808: Navigating the New Publishing Game: Challenges and Opportunities in Mobilizing History in Management (19819)

Regardless of career stage, getting research published in management and organization studies is becoming increasingly difficult for a variety of reasons including: conventional expectations of normal science, increased institutional pressures on research productivity, the rise of predatory outlets, and disruptions in the environment such as the global pandemic and artificial intelligence. Mobilizing historical knowledge also shares its own set of challenges. This PDW brings together the editorial teams from the journals specializing in the advancement of history in management and organization studies to give voice to these challenges and opportunities facing the publication game. Drawing upon their experiences editing Business History, Industrielle / Industrial Relations, the Journal of Management History, and Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, our panelists will shed light on these issues confronting journals and authors. We aim to be interactive as possible by holding spacing for authors and participants to ask questions, share frustrations and insights into the publication process, and engage with one another in collegial dialogue about the wider changes impacting the intellectual reach of history journals in our field.