Knowledge Does Not Wait: Editorial Vision for JAES

Knowledge does not wait. The economic and organisational systems that scholars examined a decade ago have been profoundly transformed by digital platforms that reconfigured markets with unprecedented speed, by a pandemic that stress-tested long-held assumptions about resilience and institutional preparedness, and by a climate imperative that is now inseparable from corporate strategy, public policy, and the future of sustainable development. For a journal anchored in administrative and economic sciences, this is not merely a changing environment to observe. It is a scholarly mandate.

It is with a deep sense of responsibility and purpose that I assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Administrative and Economic Sciences (JAES). Established in 2008 by Qassim University, JAES has grown steadily into a credible scholarly platform serving researchers across the Arab world and beyond. I inherit that legacy with genuine respect — and with an unambiguous commitment to strengthening the journal’s academic quality, international visibility, and scholarly influence to the level it deserves.

“The questions worth asking today are harder than they have ever been. JAES intends to be the place where scholars bring their most rigorous answers.”

Two decisions mark this new chapter. First, JAES now publishes exclusively in English — a deliberate step toward broader indexing, wider readership, and deeper integration into the global scholarly conversation. Second, a new publishing partnership with Scientific Scholar strengthens our editorial infrastructure and supports a more structured, professional and internationally visible international publishing process. Neither change is cosmetic. Both reflect a clear-eyed assessment of what it takes to compete with serious ambition at the highest level.

The thematic frontier of our disciplines has rarely been more consequential: the governance of artificial intelligence, the financing of sustainability transitions, the organisational dynamics of digital transformation, and the financial risks embedded in climate uncertainty. These are not fashionable topics to list in a policy document. They are urgent and complex research problems demanding theoretically grounded, empirically rigorous, and policy-relevant scholarship. JAES will prioritise precisely that kind of work — from scholars anywhere in the world willing to meet that standard.

None of this is achievable alone. I am grateful to Qassim University for its unwavering and steadfast institutional support, to the editorial board for its intellectual stewardship, to our reviewers for the quiet and indispensable work of peer evaluation, and to every author who has entrusted their research to these pages. The journal exists because of that collective commitment and confidence. Sustaining it is a shared obligation.

JAES has a strong foundation. What it needs now is ambition equal to the scale of the opportunity before us. I invite the global research community to engage with us — as authors, reviewers, and readers — as we work to build a journal that the field will look to, not merely look at.