Academy of Management Annals is the highest ranked peer-reviewed journal in the categories of Management and Business. 

Annals publishes two issues per year:

• January: Deadline October 1
• July: Deadline April 1

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. 

Academy of Management Annals submission information.

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Contact the editors, Stuart Bunderson or Carrie Leana with any questions.

Academy of Management Discoveries (AMD) publishes management research guided by empirical abduction and induction, or in other words, studies which use data exploration in order to:

• Surface significant new or emerging phenomenon using any number of empirical approaches including rich description, quantitative construct validation, and/or empirical taxonomic analyses.

OR

• Identify and explore surprising relationships using rigorous qualitative and/or quantitative methods in order to develop plausible explanations for those relationships and provide a grounded basis for innovative theorizing.
• Studies that leverage the data to offer plausible explanations for the mechanisms underlying these relations and/or the conditions governing them are likely to be published as full-length papers.
• Studies simply exposing stylized facts and providing evidence of their consistent and non-spurious nature without examining mediators or moderators are likely to be published as "Discoveries-in-Brief".

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• Leverage original, secondary or "big" data and any number of alternative approaches (including lab and field/quasi-experiments, meta-analyses and replication studies) in order to offer empirically-driven insights into and/or a plausible resolution of critical anomalies and discrepant findings.

AMD is different from the other AOM journals

As a journal grounded on empirical abduction, AMD's mission is distinct from but complementary to the missions of other Academy of Management publications. AMD papers report novel findings or unusual empirical patterns in their particular indigenous contexts that are either not adequately explained by current theory or that may play a critical role in the development or testing of new theory.

Accordingly, AMD papers use data to isolate the plausible nature of new or poorly understood phenomena, identify their plausible antecedents and/or consequences, and/or shed light on the conditions potentially governing these relations. Ideally, these empirically driven insights provide a framework to guide further theory generation and a basis upon which to ground testable hypotheses.

Academy of Management Learning and Education submission information.

The Academy of Management Perspectives (AMP) publishes symposia that address important issues concerning management and business. A distinctive aspect of AMP articles is a focus on evidence rather than the development of theory. The journal publishes work that synthesizes and translates theoretical and empirical research such as reviews of what we already know; integration of diverse theories and empirical findings that inform in a new and interesting way; forward-looking expositions that integrate and articulate existing theory and findings with new and provocative ideas; and integration of theory and research in management with related advances in other non-management sciences and disciplines. We are calling for new symposia ideas that meet these types of work. Symposia consists of 4 to 6 papers discussing a well-defined topic. Unlike special issues, contributions to symposia are vetted by the symposium organizer, and curated so they complement each other. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to, advances in the neuroscience of decision making, business strategies from data science, the impact of contingent labor force on organizational sustainability, the limits of private/public partnerships on organizational growth, and so on.

Academy of Management Perspectives submission information.

Academy of Management Review submission information.