From the outoing editor, Christine Oliver.(News and Notes)

After six years as editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly, and three years prior to that as associate editor, the decision to step down as editor has been a remarkably easy one, untainted by thoughts of loss or sadness. Where are those mixed emotions with which each of us tends to depart a responsibility that has given us so much pleasure, personal satisfaction, and fulfillment? Why this unqualified serenity in the face of relinquishing such a treasured duty? The answer, it turns out, is deeper than the obvious excitement of liberation from the exertions of editorial hard