In opening my first editorial as the new Editor of the EJKM I would first like to extend my warm thanks and appreciation to Professor Ken Grant who has guided the journal until the end of 2016. Currently, EJKM is emerging as a viable research outlet for knowledge management researchers and scholars with several papers being well cited on the Google Scholar citation database. Thus, I take the reins of a journal that is making a significant contribution to developing insights into knowledge management theory, research and practice. However, regardless of the success of EJKM to date, I am aiming to continue to improve the journal’s status along with improving the author experience. Therefore, there will be some noticeable changes in the way I edit EJKM and the way we publish the journal.
In an academic world where we all live with the “publish or perish” mindset (de Villiers and Dumay, 2013), to have an open access journal dedicated to a specialised topic like KM has...