Proposals are reviewed by two associate editors and one editor-in-chief. The peer review process at the proposal stage is a blind-reviewed process, and the reviewers (who are Academy of Management Annals associate editors) do not see the CVs of authors that are submitted with the proposal. Proposal decisions go out approximately 45 days after the deadline for submissions.

Criteria used to review proposals:

• 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?

• High-quality papers require high-quality reviews. As you review papers for AMD, please keep the following in mind:
• The paper must fit the AMD Mission statement. It must use data that is analyzed on the basis of rigorous, state-of-the-art methods to isolate and provide insight and plausible explanations for management/organizational anomalies, phenomena and/or relationships, and having robust implications for management and organizations.
• Because AMD seeks empirical studies of poorly-understood yet important phenomena, we expect that they will be directed by specific research questions and conjectures rather than testing refined hypotheses. Introductory paragraphs should clearly ground the phenomenon or issue in the extant literature, and explicate the significance of the research question. We encourage this grounding to clearly describe a particular case or instance of the phenomenon, and the context or settings in which it exists. This grounding should also include a statement of the specific research question that guides the study of the phenomenon, why it is important, and how it is addressed in the paper.
• The paper must be pre-theoretical, highlighting in the discussion what implications the findings have for theory and further theoretical development. Because AMD publishes primarily abductive research, strong papers should use the empirical patterns uncovered in their analyses to “push the theoretical envelope”, laying out criteria that future theory generation must meet, or plausible parameters that might inform the development of new theoretical models, propositions or hypotheses.  Authors providing the typical “implications for future research” should be encouraged to reflect more deeply about their findings and think about what they might communicate to a colleague developing a conceptual/theoretical paper on the same issue for submission to AMR.
• Revised and accepted papers should always reflect the author's voice, as opposed to that of the reviewer or action editor. To accomplish this, we ask you to assess a paper in terms of the author's purposes, and to suggest specific ways to improve and achieve them. We encourage developmental reviewing, but be careful not to impose your agenda or to over-step your role by asking authors to adopt your preferred perspective. Wherever possible, final publication decisions will be made after no more than one revision.

Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) reviews should:

• Be 2-4 pages in length
• Be focused on 6-8 major points
• Have those points numbered in a rough order of importance
• Have minor points, if covered, placed into a separate section, continuing the numbering from the major points portion.

Sample Reviews Written by the Editors

To illustrate the kinds of reviews our editorial team is looking for, the micro and macro editors have written reviews of hypothetical AMJ submissions (the papers are "file-drawered" manuscripts obtained with consent by the editorial team). Although different editors use different styles when writing their reviews, all of the reviews conform to the guidelines described above.

Hypothetical examples: 

• Micro submission
• Micro editor reviews
• Macro submissions
• Macro editor reviews

• Theoretical Contribution: Does the manuscript test, create, or extend theory? Does it change or advance knowledge of the concepts, relationships, models, or theories embedded in the relevant literatures? Does it cause scholars to think about some phenomenon in a way that would not be anticipated from extrapolations of existing work?
• Interestingness, Innovativeness, and Novelty: Does the manuscript examine new constructs, phenomena, or relationships, or does it test its predictions in an unconventional, elegant, and unexpected way?
• Empirical Contribution: Do the manuscript's findings add to the existing pool of knowledge in the relevant domains in an important and useful way?
• Methodological Rigor: Was the study well executed? If the study is hypothetical-deductive, do its manipulations or measures possess construct validity, and do its findings possess adequate internal and statistical conclusion validity? If the study is inductive, are its data gathered, coded, and interpreted according to prevailing standards?

Please contact AMJ's Managing Editor, Michael Malgrande, with any questions.

The Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE) editor will screen all manuscripts submitted to the Research & Reviews, and Essays, Dialogues, and Interviews sections. In some cases, a manuscript may be returned without peer review if it is judged to be inappropriate for publication in AMLE. Manuscripts that are egregiously deficient in grammar, spelling, and punctuation also may be returned without review. Manuscripts judged to be consistent with the mission and standards of AMLE will be submitted for double-blind review to at least two referees as dictated by content-one referee is always an Editorial Board member. Senior authors can expect to receive first-round feedback via email in approximately 75 days, moderated by the editor or an associate editor.

Manuscripts will be evaluated by referees on the following criteria (criteria will be selectively applied, based on the nature and type of the manuscript):

• Originality and importance of core ideas
• Quality of treatment of the relevant existing literature
• Quality of the presentation of ideas
• Design and execution of research methodology (if appropriate)
• Overall contribution of the article to the advancement of management education

Authors are encouraged to solicit feedback from colleagues on early drafts. A manuscript can be improved dramatically when knowledgeable reviewers are asked for reactions in advance of submission. Manuscripts are considered with the understanding that their contents have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere. Presentation of a paper at a professional meeting does not disqualify it from consideration.

Content Areas

AMLE publishes a wide range of materials devoted to management education in colleges, universities, and all organizations that formally foster learning about management, which encompass the four content areas:

Research and Reviews

This section contains articles which include: quantitative and qualitative empirical manuscripts, theoretical discourses and models, literature reviews, and general or specific appraisals of approaches to learning and management education. Authors of submissions for this section are encouraged to consider relevant theoretical perspectives when developing their manuscripts, but it is not necessarily required that the manuscript make a theoretical contribution to be accepted for publication. We strongly encourage authors to report effect sizes in empirically oriented submissions. There are two major classes of effect sizes for parametric analyses. The first class of effect sizes involves standardized mean differences. Effect sizes in this class include indices, such as Glass' Δ , Hedges' g, and Cohen's d. Because all parametric analyses are part of one General Linear Model family, and are correlational, variance-accounted-for effect sizes can be computed in all studies, including both experimental and non-experimental studies. Effect sizes in this second class include indices, such as r2, R2, and ŋ2. Although there is no formal page limit, manuscripts submitted for this section are typically between 20 and 40 pages. As always, length should reflect the value of the contribution.

Essays, Dialogues, and Interviews

Essays are original commentaries or critiques. Narrative accounts of the author's experiences with specific instructional technologies, techniques, courses, or program creation are not essays. Dialogues are responses to papers previously published in AMLE. Interviews are discussions with academics, educators, and business or thought leaders that would be of interest to our readership. Dialogues are rooted in Exemplary Contributions, Research & Reviews, or Essays published in AMLE, and should broadly advance the state of scholarship in the area of the target paper, as opposed to being primarily critiques of the reasoning or methodology of the target paper.

Exemplary Contributions

Exemplary Contributions are invited from noteworthy scholars and practitioners. They are peer-reviewed just as contributions to the other sections.

Book and Resource Reviews

AMLE publishes reviews of resources intended to foster learning (books, videos, simulations, exercises, etc.). These reviews are not peer-reviewed, although the editor for this section often encourages rewrites to improve initial submissions.

Please contact the AMLE Managing Editor, Stacey Victor, with any questions.

General Procedure

To submit your reviews, please go to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amle and login to your account. Manuscripts assigned to you for review are listed in the "Awaiting Reviewer Scores" list below. You can view the manuscript by clicking on its title. To view reviewer instructions and access the score sheet, click on the "View Details" button.

Manuscript Evaluation Form With Comments for the Editor

Use this section sparingly. Please communicate the same information to authors as you do the Editor. Occasionally, however, additional comments are appropriate, e.g.:

1. A clarification of your recommendation, e.g., "If it were up to me, I'd publish this if the author successfully deals with the concerns raised in point 3 of my Comments to Authors”.
2. Contextual information, e.g., "Please interpret my comments in light of the fact that I have a strong bias against this general approach to the topic..."
3. Issues about which you are uncertain, e.g., "I think that there's a relatively large literature on this topic in sociology that the author is ignoring, but..."

High-quality manuscript reviews for Academy of Management Perspectives (AMP) meet the following criteria: 1) are timely and adhere to reviewer guidelines; 2) give constructive, concise recommendations to both the editors and authors; 3) offer substantiated comments about the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments, presentation, and discussions; 4) comment on the importance, relevance and likely newsworthiness of the manuscript for readers; and 5) note any special issues. Explanations of these features are included below. 

Special issues:

Reviews that note subtle but important aspects that might otherwise be missed (e.g., prior/redundant publication, ethical issues), or that bring unusual depth, insight, and expertise are particularly appreciated. 

Academy of Management Review (AMR) publishes new theoretical insights that advance our understanding of management and organizations. AMR is receptive to a variety of perspectives, including those seeking to improve the effectiveness of, as well as those critical of, management and organizations. Submissions to AMR must extend theory in ways that permit the development of testable knowledge-based claims. To do this, researchers can develop new management and organization theory, significantly challenge or clarify existing theory, synthesize recent advances and ideas into fresh, if not entirely new theory, or initiate a search for new theory by identifying and delineating a novel theoretical problem. The contributions of AMR articles often are grounded in "normal science disciplines" of economics, psychology, sociology, or social psychology, as well as nontraditional perspectives, such as the humanities. AMR publishes novel, insightful and carefully crafted conceptual work that challenges conventional wisdom concerning all aspects of organizations and their roles in society.

Writing Developmental Reviews: Video Interviews with Award Winning Reviewers

• Multi-Media/Publications---Academy-of-Management-Review/Developmental-Reviewer-Award-Winner-Craig-Crossland-Shares-His--Thanks--Approach.aspx
• Interview with Craig Crossland
• Interview with Jonathan Bundy
• Interview with Wendy Smith
• Interview with Jan Heide

From the Editor Essays on Reviewing

• July 2015 Ballinger & Johnson - Your First Review
• January 2015 Ragins - Developing Our Authors