Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies: Editor change announcement and journal updates – Advancing the field of leadership research
We are pleased to announce that Stefanie Johnson (U. of Colorado) and Mike Palanski (Rochester Institute of Technology) have teamed up as the new co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, a SAGE journal. They succeed Sean Hannah (Wake Forest U.), who steps down after completing 6 years as Editor-in-Chief. JLOS's visibility and impact have grown significantly during Sean's tenure (with the most recent 2-year impact factor of 5.0 and ascendance as a Q1 journal).
Sean will stay on with the journal as a Senior Editor, joining fellow esteemed Senior Editors Bruce Avolio, Tim Judge, Daan van Knippenberg, Ron Piccolo, John Schaubroeck, and David Waldman, as well as a team of outstanding current Associate Editors Min Carter, Lisa Dragoni, Benjamin Galvin, Chad Hartnell, Nathan Hiller, Jim Lemoine, Hannes Leroy, Ron Riggio, and Daan Stam.
In addition, we welcome new Associate Editors Laurie Barclay, Susanne Braun, Michelle Hammond, Paul Hanges, Tiffany Hansbrough, and Becky Reichard.
2024 is JLOS's 30th year in publication. In 2018 the journal returned to its original roots as a leadership-specific journal and has since published impactful articles and commentaries by some of the world's top leadership researchers and thrived as an outlet for leadership research. We invite you to view the journal's website (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/JLO) and prior issues, and to contribute your work to this building canon of top leadership scholarship.
Purpose Statement: The purpose of JLOS is to publish research aimed at helping us understand and predict effective leadership – leadership of people, groups, and organizations. JLOS continuously renews and reinvigorates leadership scholarship, practice and policy by promoting forward thinking scholarship. While leadership in organizations can be informal, it occurs in the context of people holding and acting within the scope of formal positions of management. Thus, we seek to advance research that has clear functional value to managers and leaders across organizations and cultures. JLOS serves to promote scholarship that asks and/or seeks answers to grand questions, embraces paradox, addresses key fissures in scholarly and practical knowledge, and that challenges traditions, paradigms, and the status quo to create jolts and discontinuous growth in the learning curve of the fields of leadership and management.
Dr. Mike Palanski
Professor of Management, Saunders College of Business @ Rochester Institute of Technology
Co-Editor, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies
Author, The Me1st Method: Hands-On Leadership Development for New Roles and Big Challenges
mikepalanski.com