Publishing Strategies for Historical Researchers in Management
How to find the right journal for you
It’s all publish-or-perish (or indeed publish-and-perish, if you listen to some) in academia. But within academia, business schools are their own little world. Advice abounds to always “go high” and then work your way down with each rejection. Ultimately, this is very generic and mechanistic advice that seems to assume that the people who make academic hiring decisions are either not academics themselves and therefore naively reliant on metrics, or share this mindset and will hire on this basis.
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The first is clearly not true — academics hire other academics. And if they are obsessed with simplistic metrics, perhaps consider whether that will be a good workplace. But what then is a good publishing strategy for historical researchers in management?
We’ll look at why to publish, and why “to get a job” is not enough. In this post, we will look at how to find the right journal for you, prepare your research for publication by thinking about your audience, and, crucially, provide pointers for your editor. How do you work with journal lists? What do you need to look out for if you are planning an international career? Finally, how do you target business history AND management journals?
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