About this Blog
The managementstudiesinsights.com blog provides engaging snapshots about research published in the Journal of Management Studies in a straightforward and accessible manner that highlights its practical and societal implications. It presents the frontier of knowledge of what management and organizational research have to offer that is relevant for practitioners in and beyond a business context. The blog aims to bridge academic scholarship in management studies with scholars across disciplines, practitioners, media and the broader public who are interested in the societal relevance of management studies, and invites for discussion about the impact that management scholarship has beyond academia. The Management Studies Insights Blog is the official blog of the Journal of Management Studies.
Published posts reflect the opinions of the authors and not the Journal of Management Studies or its Media Editor.
For more information, contact Media Editor Kristina Potocnik or Editorial Facilitator Aleksandra Zolczynska.
Guidelines for contributors
The www.managementstudiesinsights.com blog provides engaging snapshots on the latest research and debates in management and organisation studies. It presents the frontiers of knowledge of what management and organizational research have to offer that is relevant in and beyond a business context. The blog aims to bridge academic scholarship in management studies with scholars across disciplines, practitioners, media and the broader public.
The different types of pieces that we consider publishing on our blog are as follows:
1. We invite authors who have published in the Journal of Management Studies to write an entry about their published article.
Authors should summarize their paper in a straightforward and accessible manner that highlights the study’s implications for an informed general audience, emphasizing the practical, policy, societal, and/or educational impact of their research, above and beyond their contribution to theory. Relevance and impact should not be narrowly understood as targeting managers in a business context, but, depending on the actual research and the actors under study, may also include those who manage and organize important societal issues, e.g. NGOs organizing a campaign, employees and workers managing work relationships, etc. In their entries, the authors should include a hyperlink to the original study on the JMS website – i.e., you could refer to your study in the main text next to stating that it was “published in the Journal of Management Studies”.
While you are free to emphasize various aspects of your paper, considering the following questions may help you to target your post towards a broader audience:
- What did you study, and why is that important?
- How did you study it?
- What did you find?
- Why and how do these findings matter and for whom?
- What are the (actionable) takeaways, for instance in terms of doing things differently, or thinking about things differently?
- Who should read the full paper and why?
2. We welcome opinion pieces on and responses to published works in the Journal of Management Studies.
This type of entry should be written in a professional and constructive spirit, commenting on the published work and not the author(s) of it. Authors should include a hyperlink to the original study they are commenting upon on the JMS website – i.e., you could refer to the study you are writing about in the main text stating that it was “published in the Journal of Management Studies”.
We will inform the authors whose work will be commented upon in a blog entry in advance of posting it and invite them to respond to the blog entry if they wish.
3. We consider proposals for entries on topical issues in management and organisation studies.
This type of entry does not have to be based upon a publication in the Journal of Management Studies, but should be clear, compelling, well-argued, and provide interesting insights on a management or organizational issue(s). It should have an appeal to our readership as well as to an informed general audience.
The appeal to our readership could be achieved by referring to published studies in the Journal of Management Studies – i.e., where relevant, the authors could insert hyperlinks to the articles on the JMS website that are relevant to the issue(s) being discussed.
Authors wishing to write this type of entry should first send a proposal to the JMS media editor, who may then invite the authors to write a full entry.
Further instructions for contributors
- All types of blog entry should be between 500-1,000 words long.
- Contributors are guided by the JMS Media Editor Kristina Potočnik, who supports authors, and approves texts before publication on the blog.
- A blog entry should feature the following components:
- An exciting action title to make viewers read on.
- A short summary of 50-80 words highlighting the key message of the post.
- Several sub-section headings in the text to ease the flow of reading.
- Short author biographies (3-4 lines, without listing prior publications).
- An illustrative picture for the text. The platform unsplash.com offers a wide selection that is also free of charge. Have a look at the existing entries on the blog website for inspiration.
All blog entries should be submitted to the JMS office (jms@durham.ac.uk) with the JMS Media Editor in cc (kristina.potocnik@ed.ac.uk). The JMS office will upload the text. We notify the author(s) once the entry has been published.
Once published, we encourage the authors to share their entries actively amongst their networks.
Code of Conduct
All posts reflect the opinions of the contributors who wrote the post, and not the Journal of Management Studies or its Media Editor.
Prior to becoming available online, all posts are read by the JMS Media Editor who primarily checks for any factual and/or grammatical errors. The core content of the posts is not edited, but the Media Editor may suggest some changes to make it more engaging and appealing to wider audiences.
The website features a comment function for each post, which we ask the authors to monitor and, if applicable, engage with commentors. Comments on published blog entries should be written in a respectful and professional manner, commenting on the blog post itself and not the authors. Comments on published entries are moderated by JMS to ensure they are written in the spirit of appropriate and constructive communication.
Any posts or comments written in offensive, threatening or unprofessional language will be rejected, likewise any posts promoting commercial interests or what may be deemed ‘spam’. We may seek legal advice before allowing the posting of anything deemed particularly contentious.
We welcome debate, but understand that there may be things people feel strongly about; please consider the impact of your words on others when submitting a contribution and be aware that text is not the best medium for conveying tone of voice and you may be misunderstood.
For any further questions:
Please get in touch with the JMS office at business.jms@durham.ac.uk and/or the JMS Media Editor Kristina Potočnik (kristina.potocnik@ed.ac.uk).