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Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to share that our "This is an Eventful Era" special issue has been published in the Journal of Management (https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/joma/51/3). This issue brings together a group of guest editors from various fields: Fred Morgeson, Dong Liu, Albert Cannella Jr., Amy Hillman, Scott Seibert, and Michael Tushman.

In addition to our introductory article, the special issue contains an exceptional set of articles that examine many different discrete events such as everyday change events, crises, organizational downsizing, mergers, corporate scandals, technology implementations, product launches, trade wars, and protests. Using diverse methodologies and analytic techniques, these papers draw from a wide range of research domains, including human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and strategic management. Their findings demonstrate the interesting ways discrete events disrupt routines, prompt adaptation, and impact individual and collective behaviors across various levels within organizations, pointing to the transformative role of discrete events in fostering changes at different organizational levels. We hope you enjoy these articles and that they inspire you to conduct your own event-oriented research. Below is the list of articles and direct links to each one.

1. This Is an Eventful Era: Exploring Event-Oriented Approaches to Organizational Research

Frederick P. Morgeson; Dong Liu; Albert A. Cannella, Jr.; Amy J.

Hillman; Scott E. Seibert; Michael L. Tushman

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063241286494

2. Corporate Scandals as Punctuating Events That Change Human Resource Roles

Elaine Farndale; Jaap Paauwe; Paul Boselie; Sven Horak

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063231226137

3. From Intent to Impact: A Proactive Event Approach for Amplifying Sustainability Across Time

Patrick J. Flynn; Amrou Awaysheh; Paul D. Bliese; Barbara B. Flynn

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063231224370

4. Creativity During Threat to Organizational Survival: The Influence of Employee Creativity on Downsizing Survival Selection

Michael Halinski; Janet A. Boekhorst; David Allen; Jessica R. L. Good

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063231216691

5. Applying Event System Theory to Organizational Change: The Importance of Everyday Positive and Negative Events

Tina Kiefer; Laurie J. Barclay; Neil Conway

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063241237221

6. Event Space and Firm Value: Chinese Listed Firms in the US–China Trade War

Jane Wenzhen Lu; Xiaoyu Zhou

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063231162089

7. Resilience Within Constraints: An Event Oriented Approach to Crisis Response

Maria Minniti; Zachary Rodriguez; Trent A. William

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063231225166

8. Managing Asymmetric Events With Anticipatory and Reactive Strategies

Cole E. Short; Michael D. Pfarrer

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063231198174

9. A Summer of Protest: Using Event System Theory To Test an Intersectional Leadership Advantage

Alexander D. Stajkovic; Kayla Stajkovic

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063231226248

10. Reputation-Damaging Events Over a Long Time Horizon: An Event-System Model of Substantive Reputation Repair

Jarrod P. Vassallo; Yeonji Seo; Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01492063231224353

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Dong Liu
Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta GA
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