Journal of Management Studies (journal-of-management-studies)

Journal positioning

Journal of Management Studies (JMS), associated with the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and published by Wiley, is a broad, top-tier management journal with a strong theory-development orientation and a European intellectual leaning. It is methodologically pluralistic — quantitative, qualitative, and conceptual work all appear — but united by ambitious theorizing across strategy, organization theory, organizational behavior, and entrepreneurship. JMS is an FT50 outlet that prizes conceptual contribution and engagement with theory over technique for its own sake. The audience is internationally minded management scholars, so a paper must offer a substantive theoretical advance, not just a clean empirical result.

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 SAMS / JMS / Wiley site and the submission system.

When to trigger

• The author names JMS (or the FT50 management elite with a theory-development bent) as the venue.
• A theory-forward management paper — quantitative, qualitative, or conceptual — needs an outlet that rewards ambitious theorizing.
• A study with a European or pluralistic methodological orientation needs the right home.
• The author needs JMS's desk-reject risks and a credible academy-of-management-journal / organization-studies / journal-of-management-en alternative list.

Scope & topic fit