How to Get Published in the Best Management Journals

Edited by David J. Ketchen, Jr., Harbert Eminent Scholar and Professor of Management, Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, Auburn University, USA, Timothy Clark, Provost and Professor, Singapore Management University, Singapore and the late Mike Wright, formerly Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director, Centre for Management Buyout Research, Imperial College Business School, London, UK

‘Comprised of 40 informative articles deftly organized into three major sections (The Publishing Process; Resolving Practical Key Issues, Publishing Across Disciplinary Boundaries), this third edition of How to Get Published in the Best Management Journals is informatively enhanced for the reader's benefit with a ten page listing of the contributors and their credentials, a one page Preface, and a sixteen page Index. Impressively comprehensive and thoroughly “reader friendly” in organization and presentation, How to Get Published in the Best Management Journals: 3rd Edition from Edward Elgar Publishing is an ideal for personal, professional, community, and college/university library Business & Academic Writing collections, and supplemental MBA & Creative Writing Composition studies lists.’

• ContentsPreface ix1 Publishing in management: Exhilaration, bafflement, andfrustration 1David J. Ketchen, Jr., Timothy Clark and Mike WrightPART I THE PUBLISHING PROCESS2 The publishing process: A case study 10Petra Andries and Mike Wright3 Getting published: A view from a journal editor andjournal ranker 21Geoffrey Wood and Pawan Budhwar4 Ethics and integrity in publishing 28Ben R. Martin5 Sustaining a publications career 51Mike Wright6 Why publish in Asian management journals? 77Daphne W. Yiu7 Squeezing lemons to make fresh lemonade: How toextract useful value from peer reviews 87William H. Starbuck8 Managing a research pipeline 105Brian Connelly9 Everything you always wanted to know about research impact 117Anne-Wil Harzing10 Positioning papers for publication 131Jay B. Barney11 Avoid being doomed from the start: How to craft aneffective front end in your manuscript 142Christopher W. CraigheadPART II RESOLVING PRACTICAL KEY ISSUESSection II.I The Evolution of a Scholar12 Rules of the game redux 3.0 154Denny Gioia13 Learning by walking through the snow 160R. Duane Ireland14 Why I don’t want to co-author with you and what you cando about it 163David J. Ketchen, Jr.15 Constructing a successful academic research record as anexercise in portfolio management 168Mark S. Kamlet16 Managing a career in business research: Anadministrator’s perspective 176Bill Hardgrave17 Administrators can go home again 181Nathan BennettSection II.II Getting Your Methods Right18 Are your results really robust? 195Bruce T. Lamont and Gonzalo Molina Sieiro19 The reviewers don’t like my sample! What can I do? 201Brian K. Boyd20 When being normal is not enough: A few thoughts aboutdata, analyses, and (the storm of) re-analyses 208Philip L. Roth and Wayne H. Stewart, Jr.Section II.III Navigating the Publication Process21 It’s all about contribution! Using the discussion to defineand develop your paper’s contributions 212Donald D. Bergh22 “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take” 218Annette L. Ranft and Anne D. Smith23 Selling your soul to the devil? Mistakes authors makewhen responding to reviewers 222Pamela L. Perrewé24 Respond to me—please! 226James G. Combs25 Challenging the gods: Circumstances justifying the protestof a journal rejection decision 229Gerald R. Ferris26 Beginner’s muck: Maximizing your paper’s chances ofsuccess with a novice editor 232Kevin G. Corley and Beth S. SchinoffSection II.IV Understanding the Journals27 Publishing in the top journals: The secrets for success 237Michael A. Hitt28 Hitting your preferred target: Positioning papers fordifferent types of journals 242Yehuda Baruch29 Targeting journals: A personal journey 255Franz W. Kellermanns30 “Read the damn article”—or, the appropriate place ofjournal lists in organizational science scholarship 262M. Ronald Buckley and John E. Baur31 Publishing in special issues 268Timothy Clark32 Open Access and open conversations: The role of digitaltechnologies in promoting and extending published work 274Aija Leiponen and Will Mitchell33 Should you publish in an Open Access journal? 282Charles C. SnowPART III PUBLISHING ACROSS DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES34 Publishing in finance versus entrepreneurship/management journals 288Douglas Cumming35 Publishing in management journals: How is it differentfrom economics journals? 301Saul Estrin and Sumon Kumar Bhaumik36 Publishing in management journals as a social psychologist 314Rolf van Dick37 Publishing historical papers in management journals andin business history journals 322Steven Toms38 Publishing human resource management research indifferent kinds of journals 329Bill Harley39 Publishing in top international business and management journals 337Stephen Tallman and Torben Pedersen40 Publishing at the interfaces of psychology and strategicmanagement 349Gerard P. Hodgkinson