jmgmt-workflow

JOM Workflow Router (jmgmt-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you **which jmgmt- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the Journal of Management (JOM) — the Southern Management Association's general-management flagship, published by SAGE. JOM spans organizational behavior, human resource management, strategic management, entrepreneurship, and research methods (plus related industrial/organizational psychology). It rewards a clear theoretical contribution paired with rigorous method, and — uniquely among the field's top journals — it runs a celebrated review-article and meta-analysis tradition: invited and unsolicited Review Issues appear biannually (January and July).

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as JOM. Operational tells that you are at JOM and not a sibling or a generic top journal: a hard 50-page limit that includes everything (text, notes, references, tables, figures); a 15-word title and 250-word abstract cap entered in the portal; masked (double-blind) review enforced by an anonymized data transparency table that discloses overlap with the authors' other papers; APA (7th) style; and a real appetite for systematic reviews / meta-analyses as standalone contributions. Editor-in-Chief: Cynthia E. Devers (Virginia Tech) (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the SAGE JOM author-instructions page.

When to trigger

• The user asks "what should I do next?" on a JOM manuscript
• A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
• Work is ping-ponging between theory, design, analysis, framing, and the response letter
• A JOM decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode
• The team is deciding between an empirical paper and a review/meta-analysis route

Routing table

| Current symptom | Next skill |

|-----------------|------------|

| Scope/fit uncertain, or empirical-vs-review path undecided | jmgmt-topic-selection |

| Hypotheses are bald predictions; mechanism/boundaries thin | jmgmt-theory-development |

| Contribution vs. adjacent journals (AMJ/SMJ/JMS) is fuzzy | jmgmt-literature-positioning |

| Design, construct validity, CMB, or endogeneity need work | jmgmt-methods |

| SEM/HLM/regression/meta-analysis estimation needs review | jmgmt-data-analysis |

| The "what new theory do we learn?" statement is missing | jmgmt-contribution-framing |

| Exhibits dense; correlation table / path model unclear | jmgmt-tables-figures |

| Intro/abstract miss the JOM voice; over 50 pages | jmgmt-writing-style |

| Ready to submit; need a SAGE/ScholarOne preflight | jmgmt-submission |

| Want masked-review timeline / desk-reject odds | jmgmt-review-process |

| Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy | jmgmt-rebuttal |

Default order

1. jmgmt-topic-selection — lock the question and the empirical-vs-review path
2. jmgmt-theory-development — build the mechanism and a priori hypotheses (or the review's organizing framework)
3. jmgmt-literature-positioning — stake the contribution vs. AMJ/SMJ/JMS/Org Science
4. jmgmt-methods — match design to theory; CMB, endogeneity, levels, measurement
5. jmgmt-data-analysis — SEM/HLM/regression or meta-analytic estimation
6. jmgmt-contribution-framing — the theoretical-contribution statement and discussion
7. jmgmt-tables-figures — correlation table, path/model figure, forest plots
8. jmgmt-writing-style — make the idea land; enforce the 50-page limit (abstract last)
9. jmgmt-submission — SAGE/ScholarOne preflight + data transparency table
10. jmgmt-review-process — calibrate masked-review expectations
11. jmgmt-rebuttal — after the R&R

> jmgmt-writing-style is a late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before theory, design, and analysis settle. The 50-page guillotine often forces cuts after the contribution is fixed, not before.

Routing by paper archetype

JOM publishes several distinct article types, and the binding constraint differs by type. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

| Archetype | Likely first bottleneck | Enter at |

|-----------|-------------------------|----------|

| Micro empirical (OB/HR, survey/experiment) | construct validity + common-method bias + multilevel structure | jmgmt-methods |

| Macro empirical (strategy/entrepreneurship, archival panel) | endogeneity / identification + the theory it tests | jmgmt-theory-development → jmgmt-methods |

| Meta-analysis | coding protocol, artifact corrections, theory the synthesis advances | jmgmt-data-analysis (then jmgmt-contribution-framing) |

| Narrative / systematic review (for a Review Issue) | the organizing framework and forward agenda, not new data | jmgmt-theory-development → jmgmt-contribution-framing |

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "My HR survey shows abusive supervision predicts turnover intention, but a reviewer says it's single-source cross-sectional and the theory is just labeled 'social exchange.'" That is two JOM pushbacks — common-method bias / causal-design weakness (owned by jmgmt-methods) and theory invoked by name but not used (owned by jmgmt-theory-development). Route to theory first to specify the exchange mechanism and a boundary, then to methods to add a time-lagged or multi-source wave; only once both settle do jmgmt-data-analysis (re-run the SEM) and jmgmt-tables-figures follow.

Anti-patterns

• Treating JOM as interchangeable with AMJ (the AOM empirical flagship), SMJ (strategy-only), JMS (Wiley/European, more pluralist/qualitative), or Organization Science — JOM is the SMA general-management outlet that also runs strong reviews and meta-analyses
• Polishing prose before the theory, design, and evidence hierarchy are stable
• Forgetting the data transparency table and the 50-page guillotine until the night before submission
• Submitting a meta-analysis with no theoretical advance — JOM wants synthesis that moves theory, not a coefficient census

Minimal decision snippet

if decision_letter_arrived:        -> jmgmt-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit:              -> jmgmt-submission
elif exhibits_unclear:             -> jmgmt-tables-figures
elif over_50pp_or_intro_flat:      -> jmgmt-writing-style
elif estimation_or_meta:           -> jmgmt-data-analysis
elif design_or_cmb_or_endog:       -> jmgmt-methods
elif theory_thin:                  -> jmgmt-theory-development
elif contribution_fuzzy:           -> jmgmt-contribution-framing / jmgmt-literature-positioning
else:                              -> jmgmt-topic-selection