IU'S BUSINESS HORIZONS
RECEIVES 'GOLDEN PAGE AWARD'

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Europe's leading on-line abstract publisher and analyst, Anbar Electronic Intelligence, has awarded Business Horizons, a journal published by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, a new international honor, the Anbar Golden Page Award.

The award, which will be presented at a ceremony in London, England, on April 30, highlightsfour categories of excellence: research implications, practical implications, originality and readability.

Business Horizons was especially cited for its practical applications value in the area of strategic management, and scored ahead of similar journals published by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in that category. It was one of 44 award winners.

"They looked at over 400 publications -- including practitioner and academic publications covering every imaginable field within the management scope -- and for us to be one of 44 surviving such a rigorous review is something that I'm proud of," said Dennis W. Organ, professor of personnel and organizational behavior and editor of Business Horizons since May 1994.

"I'm very much in debt to the authors who have given us good manuscripts that have been well received," Organ added.

Anbar Electronic Intelligence says one purpose of the award is to help universities and corporate libraries worldwide determine which publications must be included in serious library collections, given current budgetary constraints.

"Previously, the only listings produced on magazines have relied upon borrowing statistics and citation indexes," said Mathew Wills, vice president of Anbar Electronic Intelligence. "Never before have articles been subject to such detailed analysis of their quality.

"The results have produced an industry-leading independent source to flag the very best and therein to highlight particular areas of excellence," Wills added. "Now readers, researchers, authors and librarians will have a credible and recognizable standard to identify quality."

Judging was done by an accreditation board, which consists of senior management thinkers and practitioners, and is based upon library holdings of international centers of excellence. Every article from every journal is reviewed, and ratings are awarded for each article against each of the above-mentioned criteria.

Organ said he hopes the award will help Business Horizons and the Kelley School of Business gain even greater viability worldwide through its placement in libraries at universities and companies.

Business Horizons, which dates back to 1958, today has a two-fold purpose, Organ said. It speaks to reflective practitioners in all fields of business who want substance but in a form that is understandable. It also is popular among professors who want to keep abreast in topics that are not in their specialty.

The journal is printed and distributed by Johnson Associates Inc., a Greenwich, Conn., company. It has a paid circulation of about 3,500 copies every two months.

More information about the award is available at Anbar's Web site.

(George Vlahakis, Office of Communications and Marketing, 812-855-0846 or 812-855-3911, gvlahaki@indiana.edu

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