What Should JOBM Be When It Grows Up?

• Published in: Journal of organizational behavior management Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 127 - 130
• Main Author: Crowell, Charles R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01-04-2012; Routledge
• Subjects: Administrative Organization; Audience Awareness; Behavioral Science Research; Business; Community; Industrial Psychology; Periodicals; Personnel Management; Scholarship; Theory Practice Relationship; Writing for Publication
• ISSN: 0160-8061; 1540-8604
• DOI: 10.1080/01608061.2012.675868

The lead article in this issue by VanStelle et al. (2012) presents a meta-analytic review of "Journal of Organizational Behavior Management" ("JOBM") publications during its third decade and is a follow up to two previous reviews presenting similar analyses for the first (Balcazar, Shupert, Daniels, Mawhinney, & Hopkins, 1989) and second (Nolan, Jarema, & Austin, 1999) decades of the journal's existence. As noted by the authors, results for the third decade showed several continuing "JOBM" publication trends consistent with those observed in the previous two reviews, along with some interesting differences somewhat unique to the third decade. As was the case for its two predecessors, the third-decade review makes an important contribution to the understanding of continuing and recent trends in published Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) work. Moreover, it highlights many issues that should be of great interest to the OBM community served by this journal. In this article, the author calls attention to three of these issues which he frames in the form of questions. For each, he provides a few brief comments toward the goal of provoking thought and discussion within the OBM research community and the readership of this journal.