amj-workflow
Academy of Management Journal Workflow (amj-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill; it tells you which amj- skill to use right now* for your AMJ manuscript.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as AMJ — the premier empirical management journal published by the Academy of Management (AOM), founded in 1958 and published bimonthly (Feb/Apr/Jun/Aug/Oct/Dec). AMJ's stated mission is "to publish empirical research that tests, extends, or builds management theory and contributes to management practice." It explicitly welcomes all empirical methods — qualitative, quantitative, field, laboratory, meta-analytic, and mixed — and judges every manuscript on three criteria: a strong empirical contribution, a meaningful theoretical contribution, and practical relevance. The non-negotiable bar: a strong empirical study that also makes a clear theoretical contribution. Reviewers and the action editor will ask "what new theory do we learn?" as insistently as "is the method sound?" Both must pass.
Editorial team changes: Gary A. Ballinger (University of Virginia, McIntire) is the incoming Editor-in-Chief whose team began receiving submissions on 1 July 2025; verify the current masthead at journals.aom.org/journal/amj. Impact factor and acceptance rate fluctuate (2023 JCR IF ≈ 9.5) — treat any figure as approximate and confirm on the official page.
When to trigger
- "What should I do next?" with a half-built AMJ manuscript
- You have a dataset and a result but no clear theoretical story
- A reviewer/editor pushes on "theoretical contribution" and you are unsure which stage is the real bottleneck
- You received an AMJ decision letter (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and need to switch into response mode
- You keep bouncing between theory, method, and writing without a plan