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Letter: To the Editor

It is with mixed feelings and profound emotions that I write my final Letter from the Editor. Becoming the Editor ofManagement and Organization Review was most serendipitous but also an immensely challenging opportunity. To follow Anne Tsui, who founded the journal (and who started her amazing and illustrious career at Duke University in 1981 after receiving her PhD at UCLA), was an honor and a challenge that only crystalized for me as I began to confront the significance and implications of management research in the context of China. It was especially daunting because ambitious and highly motivated management scholars in China were submitting interesting empirical papers testing diverse theoretical ideas and frameworks that were developed and validated in the context of management research, writ large, in the west. However, the paucity of indigenous research informed by China’s historical and cultural context was especially striking. It served to define my editorial mission, responsibilities, and dedication to the development of MOR. The editorship of MOR represented a huge learning opportunity and came with a moral obligation to be on the ground in China mentoring PhD students and faculty (mostly junior faculty). Being on the ground served to reveal the importance of understanding the historical, cultural, and philosophical underpinning of China and their manifestation as China was aggressively evolving an unprecedented modern, centrally directed economy. I was fortunate to serve as the elected Chair of Duke Faculty when Dr. Justin Yifu Lin visited Duke University after earning his PhD from the University of Chicago. At the time, I did not appreciate the import of his evolving thinking and writing, and the implications for economic development that eschewed the so-called Washington Conesus that dominated the development of emerging economies. To be perfectly up front, I did not appreciate the power of ‘New Structural Economics’ as an alternative to economic development until after the inaugural MOR Research Frontiers Conference. The conference was organized and hosted by Guanghua School of Management at Peking University under the auspices of Dean Hongbin Cai. It led to the publication of China Innovation Challenge (Lewin, Kenney, & Murmann, 2016) and featured a chapter by Justin Yifu Lin. Indigenous management research in the context of China involves recognizing, for example, that China has a 3000-year history, spanning 24 emperor dynasties, and coexisting long-held embedded philosophies of Confucianism, Daoism, Management and Organization Review 17:5, December 2021, 881–884 doi: 10.1017/mor.2021.79