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This issue marks the transition of the UK Editor from Paul Hoggett, who is standing down from this role after an exceptional period which has seen Organisational & Social Dynamics grow from its launch to being a highly respected and valued Journal with a large subscription base and growing prospects. It is highly appropriate, therefore, that we take this opportunity to say thank you.
Most contributors will be aware of Paul as a kindly, helpful, and unflustered Editor who has continually responded to their needs for the past five years. From a publishing perspective they will have known him as a conscientious and competent Editor who got things done efficiently and on time. And from a management perspective, as a thoughtful, flexible, and ever amicable colleague who could be relied upon to adopt common sense on matters of policy and procedure and as someone with whom it was always a great pleasure to work. However, this Journal owes considerably more to Paul than is apparent from the above. As will be shown below, his involvement started long before the Journal was published and required considerable skill and knowledge to meet the challenges that arose at each new stage of its development.
In August 1996 Paul accepted an invitation from OPUS to be a joint Editor of an OPUS Journal that was, at that time, without a publisher. Part of the brief was to prepare a proposal to send to prospective publishers. Over the next few years Paul worked closely with the OPUS Management Group as we all began to learn about the realities and difficulties of journal publication. Much hard work went into the process, not the least of which was overcoming the disappointments of rejection. After much effort, in 1999, OPUS contracted with Karnac Books, and Paul was formally appointed as the first UK Editor of the newly named Journal Organisational & Social Dynamics. Paul was then required, rather quickly, to master a new learning curve concerning all aspects of Journal compilation before th