Editorial Statement

Industrial relations remains a vibrant inter-disciplinary field with a strong policy orientation. The British Journal of Industrial Relations has been leading the changes in its focus in the past twenty years and the editors are determined that this should continue to be the case in the new millennium. If anything, they would like to quicken the pace of change. Readers' comments offer support for this. Feedback suggests that the Journal needs to keep expanding its scope, both methodologically and substantively. Readers acknowledge that the Journal has been at the forefront of a more theoretically driven industrial relations and they have welcomed the growing sophistication of the empirical work that is being published. They also recognize the value gained from having authors from an increasing range of countries. But some readers question whether the Journal has been at the leading edge of recent debates on some of the issues that underlie developments in industrial relations, most notably the changing nature of work and the organizations in which people are employed.