| Editorial Procedures & Manuscript Submission 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 may be submitted to any member of the Leading
Editorial Team (i.e. the Editor-in-Chief and the three Co-editors).
If a paper is addressed to any of the three Co-editors, authors must
make sure they copy the Editor-in-Chief in to their submission. The
email addresses of the members of the Leading Editorial Team (LET)
are as follows:
Haridimos Tsoukas, Editor-in-Chief,
OSeditor@alba.edu.gr
Raghu Garud, Co-editor for the American continent,
OScoeditor1@stern.nyu.edu
Cynthia Hardy, Co-editor for Australasia,
os-coeditor2@unimelb.edu.au
David Courpasson, Co-editor for Europe,
oscoeditor3@em-lyon.com
- Manuscript Submission and Preparation
Papers must be submitted electronically and their length should
not exceed 9000 words (including all references, tables, figures,
author bios, abstracts and keywords), 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. Where relevant and
appropriate authors are encouraged to develop their arguments with
reference to work previously published in Organization Studies.
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, 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. Figures on disk should be
saved as TIF or EPS files at high resolution and kept in separate
files from the text.
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 author's name is in the text, follow it with the year of
publication in parentheses [ Woodward (1965) ].
2. If 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 full out, 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 shouldbe
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 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.
- Authors will receive electronic acknowledgement from the
Editor-in-Chief of the submission of their manuscript from the
Editor-in-Chief within 3 working days.
- The LET member who will oversee the paper will 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 2 weeks after
submission. Articles that deviate significantly from the OS style
guidelines (that do not fit with Organization Studies’ editorial
policy (see Editorial in OS, vol. 24/7); 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 assigned
to a Senior Editor (for a list of Senior Editors click
here).
The Editor-in-Chief will send the paper out to up to 4 (usually 3)
reviewers selected by the Senior Editor and the LET member.
Depending on workload and expertise, a LET member may act as Senior
Editor.
- Papers will be reviewed by members of the Editorial Board (for a
list of our Editorial Board click
here)
and other expert reviewers. We aim for the review process not to
exceed 12 weeks.
- The Senior Editor 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 FED
letter.
The entire review process (steps #1-#7) should be completed within
14 weeks.
- If the Senior Editor’s editorial decision is "revise and
resubmit", the paper will need to be revised and resubmitted within
6 months after the decision has been announced to authors. In
exceptional certain 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 3 working days. Steps #6 and #7 are repeated.
- 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 Senior Editor 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, consulting with the Senior Editor if
necessary.
- 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 Publications, 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 electronically proofs of their articles,
a copy of the journal (each) and electronic off prints from the pdf
file.
- 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 Editorial
Officer, Ms Sophia Tzagaraki, OSofficer@alba.edu.gr
. They should
expect to receive a fast response.
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