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Best Article Award: Business Horizons 2014
Business Horizons (2015) 58, 135—136
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
ScienceDirect www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
Best Article Award: Business Horizons 2014 Business Horizons and Elsevier are proud to sponsor the annual Best Article Award for the article published in 2014 that best meets the journal’s mission. Nominations were solicited from Business Horizons Editorial Review Board members, with all articles published in 2014 eligible for consideration. The Business Horizons editorial staff, Business Horizons Editorial Review Board, and Elsevier congratulate Professor John (Jack) A. Pearce II in winning the 2014 Best Article Award for his work, “Why domestic outsourcing is leading America’s reemergence in global manufacturing” (Volume 57, Number 1, pp. 27–36). This article is an exemplar of the best of Business Horizons in that it addresses an important and timely topic while offering practical lessons for managers. Professor Pearce covers a very relevant issue by combining strategic thinking with empirical evidence on five important factors: (1) increasingly competitive U.S. labor costs; (2) increasing productivity of the U.S. workforce; (3) increasingly competitive domestic production costs; (4) incentives from federal, state, and local governments; and (5) improved synchronization of production with other business functions. This provocative article predicts a bounce back in American manufacturing and by implication a decline in some of the sectors of the primary outsourcing countries. It addresses an important business topic with a strong analytical perspective and the empirical evidence to support the thesis. In recognition of his accomplishment, Professor Pearce will receive a $500.00 prize. Congratulations! OUR MISSION: Manuscripts submitted to Business Horizons should address topical and timely issues of relevance to business academicians and practitioners. Successful submissions will typically be structured around identifying and developing a problem or issue and providing relevant solutions. Importantly, manuscripts should go beyond description and offer sound prescriptive advice; be solidly grounded in a scholarly foundation with appropriate and judicious use of source citations; and be written in clear, non-technical language, with a broad business readership in mind. While the language should be engaging and informative, authors should avoid the use of jargon and technical terminology.
Editor’s Note I would like to thank the Business Horizons Editorial Review Board members who served on the 2014 Best Article Nominating Committee. They are:
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Candida Brush, Babson College
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Karen Cravens, University of Tulsa
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Vicky Crittenden, Babson College
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Kate Jelinek, University of Rhode Island
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Ron Jelinek, Providence College
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2014.12.001
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Andreas Kaplan, ESCP Europe
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Chiranjeev Kohli, CSU Fullerton
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Dan Laufer, Victoria University, Wellington NZ
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Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall
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Glynn Mangold, Murray State University
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Elizabeth Oliver, Washington & Lee University
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Michael Parent, Simon Fraser University
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Jack Pearce, Villanova University
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Leyland Pitt, Simon Fraser University
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
ScienceDirect www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
Best Article Award: Business Horizons 2014 Business Horizons and Elsevier are proud to sponsor the annual Best Article Award for the article published in 2014 that best meets the journal’s mission. Nominations were solicited from Business Horizons Editorial Review Board members, with all articles published in 2014 eligible for consideration. The Business Horizons editorial staff, Business Horizons Editorial Review Board, and Elsevier congratulate Professor John (Jack) A. Pearce II in winning the 2014 Best Article Award for his work, “Why domestic outsourcing is leading America’s reemergence in global manufacturing” (Volume 57, Number 1, pp. 27–36). This article is an exemplar of the best of Business Horizons in that it addresses an important and timely topic while offering practical lessons for managers. Professor Pearce covers a very relevant issue by combining strategic thinking with empirical evidence on five important factors: (1) increasingly competitive U.S. labor costs; (2) increasing productivity of the U.S. workforce; (3) increasingly competitive domestic production costs; (4) incentives from federal, state, and local governments; and (5) improved synchronization of production with other business functions. This provocative article predicts a bounce back in American manufacturing and by implication a decline in some of the sectors of the primary outsourcing countries. It addresses an important business topic with a strong analytical perspective and the empirical evidence to support the thesis. In recognition of his accomplishment, Professor Pearce will receive a $500.00 prize. Congratulations! OUR MISSION: Manuscripts submitted to Business Horizons should address topical and timely issues of relevance to business academicians and practitioners. Successful submissions will typically be structured around identifying and developing a problem or issue and providing relevant solutions. Importantly, manuscripts should go beyond description and offer sound prescriptive advice; be solidly grounded in a scholarly foundation with appropriate and judicious use of source citations; and be written in clear, non-technical language, with a broad business readership in mind. While the language should be engaging and informative, authors should avoid the use of jargon and technical terminology.
Editor’s Note I would like to thank the Business Horizons Editorial Review Board members who served on the 2014 Best Article Nominating Committee. They are:
•
Candida Brush, Babson College
•
Karen Cravens, University of Tulsa
•
Vicky Crittenden, Babson College
•
Kate Jelinek, University of Rhode Island
•
Ron Jelinek, Providence College
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2014.12.001
136
•
Andreas Kaplan, ESCP Europe
•
Chiranjeev Kohli, CSU Fullerton
•
Dan Laufer, Victoria University, Wellington NZ
•
Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall
•
Glynn Mangold, Murray State University
•
Elizabeth Oliver, Washington & Lee University
•
Michael Parent, Simon Fraser University
•
Jack Pearce, Villanova University
•
Leyland Pitt, Simon Fraser University
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT