Academy of Management Annals (academy-of-management-annals)

Journal positioning

AMA is the Academy of Management's outlet for integrative, agenda-setting review articles. It does not publish primary theory (AMR) or empirical tests (AMJ); it publishes long, comprehensive syntheses that take stock of a research stream, impose order on it, and redirect it. The product is a state-of-the-field article that other scholars will cite as the canonical map of a literature. Reviews are often invited or developed in dialogue with the editors, and the bar is not just coverage but synthesis — a new organizing framework and a credible forward agenda. The audience is the whole management field, so the stream and its reorientation must matter broadly.

This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the AOM / AMA site and the submission system.

When to trigger

• The author names AMA (or the AOM review outlet / FT50 management elite) as the venue.
• A scholar wants to write the definitive review of an established or fast-moving management stream and propose where it should go next.
• A narrative review needs upgrading from summary to a synthesizing framework with an agenda.
• The author needs AMA's desk-reject risks and a credible academy-of-management-review / academy-of-management-journal / journal-of-management-en alternative list.

Scope & topic fit