As the oldest and most representative academic journal in the field of management, the Journal of Management and Business Research has entered its 35th year since establishment. When I took over as the chief editor of the Journal of Management and Business Research in April, 2014, I expressed the dream to shorten the turnaround time for reviewing manuscripts, with the goal of completing the preliminary manuscript assessment within 60 days on average. According to examining the latest statistics, the average time expended was 47 days for each of the nearly 60 manuscripts that were submitted in the past year, so we have already achieved the goal of completing initial manuscript assessment within 60 days on average. We hope we can continue to maintain such a turnaround time and provide authors and reviewers with better and faster service through electronic review methods.

Since June this year, we have been calling for paperfor our special issue “New Thinkings in Organizational Behavior &Human Resources Management”, with Professor Hsi-An Shihof the National Cheng Kung University and Professor Chien-Cheng Chen of the National Taipei University of Technology serving as the special issue's editors. With the development of globalization and information technology, thinkings and practices in enterprise management are changing rapidly. In the face of an ever-changing business landscape, how to effectively incentivize and lead employees and how to refine firms' human resource management results have become the top topics and challenges in academia and in practice. This special issue invites scholars in related fields to submit original theoretical or empirical papers on important issues related to organization behavior and human resource management. We are accepting submissions from today to November 16, 2018, and we have already received submissions one after the other. Manuscript review is on a first come, first served basis. We warmly welcome interested academically advanced contributions.

Five articles are published in this issue. The first article, “Entrenchment Effect of Controlling Shareholders on Diversification of Global Banks”, examines the relationship between diversification and bank performance under different ownership concentration and external corporate governance conditions. The results show that asset diversification does not lead to significant premium, but revenue diversification showssignificant diversification premium for the bank; banks with high ownership concentration expropriate minority shareholders' benefit through diversification—these results support the entrenchment effect. In regards to the capabilitiesof external supervision, when the asset market and market shares concentration are higher, the more diversification strategies will bring about impaired bank performance.

Drawing from the Effort-Recovery model, the second article, “The Effects of Difficult Work Assignments via Electronic Communication during Non-work Time on Employee Negative Affect, Stress, Recovery, and Task Performance: The Moderating Roles of Leader-Member Exchange and Agreeableness” examines whether receiving difficult work assignments from supervisors via electronic communication software during non-work time causes intense negative moods in employeesandin turn have a negative impact on their mental stress, recovery, and task performance. This study reflects a common situation that occurs in the workplace with the advancements of modern technology, and its results provide referencefor firms onhow to assign work during off-hours.

The third article, “Risk and Solvency Assessment of the Life Insurer: An Examination of the Interest-Sensitive Life (ISL) Insurance Policies”, investigatesthat ISL insurance policies have become the major product with low interest rate environment. The study established a dynamic model of assets and liabilities based on the debt portfolio of ISL insurance policies, simulatedthe cash flow generated by life insurance companies issuing ISL insurance policy commodities, and usedthe shortfall probability (SP), value at risk (VaR), and conditional tail expectation (CTE) to measure the risk of loss and the corresponding capital at risk for issuing these commodities. The results provide reference for insurance policy companies to examine the asset and liability management of their ISL insurance policies and conduct risk assessment.

The fourth article, “Abusive Supervision and Employee Voice Behavior: Mediation of Voice Efficacy and Moderation of Political Skills”, established the Voice Efficacy Inventory, adopting the perspectives of social cognitive theory and using the inventory to measure mediating effect of voice efficacy and the moderating effect of political skills on the relationship between abusive supervision and employee voice behavior. During Study 1, the Voice Efficacy Inventory was established from the qualitative interviews conducted prior and underwent verification in Study 2. The results indicate that abusive supervision was negatively related to voice behavior; with regards to the moderating effect, employees' political skill can moderate the indirect effects of abusive supervision through voice efficacy and in turn influence the promotive voice.

The fifth article, “Crowd Science: An Exploratory Study”, is an exploratory study that expounds on the evolution of science and the rise of crowd science to explore its implications. The study uses qualitative comparative cases and an inductive approach to propose a classification framework. Firstly, based on its degree of integration, and secondly, based on the difficulty of the tasks, crowd science is divided into the “Lion”, “Monkey”, “Wolf”, and “Bee” type according to their similar characteristics and difficulties. The method of operation for the different types of crowd science and possible management challenges and suggestions are discussed.