Organization
| Yvonne Benschop | Radboud University, Netherlands |
| Raza Mir | William Paterson University, USA |
What is a critical journal ? - by Martin Parker and Robyn Thomas July 2011
What makes a highly cited Organization paper?
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Organization is the major forum for dialogue and innovation in organization studies, addressing significant current and emergent theoretical, meta theoretical and substantive developments in the field.
This is a time of unprecedented debate and diversity in organization studies, when intellectual reassessments go alongside a plurality of organizational forms and practices in a globalizing world. The central task for students of organization is to construct those analytical narratives and ethical discourses appropriate to the radically changing structural, theoretical and ideological realities we now face. Organization seeks to address this important task.
We welcome standard academic papers of up to 10 thousand words, as well as 'Speaking Out' pieces written to challenge contemporary orthodoxies, and 'Connexions' essays that tie together contemporary social problems and the study of organizing. We will also publish replies to any of our published articles. See the 'Manuscript Submission' page for more details.
"For nearly two decades, Organization has been at the forefront of the effort to bring fresh ideas into organizational research. The journal is now the leading outlet for irreverent thinking that challenges the status quo in both management research and management practice" Paul Adler
"If one could enviSAGE an ideal trans-atlantic journal, Organization is it. Bridging Europe and America, it invites organization theorists from all the world. Located beyond paradigm wars and local feuds, the journal offers a vista of most recent topics and most original approaches to studies of organization. The articles published in Organization combine interesting theory building with a genuine concern about the practice of organizing" Barbara Czarniawska
"Organization has led the way in refreshing a field that had become inward-looking and short on challenging contributions. By welcoming critical explorations of demanding topics, Organization has dramatically expanded the framing of the field in directions that are as unsettling as they are non-trivial" Hugh Willmott
"Organization is an important outlet for new perspectives and ideas on organizations and organizing. It has played a significant role in altering the course of organization studies and related disciplines in the past, and I am certain will continue to do so for the foreseeable future" Mary Jo Hatch
Electronic access:
All issues of the Organization journal are available to browse online
Organization is a peer-reviewed journal whose principal aim is to foster dialogue and innovation in studies of organization. The journal addresses a broad spectrum of issues, and a wide range of perspectives, as the foundation for a 'neo-disciplinary' organization studies. In doing so, it promotes an ethos which is explicitly:
- theory-driven
- international in scope and vision
- open, reflective, imaginative and critical
- interdisciplinary
Organization facilitates exchange amongst scholars from a wide range of current disciplinary bases and perspectives.
SCOPE: The journal encompasses the full range of key theoretical, methodological and substantive debates and developments in organizational analysis, broadly conceived, identifying and assessing their impacts on organizational practices worldwide. Alongside more micro-processual analyses, it particularly encourages attention to the links between intellectual developments, changes in organizational forms and practices, and broader social, cultural and institutional transformations. In addition to established themes of continued significance to the development of the field, topics and themes addressed by Organization include:
- issues of gender, race and ethnicity in organizations
- globalization and its discourses
- organization and disorganization
- consumption and organization
- organizational space and time
- organizational identities
- organizational imagery in organizations
- ecology and organization
- moralities of organization
- power/knowledge and managerial discourses
- law and organization
- organization and cultural studies
Please note: If you wish your article to be freely available online immediately upon publication (gold open access, as some funding bodies now require), you can opt for it to be included in the SAGE Choice scheme subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer reviewing procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice. Under this scheme, authors of articles in Organization are currently able to publish via SAGE Choice at a special discounted Article Processing Charge of US$750. For further information, please visit SAGE Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at SAGE, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
| Rafael Alcadipani | FGV EAESP Brazil |
| Marcos Barros | Grenoble Ecole de Management, France |
| Mike Bresnen | Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
| Joanna Brewis | University of Leicester, UK |
| Nick Butler | Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University |
| Jana Costas | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| Karen Dale | University of Lancaster, UK |
| Tim Edwards | Cardiff University, UK |
| Nancy Harding | University of Bath, UK |
| Julie Labatut | INRA |
| Jennifer Manning | Technological University Dublin, Ireland |
| Susan Meriläinen | University of Lapland, Finland |
| Albert J. Mills | St Mary's University, Halifax, Canada |
| Sara Louise Muhr | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Iain Munro | Newcastle University, UK |
| Daniel Nyberg | University of Newcastle, Australia |
| Damian O'Doherty | University of Manchester, UK |
| Alison Pullen | Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
| Carl Rhodes | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Kathleen Riach | Monash Business School, Monash University |
| Maureen A. Scully | University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Scott Taylor | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Torkild Thanem | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Janne Tienari | Aalto University, Finland |
| Christopher Wright | The University of Sydney Business School, Australia |
| Sierk Ybema | Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Patrizia Zanoni | Hasselt University, Belgium |
| Chris Land | University of Leicester |
| Ajnesh Prasad | Royal Roads University, Canada |
| Jannick Friis Christensen | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Chahrazad Abdallah | Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada |
| Paul Adler | University of Southern California, USA |
| Ismael Al-Amoudi | Cardiff University, UK |
| Fahreen Alamgir | Monash University, Australia |
| Mats Alvesson | Lund University, Sweden |
| Karen Lee Ashcraft | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Bobby Banerjee | City University, London, UK |
| Hari Bapuji | University of Melbourne |
| Emma Bell | Open University Business School, UK |
| Todd Bridgman | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Alexandra Bristow | The Open University Business School, UK |
| Andrew Brown | University of Bath, UK |
| Attila Bruni | University of Trento, Italy |
| Chris Carter | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Catherine Casey | University of Leicester, UK |
| Carl Cederstrom | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Stewart R Clegg | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Bill Cooke | University Management School, Lancaster, UK |
| Douglas Creed | University of Rhode Island, USA |
| Joelle M Cruz | University of Colorado at Boulder, USA |
| Leanne Cutcher | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Barbara Czarniawska | University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Sadhvi Dar Queen | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Christian De Cock | University of Essex, UK |
| Marie Laure Djelic | Sciences Po, Paris |
| Michaela Driver | University of Leicester, UK and New Mexico State University, USA |
| Paul du Gay | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Yvonne Due Billing | Copenhagen University, Denmark |
| Mahmoud Ezzamel | Cardiff Business School and IE Business School, UK |
| Farzad Rafi Khan | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia |
| Peter Fleming | City University, UK |
| Erica Foldy | New York University, USA |
| Jackie Ford | Durham University, UK |
| Mariana Fotaki | Warwick Business School, UK |
| Martin Fougère | Hanken School of Economics, Finland |
| Yiannis Gabriel | University of Bath, UK |
| Shiv N. Ganesh | Massey University, New Zealand |
| Christina Garsten | SCORE, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Sylvia Gherardi | University of Trento, Italy |
| Sarah Gilmore | Portsmouth University, UK |
| Chris Grey | Royal Holloway University London, UK |
| Philip Hancock | University of Essex, UK |
| Gerry Hanlon | Queen Mary University, London, UK |
| Jean Helms Mills | Saint Mary's University, Canada |
| Stefan Heusinkveld | VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Daniel Hjorth | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Charlotte Holgersson | Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
| Isabelle Huault | Université de Paris Dauphine, France |
| Gazi Islam | Grenoble Ecole de Management, France |
| Nimruji Jammulamadaka | IIM Calcutta, India |
| Maddy Janssens | Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium |
| John M Jermier | University of South Florida, USA |
| Campbell Jones | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Dan Karremann | Lund University, Sweden |
| Kate Kenny | Queens University, Belfast, UK |
| Martin Kornberger | EMLYON Business School |
| Mark Learmonth | University of Durham, UK |
| David Levy | University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Patricia Lewis | University of Kent, UK |
| Michael Lounsbury | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Gerlinde Mautner | Vienna University of Economics and Business , Austria |
| Debra Meyerson | Stanford University, USA |
| Ali H. Mir | William Paterson University, USA |
| Annalisa Murgia | University of Milan, Italy |
| Anna-Maria Murtola | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
| Alistair Mutch | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Nisha Nair | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Stella M Nkomo | University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| Joe O'Mahoney | University of Cardiff, UK |
| Banu Ozkazanc-Pan | University of Massachusetts, USA |
| Veronique Perret | Universite de Paris Dauphine, France |
| Anshuman Prasad | University of New Haven, USA |
| Linda Putnam | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Sigrid Quack | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany |
| Paolo Quattrone | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Alf Rehn | Abo Akademi University, Finland |
| Juliane Reinecke | Warwick Business School, UK |
| John Roberts | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Sarah Robinson | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Michael Rowlinson | Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
| Fernanda Saurbronn | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Andreas Georg Scherer | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Gregory Schwartz | University of Bristol, UK |
| Prajna Seneviratne | The Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka |
| Graham Sewell | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Dorothy Smith | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Patricia J Sotirin | Michigan Technological University, USA |
| Andre Spicer | City University, UK |
| Sverre Spoelstra | Lund University, Sweden |
| Nidhi Srinivas | The New School, USA |
| Chris Steyaert | University of St Gallen, Switzerland |
| Antonio Strati | Trento University, Italy |
| Andrew Sturdy | University of Bristol, UK |
| René ten Bos | Raboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Barbara Townley | University of St Andrews, UK |
| Melissa Tyler | University of Essex, UK |
| Eero Vaara | Swedish School of Economics, Finland and EM Lyon, France |
| Marieke Van den Brink | Radboud University, Netherlands |
| Marc J Ventresca | University of Oxford, UK |
| Sam Warren | Cardiff University, UK |
| Hugh Willmott | University of Cardiff, UK |
| Julie Wolfram Cox | Monash University, Australia |
| Thomaz Wood | RAE, FGV-EAESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Larry Zacharias | University of Massachussets at Amherst, USA |
| Tammar Zilber | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Gibson Burrell | University of Leicester, UK |
| Marta Calas | University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA |
| Glenn Morgan | Cardiff Business School, UK |
| Martin Parker | Bristol University, UK |
| Craig Prichard | Massey University, New Zealand |
| Mike Reed | University of Cardiff, UK |
| Linda Smircich | University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA |
| Robyn Thomas | Cardiff University, UK |
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: Organization
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/Organization to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Organization will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
Please see our guidelines on prior publication and note that Organization may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy.
If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Funding
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplementary material
4.4 Reference style
4.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Before submitting your manuscript to Organization, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
The principal aim of Organization is to foster dialogue and innovation in studies of Organization. The journal addresses a broad spectrum of issues, and a wide range of perspectives, as the foundation for a 'neo-disciplinary' study of organization and organizing. In doing so, it promotes an ethos which is explicitly theory-driven, international in scope and vision, open, reflective, imaginative and critical. We are also concerned to be interdisciplinary, and to facilitate exchange amongst scholars from a wide range of current disciplinary perspectives. Contributions are welcomed in the following formats:
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- Standard papers: We welcome original papers of up to 10,000 words including references.
- Speaking Out papers: Provocative and polemical essays, written to challenge contemporary orthodoxies in our field (4,000 words maximum excluding references).
- Acting Up papers: Acting Up sets out to create a platform for radical politics and political activism in Organization. Acting Up papers are short pieces (around 4,000 words excluding references), developing a genre of academic writing that supports relevance, political engagement, resistance, and activism.
- Connexions: Essays that tie together contemporary social problems and the study of organizing, emphasizing connections between theory and practice, between the international political and economic order and organizational analysis, and between action and disinterested observation (6,000 words maximum including references).
- We will also publish replies to any of our published articles, in any format, but only if the quality of the response justifies it.
- Book Reviews: We publish book review essays (maximum of 1,500 words) of books on topics that fall within the scope of the journal. These are usually commissioned by our book review editors, but do approach us if you wish to review a particular book.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
Organization operates a strictly blinded peer review process in which the reviewers’ and author's names are withheld, though reviewers may reveal their names at their own discretion. All manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those papers that meet the editorial standards of the journal, and fit within its aims and scope, will be sent to an Associate Editor to consider for outside review. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two reviewers.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
Organization requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
Organization encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.1.1 Plagiarism
Organization and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.3 Open access and author archiving
Organization offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information please visit the SAGE Choice website. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
Organization adheres to the SAGE Harvard reference style. View the SAGE Harvard guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Harvard EndNote output file.
4.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Organization is hosted on SAGE Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/Organization to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities ensuring that their work is recognised.
The collection of ORCID IDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID ID you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID ID will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID ID is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
If you do not already have an ORCID ID please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
6. On acceptance and publication
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice. In addition, SAGE is partnered with Kudos, a free service that allows authors to explain, enrich, share, and measure the impact of their article. Find out how to maximise your article’s impact with Kudos.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Organization editorial office as follows: Nusi Cornelissens, Organization@fm.ru.nl.