Creating a leading journal and maintaining academic freedom created by Rune Todnem By, Bernard Burnes and Cliff Oswick

In the year gone by JCM was represented at several conferences. At EGOS, in sunny Helsinki, we ran an Editorial Board meeting and played an active role in the overwhelmingly overcrowded ‘Meet the Editors’ session together with colleagues representing the world-leading journals Organization Studies, Organization Science and Organization. At AOM, in always welcoming Boston, we ran another Editorial Board meeting, and we contributed to the Organization Development & Change (ODC) Doctoral Student Consortium and the ODC Professional Development Workshop (PDW) focusing on change resistance. These activities were followed up by a JCM/Routledge drinks reception. Looking back on 2012 we can be proud about our success of working towards creating a global and inclusive community centre for all scholars with an interest in organizational change and its management. We published three exciting and very different special issues: Changing Identity and the Identity of Change (guest edited by Deborah Price and Rolf van Dick); The Globalizing City