Mahalo : Sustaining JMI's Positive Spirit

Mahalo is a Hawaiian word connoting gratitude, admiration, praise, esteem, and respect. Management scholars should be full of mahalo for each other, because we share exceptional educations and opportunities to think, write, and teach about organizations and management. Mahalo was the theme of the 2015 Western Academy of Management conference held in Kauai, Hawaii. The conference’s closing session was an interactive workshop that critically examined the submission, review, and publication of management research. Panelists and participants grappled with two issues: “How could the Journal of Management Inquiry infuse more mahalo into the publishing process? What behavioral, structural, and technological changes on the part of authors, reviewers, and editors could enact more positive and developmental practices? This essay discusses some of the ideas offered by the workshop’s facilitators, panelists, and participants