These questions are not new to social science scholarship (e.g., Black, 2000; Davis, 1971; Mitroff & Kilman, 1977). However, they took on consider- able importance to AMJ’s current editorial team as the result of a survey of AMJ editorial board members conducted in the summer of 2004 and reported in AMJ in February 2005 (Rynes, 2005). This survey suggested that while board members viewed AMJ as unparalleled from a standpoint of publishing technically competent research that simulta- neously contributes to theory, empirical knowl- edge, and practice, they also believed that it was both possible and desirable to raise the proportion of articles published in AMJ that are regarded as important, competently executed, and really interesting.