Submitting to
Academy of Management Annals
Important information for submitters to Annals
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Academy of Management Annals (Annals) is the highest ranked peer-reviewed journal in the categories of management and business. Articles submitted to Annals review, synthesize, interpret, and critique the literature on management-related topics. Annals reviews not only summarize recent literature, but feature critical and potentially provocative positions that are grounded in the review.
Annals publishes two issues per year: January and July.
Although Annals permits rolling submissions, the submissions are not reviewed by the editors until the submission deadline has passed. Since proposals are peer-reviewed, decision letters on proposals are sent out approximately six weeks after the submission deadline.
Visit Manuscript Central to upload your submission.
Contact the editors, Matthew A. Cronin or Elizabeth George with any questions.
Annals contributions should:
- Review, synthesize, interpret, and critique the literature on management related topics
- Summarize and challenge established concepts, pinpoint problems and factual errors, inspire discussions, and illuminate avenues for future research
- Examine the latest advances in various management fields
- Include critical and provocative research reviews written by leading scholars
- Target academic scholars in management and professionals in allied fields, such as organizational psychology and sociology of organizations
- Feature critical and potentially provocative positions that are grounded in the review
- Include extant empirical research to provide a substantial review
- Have a broad scope to appeal to general interest, but not too broad that it cannot all be covered in one article
- Avoid being a theory development paper or a traditional review that lacks a perspective and solely updates literature
- Include extant empirical research to provide a substantial review
- When submitting your article to Annals, please submit a short proposal and not a full text article. Proposals that do not conform to the proposal guidelines will not be considered.
Submission Requirements
Authors interested in publishing articles in Annals must first submit a brief proposal outlining their project. If the proposal is accepted, the author will be invited to submit an article.
When authors submit their proposal or manuscript to Annals, they agree to abide by Annals publication requirements. Specifically, an author must:
- Agree that the proposal or manuscript is not under review for publication elsewhere and will not be submitted to another publication entity during the review period at Annals
- Confirm that the proposal or manuscript has not previously been submitted to Annals for review. This includes prior submission of a proposal that covers the same general topic area. The key issue is the extent to which the proposal focuses on a review of the same literature as an earlier proposal submission. If submitters are unsure if a new proposal is distinct enough from a prior proposal to qualify for submission, they should contact the editors for clarification
Submitting an Article Proposal
The Academy of Management Annals (Annals) follows a two-step process for article submissions. First, authors must submit a brief proposal that outlines the article.
Proposals will be evaluated based on the extent to which they meet the criteria listed below. Proposals should be no longer than 5 pages single-spaced with standard 1-inch margins and in a 12-point font. References and article elements (to include tables, figures, and graphs) are not counted in the 5 page threshold and can be included at the end of the proposal.
The proposal MUST include the following information with the following headings:
- What issue or problem domain will your review cover? Why is this an important issue or area of research? Is there a sufficient body of high‐quality empirical research to warrant a review?
- Related reviews: What prior reviews have been published on this topic? How will your review add value above and beyond what has already been done?
- Review scope and process: How will you set the scope of your review and conduct a comprehensive literature search? What will be your inclusion/exclusion criteria? What process will you use to analyze the literature to identify integrating themes and novel insights?
- New insights: What new insights are expected to emerge from your analysis of the literature? How will these new insights alter the trajectory of research in this problem domain? What implications and new directions will your manuscript offer for future research?
**Proposals should be submitted directly via this site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aomannals.
Proposals are double-blind peer reviewed by the Associate Editors. Once a proposal has been accepted, the second step is the author is invited to submit a full article. An invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Please feel free to contact the Annals Editorial Office with any questions.
Please review our Style Guide for manuscript requirements prior to submitting.
Publishing in Annals
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