Transcript The View from the Strategic Management Journal

An Editorial View from the
Strategic Management Journal
Giovanni Battista Dagnino
ESU 2009 – Journal Editors Panel
University of Sannio at Benevento
September 10, 2009
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The Strategic Management Journal
(Est. 1980)
World’s Premier Strategy Research Forum
for Academics, Business Practitioners and Consultants
Affiliated to
SMS Incoming Annual International Conferences
Washington, DC, October 11-14 2009
ROME, Italy, September 12-15 2010
Sister Recently Born and Promisingly Launched Journal:
The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
(Est. 2007)
Co-Editors
Richard Bettis
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Will Mitchell
Duke University
Edward Zajac
Northwestern University
The Editors
Rich Bettis
Will Mitchell
Ed Zajac
Aims and Scope
The journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects
of strategic management
It is devoted to the improvement and further development of the theory and
practice of strategic management and it is designed to appeal to both
practising managers and academics
Papers acceptable to an editorial board acting as referees are published The
journal also publishes communications in the form of research notes or
comments from readers on published papers or current issues
Editorial comments and invited papers on practices and developments
in strategic management appear from time to time as warranted by new
developments
SMJ provides a communication forum for advancing strategic management
theory and practice.
Such major topics as strategic resource allocation; organization structure;
leadership; entrepreneurship and organizational purpose; methods and
techniques for evaluating and understanding competitive, technological, social,
and political environments; planning processes; and strategic decision
processes are included in the journal
• SMJ is the flagship journal of the strategic
management discipline
• The journal is now 30+ years old
• 200+ people seat on the editorial review board
• The favorable position of SMJ is attributable to
the thoughtful leadership, organization, and
effort provided by Dan and Mari Lou Schendel
during the first quarter-century of the journal
• The editors are committed to continuing to make
SMJ the most desired destination for the
best research in strategic management
• Three Co-Editors, eleven Associate Editors, and the
Managing Editor are focused on three goals for SMJ
reviews for all submissions: they value reviews that are
developmental, open-minded, and timely
• They seek to help authors develop research that both
addresses important gaps in existing approaches to
strategic management and creates new perspectives that
move beyond existing theories and arguments
• Hence, they view their role as taking an “author’s
perspective” on submissions, with the goal of helping
to make the work as strong as possible, whether it is
published in SMJ or, instead, ends up being targeted for
other journals
THE AGE OF TEMPORARY
ADVANTAGE
SMJ SPECIAL ISSUE
Guest Editor
Giovanni Battista Dagnino
University of Catania
Special Issue Co-Editors
Richard A. D’Aveni
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Giovanni Battista Dagnino
University of Catania
Ken G. Smith
University of Maryland
Backdrop of This Issue
The Story or How it all Began
The Editorial Group and the Darwin’s Effect
The Special Issue Proposal and the Special Issue
Call for Papers: the emerging gap
Our Audax Auspices: They will never take it!
(Remember that “Audax Fortuna Iuvat”)
Learning Opportunities
from Submissions
Learn how to make reviews
Learn how to respond to editors and reviewers
Learn how to revise/improve papers properly;
ALSO after receiving a rejection letter
Learn not to dishearten easily, but to persists
unremittingly
Last but not least…
Role of the Young Researchers
Publication Opportunity
But Especially Opportunity to Receive Good
Feedback to Improve Your Reseach Pieces
What’s your (possibly multiple) role in the
incoming future of SMJ?
Other SMJ Special Issues
• Strategy and the Design of Organizational
Architecture
Guest Editors:
Ranjai Gulati, Phanish Puranam and Mike Tushman
Deadline for Submissions, December 1, 2009
• Psychological Foundations of Strategic
Management
Guest Editors:
Craig Fox, Dan Lovallo, Thomas Powell and David Teece
The Special Issue Trap
• Too many
Banalization
• Too unselective
Bad special issue
• Too selective
Risk of loosing good pieces
• Too repetitive
Unexciting topics
• Really SPECIAL?
Normal issue masquerade
Relevant Web Sites
• WILEY
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/
2144/home
• SMS Journals
http://smj.strategicmanagement.net
• On line Submissions
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smj
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