Organization Science (organization-science)

Journal positioning

Organization Science, published by INFORMS, is a leading multidisciplinary outlet for research on organizations — organization theory, organizational behavior, strategy, technology and innovation, and the science of how organizations are designed, behave, and change. Its hallmark is methodological pluralism in service of a theoretical contribution: it welcomes formal and computational modeling, simulation, qualitative and ethnographic work, lab and field experiments, and large-sample quantitative studies, provided each advances organization theory. The audience spans disciplines, so a paper must speak to a broad organizational-science conversation, not a narrow applied niche.

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 INFORMS / Organization Science site and the submission system.

When to trigger

• The author names Organization Science (or the INFORMS organizational outlet / FT50 management elite) as the venue.
• A paper makes an organization-theory contribution using computational, qualitative, experimental, or quantitative methods.
• A modeling or simulation study about organizations needs a home that values formal methods with a theoretical payoff.
• The author needs OrgSci's desk-reject risks and a credible administrative-science-quarterly / academy-of-management-journal / management-science alternative list.

Scope & topic fit