Organization Studies
Organization Studies (OS), published in collaboration with the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), is a global, peer-reviewed journal that promotes the understanding of organizations, organizing, the organized, the disorganized and the unsettled and the societal relevance of that understanding. OS prompts engagement with organizations and organizing as psychological, social, economic, cultural, political, historical and philosophical phenomena, and is the leading journal in the development of relevant and impactful knowledge of how organizations and organizing shape and are shaped by societies.
OS welcomes innovative, high-quality research from all paradigms and disciplines that advance organization research. It promotes multidisciplinary through research that engages across disciplinary boundaries; it invites all social science methodologies and methods that provide insights into organizations, organizing, the organized, the disorganized and the unsettled. It encourages studies that reflect on the broader implications of their results.
+ Follow Organization Studies on Facebook - click here.
+ Follow Organization Studies on Bluesky - click here.
+ Follow Organization Studies on LinkedIn - click here.
Organization Studies Guidelines for Reviewers.
"Organization Studies goes to the top of the stack because it is such a reliable source of thoughtful scholarship. Authors get into the pages of this journal by reflecting deeply on issues. There is less running after transient 'mainstreams', and more willingness to enact meaningful discourse that people should take seriously. Organization Studies features 'seasoned inquiry' in the best sense of that phrase. It dominates that niche hands down." Karl E Weick
"I am a great admirer of Organization Studies. Its issues contain articles with new ideas, analysis that is rigorous, empirical methodologies that are sound and helpful ideas relevant to thoughtful practitioners." Chris Argyris
"Organization Studies is an exemplar of quality publishing in organization theory. Its success has helped enormously to build the more creative and confident European management research community we now have. I am confident OS will retain its European distinctiveness while becoming a premier publishing outlet for the best scholarship from throughout the world. OS can make a difference both in intellectual and policy terms and I have great hopes it will". Andrew Pettigrew
All issues of Organization Studies are available to browse online.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orgstudies
Aims and Scope
Organization Studies (OS) is a highly ranked and globally respected, multidisciplinary journal with over 40 years history of publishing excellent organization research. OS aims at advancing our knowledge of organizations, organizing, the organized, the disorganized and the unsettled. It is broadly rooted in the social sciences and the humanities and promotes an understanding of these phenomena as shaping, and shaped by, the cultures, economies, and societies of which they are part.
OS invites innovative high-quality research from a wide range of philosophical traditions, disciplines, and methodological approaches. It encourages the interplay between theorizing and empirical research, in the belief that they are mutually informative.
OS welcomes articles that push organization theory forward through research that draws on empirical data based on qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods. As of June 2025, we do not accept conceptual, theoretical or review articles that develop theory without reliance on empirical data. We encourage authors of manuscripts that do not draw on empirical data in any form to submit to Organization Theory (OT) instead.
If you would like to know more about the Aims & Scope, please read the most recent editorial here.
If you would like to learn more about the historical intellectual signature of OS, please click here.
Our commitment
We are committed to OS being the leading hub of a community of scholars – authors, reviewers, editors and readers –, whose defining characteristics are a passion for ideas, open-minded intellectual curiosity, collegiate critique, and uncompromising adherence to the highest scholarly standards.
We expect every article published in OS to provide meaningful insights that challenge and exceed existing knowledge in the area of organization studies. We encourage bold research, driven by academic curiosity that crosses existing boundaries and dares to explore novel ground. We are looking for original research, but do not seek novelty as an end in itself, but rather as the result of the passion to advance our scholarly community and move our journal entrepreneurially ahead.
We are open to paradigmatic plurality and multidisciplinary research, but each article must have a solid theoretical grounding and must strive to develop further the tradition to which it adheres. We are committed to the accumulation of knowledge and demand that all articles engage seriously with existing literature. Submissions need to clearly communicate which conversations they wish to be part of or challenge, and what the novel theoretical insights are that their research contributes in relation to existing organizational literatures.
We are open to a wide range of epistemologies, methodologies and methods and expect empirical submissions to account for and motivate the approach chosen. Empirical studies must display professional rigour in data collection and analysis appropriate for the specific approach.
Types of Submissions
OS welcomes the following types of submissions:
(a) empirical
‘Research articles’;
(b) shorter, essay-style ‘X and Organization Studies’;
(c) ‘Perspectives articles’ that serve as introductions to Virtual Special Issues;
(d) ‘Method/ology articles;
(e) ‘Agora’ opinion pieces, and
(f) ‘Media reviews’.
Empirical
papers, 'X and Organization Studies,' "Perspective articles' and Method/ology article are all peer-reviewed and benefit from our rigorous and developmental review process
Empirical
research articles
From June 2025, we welcome empirical research articles only. Conceptual and theory papers can be submitted to our sibling Journal: Organization Theory. Manuscripts must be original in style and content (not under review, accepted and/or published elsewhere). The maximum length of submitted manuscripts is 13,000 words (including references and appendices).
‘X and Organization Studies’ essays
‘X and OS’ are essay-style articles that draw attention to unexplored, unthought, or marginalized topics in order to revitalize research and inspire the field of organization studies more broadly. Articles in this section will have to contribute to both the ‘X’ and the ‘OS’. ‘X and OS’ are written prior to when a full empirical or conceptual research article can address a topic, but also, importantly, they accomplish their objective in the style of an essay (please see here for our expectations concerning this article type; recent examples can be found here). The maximum length of X and OS essays is 7.500 words (including references). Authors are asked to discuss preliminary ideas with the Editors-in-Chief. After initial green light from the EiC, developed manuscripts will go through a regular peer review process."
Perspectives articles
Perspectives articles are introductions to Virtual Special Issues, which cover a set of articles (five to six) previously published in Organization Studies. Perspectives pieces provide a focused overview of the evolution of a topic over time, the contribution of selected prior articles to the development and ongoing debate, and, most importantly, raise concerns about missing insights and knowledge, in order to outline fruitful avenues for future research. The Perspectives article is published in a regular OS issue, and also published online together with the previously published OS articles as part of a Virtual Special Issue. Interested authors should discuss their ideas with the Editors-in-Chief. The maximum length of a Perspectives article is 13,000 words (including references). Previous Virtual Special Issues can be found here. After initial green light from the EiC, developed manuscripts will go through a regular peer review process.
Method/ology articles
Method/ology articles address questions of methodology and method broadly (including philosophy of science, ontology, epistemology, study design, novel analytical methods, and writing). Method/ology articles should situate themselves firmly within organization studies and tackle issues or problems directly related to the “doing” of organization studies research. They must address topics of interest to readers of OS and make clear the connection to research conducted in OS. The maximum length for Method/ology articles is 13.000 words (including references).
Agora
In line with the idea of knowledge emerging from gathering together in spaces like assemblies and squares, OS publishes short opinion pieces in the form of single contributions or as dialogues in essay style (all in all no longer than 2,000 words including references). In the Agora, we deal with the big issues of our times and their organizational dimensions. With this format, we wish to offer a forum for debating contemporary matters of academic interest to the readers of Organization Studies, in the hope that this triggers discussion or sets off reflections that lead to empirical studies and theorizing. Agora pieces are single-authored: (please see here for our expectations concerning this article type; recent examples can be found here). Those interested in contributing to the Agora section should contact the Editors-in-Chief in advance, briefly sketching the issue and their personal views, the organizational relevance, why the issue deserves sparking an urgent debate, and the kind of research required.
Authors who have published an Agora piece, cannot resubmit for the three years following the date of acceptance of their published Agora. This is to guarantee variety and fairness in access to this section of the Journal.
Media Reviews
Books are and remain at the heart and centre of scholarly formats. However, in order to account for the relevance of and inspiration from other forms of media in the process of defining, producing, and diffusing knowledge, we have broadened the scope of reviews and OS now offers a Media Reviews section. Proposals should be directed towards our Media Review Editors (email: orgstudiesmre@gmail.com).
If you are interested in proposing a Special Issue, please click here.
| John Amis | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Tammar Zilber | Jerusalem School of Business, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Cristina Alaimo | ESSEC Business School, France |
| Hari Bapuji | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Timon Beyes | Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany |
| Alexandre Bitektine | Concordia University, Canada |
| Laure Cabantous | ESCP Buniness School, France |
| Graeme Currie | Warwick Business School, UK |
| Silvia Dorado | UMass Boston, USA |
| Pablo Fernandez | IAE, Universidad Austral, Argentina |
| Bernard Forgues | EMLYON Business School, France |
| Santi Furnari | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Claudia Gabbioneta | University of York Management School, UK |
| Elizabeth Goodrick | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
| Nina Granqvist | Aalto University School of Business, Finland |
| Tim Hannigan | University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Nancy Harding | University of Bath, UK |
| Sarah Harvey | University College London, UK |
| Dennis Jancsary | WU Vienna, Austria |
| Martin Kornberger | WU Vienna, Austria |
| Ignasi Martí | ESADE, Spain |
| Evelyn Micelotta | University of Vermont, USA |
| Davide Nicolini | University of Warwick, UK |
| Damian O'Doherty | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Jo-Ellen Pozner | Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, USA |
| Mia Raynard | UBC Sauder School of Business, Canada |
| Linda Rouleau | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Thomas Roulet | Judge Business School & King’s College, UK |
| Barbara Simpson | Strathclyde University, UK |
| Paul Spee | The University of Queensland, Australia |
| Jörg Sydow | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| Maxim Voronov | Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada |
| Matthias Wenzel | Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany |
| Filippo Wezel | Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| Frank Wijen | RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Elena Raviola | University of Gothenburg Graham Dwyer, Trinity College Dublin |
| Varda Wasserman | The Open University of Israel, Israel |
| Sophia Tzagaraki | Managing Editor, Greece |
| John Child | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Stewart R Clegg | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| David Courpasson | EMLYON Business School, France |
| Frank den Hond | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| David J Hickson | University of Bradford, UK |
| Daniel Hjorth | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Robin Holt | University of Bristol, UK |
| Renate E. Meyer | WU Vienna, Austria |
| Paolo Quattrone | University of Manchester, UK |
| Trish Reay | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Arndt Sorge | WZB Berlin Social Research Center, Germany |
| Hari Tsoukas | University of Cyprus, Cyprus |
| David C. Wilson | The Open University, UK |
| Samer Abdelnour | University of Edinburgh Business School, UK |
| Stephen Ackroyd | Lancaster University Management School, UK |
| Susan Ainsworth | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Ona Akemu | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Ismael Al-Amoudi | Grenoble Ecole de Management, France |
| Rafael Alcadipani | Sao Paolo School of Business Administration, Brazil |
| Sophie Alkhaled | Lancaster University, UK |
| Lynne Andersson | Fox Business School, Temple University, USA |
| Shaz Ansari | University of Cambridge, UK |
| David Arellano Gault | CIDE, Mexico |
| Diane-Laure Arjaliès | Ivey Business School, Canada |
| Reinhard Bachmann | SOAS, University of London, UK |
| René Bakker | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Julia Balogun | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Subhabrata Banerjee | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Marcos Barros | Grenoble School of Management, France |
| Nikolaus Beck | Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland |
| Rebecca Bednarek | University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Emma Bell | Open University, UK |
| Nicolas Bencherki | Université Téluq, Canada |
| Ola Bergström | Gothenburg University, Sweden |
| Ariane Berthoin-Antal | WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany |
| Steffen Böhm | University of Exeter Business School, UK |
| Kees Boersma | VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Mehdi Boussebaa | Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow |
| Eva Boxenbaum | CBS, Denmark |
| Christof Brandtner | EM Lyon, France |
| Anna Brattström | Lund University, Sweden |
| Andrew Brown | University of Bath, UK |
| Sean Buchanan | University of Manitoba, Canada |
| Haldor Byrkjeflot | University of Oslo, Norway |
| Giulia Cappellaro | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Melodie Cartel | UNSW Business School, Australia |
| Jean Clarke | EMLyon, France |
| Stewart R Clegg | The University of Sydney |
| Marco Clemente | ZHAW School of Management and Law, Switzerland |
| Alessia Contu | UMass Boston, USA |
| François Cooren | University of Montreal, Canada |
| Diego Coraiola | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Joep Cornelissen | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Christine Coupland | Loughborough University, UK |
| Brett Crawford | Grand Valley State University, USA |
| Douglas Creed | University of Rhode Island, USA |
| Grégoire Croidieu | EM Lyon, France |
| Miguel Pina e Cunha | Nova School of Business & Economics, Portugal |
| Luciana D’Adderio | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| M. Tina Dacin | Queen’s University, Canada |
| Maria Daskalaki | Oxford Brookes University, UK |
| Frank de Bakker | IÉSEG School of Management, France |
| Christian De Cock | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Stephanie Decker | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Fleur Deken | VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Rick Delbridge | Cardiff Business School, UK |
| Giuseppe Delmestri | WU Vienna, Austria |
| Penny Dick | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Stanislav D Dobrev | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA |
| Leonhard Dobusch | University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| Gili S. Drori | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Paul du Gay | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Mark Ebers | University of Cologne, Germany |
| Tim Edwards | Cardiff Business School, UK |
| Micki Eisenman | Hebrew University Business School, Israel |
| Laura Empson | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Nada Endrissat | Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland |
| Seray Ergene | URI College of Business, USA |
| Michael Etter | King’s College London, UK |
| Martha Feldman | University of California, Irvine, USA |
| Fabrizio Ferraro | IESE Business School, Spain |
| Simone Ferriani | Università di Bologna, Italy |
| Peer Fiss | USC Marshall School of Business, USA |
| Denise Fletcher | Luxembourg University, Luxembourg |
| Jackie Ford | Durham University Business School, UK |
| Hamid Foroughi | Warwick Business School, UK |
| William Foster | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Henrika Franck | Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland |
| Michal Frenkel | Hebrew University-Jerusalem, Israel |
| Suzanne Gagnon | University of Manitoba, Canada |
| Raghu Garud | Penn State Smeal College of Business, USA |
| Jianhua Ge | Renmin University, China |
| Joel Gehman | George Washington University, USA |
| Daniel Geiger | University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Susi Geiger | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Mike Geppert | Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany |
| Stéphanie Giampocaro | KEDGE Business School, France |
| Elena Giovannoni | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Sarah Glozer | University of Bath, UK |
| Jean-Pascal Gond | Bayes Business School, UK |
| David Grant | Griffith University, Australia |
| Royston Greenwood | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Chris Grey | Royal Holloway University London, UK |
| Peter Groenewegen | VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Ali Aslan Gümüsay | LMU Munich, Germany |
| Patrick Haack | University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Tobias Hahn | ESADE, Spain |
| Markus Hällgren | Umeå University, Sweden |
| Timothy Hannigan | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Tor Hernes | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Stefan Heusinkveld | Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| Ha Hoang | ESSEC Business School, France |
| Markus Höllerer | UNSW Sydney, Australia & WU Vienna, Austria |
| Jasper Hotho | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Isabelle Huault | Université de Paris Dauphine, France |
| Christian Huber | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Hokyu Hwang | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Gazi Islam | Grenoble Ecole de Management, France |
| Michal Izak | University of Chester, UK |
| Lee Jarvis | IÉSEG School of Management, France |
| Paula Jarzabkowski | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Tommy Jensen | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Christian Garmann Johnsen | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Candace Jones | University of Edinburgh Business School, UK |
| Matthew Jones | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Jannis Kallinikos | Luiss University, Italy and The London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK |
| Dan Kärreman | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Kate Kenny | National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland |
| Daniel King | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Janina Klein | Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Farah Kodeih | IÉSEG School of Management, France |
| Ari Kuismin | University of Jyväskylä, Finland |
| Alice Lam | Royal Holloway, University of London, UK |
| Christopher Land | Anglia Ruskin University, UK |
| Mark Learmonth | Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK |
| Bernard Leca | ESSEC Business School, France |
| Lianne Lefsrud | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Stephan Leixnering | WU Vienna, Austria |
| Yuan Li | Saint Mary’s College of California, USA |
| Dirk Lindebaum | Bath University School of Management, UK |
| Stephen Linstead | University of York, UK |
| Nick Llewellyn | Warwick Business School, UK |
| Danielle Logue | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
| Jaco Lok | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Elizabeth Long Lingo | WPI, USA |
| Philippe Lorino | ESSEC Business School, France |
| Michael Lounsbury | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Mairi Maclean | University of Bath, UK |
| Johanna Mair | Hertie School of Governance, Germany |
| Oliver Mallett | University of Stirling, School of Management, UK |
| Emmanouela Mandalaki | NEOMA Business School, France |
| Vincent Mangematin | Grenoble Ecole de Management, France |
| Stephan Manning | University of Sussex, UK |
| Saku Mantere | McGill University, Canada |
| Massimo Maoret | IESE Business School, Spain |
| Emilio Marti | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Felipe G. Massa | University of Vermont, USA |
| Wolfgang Mayrhofer | WU Vienna, Austria |
| Darren McCabe | University of Lancaster, UK |
| Gerry McGivern | King's College London, UK |
| William McKinley | Southern Illinois University, USA |
| Sébastien Mena | Hertie School of Governance, Germany |
| Joeri Mol | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Guido Möllering | Universitat Witten/Herdecke, Germany |
| Pedro Monteiro | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Christine Moser | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Iain Munro | Newcastle University, UK |
| Daniel Muzio | University of York, UK |
| Giacomo Negro | Emory University, USA |
| Amit Nigam | Bayes Business School, UK |
| Niels Noorderhaven | Tilburg University, Netherlands |
| Daniel Nyberg | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Amalya L. Oliver | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| Mollie Painter | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Gerardo Patriotta | University of Bath, UK |
| Mar Pérezts | EM Lyon, France |
| Markus Perkmann | Imperial College London, UK |
| Neil Pollock | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Matteo Prato | ESADE, Spain |
| Alison Pullen | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Sigrid Quack | University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Andreas Rasche | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Madeleine Rauch | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Juliane Reinecke | University of Oxford, UK |
| Carl Rhodes | UTS Sydney, Australia |
| Sally Riad | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Michael Rowlinson | Exeter University, UK |
| Trish Ruebottom | McMaster University, Canada |
| Jorgen Sandberg | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Innan Sasaki | Warwick Business School, UK |
| Andreas Georg Scherer | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Henri A. Schildt | Aalto University School of Business, Finland |
| Dennis Schoeneborn | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Elke Schüßler | Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany |
| David Seidl | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Tapiwa Seremani | IÉSEG School of Management, France |
| Graham Sewell | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Sabina Siebert | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Jonas Söderlund | BI Norwegian Business School, Norway |
| Jean-François Soublière | HEC Montreal, Canada |
| Chris Steyaert | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Antonio Strati | University of Trento, Italy |
| Andrew Sturdy | University of Bristol, UK |
| Alexander Styhre | Gothenburg University, Sweden |
| Jacky Swan | Warwick Business School, UK |
| Janne Tienari | Hanken School of Economics, Finland |
| Ryad Titah | HEC Montreal, Canada |
| Dennis Tourish | University of Sussex, UK |
| Eric W. K. Tsang | University of Texas at Dallas, USA |
| Eero Vaara | University of Oxford, UK |
| Michael Valente | University of York, Canada |
| Patrick Vermeulen | Radboud University, Netherlands |
| Mikko Vesa | Hanken School of Economics, Finland |
| Laura Visser | Monash University, Australia |
| Milo Wang | Arizona State University, USA |
| Tao Wang | Kyoto University, Japan |
| Marvin Washington | Portland State University, USA |
| Tony Watson | Nottingham University Business School, UK |
| Mirjam Werner | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Andrea Whittle | Newcastle University, UK |
| Jennifer Whyte | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Hugh Willmott | Cardiff Business School, UK |
| April Wright | Warwick Business School, UK |
| Christopher Wright | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Sierk Ybema | VU Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Rongrong Zhang | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
| Mike Zundel | University of Liverpool, UK |
- Editorial Policies
1.1 Peer review policy
1.2 Authorship - Article types
- How to submit your manuscript
- Journal contributor’s publishing agreement
4.1 SAGE Choice and Open Access - Declaration of conflicting interests policy
- Other conventions
- Acknowledgments
7.1 Funding acknowledgement - Permissions
- Manuscript style
9.1 File types
9.2 Journal style
9.3 Reference style
9.4 Manuscript preparation
9.4.1 Keywords and abstracts: Helping readers find your article online
9.4.2 Corresponding author contact details
9.4.3 Guidelines for submitting artwork, figures and other graphics
9.4.4 Guidelines for submitting supplemental files
9.4.5 English language editing services - After acceptance
10.1 Proofs
10.2 E-Prints
10.3 SAGE production
10.4 OnlineFirst publication - Further information
Organization Studies aims to promote the understanding of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies, through the publication of double-blind peer-reviewed, top quality theoretical and empirical research. OSis a multidisciplinary journal, rooted in the social sciences, inspired by diversity, comparative in its outlook, and open to paradigmatic plurality.
OS is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal.
As part of the submission process you will be asked to provide the names of X peers who could be called upon to review your manuscript. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below:
- The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission
- The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors
- Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted
Please note that the Editors are not obliged to invite any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
2.1 Empirical or conceptual research article
Articles should not exceed 11,000 words (including references), although in some cases, usually involving the reporting of extensive qualitative data, longer versions may be accepted. Manuscripts must be original in style and content (not under review, accepted and/or published elsewhere). Manuscripts should be accompanied by biographies of no more than 100 words on each author's personal history and current interests, by an abstract of 150 words (maximum), and by four or five key words or phrases. Authors should explain any background information about the submission in the cover letter.
2.2 X and Organization Studies
This is an essay style article that is recognized by a standard title opening: ‘X and Organization Studies:’, after which follows a more substantial title that helps to reveal the key message of the article. The X and OS pieces are shorter (max 7.500 words, including references) and bring attention to a more marginal or repressed topic and often does so in a provocative way. Submissions to Organization Studies should be submitted through Manuscript Central (select X and Organization Studies submission option). Authors are welcome to discuss preliminary ideas with one of the Editors-in Chief.
2.3 Perspectives
Perspectives articles are written to provide a focused overview of a particular topic that helps to acquaint readers with key concepts. Authors are expected to select five or six relevant articles previously published in OS, in addition to other key articles and explain how the concept of interest has developed over time. In addition, authors should raise concerns or gaps in knowledge, and suggest avenues for future research. Our first Perspectives article was focused on Strategy-as-Practice (Seidl & Whittington, 2014) and serves as a notable exemplar. The Perspectives article is published in a regular OS issue, and also published online together with the previously published OS articles as part of a virtual issue. Interested authors should discuss their ideas with one of the EICs. Perspectives articles should not exceed 11,000 words (including references).
2.4 Method/ology articles
Method articles should not exceed 11.000 words (including references) and can address method (how to generate empirical material) broadly (including methodology, issues of knowledge-sociology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science, study-design, and writing). Articles must be contextualized in organization studies and clearly address topics of interest to readers of Organization Studies. Method/ology articles should situate themselves firmly within organization studies and tackle issues or problems directly related to the “doing” of organization studies research.
3. How to submit your manuscript
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you carefully read and adhere to all the guidelines and instructions to authors provided below. Manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Organization Studies is hosted on SAGE track a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and then simply visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/orgstudies to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
All papers must be submitted via the online system. If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, please refer to the contact details below.
4. Journal contributor’s publishing agreement
Before publication SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. For more information please visit our Frequently Asked Questions on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway
Organization Studies and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of articles published in the journal. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked using duplication-checking software. Where an article is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article (removing it from the journal); taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; banning the author from publication in the journal or all SAGE journals, or appropriate legal action.
4.1 SAGE Choice and Open Access
If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to non subscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Choice, subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit SAGE Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at SAGE, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
5. Declaration of conflicting interests
Within your Journal Contributor's Publishing Agreement you will be required to make a certification with respect to a declaration of conflicting interests. Organization Studies does not require a declaration of conflicting interests but recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
Tables and figures should be on separate pages (at the end of the paper), and a note should be placed in the text to indicate their approximate position, e.g. Table X about here. All tables, figures, plates, etc., should be numbered separately: Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. and Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Figures should be suitable for direct reproduction in black and white. Please keep tints to a minimum.
7. Acknowledgements
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an `Acknowledgements’ section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
7.1 Funding Acknowledgement
To comply with the guidance for Research Funders, Authors and Publishers issued by the Research Information Network (RIN), Organization Studies additionally requires all Authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit Funding Acknowledgement on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway for funding acknowledgement guidelines.
8. Permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
9.1 File types
Only electronic files conforming to the journal's guidelines will be accepted. Each submission should be made in a Microsoft Word file or a PDF file (both must be anonymized). However, for authors who are not able to send a PDF file, a Microsoft Word file is acceptable.9.2 Journal Style
Organization Studies conforms to the SAGE house style. Click here to review guidelines on SAGE UK House Style9.3 Reference Style
Organization Studies adheres to the APA reference style. Click here to review the guidelines on APA to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.9.4. Manuscript Preparation
The text should be double-spaced throughout and with a minimum of 3cm for left and right hand margins and 5cm at head and foot. Text should be standard 10 or 12 point.9.4.1 Your Title, Keywords and Abstracts: Helping readers find your article online
The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article online through online search engines such as Google. Please refer to the information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords by visiting SAGE's Journal Author Gateway Guidelines on How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.9.4.2 Corresponding Author Contact details
Provide full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.9.4.3 Guidelines for submitting artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE's Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.9.4.4 Guidelines for submitting supplemental files
Organization Studies does not currently accept supplemental files.9.4.5 English Language Editing services
Non-English speaking authors who would like to refine their use of language in their manuscripts might consider using a professional editing service. Visit English Language Editing Services for further information.
10.1 Proofs
We will email a PDF of the proofs to the corresponding author.SAGE provides authors with access to a PDF of their final article. For further information please visit http://www.sagepub.co.uk/authors/journal/reprint.sp.
10.3 SAGE Production
At SAGE we place an extremely strong emphasis on the highest production standards possible. We attach high importance to our quality service levels in copy-editing, typesetting, printing, and online publication (http://online.sagepub.com/). We also seek to uphold excellent author relations throughout the publication process.We value your feedback to ensure we continue to improve our author service levels. On publication all corresponding authors will receive a brief survey questionnaire on your experience of publishing in Organization Studies with SAGE.
10.4 OnlineFirst Publication
A large number of SAGE journals benefit from OnlineFirst, a feature offered through SAGE’s electronic journal platform, SAGE Journals Online. It allows final revision articles (completed articles in queue for assignment to an upcoming issue) to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final print and online journal issue which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. For more information please visit our OnlineFirst Fact Sheet
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the Manuscript Submission process should be sent to the Editorial Office as follows:
Sophia Tzagaraki, Managing Editor
E-mail: osofficer@gmail.com