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We are pleased to announce that after a very thorough search process, the SIJ publisher Taylor & Francis has appointed new Editors of The Service Industries Journal. The new Editors will be phased in over a three year period, thus maintaining editorial continuity.

Service Industries Journal Editor-in-Chief as from January 2012 (joining as an Editor in January 2011 prior to becoming Editor-in-Chief in 2012)

Professor Eileen Bridges

Professor of marketing at Kent State University in the USA, and formerly chair of the marketing department at Kent State, specialising in e-services, services marketing, forecasting and buying behaviour. Eileen has been a member of the SIJ Editorial Board since 1994. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of Managing Service Quality and Journal of Service Research. She holds a PhD in marketing from Northwestern University; an MBA marketing from Santa Clara University; an MEE in electrical engineering from Rice University and a BS in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Eileen has published in a wide range of journals including Journal of Business Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Value Chain Management, Decision Sciences, Marketing Science, The Service Industries Journal, International Journal of Research in Marketing, International Journal of Advertising, Psychology and Marketing and other journals. She received the Warsteiner Best Paper Award of The Journal of Value Chain Management in 2007. Eileen has acted as a reviewer for a wide range of journals including Journal of Service Research, Marketing Science, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Retailing, and many others.

Eileen is a past Chair of the ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍø, Services Special Interest Group. Eileen’s academic career has been undertaken at Kent State University and Rice University, with a Visiting Fellow in marketing appointment at the University of New South Wales in Australia and Hewlett-Packard Visiting Professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. Prior to her academic career Eileen was a product manager, product marketing engineer and R&D engineer with the Hewlett-Packard Company and appointments at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Jet Propulsion Laboratories.

Professor Domingo Ribeiro Soriano (joining as an Editor in January 2010)

Professor of business and management at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Valencia in Spain, specialising in entrepreneurship, service industries, management and business. Domingo is a member of the SIJ Editorial Board. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Editor-in-Chief of Service Business and Book Reviews Editor of Management Decision. He holds a PhD in economics and management from Valencia University and an MBA from Valencia. Domingo has published in a wide range of journals including Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Research, Group Decision and Negotiation, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Small Business Economics, The Service Industries Journal, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, Management Decision, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Small Business Management, International Small Business Journal and others. In recent years he has guest edited special issues of The Service Industries Journal, Human Resource Management, Small Business Economics, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Organizational Change Management, International Small Business Journal, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences and several other journals. Prior to his academic career Domingo was a consultancy manager with Ernst & Young, controller of European Delegacies, marketing director and commercial manager in Spain of the Alton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Gigante and Francis Montesinos trademarks and a management and organization technician in the Federaci? Empresarial del Metal.

Professor John Bryson (joining as an Editor in January 2012)

Professor of enterprise and economic geography at the University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences in the UK, specialising in the relationship between the growth and diversification of services (including property development and investment, management consultancy, market research, investment banking, community finance, industrial design) and the restructuring of advanced market economies. He is currently Vice-President of the Council of the European Association for Research on Services, with special responsibility for research and publication strategy. John is currently a member of the Editorial Board of The Service Industries Journal (and SIJ Book Reviews Editor: Europe from 1996 to 2001), a member of the Editorial Boards of Applied Geography, Regional Science, Policy and Practice, Service Business, and Acta Universitatis Carolinae .He holds a PhD in geography (office development and the regional city) of the University of Leicester and a BA in geography and sociology of Trinity College, Dublin. John has published in a wide range of journals including Environment and Planning A and C, Regional Studies, The Service Industries Journal, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Local Economy Journal, Policy Studies, Urban Studies, Small Business Economics, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Sociology, Journal of Historical Geography, Area, Geoforum, The Norwegian Journal of Geography and Politics and Policy. John’s academic career has been undertaken at the Universities of Leicester, St. Andrews, Cambridge, Aberystwyth and Birmingham. He has recently been a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway, a Visiting Scholar at Bowling Green State University in the USA and at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Outside of academe John is a Director and Chair of the Aston Reinvestment Trust (the UK’s leading Community Development Finance Institution), a Trustee of the Sebright Educational Foundation, Independent Chair of the Worcestershire Partnership Climate Change Task Group and a Governor/Director of Elmhurst School for Dance in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Dr Denis Harrington (joining as an Associate Editor from a date to be agreed)

Dr Denis Harrington has agreed to become Associate Editor with responsibility for book reviews. Denis is Head of the Graduate Business School at Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, specialising in tourism, strategic and quality management. He is currently a member of the SIJ Editorial Board. Denis holds a PhD from London Southbank University and a BA in business administration from the National University of Ireland, Cork. He has published in Managing Service Quality, The Service Industries Journal, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Progress in Tourism and Hospitality Research and other journals.

The editorial changeover timetable is:

Professor Barry Howcroft will retire as an Editor in December 2009.
Professor Domingo Ribeiro Soriano will join as an Editor in January 2010.
Professor Ron Goldsmith will retire as an Editor in December 2010.
Professor Eileen Bridges will join as an Editor in January 2011.
Professor Gary Akehurst will retire as Managing Editor in December 2011.
Professor Eileen Bridges will become Editor-in-Chief in January 2012.
Professor John Bryson joins as an Editor in January 2012.
Professor Youjae Yi currently an Editor, will continue as an Editor beyond 2011.

So from January the SIJ Editorial Team will be:

Editor-in-Chief: Eileen Bridges, Kent State University, USA

Editors:

John Bryson, Birmingham University, UK
Domingo Ribeiro Soriano, Valencia University, Spain
Youjae Yi, Seoul National University, Korea

Associate Editor
(Book Reviews) Denis Harrington, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

 

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