Author Guidelines now available in Chinese
Journal of Management Studies
Edited by:
Joep Cornelissen, Andrew Delios and Steven W. Floyd (General Editors), Allen Amason, Andrew C. Corbett, Bill Harley, Davide Ravasi, Andre Spicer and Laszlo Tihanyi (Associate Editors)
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 13/77 Business; 14/89 Management
Impact Factor: 2.558
International in scope and readership, the Journal of Management Studies is a multidisciplinary journal, publishing articles on organization theory and behaviour, strategic and human resource management - from empirical studies and theoretical developments to practical applications.
TopNews and Announcements
Have your say... The JMS correspondence site is now live!
If you would like to comment on a JMS article - whether to agree or disagree - then now is your chance with the introduction of the new JMS correspondence site.
Visit the site to see what comments have already been made…. then join the conversation!
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Professions and Institutional Change
Submission deadline: 31 Dec 2010
Guest edited by Daniel Muzio, David Brock and Roy Suddaby
Special Issue
The Family and Enterprise: Unpacking the Connections
Volume 47, Issue 2
Guest Edited by William S. Schulze, Eric R. Gedajlovic
Free access to Guest Editorial: Whither Family Business?
New: Introducing the JMS Accepted Article Service - our latest pre-publication feature!
Articles which have been fully refereed and accepted by JMS but not yet copy-edited are now available before inclusion in our Early View service, via a new Accepted Article service.
The latest Point Counterpoint articles are available free online in Volume 46 Issue 6. Point Counterpoint is a twice-yearly feature of JMS in which we invite differing perspectives on a topical issue in the management field. See below for further information.
Read the editorials from outgoing and incoming editors:
So, Farewell Then . . . Reflections on Editing the Journal of Management Studies, Timothy Clark, Mike Wright
The Future Ahead: Imagination, Rigour and the Advancement of Management Studies, Joep Cornelissen, Steven W. Floyd
JMS is Ranked 'A*' in the Business and Management category of the Australia Business Deans Council journal rankings
Online Content Now Available Back to Volume 1: All back issues of JMS are available online. Click here to browse contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access these issues please visit our Librarian Site.Top turnaround time: Our turnaround time and quality of review comments ranks amongst the best in the business - with an average of 10 weeks from submission to a first decision.
JMS is now ranked 2nd in the ISI immediacy index for the speed with which articles get cited.
Articles Published Online Ahead of Print: Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our Early View feature before the print edition is published.
TopHighlights
Featured article:
Employee's loyalty to workplace damaged by unfair treatment:
Organizational Justice and Individuals' Withdrawal: Unlocking the Influence of Emotional Exhaustion
Michael S. Cole , Jeremy B. Bernerth , Frank Walter and Daniel T. Holt
Winner of the 2007 Best Paper Prize
The Influence of Decision, Environmental and Firm Characteristics on the Rationality of Strategic Decision-Making
John Child and Said Elbanna (Volume 44, Issue 4, June 2007)
Winner of a Citation of Excellence Award from Emerald Management Reviews - available free online
Acquisition Premiums, Subsequent Workforce Reductions and Post-Acquisition Performance
Hema A. Krishnan, Michael A. Hitt and Daewoo Park
Point Counterpoint
Point Counterpoint is a twice-yearly feature of JMS in which we invite differing perspectives on a topical issue in the management field. Issues explored include the resource-based view of the organization, the future of business schools, agency theory and learning, communities of practice, offshoring, quantitative and qualitative research, the dynamics of cooperation, the peer review process and global strategy.
Point Counterpoint articles are available free. See Volume 46 Issue 6, Volume 46 Issue 3, Volume 44 Issue 4, Volume 43 Issue 7, Volume 43 Issue 3, Volume 42 Issue 7, Volume 42 Issue 3
Special Issues
45:8 Special Themed Symposium: Research and Technology Commercialization
Gideon D. Markman, Donald S. Siegel and Mike Wright
Read the guest editors introduction
45:6 Field-Configuring Events as Structuring Mechanisms: How Conferences, Ceremonies, and Trade Shows Constitute New Technologies, Industries, and Markets
Joseph Lampel, Alan D. Meyer
45:4 Inter-Organizational Knowledge Transfer
Mark Easterby-Smith, Marjorie A. Lyles, Eric W. K. Tsang
44:7 The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm
Edited by Sharon A. Alvarez and Jay B. Barney
44:2 Managerial Dimensions of Organizational Health: The Healthy Leader at Work
Edited by James Campbell Quick, Marilyn Macik-Frey, Cary L. Cooper
43:1 Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategic Implications
Edited by Abagail McWilliams, Donald S. Siegel, Patrick M. Wright
42:5 Manufactured authenticity and creative voice in cultural industries
Edited by Candace Jones, N Anand and Jose Luis Alvarez
42:1 Strategy research in emerging economies: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Edited by Mike Wright, Igor Filatotchev, Robert E Hoskisson and Mike W Peng
41:3 Controversies and Continuities in Management Studies: Essays in Honour of Karen Legge
Edited by Timothy Clark
JMS Best paper prize 2006
Winner: Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capabilities: A Review, Model and Research Agenda
Shaker A. Zahra, Harry J. Sapienza and Per Davidsson
2nd prize: Multinational Retailers in China: Proliferating 'McJobs' or Developing Skills?
Jos Gamble
3rd prize: Components of CEO Transformational Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility
David A. Waldman, Donald S. Siegel and Mansour Javidan
Best Reviewer 2006: Frans van den Bosch
TopEndorsements
'The Journal of Management Studies is a premier outlet that publishes leading edge management research while not limiting itself to rigid paradigms. It combines high quality with lively variety.'
Patrick Wright, Cornell University
'There is clearly an ongoing need for a major management research journal that is based outside the US. The Journal of Management Studies has long played this important role. It continues to be a major alternative outlet for quality management research.'
Professor Lex Donaldson, Australian Graduate School of Management, UNSW Sydney
'The Journal of Management Studies is now one of the premier management journals. It represents a collection of cutting edge studies of organizational issues that most importantly are not constrained by a parochial mentality. Work published in JMS is an essential reference point for the conduct of excellent research by both micro and macro Organization researchers. '
ChungMing Lau, Department of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong
"An important player in the field of management and organizational studies… a well-run, high quality journal with an international readership."
Dr David Grant, University of Sydney
'The quality of the contributors is extremely high. They are drawn from leading institutions in Europe and are now also attracting publication from faculty in leading US schools.'
Dame Sandra Dawson, Director of the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge
