Contributing to the Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Abstract

At the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) part of our mission is to help prospective authors, particularly those new to the academic management field, develop their work and publishing skills so as to further build management and organizational research in Asia (Bhagat, McDevitt, & McDevitt, 2010; Fang, 2010; Ahlstrom, 2010a). To that end, since 2010, APJM has been running a series of articles to assist authors with the many challenges of publishing in mainstream management journals such as APJM (e.g., Ahlstrom, 2010a, b, 2011a, b). Prospective authors who want to know more about the research and publishing process (particularly for APJM) should read these editorial articles and other helpful works cited to become more familiar with APJM’s content, paper organization, aims and scope, and style. APJM desk rejects a good number of papers. Many of these desk rejections probably could have been avoided if authors were more familiar with what APJM typically publishes (Ahlstrom, 2012), its aims and scope (Ahlstrom, 2011a), and were careful to read the editorials mentioned here and the works cited therein (e.g., Abrahamson, 2008; Colquitt & Ireland, 2009; Cummings & Frost, 1985, 1995; Huff, 1999, 2008; Van de Ven, 2007). In 2010, APJM published three editorial articles with some recommendations on publishing in the journal (Ahlstrom, 2010a), steering clear of several common mistakes that normally lead to desk rejections, such as failing to specify the paper’s Asia Pac J Manag (2012) 29:191–194 DOI 10.1007/s10490-012-9296-6