Preface to Journal of Management and Decision

On the occasion of the 12^th International Symposium on Financial System Engineering and Risk Management, and the 16^th Academic Conference for Management Science, with the concern and help of the predecessors, colleagues and experts in academia, the Journal of Management and Decision started its publication like a shoot springing up. Her first issue benefits a lot from collective intelligence, embodies our hope and enthusiasm and manifests the development of Business discipline at the right time and right place with good human relations.

The Journal of Management and Decision is sponsored by the Institute of Management and Decision of Shanxi University, which is the key research base of humanities and social science in Shanxi Province. The Institute of Management and Decision was supported by the key and special discipline management science and engineering of Shanxi province, and it has one first-level discipline doctoral program and one post-doctoral research station of management science and engineering. Based on the subject frontier field, it has formed 5 stable research directions such as financial engineering and risk management, modern management theories and methods, supply chain management, queuing theory and operations management, predicting, decision, and evaluation theory, and collected a striving and dynamic research team, produced batches of valuable research outputs, and had strong abilities to serve the local economy. It takes the modern management problems as its main research topics, including theory research, application-based study and methodology exploration.

The purpose of the Journal of Management and Decision is to promote the theory, method and application research in the area of management science and engineering, to encourage the creative research of the frontier field and hot topics, and to publish academic research results of management science theory, methods and application in China, so as to promote the prosperity and development of management science. The characteristics of the journal are authority, practicalness and internationalization. It aims to publish the academic achievements of management science masters in China, original innovations of our team members, and new methods in the international management field. Combining theoretical exploration with application analysis, the journal aims at developing academy, serving decision making and being the domestic first-class journal with academic recognition. It will serve as a high-level platform for academic research and information exchange. We hope there will be more management science frontier theory research, scientific method exploration, forward-looking ideas and opinions, innovative and applicative studies.

 We will make our consistent efforts to make the Journal of Management and Decision as a top journal.  We will bear in mind the concept of making our academic researches international and high-level. Encouraging independent thinking, following the scientific spirit, publishing the condensed academic insights and listening to the voice of wisdom will be our long-time faith and pursuit. As Marx says, on the way of science, there is no smooth road, and only those who do not dread of climbing the steep mountain, can hope to reach the glorious summit. In the growth and expansion of the journal, we will carry on with the expectations of many experts and colleagues to build academic highlands with more diligence and more rigorous research attitude. As the old saying goes, constant dripping wears away the stone. We believe that the Journal of Management and Decision will grow quickly with the concern of all of you, and it will be a top journal in the management science and engineering field.

 We extend our sincere thanks for the long-time concern and support of the experts. Special thanks also for the hard work of the contributors, the editorial staff, and the help and support of the executive editor Min Li and Jie Zhou of Science Press.

 Editor-in-chief: Liu Wei-qi     

July 2,2014