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Journal of Management Studies

Edited by:
Joep Cornelissen, Steven W. Floyd and Mike Wright (General Editors), Timothy Clark (Consulting Editor), Andrew C. Corbett, Andrew Delios and Colin Hales (Associate Editors)

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 10/72 (Business); 14/81 (Management)
Impact Factor: 1.926

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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

Ranked "A*" in the Business and Management category of the Australia Business Deans Council journal rankings

Winners of the JMS 2007 Best Reviewer Prize
Jeff Reuer, Purdue University, USA
Bert Canella, Tulane University, USA
Paul Beamish, Richard Ivey School of Business, Richard Ivey School of Business, Canada

Winner of the inaugural 2007 Karen Legge prize for most promising early career
Reddi Kotha, Singapore Management University, Sinagpore

Winner of the 2007 Best Paper Prize
The Influence of Decision, Environmental and Firm Characteristics on the Rationality of Strategic Decision-Making
Volume 44, Issue 4, June 2007
John Child, University of Birmingham, UK
Said Elbanna, United Arab Emirates University,  United Arab Emirates

Featured review article - available free online
Asian Management Research: Status Today and Future Outlook
Garry D. Bruton and Chung-Ming Lau

Call for Papers for JMS Special Issues
Multinational Enterprises and Local Contexts
Submission deadline: November 1, 2008

New General Editor
We are delighted to announce that Joep Cornelissen has been appointed General Editor of JMS from January 1st.  He is Professor Corporate Communication and Marketing at Leeds University Business School and has been an Associate Editor of JMS since July 2006.
 
Timothy Clark, who has been a General Editor since 2002, has become Consulting Editor and will continue to see existing papers through the review process.
 
New General Editor Position
We are now advertising for a new General Editor to join Joep Cornelissen. For further information on this position, please download the full advertisement here. 

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.

The latest Point Counterpoint articles are available free online in Volume 44 Issue 4. 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.

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

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

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 44 Issue 4, Volume 43 Issue 7, Volume 43 Issue 3, Volume 42 Issue 7, Volume 42 Issue 3

Special Issues
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

40:6 Speaking Up, Remaining Silent: The Dynamics of Voice and Silence in Organizations
Edited by Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison, Frances J. Milliken

40:3 The Changing Multi-National Firm
Edited by Glen Morgan and Richard Whitley

40:1 Micro strategy and strategizing: towards and activity based view
Edited by Gerry Johnson, Leif Melin and Richard Whittington

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