Journal of Management Inquiry

Impact Factor: 3.8

Coeditors-in-Chief: Richard W. Stackman, Pablo Martin de Holan

Discipline: Business, Management

Description:

Comprehensive PerspectiveThe Journal of Management Inquiry, sponsored by the Western Academy of Management, is a refereed journal for scholars and professionals in management. JMI’s mission is to contribute to the generation and diffusion of original and thought-provoking knowledge. JMI is catalytic, authoritative, eclectic, and international, publishing inspired research reflective of the latest theory and practice. We strive to be at the forefront of academic debate in the field of management and organization studies and contribute to the academic dialogue about management, largely defined. Through distinct sections, JMI publishes ideas that challenge our collective beliefs, push the frontiers of our understanding, and impact both our readers and the larger community. JMI´s mission is to publish manuscripts that ally the rigor of Administrative Science Quarterly with the style of The New Yorker, Le Monde, or The Economist. Disciplines include:• Organizational Behavior• Organization Management and Theory• Organization Development and Change• Human Resources• Business Policy and Strategy• Research Methods• Gender and Diversity in Organizations• Conflict Management• Ethics• Entrepreneurship• Technology and Innovation Management• International ManagementThe Journal of Management Inquiry features eight sections: Curated, Empirical, Essay, Generative Curiosity, Meet the Person, Provocations and Provocateurs, Reflections on Experience, and Six Degrees. Manuscripts must conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition).CURATED | Section Editor: Paul Olk, paul.olk@du.edu• Allows large numbers of authors to engage in an academic conversation with theories, methods and insights that are being developed in real-time. Authors are identified by their own piece within the larger manuscript. • Provides a platform for academic conversations at a speed and with a level of insights that go beyond what could be done in other formats and other journals.  Note: For more information, please refer to the following document. EMPIRICAL | Section Editor: Richard Stackman, rwstackman@usfca.edu• Welcomes rigorous qualitative research that expands our capacity to explore and understand important phenomena and spaces. • Applies alternative theoretical lenses, methodological approaches, and sources of data to explore a range of organizationally relevant phenomena that do not fit well with traditional formats or traditional journals.Note: Empirical submissions should not exceed 40 pages (double-spaced). JMI does not publish purely quantitative papers. In very rare occasions, truly distinctive mixed methods papers, which include quantitative analysis but where qualitative methods are emphasized, are considered for publication.  ESSAY | Section Editor: Pablo Martin de Holan, pmdeh@pmdeh.com• Provides a forum to publish well-developed and well-articulated arguments about organizations, organizing and management in general, from the perspective of the author. Essays are educated opinions, rigorous and anchored in scholarly work, but distinct from theory papers or literature reviews. • Essays publishes thought-provoking scholarly commentary on how we frame, perceive, distort, and contribute to our understanding in organizations, organizing, management, and social sciences in general.• Note: Essay submissions should not exceed 40 pages (double-spaced). Length should be commensurate with content; shorter manuscripts are welcome too. JMI will not consider literature reviews or traditional theory papers.GENERATIVE CURIOSITY | Section Editors: Karan Sonpar, karan.sonpar@ucd.ie; Simon Pek• Offers a venue in a timely, unadulterated fashion that welcomes and rewards expansive curiosity so scholars can present ideas that are fertile, consequential, and novel and that stimulate future scholarly activities.• Invites scholars and practitioners to identify a new or ignored fact, phenomenon, pattern, event, or other issues of interest that has not been filtered through the lenses of theories or methodologies. Note: For more information about the Generative Curiosity section, including page length and other submissions expectations, please take a look at New Directions for the Generative Curiosity Section.  MEET THE PERSON | Section Editor: Richard Stackman, rwstackman@usfca.edu• Presents, in an interview format, original ideas from thinkers, scholars, and professionals important and necessary to the study of management.• Organizes the interview around a germane topic or theme relevant to management. Note: Meet the Person submissions should not exceed 40 pages (double-spaced).PROVOCATIONS & PROVOCATEURS | Section Editor: David Hannah, drhannah@sfu.ca• Captures a memorable idea in a provocative, short burst that readers can read in 10 minutes and be left with something to think about and act on. • Imparts short, sharp commentary on an issue ranging from the way we as a field think and act in doing theory or research, to how and why we teach, to other issues of concerns to JMI’s readership.• Submissions must include a “call to action.” Authors must be clear about what should change, and how readers can help the change happen. Note: Submissions to the Provocations and Provocateurs section are by invitation only; unsolicited submissions are not accepted. Authors must follow the 6-6 guidelines: 6 pages, 6 references. Manuscripts are to be written in a lively, readable style, not in stilted academese. REFLECTION ON EXPERIENCE | Section Editor: Richard Stackman, rwstackman@usfca.edu• Advocates certain solutions or techniques; evaluates popular management methods or successful or failed interventions; or identifies important management problems in need of solution.• Leads with relevance, based on practical experience, without sacrificing rigor.Note: Reflection on Experience submission should not exceed 40 pages (double-spaced).SIX DEGREES | Section Editor: Richard Stackman, rwstackman@usfca.edu• Celebrates the connections and collaborations that have produced seminal contributions to the field via Podcast interviews and recordings. • Honors those colleagues who have professionally impacted the field of management and personally affected those of us engaged in the study of management. Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jomi.