The path is signposted

Abstract

When a change comes at the head of an editorial board headed (masterfully) by the same editor for a dozen years, it is natural to question the intentions of the new one. Does he come with the will to change everything? not to change anything? to see it coming? to undertake major works? to rule everything? to let others do it? You will have the opportunity to get an idea as the publications go by, but know now that I am attached to the spirit of this journal and that I wish to bring it to life with you, dear readers, dear authors and dear reviewers. The task seems both easy and difficult to me. Easy because Frantz Rowe and his colleagues have prepared the ground in a masterly way. Difficult because they have placed the barrier very high and maintaining the level will in itself be a pretty challenge. I give you a first reflection that I got used to it at the recent ICIS conference in Paris.