ABSTRACT
We conceived the Series—Current Topics in Management—about eleven years ago; we are now in 2005 completing the tenth volume; and the challenge has now shifted from keeping the Series going to improving the quality of the content of each succeeding volume. How does this volume attempt to meet our resolve to do better as we move deeper into the Series? Overall, Volume 10 contains 13 contributions divided into four sections, which are identified below and also constitute the basic structure of this Introduction. The editors attempt to frame the volume with Chapter 1. The other chapters were the survivors of competitive reviews of 76 submissions to the eleventh annual International Conference on Advances in Management held at Orlando, Florida, during April 2004. Two reviewers evaluated the competitive papers, and several invited papers also were reviewed. During this review process, each chapter was revised two to three times to improve quality.
