Growing Together and Embracing Change: A Farewell Editorial

I am stepping down after serving for 20 years as editor of the Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems/Contabilitate și Informatică de Gestiune (JAMIS). Regularly editors have term limits imposed upon them, with the resulting advantages (such as instilling change) and, potentially, limitations (as rapid or drastic changes sometimes may dilute the brand or prevent accumulations over time). My appointment of editor of JAMIS did not have any term limit, as an institutional journal issued by a university, but it feels like now it is the right moment to pass the baton and to embrace change, both for myself and the journal. I would like to reflect in this farewell editorial on the field, the journal, our journey together, as a platform for our professional future. I started my work at JAMIS in 2006, when I was a young university lecturer (having defended my PhD in 2005). Therefore, we (the journal and I) professionally grew together. I became editor when the academic interest started to shift in Romania from teaching to research, similar to other countries (Albu & Albu, 2012; Albu & Lungu, 2012). Therefore, the evolution of the journal parallels the one of the Romanian (and international) academic environments. The whole story is complex, and it is explained below.