I hope the following message will provide a deep breath of relieve for those 
that had been working on a submission and encourage others to compose a 
piece to submit.

After conversations with David Lamond and the editors Journal of Management 
History about the logistics of upcoming special issues, the decision was made 
to postpone publishing the special issue entitled “Celebrating the lives and 
works of Management Pioneers” until early 2010.  

Therefore we are able to extend the deadline for the call for papers for this 
issue until October 30, 2009.  We are also going to submit a symposium 
proposal to the History Division for AOM 2010 to highlight the papers that are 
selected for this special issue. 

Special Issue Details 

Over thirty years ago, Daniel Wren and Robert Hay accepted the call from the 
Academy of Management to assess the most outstanding contributors 
to “American business and management thought and practice” between the 
years of 1774 and 1974 (Wren & Hay, 1977, p.471).  In 2007, we undertook a 
replication and extension of their study that included management pioneers 
from across the globe.  The study, which will be published in an upcoming 
issue of the JMH, identified a “top ten” who left their footprints on the 
landscape of management thought and practice: 1) Frederick Taylor, 2) Max 
Weber, 3) Chester Barnard, 4) Peter Drucker, 5) Henri Fayol, 6) Adam Smith, 
7) Herbert Simon, 8) Alfred Chandler, 9) Joseph Schumpeter, and 10) Alfred 
Sloan.  

Our goal for this special edition of the Journal of Management History is to 
celebrate the contributions of this group, and firmly instill them in the scholarly 
institutional memory (cf Coffey and Hoffman, 2003; Van Fleet and Wren, 
2005), with an article about each for the special issue.  Your submission 
should include a short biography and a consideration of how/why these 
scholars made such a lasting impact on business and management thought, 
practice, theory, and philosophy.  

Electronic submissions should be made using mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmh. 
Contributors should follow the manuscript requirements and author guidelines 
provided at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/jmh/notes.jsp and in 
the back of each issue of the Journal of Management History. 

For inquiries about the special issue, please write to the guest editor Joyce 
Thompson Heames ([log in to unmask]) 

References:

Coffey, J.W. and Hoffman, R.R. (2003). “Knowledge modeling for the 
preservation of institutional memory”. Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 
7, No. 3, pp. 38-52.

Van Fleet, D.D. and Wren, D.A. (2005). “Teaching history in business schools: 
1982-2003”.  Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 4, No. 1, 
pp. 44-56.
Wren, D.A. and Hay, R.D. (1977). “Management historians and business 
historians: Differing perceptions of pioneer contributions”.  Academy of 
Management Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 470-476.