Navigating your journal through a dynamic academic publishing landscape: an evolutionary case study

Marié Kirsten

Chapter 14 in How to Edit and Manage a Successful Scholarly Journal, 2024, pp 146-157 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This case study chapter examines the establishment, evolution and management challenges of a multi-disciplinary journal with links first to an academic association and a development bank, and later to a commercial publishing house and a government technical advisory agency. The Development Southern Africa (DSA) journal was first published in the mid-1980s, at a time when the region’s ‘development’ discourse had a complex and sometimes contradictory relationship with the apartheid government’s ideological pursuit of ethnic self-governing territories. During South Africa’s transition to democracy, the journal broadened its reach to other regions of Africa and steadily enhanced its international standing as a journal of the global South. Incorporation into the publication programmes of publishers Taylor & Francis assisted in expanding its international readership. This chapter points to several inflection points over the past 40 years, when forward-looking decisions and adaptations contributed to the survival and growth of the journal despite difficult institutional changes and the inherent challenges of a multi-disciplinary publication.

Keywords: Business and Management; Education; Geography; Politics and Public Policy General Academic Interest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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