"Organization Studies goes to the
top of the stack because it is such a reliable source of thoughtful
scholarship. Authors get into the pages of this journal by reflecting
deeply on issues. There is less running after transient 'mainstreams',
and more willingness to enact meaningful discourse that people should
take seriously. Organization Studies features 'seasoned
inquiry' in the best sense of that phrase. It dominates that niche
hands down."
Karl E. Weick, Rensis Likert Distinguished University
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, University
of Michigan Business School, USA, and former Editor of Administrative
Science Quarterly
"Organization Studies makes possible conversations
between organizational theorists who view their worlds quite differently
and who use diverse methodologies. In so doing, it allows organizations
to be places where living people have experiences that evoke feelings
and ideas."
William Starbuck, Professor of Management and
Organizational Behavior, and ITT Professor of Creative Management,
Stern School of Business, New York University; former editor of
Administrative Science Quarterly.
"I am a great admirer of Organization Studies. Its
issues contain articles with new ideas, analysis that is rigorous,
empirical methodologies that are sound and helpful ideas relevant
to thoughtful practitioners."
Chris Argyris, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
and Monitor Group
"Organization Studies has for years been a place
where some of the finest European scholarship has been published.
Under new leadership, the journal is reaching out to scholars worldwide,
encouraging us to submit articles, participate in the review process,
and join in a global scholarly interchange. For too long, the Atlantic
has served as a barrier for many of us; let's experiment with changing
this."
Joanne Martin, Merrill Professor of Organizational
Behavior, and by courtesy, Sociology, Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University, USA
"Organization Studies is an exemplar of quality publishing
in organization theory. Its success has helped enormously to build
the more creative and confident European management research community
we now have. I am confident OS will retain its European distinctiveness
while becoming a premier publishing outlet for the best scholarship
from throughout the world. OS can make a difference both in intellectual
and policy terms and I have great hopes it will."
Andrew Pettigrew, Dean, School of Management,
University of Bath, UK
"For over twenty years Organization Studies has consistently
been one of the most innovative, interesting and stimulating journals
in the field. A great strength is its having never been too closely
identified with any one school of thought but its being open to
many different currents, not just intellectually but also multi-culturally
and multi-nationally: it represents not only European scholarship
– its homeland – but has shown that it is also open to ideas and
research from elsewhere."
Stewart Clegg, Professor of Management, University
of Technology, Sydney, Australia and Visiting Professor, University
of Aston Business School, UK
"Organization Studies welcomes a broad range of theoretical
perspectives and methods that allow it to offer a stimulating array
of provocative ideas and important research findings. Its historic
roots in European scholarship give this journal a unique flavour
that invites some of the most compelling and innovative work from
around the world."
Mary Jo Hatch, Professor of Commerce, McIntire
School of Commerce, University of Virginia, USA
"Organization Studies is the leading European journal
in the field, publishing significant contributions to all areas.
In particular, it publishes wide ranging and innovative studies
dealing with important intellectual issues without being constrained
by specialist boundaries or narrow conceptions of social scientific
research."
Richard Whitley, Professor of Organisational Sociology,
Manchester Business School, UK
"Organization Studies is a theoretically eclectic
journal, at the cutting edge of theory, more willing than other
journals to take epistemological risks and engage in a variety of
methods, both inductive and deductive. It is a 'smart read'."
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Professor of Strategy
and Organization, Stanford University, USA
"The field of organization and management theory is not widely
recognized for its scholarship, indeed the idea may appear oxymoronic
to many. Perhaps this is because the violent abstractions that underpin
much of what is regarded as scholarly and disciplined around this
field have been successfully claimed by other disciplines – microeconomics,
psychology, systems analysis, etc. But the tide is turning, has
been turning for a couple of decades. Social construction theories,
bounded rationality, decision-making bias, the sociology of knowledge,
new institutional economics, the impact of emotion, knowledge-based
approaches, etc., this is the way to our future scholarship, if
only because closing the gap between the abstractions and managerial
practice is crucial if we are to avoid being tossed into the dustbin
of history. A moment spent with our literature shows that Organization
Studies is one of the few globally recognized journals with
a broad enough view and methodological agenda to be able to capture
the attention of those leading us into this future."
JC Spender, Visiting Professor of Management,
Open University Business School, UK
"Organisation Studies is one of the most exciting and provocative
journals in our field. An authoritative source of new theoretical
perspectives and solid, ground-breaking research, the journal dramatically
shapes our intellectual efforts to understand organisations."
Georg von Krogh, Professor of Management, Director
of the Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
"The arrival of Organization Studies on my desk always
causes me a frisson of excited anticipation. This is the journal
where some of the most far-reaching, provocative and influential
ideas on organizations get their first airing. It is also the journal
that has defined an academic field which is gradually moving to
the forefront of the social and human sciences."
Yiannis Gabriel, Professor of Organization Theory,
The Business School, Imperial College, UK
"The most important forum for the organization researchers
in Europe, Organization Studies is renown as much for its
openness, paradigm tolerance and breadth, as for the impeccable
quality of its contributions."
Barbara Czarniawska, Skandia Professor of Management
Studies, Gothenburg Research Institute at School of Economics and
Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Sweden
"Organization Studies continues to play a leading
role in developing a distinctively interdisciplinary, diverse European
approach to organization scholarship that simultaneously bridges
North American traditions and debates. Its Special Issues on key
and emergent topics make a particularly strong contribution to the
field."
Hugh Willmott, Diageo Professor of Management
Studies, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge,
UK
"Organization Studies is an important and well-cited
journal, with a European flavour and style. It provides a critical
outlet for papers falling in the Organisation – Stragety interface
and fills an important gap in our knowledge about organisational
processes and strategy."
Howard Thomas, Dean, Warwick Business School,
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