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Remembering James March

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2021

Peter Ping Li ,
Mooweon Rhee Open the ORCID record for Mooweon Rhee [Opens in a new window]  and
Bilian N. Sullivan
Peter Ping Li*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Mooweon Rhee
Affiliation:
Yonsei University, South Korea
Bilian N. Sullivan
Affiliation:
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
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Corresponding author: Peter Ping Li (ppl.int@cbs.dk)
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On September 27, 2018, Professor James G. March, a giant in our field, passed away at the age of 90 (1928–2018), just one month after his wife and high school sweetheart, Jayne, passed away. March's impact on the field of organization studies and beyond is profound and long-lasting. The advancement of the field is truly indebted to March's brilliance and dedication to the search of truth as a great scholar. March wrote the inaugural article for Management and Organization Review (MOR) (2005), ‘Parochialism in the Evolution of a Research Community: The Case of Organization Studies’. This article not only provided a critical foundation underlying the editorial structure and philosophy of MOR but also argued eloquently for the salience of indigenous Chinese management studies as a necessary condition for building both contextualized and universal knowledge.

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Management and Organization Review , Volume 17 , Special Issue 4: Remembering James G. March , October 2021 , pp. 644 - 654
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The International Association for Chinese Management Research

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Accepted by Editor-in-Chief Arie Y. Lewin

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