jmgmt-review-process
Installation
SKILL.md
Understanding the Review Process (jmgmt-review-process)
When to trigger
- Before submitting, to calibrate expectations about timeline and decision types
- A decision letter arrived and you need to interpret it (R&R vs. reject; major vs. minor)
- You are unsure how reviewers vs. the action editor weigh in under masked review
- You are routing a review/meta-analysis and want to know how the Review Issue track works
- You want to plan a revision strategy before drafting the response (then go to
jmgmt-rebuttal)
Editorial structure, named editors, and timelines change. Verify the current team and turnaround on the SAGE JOM page; the norms below are durable. As of 2026-06: JOM uses masked (double-blind) review with an anonymized data transparency table, is developmental and multi-round, and the Editor-in-Chief is Cynthia E. Devers (Virginia Tech) (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).
How JOM review works (durable norms)
- Submission & routing. The Editor-in-Chief or a deputy/associate editor screens the masked manuscript and routes it to an action editor in the relevant domain (OB, HR, strategy, entrepreneurship, methods). Submission is via SAGE/ScholarOne, fully anonymized.
- Desk decision. Off-fit, atheoretical, or fatally under-designed papers — and reviews/meta-analyses with no organizing framework or no theoretical advance — may be desk-rejected without external review. A clear theoretical contribution and an appropriate design are what get a paper past the desk.
- External peer review. Typically multiple (often two to three) masked reviewers from the focal conversation evaluate the theoretical contribution, design rigor, and analysis. Because JOM covers research methods, expect a methodologically exacting reading (CMB, endogeneity, measurement, multilevel modeling, meta-analytic corrections).
- Action editor synthesis. The action editor weighs the reviews, forms an independent judgment, and writes the decision letter. The editor's letter — not a vote count — drives the outcome.
- Decision. Common outcomes: reject; reject with encouragement to resubmit as new; major revision (R&R); minor revision; (rarely) accept. A first-round acceptance is essentially unheard of.