Guest editorial: Introduction to the 2025 special issue of reviews

We are delighted to present a special issue in Organization Management Journal (OMJ) that offers integrative and comprehensive summaries of several areas of inquiry within organizational management research.The goal of the issue is to provide OMJ's readership with novel or critical findings from prior research, insights on emerging trends in scholarship and new directions for future exploration in organizational management.The articles included in this special issue were curated from dozens of proposals with the following aims: provide maximum scholarly impact to the discipline of organizational management, represent diverse scholarly communities across micro and macro topics, as well as across subdisciplines and research foci, balance emergent topics with entrenched management theory and demonstrate a wide variety of review methodologies.The eight articles in this review issue include emergent topics that reflect the rapidly changing organizational existence such as artificial intelligence and algorithmic decisionmaking, as well as established management concepts such as Resistance to Change and Transformational Leadership.There are articles focused on macro topics such as Strategic Factor Markets Theory, as well as microtopics such as contemporary workforce demographics including military-connected employees and millennials.We intentionally aimed for diversity in review approaches, including articles using critical review, integrative review, scoping review, systematic review, narrative review and umbrella review.We are proud of the collection of articles we have assembled here and expect that each will have a significant impact on its community of scholars.Each team of authors worked hard through multiple rounds of rigorous review, and we would like to thank them for their diligence in responding to reviewers, their patience in dealing with the guest editors and their commitment to scholarship.We hope that our OMJ readers will agree that we have achieved the four aims listed above and will find the articles in this review issue insightful and helpful in their own research.Below, we offer a brief summary of each article in this issue:• The article "Strategic Factor Markets: A Critical Review, Insights, and Future Directions" offers a thematic framework of Strategic Factor Markets (SFM) theory through three dimensions, namely, firm capabilities, valuation and pricing of resources and cognitive processes.The framework also considers the relevance of AI in SFMs for each dimension.The paper provides a synthesis of SFM theory and weaves its foundational and contemporary aspects into an integrative framework.• Eric Dent and colleagues revisit Dent & Goldberg (1999) highly cited critical review of the resistance to change literature in their article "Still Challenging 'Resistance to Change'."After completing a narrative review of studies examining Resistance to Change from 1999 to 2024, they find that organizational change efforts and individual reactions to change are influenced by myriad factors.Leveraging Lewin's (1951) field theory, they provide a Force Field Framework to organize multilevel factors that promote or enhance organizational change efforts against those that resist or hamper them.• In "Transformational Leadership and Leader-Member Exchange: A Critical Review'", the authors conduct an umbrella review of meta-analytic studies of transformational leadership (TFL) and leader-member exchange (LMX) to examine the correlational relationship between the two constructs, as well as identify their similarities, explain