Another First for CJAS!

Last issue we celebrated a first for CJAS: the introduction of a non-peer-reviewed interview, in that case an interview with Alex MacBeath, President of Grant Thornton Canada, through Ian Hutchinson and Conor Vibert of Acadia University. They had propos that CJAS mountain an interview series as part of making the journal of interest to the pair academics and practitioners.

You may recall that, in the December 2003 issue, we threw down the gauntlet to our readers with the following prayer to develop a new paper stream: Canada at the Crossroads. Our challenge read:

In order to broaden CJAS's drift and move it further in the direction of an interdisciplinary journal, we would like to introduce a novel paper stream. ... We would like to encourage more conceptual, interdisciplinary manuscripts.

In a novel issue of The Economist, Canada was the overspread story. We have now been declared to be "cool" at least as rather cold as a moose with r sunglasses. The Economist noted that Canada has gone from being the newest addition to the third world in the mid-1990s to a more liberal-minded society, individual that focuses on the lock opener policy issues of the day. notwithstanding this Canadian coolness is not throw backed in a larger number of conceptual articles dealing with the broader policy issues the land faces. ...

We are actively soliciting papers that address these broader issues from an administrative science perspective, and present to consider them under the theme Canada at the Crossroads. We are looking for thought-provoking and stimulating papers, written in an academic turn of expression but not limited to just reporting upon empirical studies or presenting a theoretical original for solving a specific question Rather the intention is to search for articles that address the critical issues Canada will face in the nearest decade, presented in a conceptual and interdisciplinary fashion. We aim to be able to publish at least individual such paper an issue.

In this issue, our first peer-reviewed "Canada at the Crossroads" article appears. Knowing that single of our guest editors had helped the conduct of Canada formulate international air policy, Mary becks suggested that he and his colleagues submit the first "CC" article to CJAS. The sum of two units reviewers were impressed with the quality and substance of the paper; their helpful suggestions to improve the manuscript and the fleet turnaround provided by its authors meant that we could publish the first CC paper in the issue, responding to Mr Bernie Miller's address to ASAC at the annual meeting in Halifax in 2003 This article upon Canada's future international air policy is real timely and focuses on single of the critical issues that Canada will face in the nearest decade. We look for more of these, and reliance you agree this is a solid addition to your journal.

Encore une premi??re dans la RCSA!

Dans notre dernier num?©ro nous c?©l?©brions une premi??re: l'introduction d'une rubrique consacr?©e aux entretiens, articles non soumis aux ?©valuations du comit?© de discourse La premi??re entrevue publi?©e ?©tait celle d'Alex MacBeath, Pr?©sident de Grant Thornton Canada, et ?©tait r?©alis?©e par lan Hutchinson et Conor Vibert d'Acadia University. Ce deux coll??gue avaient alors ?©mis l'id?©e que la RCSA publie une s?©rie d'entretiens dans le dessein de faire en sorte que la revue int?©resse aussi bien le universitaires que le praticiens.

Vous vous souvenez qu'en d?©cembre 2003 nous vous avions jet?© le gants en vous invitant ?  participer ?  la cr?©ation d'une nouvelle rubrique intitul?©e Le Canada au Carrefour. Le d?©fi que nous vous lancions alors se r?©sumait comme suit :

Dans le on the contrary d'?©largir les horizons de la RCSA et pour la rendre beaucoup plus interdisciplinaire, nous souhaiterions cr?©er une nouvelle rubrique. S'il ne fait aucun doute que ce articles ?« conceptuel th?©oriques, et empiriques ? satisfont nos attentes, il n'en demeure pas moins que nous aurions aim?© recevoir davantage de manuscrits qui sont interdisciplinaires dans leur approche.

Le Canada a r?©cemment fait la une de The Economist qui le pr?©sentait comme ?©tant un pays ?« p?©p??re ? ou tout au moins aussi ?« p?©p??re ? qu'un orignal aux lunette de soleil rouge The Economist fait remarquer que le Canada, alors per?§u comme le tout nouveau pays du tiers world au milieu des ann?©es 90 est aujourd'hui une soci?©t?© lib?©rale en plein essor, qui accorde une place de choix aux grandes questions politiques contemporaines. Le probl??me est qu'il n'y a pas le moindre ?©cho de cette s?©r?©nit?© canadienne dans la majorit?© de articles conceptuel qui se penchent sur le questions de politique g?©n?©rale auxquelles le pays fait face.

Nous sollicitons activement de articles qui abordent le questions cruciales du Canada du point de vue de sciences de l'administration. Ce articles seront publi?©s sous la rubrique Le Canada au Carrefour. Notre souhait est de recevoir de articles qui stimulent la r?©flexion, r?©dig?©s dans un diction acad?©mique, et d?©bordant amplement le cadre de seule ?©tude th?©oriques. En plus, ce travaux ne doivent pas se cantonner dans un mod??le th?©orique unique cherchant ?  r?©soudre un probl??me unique. Bien au contraire, ils doivent, dans un manner of writing conceptuel et interdisciplinaire, se pencher sur le grandes questions auxquelles le Canada fera face au cours de la prochaine d?©cennie. Notre ambition est de publier au moins un article de ce mark dans chaque num?©ro.