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Balancing Authorial Voice and Editorial Omniscience: The “It’s My Paper and I’ll Say What I Want To” versus “Ghostwriters in the Sky” Minuet

In: Opening the Black Box of Editorship

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  • Arthur G. Bedeian

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As its title indicates, the purpose of the present volume is to “open the black box of editorship.” My concerns about the integrity of the manuscript-review process as practiced by the management discipline’s leading journals are well documented. These concerns, as they relate to the review process as a means for judging the quality and, thus, the credibility of scientific papers submitted for publication have addressed the social construction of knowledge (Bedeian, 2004); the proper roles of editors, referees, and authors (Bedeian, 2003); and ghostwriting by editors and referees (Bedeian, 1996a & b). In the remarks that follow, I will briefly summarize a few of these concerns and extend my previous thoughts by commenting on reservations I have about how the review process has evolved over the past fifteen or so years and how it may be improved.

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  • Arthur G. Bedeian, 2008. "Balancing Authorial Voice and Editorial Omniscience: The “It’s My Paper and I’ll Say What I Want To” versus “Ghostwriters in the Sky” Minuet," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yehuda Baruch & Alison M. Konrad & Herman Aguinis & William H. Starbuck (ed.), Opening the Black Box of Editorship, chapter 14, pages 134-142, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58259-0_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230582590_14
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