Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: Standing on the shoulders

Journal of International Business Studies (2010) 41, 755–758. doi:10.1057/jibs.2010.13 SPECIAL ISSUE This issue of JIBS begins with an exciting Special Issue (SI) on ‘‘Conflict, Security and Political Risk: International Business in Challenging Times’’, edited by Area Editor Witold Henisz and Guest Editors Edward Mansfield and Mary Ann Von Glinow. Fifty-four submissions to the SI were handled by the three SI Editors and by six Area Editors (Daniel Bello, Sea-Jin Chang, Lee Radebaugh, Lemma Senbet, Anand Swaminathan and Alain Verbeke). Four papers were accepted for publication and appear here, together with an Introduction by the SI Editors. I want to thank the editors, reviewers and authors for their excellent contributions to this issue of JIBS, one that well reflects the JIBS mandate of publishing insightful and influential research on IB.