Editorial Note: A Note on Transitions

Abstract

It has become time for me to step down from my leading editorial role for Valuation Studies. We on the board of editors have for some time worked on a transformation and move of offices to Copenhagen Business School. Apart from the necessary reformulation discussed in a previous editorial note (Board of Editors 2020), this transition also relates to me when in 2019 I took on 'a new career in a new town'. The publication of this issue therefore marks an important further step in this process by concluding my leading editorial role for this journal.I want to take this final opportunity to pen an editorial note to reflect briefly on the evolution of Valuation Studies. This exercise will touch on how both ideas and practices evolved. This means revisiting some of the thinking and doing over the past ten years. Beginnings: S tar ting and expanding conversationsMost work I become engaged with begins with indeterminate and meandering conversations. It may take some shape in mind maps that outline questions, issues, and possible actions. Yet, the key in sustaining the realisation is gradually more focused conversations that outline plans and actions. The early conversations that developed into Valuation Studies were with Fabian Muniesa in early 2011, possibly even earlier. (There are records of earlier conversations involving

Valuation through Narrative Intelligibility

“…Horkheimer 1972) without relying on some fixed metaphysical abstractions. This option is, arguably, needed in valuation studies and in Valuation Studies (Helgesson and Muniesa 2013;Helgesson 2021).…”