Below we offer a list of some examples of questions regarding time and the new time that are relevant for this special research forum, and we invite you think of other exciting questions as well.

 

	What circumstances influence the (successful) pattern, pace, and timing of the development of new products and services, technologies, capabilities, and knowledge? How are such processes influenced by individual characteristics ( e.g., personality, demography, values); group characteristics (e.g., composition, level, norms, duration of membership); organization structure (e.g., limited vs. control, horizontal vs. vertical, formal vs. informal, temporary vs. fixed, concentrated ownership vs. dispersed ownership); strategy (e.g., compensation strategy and other HRM issues, alliances, acquisitions, networks, entry into new product and geographical markets); systems (e.g., information systems); and organizational culture and values, processes, and history?
	What circumstances influence the (successful) pattern, pace, and timing of the evolution of organizations' strategies, systems, structures, and processes (when operating in traditional markets or when moving into new product and geographical domains)? What is the nature of the change process? Under what conditions do organizations engage in incremental or radical change (or remain inert), event-based or time-based change (including rhythmic change), or still other forms of change, and when do these changes contribute to a firm's (short- or long-term) success?
	How are the pattern, pace, and rhythm of (successful) geographic and product expansion influenced by factors such as entrepreneurs' personal location preferences, the spatial arrangement of large and wealthy (vs. smaller and poorer) population agglomerations, the achievement of scale and scope economies (as well as market power), and localized competitive dynamics (e.g., avoidance, predation, and matching behavior)?
	How do organizations handle the challenges involved in coordinating across the different temporal customs (rhythms, speeds, alternation of heavy and light work times, time-zone differences, and so forth) inherent in the different occupational, industrial, and national cultures in which they operate?
	Do organizations rooted in different national cultures (and, perhaps, in different industrial cultures) possess different conceptualizations of time, change, and organizational success (in the short or long term), and different patterns, paces, and timings of the development of new products and services, technologies, capabilities, and knowledge (at all levels), and of other aspects of their organizations (e.g., strategies, structures, systems, and processes) as well?
	How have changes in the institutional and regulatory environment in Southeast Asia, both eastern and western Europe, and South America (and in some cases, economic crises as well) influenced the (successful) restructuring and change of organizations in these regions? How have these changes been moderated by factors at the individual, group, organizational, and environmental levels?

These are just some examples of questions regarding time and the new time; we invite you to think of other important questions as well and to submit papers in these domains. We welcome papers from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. We welcome quantitative data analyses using a variety of methodological designs (e.g., laboratory experiments, simulations, field studies, archival studies). We also encourage authors to consider case studies, participant-observation, ethnographies, and other research approaches that help to shed light on which strategies, structures, systems, processes, and the like are currently evolving or might be useful in the new time.

Papers must be received by October 1, 2000. Authors should prepare manuscripts in accordance with AMJ's "Style Guide for Authors," which appears in its February 1999 issue and on its Web page. All submissions will be blind-reviewed under AMJ's normal review process and criteria. For further information, contact Harry G. Barkema, Department of Management, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, Tilburg 5000 LE, Netherlands; phone+31 13 466 2243, fax +31 13 466 2875, e-mail barkema@kub.nl; or Joel A. C. Baum, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3E6, Canada; phone (416) 978 4914, fax (416) 978 4629, e-mail baum@mgmt.utoronto.ca; or Jennifer A. Chatman, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1900; phone (510) 642-4723, fax (510) 643-1420,e-mail chatman@haas.berkeley.edu. Please submit manuscripts electronically to AMJ's editor, Greg Northcraft, at amj@cba.uiuc.edu. Queries about manuscript submission can be made to this e-mail address or by telephone to (217) 333 4519. Electronic submission guidelines are available on AMJ's Web page at http://www.aom.pace.edu/amj/authors.html. Authors without Internet access may mail a disk to Greg Northcraft (Academy of Management Journal, University of Illinois, 430 Commerce West, 1206 S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL 61820). Please include a cover letter requesting consideration for this special research forum with your manuscript, which should be in a Word-compatible format.