Landmark anniversaries tend to be occasions for reflection as well as for celebration. It was tempting, therefore, to celebrate the undoubtedly important and impressive heritage of the journal by reflecting upon Human Relations’ history and on its contribution to the academic community (and beyond) over the last 75 years. In the end though, I resisted the temptation to write at any length on the journal’s heritage, mainly because I felt that an essay of this kind would be unlikely to add much more to what has already been written so well and so comprehensively for previous anniversaries.¹ Instead, I curated this Anniversary Special Issue (ASI) with the aim of celebrating the heritage of Human Relations, while doing so in ways that directly serve our current readers’ scholarly interests. All eight articles in this ASI build on (and in some cases critique) the legacies and traditions of the journal, traditions that have been established so distinctively and effectively over the last 75 years. But they do so in order to develop scholarship that speaks directly to our contemporary world in new and, I hope, interesting ways.

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社论：推出纪念人类关系 75 周年特刊

具有里程碑意义的周年纪念往往是反思和庆祝的场合。因此，通过反思Human Relations的历史及其在过去 75 年中对学术界（及以后）的贡献来庆祝该期刊无疑是重要且令人印象深刻的遗产是很诱人的。不过最后，我还是忍住了要写一篇关于期刊遗产的长篇大论的冲动，主要是因为我觉得这样的文章不太可能在之前的周年纪念日已经写得如此出色和全面的文章基础上增加更多. ¹相反，我策划了这个周年纪念特刊 (ASI)，旨在庆祝人类关系的传统，同时以直接服务于我们当前读者的学术兴趣的方式这样做。本 ASI 中的所有八篇文章都建立在（并且在某些情况下批评）该期刊的遗产和传统之上，这些传统在过去 75 年中如此独特和有效地建立起来。但他们这样做是为了发展以新的、我希望是有趣的方式直接与我们当代世界对话的学术研究。