131: Behind the Publication: Insights from the Publication Process (10167)

The Behind-the-Publication PDW was attended by over 200 attendees at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) in 2023 in Boston. Following the growing interest in this PDW across the past two years, we continue the series with a new group of panelists to share their experiences with publishing at top management journals. We contend that navigating the publication process is a crucial yet under-discussed part of the academic training. This is surprising given that publishing academic papers is a necessary skill in a successful academic career and often used as a metric to determine career outcomes. To that end, the aim of this PDW is to go behind the scenes of published papers and learn about the publication journey from prolific academics. Our panel of distinguished scholars will share how they developed one of their papers from initial journal submission to the final publication. They will also share general learnings that they have accumulated through years of publishing and reviewing at top management journals. To facilitate learning for the diverse audience who attends AOM, we have invited scholars with experience across different top management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, and Administrative Science Quarterly, as well as disciplinary journals, such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics and Personnel Psychology. Participants will leave our PDW with a better understanding of what happens behind the scenes of a published article, including the challenges involved in the process and how to overcome them. On a broader level, our PDW could help participants feel less lonely about the academic publishing process: as one of our previous participants said while thanking the panelists, “Many of us in the audience feel happier that we’re not the only ones going through these publication problems.”