EMERALD ACQUIRES FOUR ACCOUNTING AND INVESTMENT TITLES

Cathy Mostyn, business development director at Emerald, says, "The news of the four acquisitions reflects many months of work by our team to scour the globe for high quality publications to add to our portfolio, to further strengthen our presence as the world’s leading management journal publisher." This brings the number of Emerald management journals to 115, and its accounting and investment portfolio to 11. Emerald’s management serials offer papers covering how to turn theory into practice.

The Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change was acquired by Emerald from Australia’s Deakin University. Aimed at researchers and practitioners, it is the international refereed journal devoted to the advancement of the interplay between accounting and organisational change processes. The publication is a primary source of literature on accounting, HRM, industrial relations, strategy and organisational change.
Frequency: Currently 2 issues per year, from 2006, 3 issues per year, from 2008: 4 issue per year.
Managing editor: Simon Linacre
Editor: Zahirul Hoque

Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting was purchased from the Personnel Economics Institute at the University of Stockholm. Covering both human resource accounting and cost/benefit analyses of human resources, the serial aims to highlight costs and revenues related to human resources.
Frequency: Currently 2 issues per year, from 2006, 3 issues per year, from 2008: 4 issues per year.
Managing editor: Simon Linacre
Editor: Birgitta Olsson

Journal of Investment Compliance has been acquired from US-publisher, Institutional Investor, Inc. This title is aimed at audiences ranging from in-house and outside compliance executives to financial directors, lawyers and academics in economics, finance and risk management. The quarterly journal covers both the broker-dealer and investment advisor ends of compliance, and the increasing intertwining of the two sides. It offers practical analysis of issues on the regulation of investment funds as it relates to their trading, management, custody, transfers and investor rules by today’s top compliance practitioners.
Frequency: 4 issues per year.
Managing Editor: Anna Torrance
Editor: Henry A Davis. Consulting editor: James A Tricarico

Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management was acquired by Emerald from the Auckland University of Technology. The journal aims to promote an international and interdisciplinary understanding of management, accounting and organisations within a global environment. It publishes qualitative research on topics relevant to management, organisation studies, financial and management accounting, management and accounting education, social and environmental issues, and critical and historical approaches.
Frequency: Currently 2 issues per year, from 2006, 3 issues per year, from 2008, 4 issues per year.
Managing editor: Simon Linacre
Editors: Deryl Northcott and Bill Doolin

Emerald’s accounting, finance and legal titles
• Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
• International journal of Managerial Finance
• Managerial Auditing Journal
• The Journal of Risk Finance (incorporating Balance Sheet)
• Journal of Financial Crime
• Journal of Money Laundering Control
• Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance
• Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
• Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting
• Journal of Investment Compliance
• Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

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Emerald publishes over 150 titles such as Management Decision, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Documentation, Library Hi Tech, Journal of Knowledge Management and The TQM Magazine. Emerald’s flagship product, Emerald Management Xtra, is dedicated to the continued development of business schools and management departments world-wide.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Gill Crawford, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Tel: 01274 777700, email: gcrawford@emeraldinsight.com or
Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd, Tel: 0208 655 0953/0794 166 9925, Catherine.dhanjal@theansweruk.com
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