ABSTRACT
Organizational justice research developed in the second half of the 20th century and came of age in the 1980s and 1990s. One might suspect that, perhaps, scholars ofjustice would be devoted futurists. Because fairness research evolved near the end of one century, its proponents might naturally look to the next. Although this speculation has an intuitive appeal, one could also argue that organizational justice researchers have not spent enough time looking ahead and may have to play catch-up with their colleagues in other specialties (cf., Cascio, 1995; Goldstein & Gilliam, 1990; Offermann & Gowing, 1990). If we, as justice researchers, have been slow to examine our future, it may be that such an examination is especially difficult for us given the nature of our topic. For justice researchers, looking to the future is fraught with both theoretical and applied problems.
