JSCM Appoints New Associate Editors

The Journal of Supply Chain Management is known for the constructive and timely nature of its feedback to authors and reviewers. This is only possible because we have a group of carefully selected and well trained Associate Editors who have expertise in a diverse set of methods, theories and topics.

 To continue to improve our AE portfolio so that we could better serve the JSCM community, JSCM has just appointed a number of new Associate Editors:

• Sangho Chae, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands,

• Jury Gualandris, Western University, Canada

• Anton Shevchenko, Concordia University, Canada

• Wendy van der Valk, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands,

• Miriam Wihelm, Vienna University, Austria

• Virpi Turkulainen, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Finland

• Anne Touboulic, University of Nottingham, UK

• Sinead Roden, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

 We are very pleased that all the above members have accepted our invitations and will assume their AE responsibility for the SCM research community.

 This time, the JSCM Co-Editor-in-Chiefs paid special attention to close some gaps in the AE portfolio when selecting the new Associate Editors. This concerns the topics (e.g., an AE was selected who is leading the research domain of the ecological transformation of supply chains), paradigms (i.e., more heterogeneity beyond positivism), and methods (both qualitative and quantitative specialists). Diversity was taken into account when it came to the geographic locations of the new Associate Editors.

 The task of Associate Editors is to consider the reviewers’ review reports (at least three in the case of JSCM, often more) as a whole and, if possible, to constructively show the authors a clear path that ultimately leads to publication in JSCM.