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Hi, folks. Can you please post the following Call for Papers?

Call for papers - Special Issue of SMJ: Question-Focused Innovations in Research Methods

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Will Mitchell

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Call for papers: Special Issue of Strategic Management Journal

Question-Focused Innovations in Research Methods

Submission Deadline August 31, 2013

Guest Editors:

·         Ashish Arora, Duke University

·         Michelle Gittelman, Rutgers University

·         Henrich Greve, INSEAD

·         Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto

·         John Lynch, University of Colorado Boulder

·         Will Mitchell, Duke University and the University of Toronto

·         Nicolaj Siggelkow, University of Pennsylvania

Overview

This special issue of Strategic Management Journal seeks innovations in research methods that will expand the range of questions for which strategic management scholarship can provide reliable answers. Strong research has three attributes: audience, questions, and answers. Influential work asks questions that a particular audience believes are important and provides answers that the audience believes arise from reliable research design. This special issue will help expand the audiences, questions, and answers in the discipline of strategic management scholarship by publishing papers that provide advances in research methods.

We seek multiple forms of advances in research methods for strategic management scholarship, along at least four dimensions of opportunities.

·         Traditional and/or new questions: First, we welcome work that provides more reliable answers to traditional questions within existing fields of enquiry, as well as work that opens up new questions and/or expands the audience for strategic management scholarship.

·         Within and/or across methods: Second, we seek work that builds within traditional qualitative, quantitative, and logical methodological disciplines and/or work that pulls together intersections of insights across methods.

·         Within and/or across fields: Third, we welcome work that demonstrates how to apply methods used in other fields to strategic management research as well as work that changes traditional methods in ways that make them more directly applicable to strategic management questions and scholars.

·         Theory-data continuum: Fourth, we welcome work that takes varied positions along the theory-data continuum, including developing theory, testing theory, examining data, describing phenomena, and/or improving reliability and accuracy.

Most fundamentally, we seek advances in research methods that will help push forward the discipline of strategic management scholarship and the careers of strategic management scholars – by expanding the audience of scholars who engage in strategy research, the questions we ask, and the reliability of our answers.

Papers

We welcome submissions within and across multiple forms of methodological inquiry, including – and certainly not limited to – qualitative analysis, statistical analysis (econometrics, sociometrics, scientometrics, psychometrics, ...), simulation modeling, mathematical and other logical modeling, measurement, experiments, and other approaches to developing and testing research questions.

Successful papers will have three attributes.

·         Question: First, they will identify a type of question that traditional strategic management research does not answer reliably or cannot currently ask within a research project, whether a traditional question or a question that scholars typically do not address because they lack reliable ways of deriving answers.

·         Methodological innovation: Second, they will describe an innovation in research methods and/or measures, whether an entirely new approach or a meaningful refinement of an existing approach, that will provide more reliable answers.

·         Application: Third, they will apply the methods innovation in a specific research context, demonstrating the superiority relative to existing approaches.

The papers typically will have two parts.

·         Core: First, a focused core discussion that addresses the three points we note above.

·         Supplement: Second, where appropriate, a supplement that includes data, proofs, techniques, and/or other background materials. Ideally, readers of the articles will have access to materials, data, and techniques that will help them learn the methods and apply them to their own work.

Deadlines, Submission, and Review Process

Publication of the special issue is planned for 2015 or early 2016. Original submissions are due by August 31, 2013, and must be made using the SMJ submission process at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smj. Authors should indicate that they would like submission to be considered for the special issue on "Question-Focused Innovations in Research Methods." Authors of papers invited to be revised and resubmitted will be expected to work within a tight timeframe to meet the special issue's publication deadline.

Editorial Team

The special issue on strategic management methods includes a team of editors who represent multi-dimensional methodological expertise and have an open-minded view on strategic management research, including audiences, questions, and ways of deriving reliable answers. Rather than simply seeking methods advances for methods sake, the special issue editors have the goal of using methodological advances to advance the questions and audience of strategic management research. Please contact the special issue editors for more information.

·         Ashish Arora, Duke University (ashish.arora@duke.edu)

·         Michelle Gittelman, Rutgers University (michelle.gittelman@business.rutgers.edu)

·         Henrich Greve, INSEAD (Henrich.GREVE@insead.edu)

·         Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto (sarah.kaplan@rotman.utoronto.ca)

·         John Lynch, University of Colorado Boulder (john.g.lynch@colorado.edu)

·         Will Mitchell, Duke University and the University of Toronto (willm@duke.edu)

·         Nicolaj Siggelkow, University of Pennsylvania (siggelkow@wharton.upenn.edu)

·         Or, the Managing Editor of the SMJ: Lois Gast (lgast@wiley.com)