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The Motivating Potential of an Associate Editor’s Role

In: Opening the Black Box of Editorship

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  • Carol T. Kulik

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I served as associate editor for the Journal of Management (JOM) from 2002-05. This role was the single best service responsibility I have had during my academic career. I enjoyed it more, and found it more fulfilling, than any leadership role I held in any professional association or any committee I served on at any academic institution. In fact, I’ll share a deep, dark secret: I enjoyed my editorial work so much that I regularly moved it to the top of my to-do list—ahead of other responsibilities (including, sometimes, my own research agenda) that might have had more direct instrumental benefit to my career. I don’t mean to sugarcoat the experience. It was a lot of work on a relentless schedule, and there were times when I felt a bit like a hamster on one of those exercise wheels, struggling to keep the flow of manuscripts moving forward at a steady pace. But on the whole, I loved it. I relished it. I thrived in it. My personal experience indicates that the role of associate editor can be a good, positive, and developmental one—but I suspect that it’s not for everyone. In this chapter, I analyze my experience as an associate editor, and I offer some diagnostic tips to the academic considering an associate editorship.

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  • Carol T. Kulik, 2008. "The Motivating Potential of an Associate Editor’s Role," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yehuda Baruch & Alison M. Konrad & Herman Aguinis & William H. Starbuck (ed.), Opening the Black Box of Editorship, chapter 22, pages 223-230, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58259-0_22
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230582590_22
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