Getting Published in Top Tier Journals: Guidance and Insights 
 from the AOM OMT Division

A Professional Development Workshop to be held at the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) Meeting, Hangzhou, China, June 19, 2016. A core objective of the Academy of Management is to enhance the scholarship of its members and increase their ability to publish research in top-tier journals. To facilitate this mission, the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division of the Academy has been sponsoring a series of research development workshops outside of North America designed to develop emerging scholars in the parts of the world were the AOM has seen its largest membership growth. The OMT Division will hold a PDW at the 2016 IACMR meeting in Hangzhou to provide hands-on training and feedback to doctoral students and junior faculty in the area of building and testing theory about organizations. This workshop will focus on aspects that, in the senior scholars experience, are often significant barriers to publishing in top-tier journals: (i) Asking the right questions; (ii) identifying a significant theoretical contribution; (iii) the quality of design and execution; and (iv) framing and presentation of the study. Participation in this workshop will be limited to twenty-four authors. Participants should reside at institutions within China. Each participant will receive feedback on their draft papers from a mentor and three other participants. The mentors for this workshop will be the following OMT leaders with significant editorial experience: Waverly Ding (University of Maryland); Chi-Nien Chung (National University of Singapore); Xiaowei Luo (INSEAD); Chris Marquis (Cornell University); Peter Murmann (Australian Graduate School of Management – UNSW); Bilian Sullivan (HKUST). As a group, these mentors have experience as an Associate Editor or Senior Editor at: Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Management and Organization Review, and Organization Science. Interested applicants should email a current CV and abstract of their study, not to exceed seven double-spaced pages, excluding references. The abstract should include: (i) a statement of the study’s research question; (ii) a statement of the study’s theoretical contribution; and (iii) the complete introduction (i.e., the first few pages preceding the theory development/lit review section).