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JME Author Guidelines

 

The Journal of Management Education (JME) is a practitioner-oriented journal dedicated to enhancing learning and teaching in all areas of management education.  As the premier vehicle for the best ideas and thinking about management education, JME reflects excellence in the field as well as a long-standing editorial commitment to growth, learning, and innovation.  We see our primary mission as helping instructors, in a variety of venues, to enhance the learning experience of their students.  Contributions may be conceptual, practical, or empirical in nature and are welcomed from any topic area as long as their primary focus is on learning and teaching issues in management or organizational studies.

JME's Audience

JME's international audience is sophisticated about learning and teaching.  All are professionals dedicated to management education—those who see the journal as an opportunity to think more broadly and deeply about the connections between learning and teaching.

Our Philosophy

JME has, since its inception, been a place for sharing innovative ideas.  It is a high-quality journal that seeks to stay on the cutting edge, offering to our readers well-written papers on topics of interest and importance.  JME is firmly committed to helping authors improve their manuscripts; we therefore seek to provide developmental feedback to all authors who submit manuscripts. 

Because we believe that our colleagues are entitled to respectful treatment and that rights do not come without responsibilities, we subscribe to the following:  Authors have the right* to:

1. Expect respect, courtesy, and fairness in a review
2. Receive a careful reading of their work
3. Expect reviewers to support criticisms and claims about the manuscript with clear argumentation and/or evidence to back up their claims about the manuscript
4. Receive review feedback that is prioritized for importance, for help in crafting a revision
5. Receive timely review feedback
6. Know reviewers’ expertise in the area of the paper, which helps contextualize comments and promotes shared understanding of review feedback.

Authors have the responsibility to handle manuscript submission in a professional way.  This would include such behaviors as:

1. Being proactive in maintaining communications with editors and associate editors
2. Meticulously following submission guidelines
3. Editing, re-editing, proofreading and spellchecking the manuscript, submitting only what other professionals would consider a best effort.  Authors should ask three ruthless red pens to look at work before submitting it to any journal.  Authors should be parsimonious, using the fewest number of words possible to communicate ideas.
4. Referring to literature that is fresh and current.  Show familiarity with the journal of interest by researching past issues and using appropriate cites from that journal in the manuscript. 
5. Responding to editor and reviewer suggestions point-by-point in writing in a timely fashion.

Click here for Instructions for Manuscript Preparation and click here for Instructions for Manuscript Submission.

* From: Harrison, D. (2002). Obligations and obfuscations in the review process. Academy of Management Journal, 45(6), 1079-1084.





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