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

Contents
Preface ix
1 Publishing in management: Exhilaration, bafflement, and
frustration 1
David J. Ketchen, Jr., Timothy Clark and Mike Wright
PART I THE PUBLISHING PROCESS
2 The publishing process: A case study 10
Petra Andries and Mike Wright
3 Getting published: A view from a journal editor and
journal ranker 21
Geoffrey Wood and Pawan Budhwar
4 Ethics and integrity in publishing 28
Ben R. Martin
5 Sustaining a publications career 51
Mike Wright
6 Why publish in Asian management journals? 77
Daphne W. Yiu
7 Squeezing lemons to make fresh lemonade: How to
extract useful value from peer reviews 87
William H. Starbuck
8 Managing a research pipeline 105
Brian Connelly
9 Everything you always wanted to know about research impact 117
Anne-Wil Harzing
10 Positioning papers for publication 131
Jay B. Barney
11 Avoid being doomed from the start: How to craft an
effective front end in your manuscript 142
Christopher W. Craighead
PART II RESOLVING PRACTICAL KEY ISSUES
Section II.I The Evolution of a Scholar
12 Rules of the game redux 3.0 154
Denny Gioia
13 Learning by walking through the snow 160
R. Duane Ireland
14 Why I don’t want to co-author with you and what you can
do about it 163
David J. Ketchen, Jr.
15 Constructing a successful academic research record as an
exercise in portfolio management 168
Mark S. Kamlet
16 Managing a career in business research: An
administrator’s perspective 176
Bill Hardgrave
17 Administrators can go home again 181
Nathan Bennett
Section II.II Getting Your Methods Right
18 Are your results really robust? 195
Bruce T. Lamont and Gonzalo Molina Sieiro
19 The reviewers don’t like my sample! What can I do? 201
Brian K. Boyd
20 When being normal is not enough: A few thoughts about
data, analyses, and (the storm of) re-analyses 208
Philip L. Roth and Wayne H. Stewart, Jr.
Section II.III Navigating the Publication Process
21 It’s all about contribution! Using the discussion to define
and develop your paper’s contributions 212
Donald D. Bergh
22 “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take” 218
Annette L. Ranft and Anne D. Smith
23 Selling your soul to the devil? Mistakes authors make
when responding to reviewers 222
Pamela L. Perrewé
24 Respond to me—please! 226
James G. Combs
25 Challenging the gods: Circumstances justifying the protest
of a journal rejection decision 229
Gerald R. Ferris
26 Beginner’s muck: Maximizing your paper’s chances of
success with a novice editor 232
Kevin G. Corley and Beth S. Schinoff
Section II.IV Understanding the Journals
27 Publishing in the top journals: The secrets for success 237
Michael A. Hitt
28 Hitting your preferred target: Positioning papers for
different types of journals 242
Yehuda Baruch
29 Targeting journals: A personal journey 255
Franz W. Kellermanns
30 “Read the damn article”—or, the appropriate place of
journal lists in organizational science scholarship 262
M. Ronald Buckley and John E. Baur
31 Publishing in special issues 268
Timothy Clark
32 Open Access and open conversations: The role of digital
technologies in promoting and extending published work 274
Aija Leiponen and Will Mitchell
33 Should you publish in an Open Access journal? 282
Charles C. Snow
PART III PUBLISHING ACROSS DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES
34 Publishing in finance versus entrepreneurship/
management journals 288
Douglas Cumming
35 Publishing in management journals: How is it different
from economics journals? 301
Saul Estrin and Sumon Kumar Bhaumik
36 Publishing in management journals as a social psychologist 314
Rolf van Dick
37 Publishing historical papers in management journals and
in business history journals 322
Steven Toms
38 Publishing human resource management research in
different kinds of journals 329
Bill Harley
39 Publishing in top international business and management journals 337
Stephen Tallman and Torben Pedersen
40 Publishing at the interfaces of psychology and strategic
management 349
Gerard P. Hodgkinson