What to Submit to the JBA? That Is the Question

It is no surprise that editing an academic journal is hard work.Editors are, if not famous, then at least notorious for remarking on the rigors of publishing article after article, issue after issue.When one manuscript is <inally ready, another is usually already waiting in the wings, to be read, screened, reviewed, revised, edited, laid out, proofread, and uploaded.But the truth -the real truth, if you will -is that it is, above all, a privilege.A true privilege.To edit an academic journal is to witness new ideas taking shape, to help re<ine arguments, to learn from intriguing submissions, and to contribute to sustaining a community of researchers and practitioners with shared interests in a distinct <ield of knowledge.Hard work?Oh, yes.Worth it?Without a doubt.In our case, editing the Journal of Business Anthropology (JBA) may be somewhat different from editing many other journals, especially those situated within core disciplines or broader domains of inquiry.Editors of such journals may <ind the sheer volume of submissions overwhelming, often having to reject far more manuscripts than they accept.While we do not wish to suggest that business anthropology is a niche <ield -indeed, this would be fundamentally mistaken given the highly in<luential work of