Reflections from the Editor’s Desk

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Notes

1 T.S. Eliot (1971), ‘Little Gidding’, Four Quartets, 145.

2 To learn more about the AAHANZBS, do visit the Business and Labour History Group website at the University of Sydney: https://www.sydney.edu.au/business/our-research/research-groups/business-and-labour-history-group.html

3 I offer this comment as Department Editor at the Journal of Operations Management, which might seem to be a strange bedfellow for an historian. I have learned much from my ‘ops’ colleagues with respect to interdisciplinary thinking, rigour, relevance, empirical evidence and novelty.

4 McWatters (2016) discusses speculation, history and speculative history. The editorial outlines the decision to consider a manuscript that sought to balance the ‘what-ifs’ with the evidence initially judged as ‘highly speculative’. After rich debates with the authors and the reviewers, we published Dean Clarke and Capalbo (2016) with the critiques by Bryer (2016) and Toms (2016) to present a variety of perspectives.

5 In the past, we published a list of ad hoc reviewers to recognise and thank colleagues for their contributions. Privacy legislation requires us to seek approval for inclusion on this list, rendering its publication less comprehensive and potentially misleading.