For all the preceding reasons, the AMJ editorial team felt it was important to address the question of what makes empirical management research interesting. Accordingly, in the autumn of 2004, Jean Bartunek, the chair of the AMJ advisory committee, designed a Web-based questionnaire that was made available to all members of AMJ’s editorial board. Board members were invited to nominate up to three empirical articles related to management from any academic journal over the past 100 years that they regarded as particularly interesting and to describe why they saw them as interesting.