Lamar Pierce appointed next Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science

INFORMS is pleased to announce the appointment of Lamar Pierce as the next editor-in-chief of Organization Science. Pierce, professor of organization and strategy, and associate dean for executive education at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, has broad research expertise across disciplines, topics and methodologies, and a commitment to an inclusive, fair and developmental review process. Pierce has extensive editorial experience as a department editor for Management Science as well as other premier journals.

Organization Science, now in its 33rd year, is widely recognized as one of the top journals in the fields of strategy, management and organization theory. The journal publishes groundbreaking research about organizations, including their processes, structures, technologies, identities, capabilities, forms and performance. Organization Science is published by INFORMS, the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals.

“It’s such an honor to be chosen, but even more so, it is an opportunity to enable and empower the next generation of great scholars and their research,” notes Pierce. “I am committed to the leadership and content of Organization Science representing the diverse set of scholars, theories, methods, phenomena and geographies that make our field so great, such that everyone studying organizations will look to our journal as an opportunity to publish their best work. I hope our collective work as a field will play a central role in solving the grand challenges facing people, organizations and societies today.”

The Editorial Search Committee was chaired by Cristina Gibson (Pepperdine University) and included Jennifer Gibbs (University of California, Santa Barbara), Gudela Grote (ETH Zurich), Yuqing Ren (University of Minnesota), Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks (University of Michigan) and Mary Zellmer-Bruhn (University of Minnesota).  

Matthew Walls, director of publications for INFORMS, adds “The Editor-in-Chief Search Committee was impressed with Professor Pierce’s vision for increasing the quality, dissemination and impact of this important INFORMS journal. I am looking forward to working with Professor Pierce toward accomplishing these important goals to help Organization Science reach its full potential as the most innovative, rigorous and impactful journal in organizational management.”

Pierce’s term as editor-in-chief will begin on Jan. 1, 2023 and extend through Dec. 31, 2025 (with an option to renew through Dec. 31, 2028). Pierce will succeed Gautam Ahuja, Eleanora and George Landew Professor of Management in the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, whose final term as editor-in-chief of Organization Science will end on Dec. 31, 2022. Ahuja has held the editorship since Jan. 1, 2017. During this time, Organization Science increased the volume of its submissions by 50%, while doubling its usage as measured by the number of downloaded articles.