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As Group Decision and Negotiation enters its 26th year of publication, an opportunity arises to thank everyone who has contributed to the success of our Journal over the years. I would like to offer word of gratitude to our readers, our contributors, and our Editorial Board for their support of the Journal and its mission. I would also like to express my appreciation to the editorial team at Springer: Stefan Einarson (Publishing Editor), Christopher Wilby (Assistant Editor), Ambiga Selvaraj (Production Editor), and Abdul Hakkim (Journal Editorial Office Assistant); they have all helped me learn about the Journal’s operations and have been instrumental in making 2016 another successful year.
In the first six months of my tenure, as I reviewed submissions and worked with the Departmental Editors, Associate Editors, authors and reviewers, an emerging function of the GDN journal has become clearer to me. Group Decision and Negotiation has an important role to play in scholarly discourse. The Journal provides insights and tools into practice related to managing and resolving conflicts. It proposes theories grounded in empirical studies as well as models and procedures of decision-making by individuals and groups. Decisions are made in social-psychological settings within economic-technical systems and they affect decision-makers, stakeholders, and our environment. Articles published in the journal describe and analyze processes in which human and/or artificial agents participate, cooperate, and compete. Our interdisciplinary Journal publishes impactful papers that contribute to our understanding and improvement of organizational, social and political factors affecting group decisions and negotiation processes—this is exemplified by the first issue of 2017, which includes the Special Issue on Justice and Fairness in Negotiation, as well as the accompanying research articles.
1 Editorial Board
Group Decision and Negotiation is poised to become an even stronger and more widely recognized contributor to the broader group decision and negotiation discourse. Steps taken toward achieving this include broadening the Editorial Board. In 2016, the following eminent scholars committed to our Journal, joined the Editorial Board:
Fuad Aleskerov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University, UK
William Donohue, Michigan State University, USA
L. Alberto Franco, Loughborough University, UK
Josep Freixas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Mark Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Kevin Li, University of Windsor, Canada
Danielle Costa Morais, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Jennifer Overbeck, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ewa Roszkowska, University of Bialystok, Poland
Etiënne Rouwette, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Andrzej Skowron, University of Warsaw, Poland
Over the last months, I have had the pleasure in working with the new Associate Editors and am grateful for their support and cooperation. Their willingness to serve and to commit their time and effort to the Journal are greatly appreciated.
We would not be here if not for the hard work of the past Editor-in-Chief and the past Associate Editors. In the previous editorial (Kersten 2016a), I thanked them. At this time, I would like to recognize Akira Ishikawa from the Aoyama Gakuin University who recently passed away and whose contributions are acknowledged in Kersten (2016b, p. 1319). I also want to thank C. Michael Lewis from the University of Pittsburgh who recently retired from the Board. Over the years, Michael has generously offered his time and expertise as an author, reviewer and Associate Editor.
2 Recent and Future Changes
The year of 2017 is special for our Journal as we are entering the second quarter of the century of publication. While the Journal has accomplished a lot to date, we can and must do more for its future growth and exposure to international scholars. To this end, we intend to create a special anniversary virtual issue comprising selected papers published over the last 25 years, each of which demonstrates the range of developments within the field. Springer will provide free online access to the entire issue. I invite readers, reviewers, authors, and the members of the Editorial Board to send their recommendations to gdn_editor@concordia.ca by March 1. The final selection of articles will be done jointly by the Editor-in-Chief and the Departmental Editors.
We are also planning to publish a series of “review and reflection articles,” in which prominent contributors to Journal are asked to provide their perspective on significant changes in their fields of research over the past 25 years, discuss the current state-of-the-art, and offer a glimpse to the possible futures. The articles will set the stage for future research. They will be reviewed but an effort will be made to streamline the review process so that the first articles can appear within 2017 issues of the Journal. The articles are by invitation and they will be showcased and promoted.
There are also a few more mundane yet important projects for the Journal’s operations. One such project is an update of the reviewer database so that searching by keywords and areas of interest yield relevant results. This will make the Associate Editors’ work easier and it will help to ensure that manuscripts are reviewed by peers with substantive expertise who are well equipped to give authors and editors the best possible advice.
A recently completed activity, allows authors to suggest one or more Associate Editors to coordinate the reviewing process of their submission. This is thanks to the keywords that describe the Associate Editors’ expertise and which are posted online.
We will, of course, also continue to search for high-quality manuscript submissions across topical areas and work with authors to ensure that their manuscripts maintain a sharp focus and clear implications for the field.
The submission turnaround has been shortened and efforts will be made to reduce it further. Almost all submissions that clearly do not fit the Journal’s scope are returned within 10 days along with the rationale behind the rejection. In some cases, the authors of these papers are encouraged to use the Transfer Desk service provided by Springer to help them in resubmitting their manuscript to another suitable journal.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to invite our readers, contributing authors, and reviewers to provide me with any comments or suggestions for ways to further improve our Journal. I am open to ideas that would increase the quality and reach of the Journal, and will make every effort to work with the Board and the Publisher to implement those suggestions.
3 Appreciation to Reviewers
The success of the Journal is due in a very large part to the many members of the scholarly community who act as reviewers. Every editor who is involved with the reviewing process is grateful and appreciative of the reviewers’ hard work and contribution. Many thanks go to all the reviewers who generously provided time, expert counsel and guidance on a voluntary basis. Without their outstanding work in submitting timely, unbiased, and thoughtful reviews, the journal could not function.
The editors were asked to nominate the best reviewers using such criteria as timeliness, critical suggestions for revision, thoroughness, willingness to contribute, and enthusiasm in supporting the Journal. Based on the editors’ recommendation, the ten recipients of the “Best 2016 Reviewer Award” are:
Hannu Autto, University of Turku, Finland
Suzana Dahler, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Johannes Gettinger, Hohenheim University, Germany
Miłosz Kadzinski, Poznań University of Technology, Poland
Alexander Karpov, HSE, Russia
Steffen Keck, University of Vienna, Austria
Pasi Luukka, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Jing Ma, University of Manitoba, Canada
Alexander Mayer, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Per van der Wijst, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Finally, the members of the Editorial Board and I wish to gratefully acknowledge all those who have generously given their time to review papers submitted to Group Decision and Negotiation in 2016. You helped the authors to improve their work and the editors to make informed decisions.
Hillie Aaldering, Universiteit van Amsterdam
James Alexander, Curtin University
Yasir Aljefri, University of Waterloo
Pavel Anselmo Álvarez-Carrillo, Universidad de Occidente
Mikel Alvarez-Mozos, Universitat de Barcelona
R. K. Amit, IIT Madras
Silvia Angilella, University of Catania
Marcin Anholcer, Pozna? University of Economics
Michal Araszkiewicz, Jagiellonian University
Poonam Arora, Manhattan College
Hannu Autto, University of Turku
Bruce Barry, Vanderbilt University
Nicola Bellantuono, Politecnico di Bari
Emilia Bellucci, Deakin University
Sarah BenAmor, University of Ottawa
Martin Bichler, Technische Universitat Munchen
William Bottom, Washington University
S. J. Brams, New York University
Judee Burgoon, The University of Arizona
Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, Universidad de Granada
Christopher Califf, Western Washington University
Rachel Campagna, University of New Hampshire
Xiongfei Cao, University of Science and Technology
Real Carbonneau, Concordia University
Maria Marco-Gil, Polytechnic University of Cartagena
Maria Cerreta, University of Naples
Sara Cobb, Geroge Mason University
Danilo Coelho, IPEA
Grazia Concilio, Politecnico di Milano
Donald Conlon, Michigan State University
Matt Cronin, George Mason University
Keith Culver, University of British Columbia
Suzana Daher, Federal University of Pernambuco
Katherine Daniell, Australian National University
Fatima Dargam, SimTech Simulation Technology
Luciano De Bonis, Università del Molise
Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milan
Anna De Liddo, Open University
G. J. de Vreede, University of South Florida
Viktor Dörfler, Strathclyde Business School
Lorna Doucet, Fudan University
Michael Doumpos, Technical University of Crete
Maria Teresa Escobar, University of Zaragoza
Michael Filzmoser, Technical University Wien
Alberto Franco, Loughborough University
Josep Freixas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Ray Friedman, Vanderbilt University
Katsuhide Fujita, Nagoya Institute of Technology
Robert Fuller, Óbuda University
Amanda Garcia, University of Waterloo
Joseph Gaspar, Quinnipiac University
Bingfeng Ge, National University of Defense Technology
Johannes Gettinger, Hohenheim University
Raffaele Giordano, National Research Council
Pedro Godinho, Universidade de Coimbra
Michel Grabisch, Université Paris 1
Katrina Graham, Suffolk University
Ben Greiner, UNSW Australia Business School
Michele Griessmair, University of Vienna
Marco Haan, University of Groningen
Robin Hanson, George Mason University
Martina Hartner-Tiefenthaler, Technical University Wien
Luciana Hazin, Federal University of Pernambuco
Shawei He, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Paul Hempel, City University of Hong Kong
Jean-Jacques Herings, Maastricht University
Enrique Herrera Viedma, University of Granada
Toru Hokari, Keio University
Manfred Holler, University of Hamburg
Jacky Hong, University of Macau
Liisa Horelli, Aalto University
Sean Humpherys, West Texas A&M University
Randall W. Jackson, West Virginia University
Bernardo Moreno Jiménez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Hans Jørgen Henriksen, Technical University of Denmark
Miłosz Kadziński, Poznan University of Technology
Arpan Kumar Kar, IIT Delhi
Alexander Karpov, National Research University HSE
Steffen Keck, University of Vienna
Gregory Kersten, Concordia University
D. Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier University
Timothy Killingback, University of Massachusetts Boston
Mark Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sabine Koeszegi, TU Wien
Dejun Tony Kong, University of Houston
Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology
Sascha Kurz, Universität Bayreuth
Sebastien Lahaie, Université d’Angers
Ilkka Leppanen, Loughborough University
Kevin Li, University of Windsor
Leigh Anne Liu, Georgia State University
Bingsheng Liu, Tianjin University
Pasi Luukka, Lappeenranta University of Technology
Jing Ma, University of Manitoba
Ronald Maier, Universität Innsbruck
Marcin Malawski, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
Bilyana Martinovski, Stockholm University
Manuel Matos, Universidade do Porto
Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Technical University of Crete
Alexander Mayer, Universität Bayreuth
Roger McCain, Drexel University
Tommi Meskanen, University of Turku
Lidia Angulo Meza, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Caroline Miranda Mota, Federal University of Pernambuco
Danielle Morais, Federal University of Pernambuco
Pavlos Moraitis, LIPADE, Paris Descartes University
Issofa Moyouwou, University of Yaounde I
Stefan Napel, University of Bayreuth
Maciej Nowak, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
Jennifer Overbeck, Melbourne Business School
Jason Papathanasiou, University of Macedonia
Jennifer Parlamis, University of San Francisco
Mahmut Parlar, McMaster University
Joaquin Perez, Universidad de Alcala
Sobah Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Richard Potthoff, Duke University
Nadav Prawer, Victoria University
Bruce Reinig, San Diego State University
Peter Rittgen, University of Borås
Cheryl Rivers, Victoria University of Wellington
Ewa Roszkowska, Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku
Hiroyuki Sakakibara, Yamaguchi University
Annibal Sant’Anna, Universidade Federal Fluminense
M. Remzi Sanver, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paula Sarabando, ESTGV
Douglas Schuler, Public Sphere Project
Isabella Seeber, University of Innsbruck
Zhaleh Semnani-Azad, Clarkson University School of Business
Mohsen Shariari, RWTH Aachen University
Sudeep Sharma, University of Illinois at Springfield
Hsu-Shih Shih, Tamkang University
Marwan Sinaceur, ESSEC Business School
Andrzej Skowron, University of Warsaw
Tony So, University of Auckland
João Carlos Soares de Mello, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Jack Soll, Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Jan Stoklasa, Lappeenranta University of Technology
Andrey Subochev, Higher School of Economics
Chunqiao Tan, Central South University
Yuqing Tang, Carnegie Mellon University
Alexey Tarasov, IBM Research
Elena Tavella, University of Copenhagen
Tommi Tervonen, Erasmus University
Lino Tralhão, University of Coimbra
Zenonas Turskis, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Marcella Urtiga, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Rustam Vahidov, Concordia University
Per van der Wijst, Tilburg University
Dirk van Dierendonck, Erasmus University
Yulia Veselova, National Research University HSE
Rudolf Vetschera, University of Vienna
Eeva Vilkkumaa, Aalto University
Roger Volkema, American University
Tomasz Wachowicz, University of Economics in Katowice
Alessandro Waerzner, Vienna University of Technology
Stefan Waldherr, Technical University of Munich
Lizhong Wang, Northeastern University
Huimin Wang, Hohai University
Barbara Weber, University of British Columbia
Hans-Peter Weikard, Wageningen Universiteit
Leroy White, University of Bristol
Andy Williamson, Democratise
Yi Xiao, University of Waterloo
Yinping Yang, Institute of High Performance Computing
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University
Ronghuo Zheng, Carnegie Mellon University
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Kersten GE (2016b) In memoriam. Group Decis Negot 25(6):1319
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I would like to convey my personal thanks to friends and colleagues from the Editorial Board and the Publisher. I finished a draft of this Editorial very close to the deadline but decided to ask for comments nonetheless. I’m grateful to Adiel Almeida, Christer Carlsson, João Climaco, Gert-Jan de Vreede, Daniel Druckman, Colin Eden, Stefan Einarson, L. Alberto Franco, Raimo Hämäläinen, Keith Hipel, Marc Kilgour, Jeryl Mumpower, Jay Nunamaker, Hannu Nurmi, William F. Samualson, Mel Shakun, Katia Sycara, Rudolf Vetschera, Doug R. Vogel, and John Zeleznikow for their excellent comments and suggestions.
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Kersten, G.E. Editorial. Group Decis Negot 26, 1–8 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-016-9521-7
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