global ideals, local realities: the development project and missionary management in Russia by Christa L. Walck (press here).

Globalization folklore problems of myth and ideology in the discourse on globalization by Robert S. Spich (press here).

Globalization, borderless worlds, and the Tower of Babel: Metaphors gone awry by Carolyn Green, Karen Ruhleder (press here).

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JOCM Vol 8 1995 Issue 5 (press here) - Anti-globalization Part II

Discourses of global competition: Obscuring the changing labour processes of managerial work by Kenneth N. Ehrensal (press here).

Equal employment opportunity and the management of diversity: A global discourse of assimilation? by Maria Humphries, Shayne Grice (press here).

The sacred, the erotic and the ecological: the politics of transformative global discourses by Punya Upadhyaya (press here).

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JOCM Vol 8 1995 Issue 6 (press here) - Gender and Voices Special Issue

Finding voice within the gender order by Frank J. Barrett (press here).

Multi-level gender conflict analysis and organizational change by Cliff Cheng (press here).

Solidarity and praxis: being a change agent in a university setting by Mary E. Boyce (press here).

Three women's stories of feeling, reflection, voice and nurturance: from life to consulting by Spirit Hawk, Susan M. Schor, Kathleen Kan, Cindy Lindsay (press here).

"Witness us in our battles": Four student projections of black female academics by Toni C. King (press here).

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JOCM Vol 7 1994 Index (press here)
JOCM Vol 7 1994 Issue 1(press here) - First Spirituality Issue by JOCM

In the Manner of Friends: Learnings from Quaker Practice for Organizational Renewal by Meryl Reis Louis (press here) for html article

Listening with Spirit and the Art of Team Dialogue by Larry Levine (press here).

The Shamanic Perspective on Organizational Change and Development by Peter J. Frost, Carolyn P. Egri (press here).

Third-order Organizational Change and the Western Mystical Tradition by Jean M. Bartunek, Michael K. Moch (press here).

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JOCM Vol 7 1994 Issue 2 (press here) Pro-TQM Issue

Beyond TQM Programmes by Bert Spector, Michael Beer (press here).

Designing Performance Management Systems for Total Quality Implementation by David A. Waldman (press here).

Quality Management and the Process of Change by Jeanne Almaraz (press here).

Quality, Strategy and Structural Configuration by Abraham B. Shani, Martin Rogberg (press here).

Self-managed Work Teams: TQM Technology at the Employee Level by Carol Sexton (press here).

The Impact of a TQM Intervention on Workplace Attitudes in a Health-care Organization by Steven M. Sommer, Deryl E. Merritt (press here).

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JOCM Vol 7 1994 Issue 3 (press here)

Changing Patterns of Power, Chaotic Dynamics and the Emergence of a Post-modern Organizational Paradigm by Richard A. Jenner (press here).

The Japanese Approach to Quality Management - A Human Resource Perspective by John Zhuang Yang (press here).

The Parable of Diagnostics by William B. Wolf (press here).

The Relationship between Work Setting and Employee Behaviour:: A Study of a Critical Linkage in the Organizational Change Process by Peter J. Robertson (press here).

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JOCM Vol 7 1994 Issue 4 (press here) JOCM's 1st Ecology Issue

Build in Sustainable Development and They Will Come: A Vegetable Field of Dreams by Bruno Dyck (press here).

Can Humankind Change the Economic Myth? Paradigm Shifts Necessary for Ecologically Sustainable Business by W. Edward Stead, Jean Garner Stead (press here).

Environmentalism in Progressive Businesses by Philip H. Mirvis (press here).

From Domination to Partnership: The Hidden Subtext for Sustainable Change by Riane Eisler (press here).

Managing the Environmental Change Process: Barriers and Opportunities by James E. Post, Barbara W. Altma (press here).

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JOCM Vol 7 1994 Issue 5 (press here) - some postmod storytelling

From a "Grand Story" to Multiple Narratives? Studying an Organizational Change Project by Iiris Aaltio-Marjosola (press here).

Organizational Change: Relationship between Reactions, Behaviour and Organizational Performance by Dianne S. Lewis (press here).

Reacting to What? by John Sinclair (press here).

The Paradoxical Gravity of Planned Organizational Change by Heather Höpfl (press here).

The Sting of Organization: Command, Reciprocity and Change Management by Stephen Linstead, Andrew Chan (press here)

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JOCM Vol 7 1994 Issue 6 (press here) 1st JOCM Diversity Special Issue

A Different Way of Making a Difference: Learning through Feelings by V. Jean Ramsey (press here).

Caring, Voice and Self-reflection: Feminist Values and Organizational Change by Susan M. Schor, William Van Buskirk, Dennis McGrath (press here).

Diversities, Differences and Authors' Voices by David M. Boje, Grace Ann Rosile (press here).

Diversity as Community and Communions: A Taoist Alternative to Modernity by Cliff Cheng (press here).

Multiplicity and Change in Persons and Organizations by Mary Ann Hazen (press here).

Things that Go Wrong in Diversity Training: Conceptualization and Change with Ethnic Identity Models by Cindy Lindsay (press here).

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THE FOLLOWING CONTAIN ONLY ABSTRACTS
JOCM Vol 6 1993 Index (press here)
JOCM Vol 6 1993 Issue 1 (press here) - Abstracts only - AAACSB Special Issue
JOCM Vol 6 1993 Issue 2 (press here) - Abstracts only - Eastern Euro Change Issue
JOCM Vol 6 1993 Issue 3 (press here) - Abstracts only - Eastern Europe part II
JOCM Vol 6 1993 Issue 4 MISSING First Anti-TQM Issue - MCB needs to add this one! See Boje and Winsor article "Anti-TQM" It is now available on PROQUEST database - see pre-publication version (press here).
JOCM Vol 6 1993 Issue 5 (press here) - Abstracts only - Has Fitzgibbons/Steingard article critical of TQM

JOCM Vol 5 1992 Index (press here)
JOCM Vol 5 1992 Issue 1 (press here) - Abstracts only - 1st Postmodern Theme Issue - I

A Postmodern Organization Goes for a Modern Prize: A Brief Ethnography of CompuAdd's Application for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award by Larry Davis Browning, James J. Ziaja, Debra R. France (press here)
A Poststructuralist Perspective on the Third Dimension of Power by Joyce K. Fletcher (press here)
Critical Theory and Organizational Sciences: A Primer by A.J. Grimes (press here).
Organization and the Body: Post-Fordist Dimensions by William P. Hetrick, David M. Boje (press here).
Postmodernism and Excellence: The De-differentiation of Economy and Culture by Hugh Willmott (press here).
Postmodernism and Postmodernity in Organization Analysis by Linda Rouleau (press here).
Postmodernism and Power/Control by Leonard C. Hawes (press here).
Postmodernism and the Marketing Organization by A. Fuat Firat (press here).
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JOCM Vol 5 1992 Issue 2 (press here) - Abstracts only - Postmodern Theme issue -II

Bureaucratic Discourse and the Goddess: Towards an Ecofeminist Critique and Rearticulation by Connie Bullis, Hollis Glaser (press here).
Empowerment, Culture, and Postmodern Organizing: Deconstructing the Nordstrom Employee Handbook by H.L. Goodall (press here).
Organizational Stories as a Window on Affect in Organizations by William Van Buskirk, Dennis McGrath (press here).
Postmodern Management? by Stewart R. Clegg (press here).
Talking the Post-Fordist Talk,...but Walking the Post-industrial Walk by Robert D. Winsor (press here).
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JOCM Vol 5 1992 Issue 3 (press here) - Abstracts only - Large Systems Change
JOCM Vol 5 1992 Issue 4 (press here) - Abstracts only - Some Design

JOCM Vol 4 1991 Index (press here)
JOCM Vol 4 1991 Issue 1 (press here) - Abstracts only - Strategy theme
JOCM Vol 4 1991 Issue 2 (press here) - Abstracts only
JOCM Vol 4 1991 Issue 3 (press here) - Abstracts only - 1st Storytelling Special Issue
JOCM Vol 4 1991 Issue 4 (press here) - Abstracts only - Consultation

JOCM Vol 3 1990 Index (press here)
JOCM Vol 3 1990 Issue 1 (press here) - Abstracts Only
JOCM Vol 3 1990 Issue 2 (press here) - Abstracts only - Some are HR related
JOCM Vol 3 1990 Issue 3 (press here) - Abstracts only

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JOCM Vol 2 1989 Index (press here)
JOCM Vol 2 1989 Issue 1 (press here) - Abstracts only
JOCM Vol 2 1989 Issue 2 (press here) - Abstracts only - Lou Pondy Memorial Issue
JOCM Vol 2 1989 Issue 3 (press here) - Abstracts Only - entrepreneurship articles

JOCM Vol 1 1988 - Not on MCB web - needs to be added by MCB.

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The purpose of this site is to provide potential authors with some idea of the kinds of articles that are published at JOCM by the MCB publishers in the UK. This is NOT an official MCB website. The price is U.S. $3699.00 for six issues a year and unless you are Bill Gates or a library, you will not be getting a subscription. Please consult with the MCB publishers official UK web site if you are seeking a subscription (press here). In the meantime, JOCM board members and institution libraries who have purchased JOCM are free to browse the many downloadable articles in either html or pfd format listed below. Some institutions apparently have the download privilege and others do not.. If you do not, then here is what you can do:

MCB offers a FREE 30 day use policy to view their on line archives of abstracts (press here). Merely select the HUMAN RESOURCES Interest Area, then JOCM as your journal of choice (Your guest username and password will be e-mailed to you and you will have access to JOCM abstracts for 30 days). This guest access apparently does NOT permit one to download complete articles. It does allow you to see the abstracts. Once you have you ID name and a password, you can (press here) and enter the Emerald Library and give your customer ID and password when asked.

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MCB AND JOCM LINKS - Some Details on Contacting Us and MCB

Upcoming JOCM Issues & Links to Calls for Papers - OPEN TO ALL
Review JOCM abstracts on line at MCB (press here) NEED PASSWORD
Download on line articles in html or pdf format.NEED TO PURCHASE or BE JOCM BOARD MEMBER
MCB JOCM Home Page (press here). OPEN ACCESS
Editorial Board Member List (press here). OPEN ACCESS
MCB Table of Contents for JOCM (press here). MAY NEED PASSWORD, but SEE BELOW
Notes to contributors (press here). OPEN ACCESS
MCB On line Search Engine (press here). MAY NEED PASSWORD
MCB preice list (press here).
Or, you can simply enter CONTRL and F keys now to search this page for key words.

Please Check out the Gameboard SITES Related to ODC-All FREE

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QUICK GUIDE: How to become a postmodern theorist - Probably a must read for authors to publish in JOCM

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JOCM HISTORY - JOCM was founded and first edited by Larry Pate in 1988. The price of the 1989 subscription for three issues was a quite reasonable $35 a year. I (David Boje) began editing with Larry as a Guest Editor in 1989 for the Lou Pondy memorial issue. In 1989, when MCB doubled the price to $75 a year, Larry and several board members resigned in protest. In 1990, I was not consulted when MCB once again doubled the subscription price to about $150/year. In 1991, we went to four issues a year and MCB did precisely the same thing and raised the subscription to $300 or so without any prior warning to the editor or board members. In 1991 and 1992 I produced some initial special theme issues on Postmodern Theory and Storytelling as applied to change, and finished up some issues Larry had in the pipeline. I edited five issues a year until 1994 when we begain six issues a year. While the journal is too expensive for average mortals, it has continued to gain in academic stature. Of 120 MCB journals, I am told that we have the most hits on the web and I assume the most citations. And I see evidence that we are well cited in so-called tier one journals. Our acceptance rate has gone from 60% in the early 1990s to less than 9% in the late 1990s. We have theme issues booked for the next two years (press here). Our editiorial board is comprised of the top scholars in the world (press here).

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Why is JOCM so expensive? With a 1999 price of $3699, I have wondered how JOCM stays afloat. MCB bundles JOCM with other Human Resource journals to offer libraries, reduced package offers. They add up the individual prices listed below and give substantial discounts for bundles. Try as Larry did or as I continue to do, MCB is just not at all interested in individual subscribers, except for the likes of Bill Gates. Leadership and OD does have a reduced subscriber rate (see below). But, it is still quite out of reach to your average social science professor or student. The reality is the JOCM subscription price is now over 10 times the amount that Larry Pate resigned over and I continue to protest. For interesting article on journal prices see http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/business/03PUBL.html
There are also curious and strange omissions in the on line MCB abstract lists. That is articles that were published that have been purged or otherwise vanished from the official data bases. This includes the entire anti-TQM special issue of JOCM Vol. 6 1993 Issue 4. MCB assures me that this is an error and the abstract will be restored. It was JOCM's First Anti-TQM Issue and circulates widely just the same.
Also, why is JOCM Vol. 9 1996 Issue 4 - Missing from MCB archives? MCB could add these to its archives to improve the quality of its holdings. For some reason MCB has not put in the abstracts from the original 1988 issue. Larry and I have both asked for this.
Finally, I notice that a piece I wrote that was critical of Nike Corporation has been deleted from the MCB index and no longer appears in the MCB search engine. Many scholars around the world study Nike (press here). Given the strict libel laws in the UK, puling the Nike article is, to them, sensible. I accept and understand MCB's decision. The UK, as I understand it, does not have FREE SPEECH in its constitution. The deicsion does, however, raise issues of academic freedom, and freedom of publishers from corporate influence (imagined or not). The HTML and PDF files are still at MCB and can be accessed if you care to bother to check the codes of the other articles in Volume 11, issue 6.

"Nike, Greek goddess of victory or cruelty? Women’s stories of Asian factory life" JOCM, Volume 11(6): 461-480 by David M. Boje. It was wiped from the index and search engine as if it never existed. Yet for now the original MCB file is there in HTML (press here) and in PDF version (press here) float in cyberspace. But this article has been removed from MCB's official index but the files are still on line. I have my own humble on-line copy- (Press here) for my own personal pre-publication copy. . This is what article should look like if you could find it.

One last item on Nike. While MCB and JOCM will never again publish an article with the word "Nike" in it, there are other journals that will. There is an extensive list of journals publishing Nike articles in the Nike Research proposal I put together with 45 other academic scholars who want to improve the condition of some 600,000 workers (mostly young women) working in what many describe as sweatshop conditions. Nike executives are now reviewing the proposal. We have requested permission to work with a sample from the 700 Nike subcontractor factories and see if we can demonstrate that paying a living wage and providing human-friendly working conditions is cost effective as well as humane. Our idea is that once sweatshop managers realize that change is possible and perhaps more profitable than fighting losing PR battles, they will genuinely committed to change. In the meantime, I continue to embarrass Nike into ending its sweatshop practices. Ending sweatshops was an action that unites figures as disparate as Frederick Taylor, Karl Marx and Adam Smith. Surely we can all agree that global corporations who can afford to pay sports celebrities $100 million dollar contracts can also afford the pennies it would cost for living wages.
Finally, if you have a Nike article, I edit a journal called TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science. There you will find a joint issue on Nike by TAMARA and CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING. Finally, Academies such as Academy of Management, International Academy of Business & Society, and International Relations Research Association are sponsoring sessions on Nike (and others are pending).
The last I heard, JOCM was in over 700 libraries and had an 80% international subscription base. This was several years ago and though I even went to the UK and asked directly, I have not received any update on the circulation figures for several years. Over the years I have also repeatedly asked for a reduced subscription rate for individuals and for Academy and IABD association members. The answer is "no." At $3699 times 700 libraries, not to mention all the package deals with other journals, JOCM makes at least $2,589,300 dollars a year. That is just from JOCM. Consider that we are not the most expensive journal. In U.S. dollars as of September 30th, 1999 (press here):
Employee Relations Journal is $9759.00
European Journal of Marketing is $7439.00
Industrial & CommercialTraining is $7199.00
International Journal of Bank Marketing: For the financial services sector is $9979.00
International Journal of Manpower is $9699.00
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management is $9159.00
International Journal of Social Economics is $7619.00
Journal of Economic Studies is $6,999.00
Journal of European Industrial Training is $9299.00
Journal of Management Development is $7709.00
Leadership & Organization Development Journal is $8699.00**
Library Management is $8349.00
Management Decision is $8699.00
Marketing Intelligence & Planning is $8749.00
Personnel Review is $7999.00

Note: Update- The Leadership and O.D. Journal is now US$6,599 per year insted of $8,699. With a membership in The Organization Development Institute (price US$110), a one year subscription to The Leadership and O.D. Journal is available for US$650

In sum, we are not the most expensive, but the price is beyond the average salary of an individual scholar and student. Many libraries do subscribe to MCB journals, including JOCM Libraries begin with the lure of a very reasonable 1989 $35 a year charge (in our case) which doubles until it approaches in a few more years, $4,699 and many are approaching the $10,000 mark. Being bureaucratic, it is not so easy for a library to drop a journal, so while the number of subscriptions for the cash cows drops off, the net result is massive accumulation of publisher wealth. U.S. libraries are particularly poor these days and have been weeding their collections. Thus, the 80% international subscription base for JOCM, plus the fact that our board is International in composition. MCB's strategic response has been to get into the virtual library market, by offering libraries on line access to a hundred MCB journals for say $20,000 (not an exact quote). The thinking is that print journals are dinosaurs and virtual web and cd journals will overtake the market. Indeed MCB's search engine will pull up topics from a wide array of journals with hot links to references. It is no doubt the way that scholarship will be conduced in transnational cyber-media publish or perish.
On the plus side, JOCM continues to be a strong journal, respected in its field with the best editorial board of any journal anywhere. Copies of JOCM circulate in the academic community and theme issues are particularly well circulated in OD and Change Ph.D. seminars. And MCB continues to support JOCM with annual best paper awards for the Academy of Managements, ODC division best paper aword, for the past eight years running. And for the past several years, MCB has generously allowed editorial board members, reviewers, authors, and friends of JOCM to gather around some pizza at the annual meetings. In short, we get excellent support from MCB.
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My Editor's vision - JOCM offers an alternative set of philosophies and critiques of change management, one not to be found in more managerialist-oriented journals. I am interested in particular in postmodern, including theatrics, large system or transorganizational development, storytelling, restorying, critical theory, and other areas not traditionally addressed in change journals. I would like to see some comparative studies that would look for example contrast appreciative inquiry, Emery's participative democracy, and other approaches to change. In the past decade I have also worked hard to make JOCM an international and gendered journal. You can see this reflected in the make up of the editorial board. We are strong supporters of the Consultation and Organizational Development and Change Divisions of the Academy of Management, as well as the International Academy of Business Disciplines. This year our critical postmodern track will deconstruct Las Vegas. Many of our editorial board members, reviewers, and authors attend these meetings so we can be more than a virtual community. My vision in short is to help bring new philosophies and more qualitative methods to the scholarship and praxis of organization change.
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JOCM THEMES - JOCM has established a number of unique themes that have shaped its identity in the past decade. Get to know us. When submitting articles please tie into one or more of these themes. They range from postmodern theory, critical theory, large system change, storytelling, spirituality, gender, diversity, voice, international change, environmental entrepreneurship, and critiques of such hallowed institutions as AACSB, TQM, and globalization. You will also find pro and anti-TQM, and pro and anti-globalizaton themes. Recent issues have been particularly critical of reengineering, mindless TQM, the excellence, market forces, globalization, and empowerment fads. At the same time, as editor I honor competing points of view and those who continue a dialogue begun in any of the earlier issues. To allow these critiques, debates, and emergent organizational change philosophies to continue, we invite you to search our databases.
Several issues each year are organized around special themes. We continue to publish items that reference and extend these earlier themes.

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Volume 14 Number 5 2001