Academy of Management Review (academy-of-management-review)

Journal positioning

AMR is the pure-theory flagship of the Academy of Management and the conceptual counterpart to AMJ (empirical) under the same association. It publishes papers that build, extend, or reorient management and organization theory through logical argument alone — there is no data, no empirical test, no results section. The deliverable is theory development itself: a new construct, a new set of relationships, a new boundary condition, or a re-framing that changes how scholars reason about a phenomenon. The audience is management theorists across micro and macro, so the argument must be novel, rigorous, and consequential to the field, not a literature summary.

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 / AMR site and the submission system.

When to trigger

• The author names AMR (or the AOM theory outlet / FT50 management elite) as the venue.
• A conceptual paper proposes new constructs, propositions, or a theoretical model without empirical testing.
• An empirical paper's real contribution is its theory, and the data are weak or unnecessary — the theory should be split out and developed for AMR.
• The author needs AMR's desk-reject risks and a credible academy-of-management-annals / academy-of-management-journal / organization-science alternative list.

Scope & topic fit