征稿期刊

Journal of Management Studies

期刊级别

IF 6.4 (JCR 2024)

SSCI

Q1 (BUSINESS 45/316)

Q1 (MANAGEMENT 57/420)

征稿主题

How Methods Can Advance Theory in Management Research

细分领域

Offer originality in terms of methods and theorizing from such methods.

In the qualitative space, this might include critical methods (e.g., CDA, critical feminist/cultural methodologies) or methods that have been less explored in management studies (e.g., ethnomethodology, conversational analysis, auto, and urban ethnography).

In the quantitative space, this might include advanced statistical modeling methods, computational modeling, NK modeling, bi-factor modeling, social networks, and growth and location-scale modeling, as well as neuroscience, and multivariate meta-analysis.

Offer originality in terms of combinations of methods and/or methods and theory.

This might include advanced mixed methods designs or unusually but effective combinations of different methods and/or methods and theory (e.g., grounded theory and narrative analysis; interpretive comparative case study; computational modeling to develop theories of entrainment and emergence; within- and between-firm in longitudinal testing, growth modeling to develop models of dynamic change and convergence).

This might also include approaches that investigate reflective constructs and dynamic multi-determination.

Include promising new designs, measures, tools, and technologies as part of their methodological toolset that offer significant potential to advance theory.

Such technologies in the qualitative space might include AI and machine learning, as well as crisp and fuzzy set qualitative and comparative analysis, and video and image analytic tools.

Such technologies in the quantitative space might include methods for creating new datasets, developments in design that improve causal inferences, advanced statistical software and modeling tools, creative remedies to address endogeneity, and longitudinal hierarchical modeling.

Focus on ways in which methods can reinvigorate theoretical bodies.

Papers in this space might examine how and why methods stop generating novel theoretical insights and propose ways to invigorate specific bodies of work.

Similarly, they might study the affordances of particular methods and how these might ‘capture’ a field and lead to the plateauing of theory.

Address challenges and current questions in research methods.

In qualitative methods, this might include questions about what constitutes viable and generative alternatives to templates, the benefits and challenges that extreme contexts offer, and how scholars can conduct multi-context and multilevel analysis effectively.

In quantitative methods, this might include ways to validate the theoretical structure of multilevel constructs, as well as validity and reliability assumptions and properties, and testing different conceptualizations of temporal relationships.

Methods for improving replication and transparency to advance theory generalization in both qualitative and quantitative research.

In terms of substantive topics, an illustrative but not comprehensive set of possibilities includes:

Managing organizations in ideologically laden times, where management practices are affected by ideological factors in complex ways.

Managing the changing workplace (e.g., Gen Z employees, new work).

Managing the centrality of technology (e.g., GenAI as an actor; recasting the role of agency).

Managing within a surveilled society (e.g., the role of government and social media).

Managing classical management issues in collaborative or temporary organizations.

重要时间

ProposalDeadline: 30 April 2026

Submission Deadline: 31 January 2027