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This guide helps researchers structure their discussion section and manuscript to explicitly articulate the theoretical contribution, moving beyond simple results reporting. It teaches how to identify, claim, and frame various types of theoretical advancements (e.g., new mechanisms, boundaries, or integrating literatures), ensuring the paper meets the high standards of top-tier academic journals like AMJ.

A comprehensive guide for drafting the formal rebuttal and response letter following a journal's revise-and-resubmit (R&R) decision, specifically tailored for AMJ standards. It teaches authors how to structure point-by-point responses to action editors and reviewers, reconcile conflicting demands, and strategically defend or deepen the manuscript's theoretical and methodological contributions while maintaining a professional and collegial tone.

Provides a comprehensive guide to the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) editorial and peer-review process. It details the stages from desk review to final decision letter interpretation. Users learn how to distinguish between fatal and fixable concerns, prioritize the action editor's feedback, and strategically plan deep, multi-round revisions, turning feedback into actionable research improvements.

This comprehensive preflight checklist guides authors through the rigorous submission process for the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ). It covers crucial details such as double-blind anonymization, AOM house-style formatting (Times New Roman 12pt, double-spaced), ethical declarations (AI disclosure, IRB), and adherence to the ScholarOne portal requirements. Use this guide before finalizing your submission.

A structured guide for academic researchers to scope and sanity-check research ideas for top-tier management journals like the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ). It ensures the topic is theory-driven, empirically feasible, and addresses a theoretical tension, helping authors elevate a vague idea into a publishable, impactful scholarly question.

A comprehensive guide for academics on articulating the true theoretical novelty of a manuscript. It teaches authors how to rigorously answer 'What is new?' and 'So what?' by clearly differentiating their work from prior literature, ensuring the contribution is a genuine conceptual leap, not merely a relabeling or minor extension.

This skill guides the stress-testing of theoretical manuscripts by focusing purely on logical coherence. It helps authors develop robust arguments by verifying proposition chains, running counterfactual thought experiments, addressing rival theories, and identifying disconfirming cases. It ensures the internal consistency and rigor of a theory, independent of empirical data analysis.

A guide for structuring academic arguments, ensuring your research paper actively engages with and advances a specific theoretical conversation. It teaches authors how to move beyond simple literature summaries by explicitly identifying a core theoretical stream, pinpointing its limitations (the challenge), and proposing new theoretical mechanisms (the extension). Essential for high-impact scholarly writing in management and social sciences.

This guide outlines the rigorous methodology for developing theoretical arguments, specifically for top-tier academic journals. It focuses on the 'craft of theory construction'—defining necessary constructs, deriving relationships, specifying underlying mechanisms, and setting boundary conditions. It is a conceptual framework tool, not an empirical data analysis method, helping researchers elevate the rigor of their theoretical contributions.

This guide helps researchers navigate and interpret the rigorous, multi-round developmental review process of the Academy of Management Review (AMR). It explains the core criteria (theoretical contribution, logical soundness) and decision signals, assisting authors in understanding editor priorities and triaging reviewer comments before drafting a response. It is a strategic guide for understanding the academic feedback process.

This comprehensive checklist guides authors submitting theory-only manuscripts to the Academy of Management Review (AMR). It ensures compliance with AOM formatting, rigorous anonymity standards, correct scope definition (must build new theory, no data), and ethical guidelines, minimizing desk rejection risk. It is designed for conceptual, non-empirical work.

A comprehensive guide for constructing conceptual exhibits—such as process models, 2x2 typologies, and multi-level frameworks—for academic manuscripts. This resource emphasizes that figures must represent pure theoretical work (constructs and relationships) rather than empirical data plots, ensuring structural clarity for top-tier academic publishing.