Dear GDO colleagues of the Academy:
Recently, the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (CJAS) has quietly dropped the Gender & Diversity in Organization (GDO) and Critical Management Studies (CMS) as free standing sections of the journal. There was no consultation with the section editors, the section editorial boards, or with GDO and CMS members of its sponsoring organization, the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). We have approached the incoming editor, Dr. V. Baba, and was informed that we could simply submit our work to the Interdisciplinary section of the journal. Submission to the Interdisciplinary section requires us to justify the interdisciplinary nature of our work (which it is not!), and creates an unnecessary hurdle for disseminating our work. By way of background, CJAS is a broad based management journal, with multiple fields such as accounting, finance, marketing, human resources, etc. as free standing sections. After two decades of appeal by the GDO division of ASAC, a GDO section was finally established in 2009/2010 by out-going CJAS Editor, Dr. Rick Hackett, to meet the needs of scholars working on GDO research. We feel that by eliminating GDO from CJAS, the journal is taking a step backwards, and the scholarship and existence of GDO scholars will continue to be marginalized.
On behalf of the ASAC GDO divisional executive (Drs. Maria Rasouli, Elaine Yakura, and Waheeda Lillevik), I am asking for your support in signing our online petition to restore GDO as a free standing section within CJAS.
Thank you in advance for your support.
http://www.change.org/petitions/member-at-large-asac-to-reinstate-the-gender-diversity-in-organization-section-of-cjas
Cordially,
Ed Ng
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Ed Ng, PhD
Associate Professor, Organizational Behaviour
Dalhousie University