Guest editorial-Exit and transition strategies: now and then, here and there

摘要

Dr John Ullmann is an engineer, statistician, and economist whose major, professional interests lie in the interaction of business, technology and politics. In this special issue, he discusses the wide-ranging changes and downward auctions that have taken place in worklife, including topics such as Walmartization, the deindustrialization of the US and what he calls "the spurious GDP." Harry Truman said, "If you can't convince people, confuse them." There is an alternative to convincing and confusing, i.e. interesting the readers. All the peer reviewers found John Ullmann's manuscript stimulating and therefore, recommended its acceptances, but also suggested that his paper appears first in the special issue. You might want to read the Ullmann's paper first to see whether you agree with the peer reviewers. If you would like to read additional papers written by John Ullmann, please write to him at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York 11549, USA. I shall arrange for him to send you a list of his publications and any papers you choose at no cost to you. Since I am a compulsive editor, I read Dr Ullmann's manuscript eight times looking for places to make appropriate changes and decided to recommend no changes. The only recommendation I even considered was his use of British punctuation, i.e. periods and commas outside, hot inside, final quotation marks. I was not justified in making this "correction," since this special issue of the Journal of Management Development will be published in Britain where Dr Ullmann lived from 1938 to 1948.