Editorial

摘要

At this time of year, JMH has the pleasure of announcing the best paper and reviewer awards from 2015. This award process is overseen by the publisher, Emerald, and is conducted as part of Emerald's Awards for Excellence - 2016 programme. In determining JMH's "best paper", the editorial team (Andrew Cardow, Adela McMurray, im van Lent, Katja Rost, James Wilson and myself) came down to three papers: "Activist manager: The enduring contribution of Henry S. Dennison to management and organization studies" (by Kyle Bruce), "C. Bertrand Thompson and management consulting in Europe, 1917-1934", (by Daniel Wren, Regina Greenwood, Julia Teachen and Arthur Bediean) and "Forgotten contributions to scientific management: work and ideas of Karol Adamiecki" (by Bart Debicki). Each of these three papers discussed surprisingly similar themes (the influence of a management theorist in the inter-war period) and built on significant original archival research. All papers were also good reads. Choosing between them was, therefore, a difficult task. Nevertheless, in the end, it was agreed that the Bruce paper, "Activist manager", should be deemed JMH's "best paper award winner" for 2016 due to the depth of his research. Congratulations, therefore, to Kyle Bruce and also to the authors of the other two papers who will receive formal recommendation from Emerald as the "Highly Commended" papers of 2016. JMH and Emerald would also like to take the opportunity to thank all the reviewers who worked tirelessly behind the scenes, and without whose efforts this journal would not be possible. From this distinguished, if silent, army, we selected two reviewers as the recipients of the Emerald/JMH "Best Reviewer Award" of 2016, these being Anthony Gould (University of Laval, Quebec) and Gabrielle Durepos (Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia). Each of these reviewers distinguished themselves both by the promptness of their reviews and their deep and thoughtful advice. Thanks and congratulations to both.