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British Academy of Management Getting Published in IJMR

British Academy of Management Getting Published in IJMR. Co-editors: Oswald Jones & Caroline Gatrell. IJMR : History & Impact. First reviews journal of its kind in Management Sub-disciplines Broadly focused: HRM; OB; IM; SM; Operations; Man. Sci.; IS; Acc & Fin; Marketing

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British Academy of Management Getting Published in IJMR

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  1. British Academy of ManagementGetting Published in IJMR Co-editors: Oswald Jones & Caroline Gatrell

  2. IJMR: History & Impact • First reviews journal of its kind in Management • Sub-disciplines • Broadly focused: • HRM; OB; IM; SM; Operations; Man. Sci.; IS; Acc & Fin; Marketing • State of the Art Reviews: • Specific aspect of sub-discipline, e.g. HRM, Appraisal systems • Launched 1999 • 4 Issues per year (approx 24 articles) • Current Impact Factor 3.333 (4.981) • 20th /172 in Management • 13th /116 in Business

  3. Global Readership 9% 3% 14% 6% 25% UK 20% 0.5%

  4. Percentage of Articles Accepted/Rejected Approximately 300 articles submitted each year.

  5. Why Review the Literature? • Precursor to empirical research • Establish current state of knowledge • Critically evaluate previous contributions • Identify ‘research gaps’ • Demonstrate your competence as a researcher • Provide a context for your research • Provide an intellectual framework (theory) • Test existing theory • Develop a ‘new’ theory • Define the research questions

  6. Why Review the Literature for IJMR? • Precursor to empirical study (PhD etc) • Establish the current state of knowledge • Critically evaluate previous contributions • Identify research gaps/research questions • Developing a new research trajectory • Evaluating the current state of knowledge • Evidence-based management (perhaps) • Enhancing your career • Good literature reviews attract citations

  7. Benefits of publishing in IJMR Having a clear overview enables scholars to articulate and spotlight areas where the research field may most ‘fruitfully direct its attention’ (Webster and Watson 2002: xiv, see also Baumeister and Leary, 1997). Time to produce major literature review is when topic area is mature: an ‘accumulated body of research exists that needs analysis and synthesis’ (Webster and Watson 2002: xiv; Baumeister and Leary, 1997).

  8. Benefits of publishing in IJMR Potential IJMR authors may be experienced researchers who have completed a literature review prior to leading a major research project. Or, they may be early career scholars who have a clear and up-to-date knowledge of an existing body of literature, such as those who have recently completed their doctoral studies (Baumeister and Leary, 1997).

  9. Benefits of publishing in IJMR • As PhD students, you will develop a clear and substantial overview of your field, which facilitates the identification of patterns and gaps within the literature. You will be ‘ahead of the game’ in this respect • A review paper can offer you a springboard or platform from which to launch your research

  10. Benefits of publishing in IJMR • Özbilginet al.’s (2011) IJMR review ‘work-life balance, diversity and intersectionality’ led to IJMR ‘Emic Approach to Intersectional Study of Diversity at Work: A Bourdieuan Framing, and later paper in Human Relations ‘The tragedy of the uncommons: Reframing workforce diversity’ • Gatrell’s (2011) transdisciplinary review, ‘Managing the Maternal Body’: platform for the introduction of socio-cultural constructions of maternity and employment to management and organization studies – later paper in Human Relations

  11. How to write for IJMR Need to join discussion on at least two levels: obvious gaps, or where disciplinary silos exist: no synergies between related research arenas [for example among and between organizational psychology and the sociologies of family and work life balance, as in the previous example of Özbilginet al.’s (2011) paper].

  12. How to write for IJMR Equally, you might review literatures in an emerging, or rapidly changing arena, which is sufficiently mature to warrant a review, but where there is potential for developing stronger ‘theoretical foundations’ (Webster and Watson 2002:xiv).

  13. How to write for IJMR • Need to be clear where you are joining the debate and in particular, how and where you are joining existing debate in IJMR. • See Gatrell, C. J., Burnett, S. B., Cooper, C. L., & Sparrow, P. (2013). Work–Life Balance and Parenthood: A Comparative Review of Definitions, Equity and Enrichment,IJMR 15(3), 300-316and how this links with Özbilgin, M. F., Beauregard, T. A., Tatli, A., & Bell, M. P. (2011). Work–life, diversity and intersectionality: a critical review and research agenda.IJMR13(2), 177-198.

  14. How to write for IJMR • Critically analyse literature. Set it in the wider context of the field • Be explicit about how you are joining the debate in your field and how your research moves things forward • Identify how you made decisions about what to include (your methods) • Read guidelines and look at existing reviews • Consider writing with your supervisor

  15. Structuring the review Status of journals Key sources Key theories and concepts Major issues & debates Epistemological & ontological issues Literature review Main problems to date Political standpoints Structure & organization of the topic Origins & definitions of topic Key authors

  16. Reviewing the literature? Systematic literature reviews Conceptual papers Bibliometric analysis Traditional Meta- Realist Meta- Meta narrative ethnography synthesis narrative analysis Positivism Constructivism Critical realism • IJMR papers dominated by traditional narrative and SLRs • More innovatory approaches to literature reviews in • business & management

  17. Reasons for IJMR Rejections • Based on our experience as editor (desk rejections) • Did not read the author guidelines • Did not read any papers from the journal • Includes empirical data • Too short (less than 5000 words) • Conceptual paper without adequate literature review • Topic not appropriate for IJMR • Field of study not mature – limited papers/status of journals • Bibliometricanalysis (effectively a ‘list’) • Rejections by reviewers • Literature review too descriptive (and insufficiently analytical) • Review poorly organized – no clear sequence/flow • Did not cite key sources • Citations not up-to-date • Misinterpreting or misrepresenting key contributors • No significant contribution to knowledge • Good lit reviews central to publication in business and management

  18. What makes an IJMR Article? • Is field/sub-field mature to warrant an extensive review? • Is the review coherently bounded? • What has been included/excluded? • A synthesis & evaluation of existing state of knowledge? • A categorisation of themes and sub-themes? • A complete analysis of the literature? • Contrasting methods/methodologies • Strengths and weaknesses • Agreement and disagreements • Authoritative conclusions about the current state of literature? • Does the review identify gaps & future research directions? • Clear about contributions to theory, practice & policy?

  19. Key contact details: • Managing Editor: • Emma Missen: ijmr@bam.ac.uk • Website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-2370 • Journal Submission: • http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijmr • Editors: • o.jones@liverpool.ac.uk • c.gatrell@lancaster.ac.uk

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