The procedures described below follow good practice by some of the best journals in the social sciences and are designed to achieve four things: (a) to improve the efficiency of the journal through the creation of a central office that will deal with administration and coordination; (b) to operate in a distributed fashion in order to maximise the pool of expertise upon which the journal may draw; (c) to give ample administrative assistance to the Senior Editors so that they may concentrate on the purely intellectual aspect of the reviewing process; and (d) to provide authors with speedy, professional and transparent procedures that will facilitate the review of their submissions to Organization Studies.

• Papers must be submitted to the Editorial Office (osofficer@gmail.com). You will receive an acknowledgment within five (5) working days.

 

Manuscript Submission and Preparation

Papers must be submitted electronically and their length should not exceed 12000 words (including references), although in some cases, involving mainly the reporting of qualitative data, longer versions may be accepted. Ideally, each submission should be made in a Microsoft Word file and a PDF file (the latter must be anonymized). However, for authors who are not able to send a PDF file, a Microsoft Word file is acceptable.
Manuscripts original in style and content (not under review, accepted and/or published elsewhere), are welcome. Please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal. Manuscripts should be accompanied by biographies of no more than 100 words on each author's personal history and current interests, by an abstract of the article, and by four or five key words or phrases.
Tables and figures should be on separate pages (at the end of the paper), and a note should be placed in the text to indicate their approximate position, e.g. Table X about here. All tables, figures, plates, etc., should be numbered separately: Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. and Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Figures should be suitable for direct reproduction in black and white. Please keep tints to a minimum.

Footnotes

Footnotes other than acknowledgements should be eliminated by incorporating them in the text or tables, based on the principle: 'If it's worth saying, say it in the text where it can be seen; if it's not worth saying, don't say it.'

References in the Text

Cite all references at the appropriate point in the text by the surname of the author(s), year of publication, and pagination where necessary. Identify subsequent references to the same source in the same way as the first citation, i.e. do not use ibid., op. cit., or loc. cit.

Examples:

1. If an author's name is in the text, follow it with the year of publication in parentheses [ Woodward (1965) ].
2. If an author's name is not in the text, insert, in parentheses, the author's surname and the year of publication without punctuation [ (Luhmann 1975) ].
3. Multiple citations should be separated by semicolons [ (Argyris 1973; Van Doorn 1973) ].
4. Give both authors' surnames in the case of dual authorship; for three or more authors, give only the first author's surname followed by 'et al.' [ (Misumi and Takasaki 1965) ][ (Guigni et al. 1976) ].
5. For institutional authorship, supply minimum information [ US Commission on Industrial Relations 1967 ].
6. Pagination (without 'p.' or 'pp.') to give the source of a quotation or to indicate a passage of special relevance, follows the year of publication and is preceded by a colon [ Parsons 1974: 238 ]. Page numbers should be given in full, i.e. 248-253 not 248-53.

List of References as Appendix

List all references cited in the text at the end of the article in a separate appendix entitled 'References'. Alphabetize by author; multiple entries by one author in the same year should be postscripted a,b,c [1978a, 1978b, 1978c]; multiple entries by one author should be listed separately, repeating the author's name each time, from earliest to most recent publication [1958, 1965, 1978]. In multiple author entries, the first author's name should be inverted; however, all following authors' names should be given in 'normal' order [Jones, Robert, and James Smith or Jones, Robert, James Smith, and Edward Brown]. Use no abbreviations. Give publisher's names in as brief a form as possible [Wiley not John A. Wiley and Sons]. Titles of articles should be typed in single quotes with only the initial word and proper nouns capitalized. Titles of books should be given in italics with only the initial word and proper nouns capitalized. Titles of journals and other periodicals should be italicized with each major word capitalized.

Examples:

Crozier, Michel

1964 The bureaucratic phenomenon, 2nd edn. London: Tavistock.

Crozier, Michel

1973 'The problem of power'. Social Research 40/2: 211-228.

Crozier, Michel

1976 'Comparing structures and comparing games' in European contributions to organization theory. G. Hofstede and M. S. Kassem (eds), 135-156. Amsterdam: Van Gorcum.

Erez, Miriam, and Christopher Earley

1993 Culture, self-identity, and work. New York: Oxford University Press.

Parsons, Talcott

1963a 'On the concept of influence'. Public Opinion Quarterly 27: 37-62.

Parsons, Talcott

1963b 'On the concept of political power'. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 107: 232-262.

Weinshall, Theodore D., editor

1977 Culture and management. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

 

• The Editor in Chief, or one of the Co-Editors or Senior Editors will oversee the paper and make an Initial Editorial Decision (IED), regarding whether the manuscript is eligible to be sent out for review. The IED will be communicated to authors by the Editor-in-Chief within 3 weeks of submission. Articles that deviate significantly from the OS style guidelines that do not fit with Organization Studies' editorial policy or are clearly not of sufficient quality to be potentially publishable in OS will not be sent out for review and their authors will be accordingly notified.
• Papers that are considered eligible for review will be sent out to up to 4 (usually 3) reviewers selected by the LET member handling the paper
• Papers will be reviewed by members of the Editorial Board and other expert reviewers.
• The LET member is responsible for reading the paper in the light of reviewers' reports and making an Editorial Decision (ED) in the form of a written letter addressed to the authors. The letter is emailed to the Editor-in-Chief, who will formally advise the authors of the decision and forward the reviewers' reports and the ED letter.
• The entire review process should be completed within 16 weeks.
• If the LET member’s editorial decision is "revise and resubmit", the paper will need to be revised and resubmitted within 6 months of the decision being communicated to authors. In exceptional cases, an extension may be granted.
• Revised papers should be emailed as Microsoft Word attachments to the Editor-in-Chief. Acknowledgement of receipt will be made within 5 working days.
• The Editor-in-Chief will forward the revised paper to the same Senior Editor and reviewers for a second review.
• At the end of the second reviewing cycle, the LET member will need to make a final Editorial Decision i.e., "accept" or "reject". In exceptional circumstances, a third reviewing cycle may take place.
• In the event that the acceptance is "conditional" (i.e., subject to making minor improvements to the paper but without needing to return it to reviewers), the revised paper will be returned to the LET member who will ascertain whether the necessary changes have been made.
• Having satisfied himself/herself that the necessary changes have been made to the paper, the LET member electronically forwards it to the Editor-in-Chief.

 

Copyright

• Before publication authors are requested to assign copyright to SAGE, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published preferably at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.

 

Proofs and Offprints

• Authors will receive proofs of their articles, a copy of the journal (each) and a pdf file of their article for personal use.
• If authors want to inquire about the stage of the reviewing process their paper is in, or want to raise any other issues with regard to the review process, they should contact the Managing Editor, Ms Sophia Tzagaraki (osofficer@gmail.com). They should expect to receive a fast response.

 

Book Reviews

Book reviews should be sent to one of the Book Review Editors:

 

• Guido Mollering, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany, gm@mpifg.de
• Kim Boal, Texas Tech University, USA, kim.boal@ttu.edu