Course coordinator: Professor Peter Maskell, Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI)

Faculty

Professor Peter Maskell
Department of Strategy and Innovation, CBS

Professor Keld Laursen
Department of Strategy and Innovation, CBS

Prerequisites

This workshop is intended to deal with the basic issues of the process of publishing in the learned journals for the PhD students who are about to write their thesis.

Aim

Continuous publishing in academic journals has increasingly become not only a criterion for initial employment, subsequent tenure, and possible promotion, but also a necessity for most academics employed by universities and business schools. 

This course addresses the basic issues of academic publishing and covers the whole process from your research idea to submission of your quantitative or qualitative paper to a scientific journal. It mixes lectures with hands-on exercises and testimonials from PhDs sharing their recent publishing experience. The course includes sessions on how to select your target journal, how to structure your paper and position it in your field, how to manage co-authorships and deal with reviewer reports and how editors make their final decision on which paper submissions to accept for publication in their journal and which to reject. The pros and cons of publishing your research in books/monographs or in edited volumes are considered together with strategies to avoid pitfalls and penalizable author behavior such as plagiarism. At the end of the workshop, students will be familiar with the requirements for publishing articles in various types of outlets in management and related fields.

Course content

What is a good scientific contribution: Some criteria and examples

• Developing a publication project.
• Publishing strategies.
• The pros and cons of publishing in edited volumes contra in journals.
• Co-authorship, acknowledgements, credit-management
• How to deal with reviews and reviewers.
• Web tools: Assessing journals and authors using ISI Web of Knowledge
• Editors' Round-Table

Lecture plan

Day 1  - KL 2.53 - Kilen (second floor)    

1.Introduction to the course
2.What’s the problem? What is the crucial decision?
3.How to structure and submit a manuscript
4.How to cope with reviewers
5.Editor’s corner - Q&A. Session with guests
6.What is a scientific contribution: Theory building or theory testing

Day 2 -  Dh.C. 1.09 PC room in the morning and DH.D. 1.03 for the afternoon sessions

7.How to select a journal (including hands-on ISI/SSCI-exercise)
8.Publication strategy I: The first time I did it. Session with guests
9.Comparing qualitative and quantitative research
10.Publication strategy II: The possibilities of outlets for your research
11.Co-authorship management
12.Acknowledgements
13.Wrap up and farewell          

Both days from 9.00-16.00.

Exam

N/A


Teaching style

Sessions with lectures, panel discussion, hands-on exercises, testimonials, and group work, etc.

Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the main thrust of the literature before the course.

Course Literature

Journal of Management Studies Guidelines for Authors

Industrial and Corporate Change Guidelines for Authors

Regional Studies Guidelines for Authors

Harvard Business Review Guidelines for Authors.

Huff, A.S. (1999): Writing for Scholarly Publication, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Cummings, L.L. and Frost, P.J. (1985) Publishing in the Organization Sciences, Homewood, Illinois: Irwin.

Floyd, S.W., Schroeder, D.M., Finn, D.M. (1994): "Only if I'm first author: Conflict over credit in management scholarship", Academy of Management Journal, 37(3): 734-747.

Phelan, S.E., Ferreira, M. and Salvador, R.(2002): “The first twenty years of the Strategic Management Journal,” Strategic Management Journal, 23(12): 1161-1168.

Starbuck, William H (2003): “Turning lemons into lemonade: Where is the value in peer reviews?” Journal of Management Inquiry, 12(4): 344-351

Whetten, D.A. (1989): "What constitutes a theoretical contribution?", Academy of Management Review, 14(4): 490-495

Clarkson, P. (2002): "Publishing: Art or Science? Reflection from an Editorial
Perspective" Accounting and Finance 52:359-376

Rebecca, Piekkari and C. Welch (2011), Rethinking the Case Study in International Business and Management Research. Edward Elgar Publishing (See especially chapter 7)

Bradbury, M. (2012): "Why you don't get published. An Editors View" European Accounting Review 19:399-423.

You are expected to collect the literature for the course yourselves.