BAM2011: Meet the Editors

Group & Organization Management

• The published paper should be up to the level which decided by reviewers
• Firstly screen

British Journal of Management

• Sent the paper if it is substantial. Even it is not, please also send them and the journal will tell you how to make it so.
• All back-log papers were published last year, so if your paper accepted

IJMR

• First journal that publish the review
• 300 submission last year
• Reject quite a lot. 10% accepted
• Don’t tick the box “empirical works” in the Scholar One system
• Also publish other materials that related to your work online to help

Qualitative Journal on Organization Studies (???)

• Also publish some quantitative works
• Also interested in special issues

Journal of Managent Studies

• Top 2 in UK and EU
• 2000 submissions a year
• Worldwide Editorial Board, UK EU USA & Asia
• What we are looking for
  – Rigour  -> literature, Method. Present
  – Relevant -> current debate , policies
  – What make papers really interesting _> Don’t make readers sleepy
  – Area: Strategic, Entrepreneurship, HRM, Organization Psychology
• A conference celebrate the 58th year of the journal (the lodest in the MGMT field)

Q & A

Q: Journal Ranking?

A:

• Maintain Quality of the journal first and the rest will take care themselves.
• Not only looking to the rank of the journal only but should submit your work to the RIGHT journal
• Before submit to the journal, please read the mission and description of the journal.

Q: Contribution of review paper? -> IJMR
A: Not just a summary but raise the Methodological issues, Future trends of the subject